Making the complex simple
Application lifecycle management (ALM) coordinates the flow of people, processes and information in an iterative cycle of software delivery activities.
Effective ALM can help organizations build better products and services by improving development project success rates and controlling costs associated with software errors.
IBM Rational services and solutions can help reduce the high costs and risks of inefficient, multiplatform software development with an integrated, collaborative and optimizing approach to ALM. By allowing organizations to unify their infrastructure with a single open, extensible, integrated Jazz platform across the software delivery lifecycle, they can extend their current software infrastructure investments while allowing all stakeholders real-time collaboration and transparency in the context of the work at hand. This approach enables automation and better process control from the initial requirements definition to software change and release management and beyond.
IBM Software application lifecycle management solutions provide you with the capability to:
- Meet the domain-specific needs of skilled practitioners while enabling a real-time flow of information and ideas across the entire team
- Improve collaboration across teams and geographies, systems, disciplines and organizations
- Reduce total cost of ownership through streamlined and enterprise-ready deployment, security and administration
- Lower overall costs by unifying the infrastructure into a single platform
- Help meet compliance requirements through asset traceability and approval workflows
- Provide the foundation for continuous capability improvement through flexible, rules-based process enforcement, real-time reporting and integrated best practices
- Achieve agility at scale by scaling proven Agile practices to teams of any size or team configuration
Real results
Danske Bank (US) enhances efficiency of IT development by 10 percent and Reduces times to market from 14 to 9 months with IBM Rational Team Concert as the backbone of its agile development process.
Regence BlueCross BlueShield (US) reduces testing time by 50 percent. Three employees can run required 1,250 tests in less than one week. This company created an automation framework using IBM Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester and IBM Rational ClearQuest Test Manager software.
Explore IBM application lifecycle management solutions in detail
Design management
Manage the design of software and systems to maintain architectural integrity.
Build and deploy management
Automate software assembly processes to streamline software and systems delivery.
Quality management
Ensure software and systems functionality, reliability, and performance.
Requirements management
Define and manage requirements, provide traceability and alignment with business processes.
Software change and configuration management
Improve insight, predictability and control of project assets along with instant, controlled access.
Unified teams and platforms deliver working software faster
Unified teams and platforms deliver working software faster
Manage the flow of people, process and information in an iterative cycle of software delivery activities that provides the foundation for end to end measurable process improvement, ability to scale, and enhanced team collaboration, automation and reporting.
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- WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
- WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Advanced Lifecycle Edition
Featured application lifecycle management products
Rational Team Concert
Provides agile and formal planning, source code management, work item management, build management, and project health.
Rational Requirements Composer
Requirements management and definition using a collaborative approach, that enables stakeholders and IT teams anywhere in the world to provide input, gain clarity, better achieve consensus, and adapt to changes more quickly.
Rational DOORS
Requirements management and definition using a collaborative approach, that enables stakeholders and IT teams anywhere in the world to provide input, gain clarity, better achieve consensus, and adapt to changes more quickly.
Rational ClearCase
Comprehensive software configuration management for any size project.
Rational Build Forge Standard Edition
Automates, orchestrates, manages, and tracks all the processes within the assembly line of software development.
Rational Quality Manager
Provides a collaborative, integrated hub for test planning, creation, and execution as well as workflow control, tracking, traceability, and metrics for project health.
ALM value estimator
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Five Application Lifecycle Management Imperatives for Successful Global Software Development
Andy Detandt, Resource Manager at Lender Processing Services
Carolyn Pampino, Program Director for Strategic Offerings of IT Software Delivery at IBM
Ever worked on a software development project and wondered how you can eliminate those endless project replans? Andy Detandt and Carolyn Pampino introduce five key imperatives for ALM and briefly discuss how these imperatives can be used to ensure success for ALM in a collaborative environment.
Download the podcast (MP3, 00:06:11, 5.7MB)
Download the transcript (PDF, 15KB)
ALM resources
Analyst report
Ovum: Selecting an application lifecycle management vendor
Customer video (link resides outside of ibm.com)
Effective ALM helps Capital District Physicians' Health Plan increase efficiency
Webcast
Connecting delivery with business strategy