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Global development and delivery

IBM Rational® software can help you achieve the results expected from your global development and delivery strategy in today’s era of transcontinental teams and multiple time zones. The IBM Rational global development and delivery solution is a proven process and delivery platform that can help you optimize communication and collaboration so that your global team members work together more efficiently as a single unit.

The IBM Rational global development and delivery solution can help you:

  • Improve global cross-team communication and collaboration throughout the software lifecycle with a proven global software delivery platform

  • Automate and govern your global process, workflow, and distributed parallel development

  • Measure and improve on your software development portfolio and project goals with global oversight, measurements, and reporting


Global development and delivery
If you need to … … IBM Rational software can help
Create a team-based environment for effective collaboration among all software lifecycle disciplines and across distributed locations.

Reduce communication and interpretation issues with requirements

Ensure that your global teams remain focused on project business requirements and goals
IBM Rational Team Unifying Platform™ — fuses your global teams by establishing a common process and framework for requirements management, process flow, project status and tracking.

IBM Rational RequisitePro – allows global teams to clearly understand and effectively manage changing requirements in their natural context. IBM Rational RequisitePro reduces rework by improving global requirements communication and interpretation.

IBM Workplace™ Collaboration Services — enables global collaboration with an integrated set of capabilities to support virtual development teams with team spaces, learning, calendaring and scheduling, awareness, instant messaging, Web conferencing and e-mail.
Govern architectural design and maintain architectural integrity across global project teams. IBM Rational Software Architect — bridges global language and cultural barriers by communicating systems/application architecture and design using the Universal Modeling Language (UML) so that all distributed team members are developing against the same project blueprints.
Establish governance over global projects and resources.

Effectively leverage and optimize your global labor options for costs and availability
IBM Rational Portfolio Manager — provides global oversight of projects and resources, enabling customers to optimize their IT portfolios with business objectives. With IBM Rational Portfolio Manager you can plan, manage, and optimize your global projects with the flexibility to leverage your global resources based on availability and costs.
Establish a cohesive development process across your distributed teams

Use/reuse processes and project plans that have proven effective in project delivery with global teams
IBM Rational Method Composer – integrates and tailors your software development processes used across your diverse global teams into a common global software development framework allowing your global teams to work naturally and collaborate effectively.
Avoid common global development challenges such as delayed, missed or unnecessary activities, compliance failure, and a lack of project progress measurement.

Enable distributed teams to develop in parallel with secure and efficient access to assets

Connect and automate globally distributed project workflows
IBM Rational ClearCase — drives and manages global parallel development with flexible and secure worldwide access to software assets. IBM Rational ClearCase ensures that changes to assets worldwide are business driven.

IBM Rational ClearCase MultiSite — supports flexible distributed team access to software assets through replication and synchronization of IBM Rational ClearCase repositories.

IBM Rational ClearQuest — governs, integrates, and automates your global development processes and workflow between your global teams IBM Rational ClearQuest orchestrates collaboration and work transfer between distributed team members.

IBM Rational ClearQuest MultiSite — supports flexible distributed team access to change management through replication and synchronization of IBM Rational ClearQuest repositories.
Drive a global build process management framework across your SCM tools

Automate and smooth the handoffs between your distributed development and Change Management/Release teams
IBM Rational Build Forge — provides reliable, high-performance build and release management with automation and end-to-end traceability throughout the development lifecycle. Supports diverse global software delivery teams with heterogeneous SCM Tool support allowing you to create a global build process management framework.
Case studies

MetaSolv uses IBM Rational Software Development Platform to Streamline Geographically Distributed

VM-data Drives Successful Global Development Efforts with IBM Rational Unified Process and IBM Rational Tools

Highlights

MultiMedia Video: Optimizing Geographically Distributed Development with IBM Rational

Managing Subcontractors with Rational Unified Process (651KB)

Data sheet: Tackling the complexities of geographically distribited development with the IBM Software Development Platform (226KB)

Buyer's Guide: Realize expected results with the IBM Rational geographically distributed development solution (648KB)

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