To ensure ongoing success of IT asset management initiatives, such as software reuse, project teams need to clearly define strategies and find the right tools. IBM Rational IT asset management software provides you with proven, industry leading tools and methodologies necessary for the effective management, control and protection of your software assets, throughout all stages of their lifecycle. These solutions address typical challenges faced by software development project teams such as:
- Starting a reuse initiative to take advantage of and manage change to existing intellectual property.
- Simply getting a comprehensive view of the inventory of existing assets across diverse sets of projects.
- Outsourcing development and providing secure, distributed access to assets.
- Meeting global compliance and governance mandates.
- Starting an initiative to introduce a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and executing on it successfully.
Whatever the scenario, IBM IT asset management solutions and best practices expertise will help you:
- Reduce development time and cost by implementing an easily accessible, flexible and reusable IT asset management repository with proven methodologies.
- Unify disparate teams, eliminate rework and improve architectural integrity with a collaborative, secure, asset traceability and utilization monitoring platform
- Lower costs and reduce compliance complexity through secure intellectual property sharing
- Improve governance through discovery and federated search across the SOA lifecycle.
IBM provides tools to assist you in discovering, developing and deploying software assets and services across the lifecycle. Explore the following for more details.
Tools:
Tools
| What do you want to do? |
Tool |
Description |
| Manage Assets in development |
IBM Rational Asset Manager |
Create, modify, govern, and locate any type of development assets, including SOA and systems development assets. |
| Discover Assets |
WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer |
Assists IT personnel with the maintenance, extension, reuse and transformation of existing applications. |
| Manage Service Assets at Runtime |
WebSphere® Service Registry and Repository |
Enables management and governance of web services at runtime through robust registry and repository capabilities and tight integrations with IBM SOA Foundation tools and IBM Rational Asset Manager. |
| Assess Existing assets to accelerate development |
IBM Asset Transformation Workbench (ATW) |
ATW provides a knowledgebase insight into application portfolios and provides detailed reports, metrics, documentation, and visualizations of the enterprise applications to project leaders and architects, as well as providing application development teams with a set of highly integrated workstation-based modules that use the application metadata to help accelerate strategic and tactical initiatives. |
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