IBM's Rational Rollout

摘要

Increasingly, enterprise app dev projects span the globe. To govern such sprawling collaborations, IBM is rolling out 12 products developed by its Rational Software division. IBM claims that its new ALM (application lifecycle management) offerings, collectively dubbed the Rational Software Development Platform, will make it easier to wrangle global software supply chains. Eleven of the products are upgraded versions of previous offerings; the 12th, a build and release process management package, came with the acquisition of BuildForge last month. Automation is the overriding theme — of test management, the software build and release process, and global collaboration, including support for multiple languages in the new IBM Rational ClearQuest 7 package, said Roger Oberg, vice president of marketing and strategy for IBM Rational.