Accelerate software and system delivery across applications and product lifecycles

Innovation has become synonymous with software. It is through the use of software that enterprises can create more "instrumentation, interconnection, intelligent" products, systems and services. Software innovation is becoming a source of real value to customers, and for many businesses, innovation enables them to stand out from their competitors.

As you can see, new business models are emerging in mobile applications. Deloitte expects mobile banking to overtake online banking in 2020 and become the most widely used channel. Innovation in the automotive industry also has obvious signs, including electronic devices to achieve the industry 80% of the functional innovation. Software is the key to achieving most of the innovation.

But while software is increasingly becoming a driver of business success, consumer demand, and technology turnover, it also brings more complexity to software and system delivery teams. In areas such as mobile computing, new application delivery models have had an impact on processes and methods, and the proliferation of terminal equipment in a variety of data paths has taken the delivery team by surprise, resulting in the loss of some market opportunities.

Software and system delivery is a rapidly changing area that is impacted by the new application delivery model, such as the proliferation of cloud computing and mobile terminals, the shortening of delivery times, and the blurring of organizational boundaries. Although organizations try to make effective use of all the latest advanced technologies, most organizations still respond to these changes by making innovations and increasing competitive advantages.

IBM Rational Products and Services release profile

The pace of business development is accelerating, and organizations need to continuously deliver new software and products embedded in the software. How do software and system delivery teams leverage trends in mobile, cloud computing, social networking, and other emerging models and achieve success? The answer is to use a bottom-up approach that provides real improvements based on three core objectives:

Integrate across lifecycles to connect software, data, and tools

Collaborate through a unified team, role, platform, and geography

Achieve better results by improving measurement and optimizing matching with business priority

With these steps, the company will be better able to achieve the following goals:

Provide higher quality products and services to the market

Make sure these products and services meet customer needs

Shorten the delivery cycle while reducing costs and risks

To improve flexibility, IBM Rational employs jazz technology, a delivery environment based on open standards, which helps you manage the many elements that make up today's complexity. Through joint business partners and a broader development community, we have enhanced this capability to help customers accelerate software and system delivery, improve quality, and reduce costs and risks.

Let's take a look at these announcements.

IBM announces new integration and collaboration features

IBM announces new integration and collaboration capabilities to help customers optimize their software and system delivery across applications and product lifecycles. These bulletins provide two different feature sets for the IT team as well as the product manufacturing and service teams:

For IT organizations

Accelerate software delivery through improved integration throughout the lifecycle of the application

Extend the application lifecycle beyond the development team to reduce costs and create new business value

Increased flexibility and productivity through the use of a wide range of development communities

Product and system-oriented organizations

Integrates across complex systems and software development lifecycle to shorten cycle length

Reduce risk in high-growth industries by providing targeted solutions

Improve system lifecycle management through access to a growing range of business partner ecosystems

Both the IT and system teams need a well-managed software development lifecycle to support operational and business (LOB) team requirements that interact with customers within a continuous business cycle. In the spring, IBM Rational enhanced the integration of LOB, development, and operations teams through expanded lifecycle management, which covers different levels of vectors in the mobile and cloud domains and leverages the growing business partner ecosystem.