by Playfuls Staff |
5th June 2006
IBM upgraded its Rational Software development tools into the management field so different people involved in the development process can more easily centralize and share information, said Roger Oberg, vice president of marketing and strategy at IBM Rational.[more]
The latest version of activity management program ClearQuest, for instance has closer integration with IBM's Tivoli software and IBM's program for gathering application requirements: "ClearQuest is now the hub for maintaining development lifecycle artifacts," Oberg said. "You can get a single point of view, from requirements to tests to build records."
The certification process was done in a matter of weeks, according to Melinda Wilken, Akimbi's Systems vice president of marketing. IBM reached out to draw Akimbi into its program and streamline the validation process, which Wilken sees as a sign of the company's increasing interest in teaming closely with ISVs.
"They're really trying to reach out," Wilken said. "I think what's driving that is their desire to deepen and broaden the capabilities they can provide to their customers."
"We've seen our customers ask for everything that we're doing here," Oberg added.
"I don't think that anyone of our customers is going to adopt all 12 products, and that's the advantage of them being products and not just some kind of monolithic packaged application. They will adopt them incrementally in a modular way."
All 12 products updated in this current release set are "team products" according to Oberg, since any member of a development team (testers, developers) may profit from them.
IBM Rational System Developer and the role-optimized products are not part of this release sequence.
