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Neue Software und Services für die IBM Rational Produktfamilie

Im Rahmen der IBM Rational Software Development Conference, Orlando, Florida, kündigt IBM zahlreiche neue Lösungen an, die räumlich oder organisatorisch getrennten Entwicklerteams die Zusammenarbeit in Echtzeit erleichtern. Darüber hinaus bietet IBM eine Reihe neuer Services und Angebote für Entwickler und Geschäftspartner.

Die neuen Softwareangebote umfassen:

• Das auf der Jazz Plattform basierende IBM Rational Team Concert, ein Portal, das die Produktivität von Entwicklerteams durch Echtzeit-Collaboration verbessert
• IBM Rational Asset Manager 7.0 bietet Einblicke in die Softwarebestände und ihre Verwendung in der Teamzusammenarbeit
• IBM Rational ClearCase 7.01 dient Entwicklern zur Verbesserung der Produktivität und Sicherheit
• Das Projektmanagement-Programm IBM Rational Portfolio Manager 7.1 ist in der neuen Version mit einer Ajax-basierten Webschnittstelle für das Arbeitsmanagement ausgestattet.

An neuen Services und Angeboten stellt IBM unter anderem vor:

• Rational Software Comes to You unterstützt Geschäftspartner mit Informationen und Materialien, die das Verständnis von Rational erleichtern
• Neue Testsoftware für die Rational Zone bietet IBM developerWorks
• Die neue IBM Rational Business Partner Community bietet Geschäftspartnern den Zugang zu Quellen und Informationen.

Am 21. Juni wird IBM die erste developerWorks Live! in Second Life veranstalten, die als technisches Briefing zu aktuellen Trends in der Industrie konzipiert ist.

Ergänzend zur RUC Konferenz in Orlando bietet IBM Rational elektronische Presseinformationen und Bildmaterial von der Konferenz unter: http://www.ibm.com/press/rsdc/. Für den deutsch-sprachigen Raum wird die Rational Anwenderkonferenz in Dresden am 11./12. Oktober die Neuigkeiten auf der Agenda haben. Weitere Details finden Sie unter ibm.com/software/de/events/rational_all.html .

Weitere Informationen zu den neuen Software- und Serviceangeboten rund um IBM Rational entnehmen Sie bitte den folgenden englischen Originalmeldungen:

IBM Announces New Software, Vision for Community Driven Development

ARMONK, N.Y., June 11, 2007 . . . IBM today announced its vision for community driven development and introduced new software to help clients drive greater visibility, business intelligence and collaboration in software delivery projects. The roadmap, unveiled at the IBM Rational Software Development Conference in Orlando, Florida, centers around IBM's software development portfolio which helps geographically and/or organizationally distributed development teams collaborate in real time.

Historically, software development and delivery has been a closed process limited to in-house skills and software development tools that have focused on making individual developers more productive. Today, software development is becoming more complex with the actual development happening with offshore teams and/or business partners in different locations. Managing projects that span geographic and organizational boundaries is emerging as one of the top software delivery challenges. Enabling greater team agility and alignment with evolving business requirements also compounds the challenge. IBM is helping clients gain intelligence from their software assets and increase global project efficiency and insight, through its open transparent approach to community development.

IBM is announcing new offerings to help geographically distributed development teams collaborate, lower the total cost of global software delivery, and deliver software to market faster than ever before. The new Web-centric, lower bandwidth software helps customers reduce overhead costs of deploying a client technology, and allows outsourced members of development teams to participate in software delivery projects more easily.

• IBM Rational Team Concert, beta 1 -- the first offering developed on the Jazz technology platform, IBM Rational Team Concert is a collaborative portal designed to improve team productivity by enabling real-time collaboration across a software delivery team. The new software is optimized for Agile development teams in mid- and large-sized businesses and can extend IBM Rational's leading change and release management solutions Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest. In the future, IBM expects to deliver a family of IBM Rational Team Concert offerings, and extensions to existing IBM products, that enrich the collaborative nature of the IBM Rational Software Delivery platform.
• IBM Rational Asset Manager 7.0 -- generally available on June 29, 2007, this new software provides visible intelligence into software assets and how they are consumed in a collaborative environment. IBM Rational Asset Manager is a registry of design, development and deployment related assets, such as codes, patterns and tests, and allows organizations to reduce development cost and time; securely communicate across disparate global teams and eliminate rework with asset-traceability and utilization monitoring; and accelerate service delivery.
• IBM Rational ClearCase 7.01 -- the latest version helps improve developer productivity and security. By managing and controlling the assets needed when developing software, Rational ClearCase helps clients isolate data based on the location of a user. For example, in some countries there are export control regulations which prevent users from working on certain aspects of code. Clients who may have both an in-house development team and outsourced the development of specific software deliverables, can now isolate data in a secure way to ensure that remote teams only have access to the assets they need. IBM Rational ClearCase 7.01 helps clients with global projects monitor these critical situations.
• IBM Rational Portfolio Manager 7.1 -- the recently announced project and portfolio management offering has a new Ajax-based Web interface that allows team members to manage their work, submit time and expense reports.

With more than 22,000 software developers in 61 locations around the globe, IBM knows first hand that global development is hard. Utilizing shared best practices is critical to delivering a project on schedule. The development teams from the IBM Lab in Bangalore, India, and the IBM Lab in Lexington, MA, have captured their collective experiences and published a Redbook titled "Global Development and Delivery - based on the experiences of the Rational India Lab." This Redbook discusses common challenges in geographically distributed development environments and the steps IBM took to tailor IBM Rational tools to solve these problems through case study examples. IBM has also created a plug-in offering focused on geographically distributed development for IBM Rational Method Composer 7.2, a process for helping developers deliver customized yet consistent software development projects. Today, IBM Rational Method Composer is used by more than 1,300 organizations worldwide.

Collaboration drives community-driven development

The Jazz Project is an open commercial community designed to improve team agility and collaboration. Today IBM announced that it is opening up http://www.Jazz.net for IBM Rational partners, IBM Rational customers, the 2,700+ IBM Rational Software Development Conference attendees, and select others in the global software development community providing access to IBM's Jazz platform project. At Jazz.net, customers can transparently collaborate with IBM and each other, provide input on requirements, report bugs and ultimately contribute to the development of IBM's industry-leading software delivery platform. By opening up the software development community as a transparent software supply chain, the Jazz.net community will drive the evolution of standards and common components incorporated in future IBM software releases.

"Open commercial software development is the next major innovation in collaborative engineering," said Dr. Danny Sabbah, general manager, IBM Rational Software. "IBM is taking software development to a new level, and through participation in the Jazz.net community, customers can influence the products they depend on for software delivery."

To jump-start the collaborative development process at Jazz.net, IBM has posted several incubator projects focused on code analysis, requirements management and other aspects of Agile software development projects. IBM is encouraging the greater software development community to collaborate on these projects, and the Rational Team Concert beta.

IBM Boosts Support for Developer and Business Partner Communities

ARMONK, N.Y. - June 11, 2007…As part of its commitment to the software development community, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new programs and offerings that make it even easier for software developers and IBM Business Partners to work with IBM. The new resources provide the tools needed to help customers more quickly and effectively deliver software to the market and remain competitive.

More than 1,600 developers around the globe join the IBM community every day, and hundreds of IBM Business Partners have validated and integrated their offerings on the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform. Just this week, more than a dozen ISVs are announcing new solutions validated on the new IBM Rational offerings, while business partner attendance at the IBM Rational Software Development Conference is up 50 percent - with attendance at Rational Business Partner Day more than doubling last year’s participation.

“In response to growing customer demand for reliable, secure and integrated software development, business partners and developers are turning to IBM Rational software to help them grow their businesses,” said Scott Hebner, vice president of marketing and strategy, IBM Rational software. “IBM’s vast library of tools and resources cannot be matched. Whether online, in virtual worlds such as Second Life, or at local enablement and sales events, IBM is helping our extended community of developers and business partners drive innovation in software development.”

The new programs, resources and offerings include:

Rational Software Comes to You–Business partners can bring the experience and education of the Rational Software Development Conference to their local markets. With 20 events planned in emerging markets in 2007, Rational Software Comes to You gives business partners the tools, support and guidance needed to provide customers with an in-depth educational experience while networking with peers in their own markets. With a successful 2006 pilot of the program and 1,400 registrants, Rational Software Comes to You will help business partners bring their solutions to more than 5,000 attendees at 150 events around the globe. For more information or to sign up, IBM Business Partners can visit: www.ibm.com/software/rational/rsdc/2u/

New Software Trials Available on developerWorks – Further enabling its six million member community to broaden and grow their skills on the IBM Rational software delivery platform, IBM developerWorks offers a wide range of technical resources and best practices, free of charge. In support of community-driven innovation for IBM Rational developers, developerWorks has added several new software trials to the Rational zone, including resources for IBM Rational ClearCase and IBM Rational Portfolio Manager, a revamped "Ready for Rational" portal and new IBM Rational Method Composer (formerly the Rational Unified Process) plug-ins. For more information and to access these resources, please visit: www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational.

IBM Rational Business Partner Community Portal – The new community portal provides a simple interface for business partners to access resources and information designed to build their technical skills, create sales opportunities and close business. The portal features access to special business partner-only education, market intelligence, and community tools that drive collaboration between IBM Rational Business Partners and sales teams. The portal can be accessed at www.ibm.com/software/rational/businesspartners.

CODESTATION – As part of its commitment to the developer community, IBM is broadening the experience for avatars visiting CODESTATON, an island in the developer archipelago of virtual world Second Life (http://slurl.com/secondlife/IBM%20CODESTATION/124/159/25/). During the IBM Rational Software Development Conference, visitors can chat with fellow avatars while viewing the General Sessions, catch IBM Rational product demonstrations and interact with IBM Rational experts. To attend the Conference in Second Life, please visit: http://slurl.com/secondlife/IBM%205/17/22/23. In the coming months, users will also have the opportunity to compete for prizes against fellow Second Life coders in the first CODESTATION "Coders Challenge" -- an LSL scripting challenge.

developerWorks Live! Technical Briefing in Second Life – On June 21, IBM will host its first-ever developerWorks Live! technical briefing in Second Life to help developers get up-to-speed on the latest industry trends. Aimed at bringing together developers, IT directors and administrators from around the world, the briefing will help users understand what they need to do to make Web 2.0 a reality for their business. Attendees will see a flash presentation of the hottest technologies and interact with experts.

Software Value Incentive (SVI) – This program allows IBM Business Partners to earn up to 35% in incentives when identifying, selling or fulfilling IBM Rational software sales. The introduction of four new Rational Technical Sales Mastery exams at this year's Rational Software Development Conference makes it easier for partners to satisfy SVI's certification requirements and recent enhancements to the Global Partner Portal. The portal allows partners to register SVI leads and request sales support, as well as helps partners manage and close deals more quickly. For more information, visit: www.ibm.com/software/rational/businesspartners

IBM Rational Quality Management Initiative – New resources are now available to help IBM Business Partners evolve their technical and selling skills to address their customers’ quality management issues. Business partners can now access education and training materials, executive and technical sales presentations, white papers, demonstrations, migration kits and other resources focused on quality management. Registered PartnerWorld IBM Business Partners can access these resources at: www.ibm.com/software/rational/businesspartners.

Ready for IBM Rational Business Partners can now qualify for IBM PartnerWorld Advanced-level member benefits – Ready for IBM Rational business partners will now have access to IBM’s Advanced-level IBM Business Partner resources including access to IBM’s field teams through sales connections and value marketing resources. The Ready for IBM Rational software validation program helps ISV business partners develop solutions that work with IBM Rational offerings. Completion of the initiative offers Business Partners the opportunity to differentiate themselves with the Ready for IBM Rational mark. For more information, visit: www.ibm.com/isv.

For more information about IBM Rational and the benefits IBM Business Partners receive, please visit: www.ibm.com/software/rational/businesspartners.

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Christine Paulus
IBM Deutschland
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