IBM Extends Collaborative Software Development Platform to Cloud and Mobile

IBM today announced a new version of its Collaborative Lifecycle Management solution. The software is built on IBM's open development platform, Jazz, and brings together IBM Rational Requirements Composer, IBM Rational Team Concert, and IBM Rational Quality Manager in one solution. The idea behind the new platform is to let development teams collaborate on the design and development of software with each other and with business stakeholders.

China Merchants Bank, headquartered in Shenzhen, China, uses Collaborative Lifecycle Management to automate development processes and provide cross-teaming for geographically dispersed developers who are modernizing the bank's core banking and credit card processing applications. It runs the software on IBM System z and IBM Power platforms. The bank has more than 800 branches and more than 50,000 employees and is considered one of the top 100 banks in the world.

"IBM Rational Developer and ALM tools were brought into our credit card migration and core banking system project," says Zhanwen Chen, manager of configuration management, China Merchants Bank. "Replacing older tools and coordinating the efforts of our 1,000+ developers improved our quality and performance."

IBM Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management on IBM SmartCloud Enterprise provides an infrastructure-as-a-service environment suited to development and testing, IBM says. IBM SmartCloud Application Services provides a pay-as-you-go service that coordinates activities across business and system requirements, design, development, build, test and delivery.

IBM Rational CLM has also been extended to the IBM Mobile Foundation platform for centralized code sharing and distributed mobile application development. This is designed to help teams apply an end-to-end lifecycle management process to design, develop, test and deploy mobile applications while enabling integration with enterprise back-end systems and cloud services through mobile-optimized middleware.