Application lifecycle management

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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 organisations 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 optimising approach to ALM. By allowing organisations 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.

Discover the products that can help you use Application Lifecycle Management to tame complexity and build better software

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Design management

Manage the design of software and systems to maintain architectural integrity.

Go from design to done, faster

Build and deploy management

Automate software assembly processes to streamline software and systems delivery.

Deliver and deploy software efficiently

Quality management

Ensure software and systems functionality, reliability, and performance.

Manage quality from concept to decommission

Requirements management

Define and manage requirements, provide traceability and alignment with business processes.

Ensure project success

Software change and configuration management

Improve insight, predictability and control of project assets along with instant, controlled access.

Manage change of project assets

IBM lifecycle solutions

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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Featured application lifecycle management products

  • Rational Team Concert

    Rational Team Concert

    Provides agile and formal planning, source code management, work item management, build management, and project health.

  • Rational Requirements Composer

    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

    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

    Rational ClearCase

    Comprehensive software configuration management for any size project.

  • Rational Buildforge

    Rational Buildforge

    Automates, orchestrates, manages, and tracks all the processes within the assembly line of software development.

  • Rational Quality Manager

    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.

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Rational.Everywhere.

Rational.Everywhere

Transform the way people work together, regardless of complexity.

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Collaborative application lifecycle management with Rational tools

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Buyers guide

Establish strategic priorities and identify objective criteria to get the best possible solution for your needs.

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Five Application Lifecycle Management Imperatives for Successful Global Software Development

Andy Detandt, Resource Manager at Lender Processing ServicesAndy Detandt, Resource Manager at Lender Processing Services



Carolyn Pampino, Program Director for Strategic Offerings of IT Software Delivery at IBMCarolyn 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)

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ALM resources

  • Analyst report

    Analyst report

    Ovum: Selecting an application lifecycle management vendor

  • Customer video

    Customer video (00:02:23)

    Effective ALM helps Capital District Physicians' Health Plan increase efficiency

  • Webcast

    Webcast

    Connecting delivery with business strategy

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ALM.Everywhere

IBM Rational solutions, powered by Jazz, deliver the IBM vision for a collaborative Application Lifecycle Management process. Presented by Carolyn Pampino, this interactive demonstration illustrates the five imperatives for Application Lifecycle Management. Rational software is uniquely attuned to global and distributed teams, designed to transform how people work together to build software – making software delivery more collaborative, productive, and enjoyable.

 

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