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Process and tools modernization

Organizations have traditionally managed distributed development separately from other platform development. Each development team or organization maintains its own set of development processes and tools. This separation not only hinders collaboration and productivity across the software lifecycle, it can also lead to errors that result in application failure or downtime. Supporting these applications requires an enterprise-scale approach to synchronizing activities relating to software development, management, quality and release.

Our process, quality, change and release management tools help automate and enforce development processes and enhance collaboration and productivity across multiple operating platforms at every stage of the application lifecycle. By automating the software lifecycle and providing a consistent development process paradigm across platforms, you can integrate isolated development teams to enhance project collaboration, improve release coordination, and operational efficiency.

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Enforce software governance policies and procedures across functionally diverse and geographically distributed teams

 

IBM Rational Method Composer® — allows you to create and deploy the established development approach by selecting only the policies and process activities you need.

 

Ensure that business goals and requirements drive downstream design, development and testing

Lower costs by eliminating duplicate tools and processes

 

IBM Rational RequisitePro® — allows global teams to clearly understand and effectively manage changing requirements in their natural context while also reducing rework by improving global requirements communication and interpretation.

 

Realize improved end-to-end communication and traceability across the entire lifecycle

Verify software builds and document the exact software versions that are deployed

 

IBM Rational Change and Release Management Solutions – improve productivity, provide better visibility into projects and processes, manage distributed teams, and provide audit trails and traceability across the software development lifecycle for fast delivery of high-quality software.

 

Manage quality across the software delivery lifecycle

Strategically integrate application security throughout the software development lifecycle

Validate the scalability and reliability of complex applications before deployment

 

IBM Rational Functional Testing Solutions — reduce complexity and improve test efficiency and reuse with a set of manual and automated tools designed to address your unique needs.

IBM Rational Performance Testing Solutions — ensure that your applications scale and meet end user demands.

Highlights

Article: BSystem z and ClearCase z/OS Extensions: A data-driven approach to configuration management

Article: Using Rational ClearCase for System i for source code management

Article: The IBM Rational Unified Process for System z: Making Development on System z More Agile

Demo: Unify your System z test efforts with IBM Rational software

Redbook: The IBM Rational Unified Process for System z

Webcast: Using SCMs and WebSphere Developer for System z to optimize development

Webcast: Build and Release Management for iSeries/zSeries

Webcast: Build and Release Management for iSeries / zSeries


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