Application lifecycle management

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Accelerate delivery and reduce costs with effective ALM

The goal is to deliver better software faster without sacrificing quality. But silos between all the various disciplines get in the way.

Effective ALM breaks down the silos and helps you better leverage existing investments by unifying platforms, teams, processes and 3rd party and open source lifecycle tools.

Of course you can’t do it all at once, so incrementally adopt effective ALM. For over 25 years, IBM software delivery teams have identified five imperatives for achieving effective ALM: in-context collaboration, real-time planning, lifecycle traceability, development intelligence, and continuous improvement.

IBM Rational solutions help agile and traditional teams achieve these five imperatives for effective ALM while leveraging the cloud wisely, managing mobile application development and outsourcing to 3rd party vendors.

One good way to get started is the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management, now with flexible, cost-saving licensing including Practitioner / Workgroups.

Real results

OLM Systems, an agile story, improves customer satisfaction by starting with software change and quality management and test

CDPHP, a healthcare insurer (Youtube, 00:02:23) , tells how they started with quality management; incrementally rolls out software change and configuration management, increases efficiency at every step.

Itaú BBA (PDF, 635kb) the bank reduced time spent on development by 8%; on build and deployment by 55%.

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol’s (PDF, 670KB) smarter baggage handling results in 40% increase in baggage handling capacity, 80% increase in hourly baggage handling capability

Danske Bank, an agile story starting with change and configuration management, enhances efficiency of IT development by 10%. Reduces times to market from 14 months to nine months

Start or add effective application lifecycle management capabilities where you have the most need…

Portfolio, demand and delivery management

Doing the right things right

Requirements management

Ensure project success

Architecture and design

Go from design to done faster

Application development

Smarter software delivery

Software change and configuration management

Orchestration for insight, predictability and control

Build and deploy

Deliver and deploy software efficiently

Quality management and testing

Reduce the cost of quality with lifecycle quality management and integrated test automation solutions.

Manage quality from concept to retirement

Unified teams and platforms deliver working software faster

Unified teams and platforms deliver quality software and services faster

Whether you are using formal and agile methods, reduce the high costs, inefficiency and risks of fragmented software development without compromising software quality with proven, integrated ALM solutions. Improve cross-project visibility and automate the flow of people, process and information in an iterative cycle of design-driven software delivery to realize a foundation across multi-platforms for business alignment, improved rationalization, ability to scale, enhanced team collaboration, automation, governance and reporting.

Featured application lifecycle management solutions

IBM Rational solution for collaborative lifecycle management

Enhance productivity with an integrated application lifecycle management (ALM) solution to avoid the pitfalls of working in silos with broken communication which results in project delays, low quality or budget overrun. This solution brings requirements management, quality management, testing, change and configuration management, and design management on a unified platform.

IBM Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters

Connect Rational application lifecycle management capabilities to third-party tools tools. Since these adapters are scalable and based on opens standards, they help you gain more value out of your software delivery environment by unifying across a diverse set of lifecycle tools.

IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server

virtualize complex systems and services to provide cost-effective 24x7 test environments

IBM Rational Test Workbench

test automation for complex and highly integrated applications delivering functional, regression, load and integration testing

Featured application lifecycle management products

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    Rational Team Concert

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    Rational ClearCase

    Comprehensive software configuration management for any size project.

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    Rational Buildforge

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

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    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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Unify, integrate and collaborate

Watch a “day in their life” of a highly efficient software delivery team who have incrementally rolled out IBM's solution for collaborative lifecycle management (CLM). CLM Is built on an integrated and open platform which enabled them to achieve automation of manual tasks and to benefit from the five imperatives for effective ALM

  • In-context Collaboration
  • Real-time planning
  • Lifecycle Traceability
  • Development Intelligence
  • Continuous Process Improvement

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