Application Lifecycle Management solutions

Making the complex simple

Application lifecycle management (ALM) coordinates the flow of people, processes and information in an iterative cycle of software delivery activities. Whether your project is transformational or an upgrade to your existing environment, a custom developed application or a packaged application such as ERP or CRM, ALM principles apply.

Effective ALM can help organisations deliver better products and services by improving project success rates and controlling costs associated with errors and rework across the software delivery life cycle (SDLC).

IBM Rational Software’s Application Lifecycle Management platform can:

Provide the foundation for continuous capability improvement through flexible, rules-based process enforcement, real-time reporting and integrated best practices
Meet the domain-specific needs of skilled practitioners while enabling a real-time flow of information and ideas across the entire team
Improve collaboration across teams, including delivery partners, and geographies, systems, disciplines and organisations
Help meet compliance requirements through asset traceability and approval workflows
Achieve agility at scale by scaling proven Agile practices to teams of any size or team configuration

Real results

Danske Bank (US) enhances efficiency of IT development by 10 percent and Reduces times to market from 14 to 9 months with IBM Rational Team Concert™ as the backbone of its agile development process.

Regence BlueCross BlueShield (US) reduces testing time by 50 percent. Three employees can run required 1,250 tests in less than one week. This company created an automation framework using IBM Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester and IBM Rational ClearQuest® Test Manager software.