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Organizations are increasingly under pressure to deliver enterprise products and services faster. Development organizations are hard pressed to manage complex applications, coordinate globally distributed development and production teams while maintaining high software quality. Additionally, they are faced with the need to meet compliance mandates – either from external or internal pressures – that require complete traceability and audit trails that demand a new flexible development infrastructure.
May 2, 2006: IBM announced today it has acquired BuildForge, an industry leader in providing build and release management software. BuildForge technology will enable IBM Rational customers to accelerate software delivery, as well as meet audit and compliance mandates. The acquisition of BuildForge furthers IBM Rational's strategy to help clients govern the business process of software and systems development, and close the gap between writing code, building an application, and releasing it into production.
BuildForge products provide complete build and release process management. They provide a framework that helps development teams to standardize and automate tasks and share information. Build acceleration capabilities make the process faster, resulting in faster time-to-market. Enterprise reporting and analytics improve visibility into the build and release process. Process control and audit trails help meet compliance mandates.
BuildForge technology, when combined with IBM Rational software, can help organizations to automate, track, audit and analyze their application development lifecycle often using the tools they have in place today. As a result, they can increase product quality, improve team efficiency and move toward achieving sustainable compliance management.
IBM markets the following BuildForge products:
- BuildForge FullControl – manages and controls builds and releases across the development lifecycle
- BuildForge FullThrottle– build accelerator that executes processes concurrently across server pools
- BuildForge Prism – desktop IDE for developer self-service build activities
- BuildForge Adaptors – integrate BuildForge products with third-party change and configuration management tools
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