Applications may consist of hundreds of objects, which may be changed by many programmers. Managing the development and maintenance of applications involves tasks such as:

• Controlling migrations into production environments
• Avoiding program overwrites
• Tracking the current location of a program
• Verifying that program changes are made
• Changing all related objects
• Archiving and recovery
• Maintaining complete audit trails

Manual change management can be time-consuming and prone to error. Treehouse Software developed N2O to provide cost-effective automated change management for Natural objects, SYSERR messages, and PREDICT objects.