IBM Quality Management Portfolio New and Enhanced

Success or failure often depends upon one thing: Whose product is of the highest quality? The quest for business transformation through innovation, the need for improved software quality to manage risk, and the demand to reduce costs, while increasing productivity mandates a more coordinated, agile, and transparent approach across the service lifecycle.

To balance this need to innovate, while improving productivity and quality, organizations require solutions that can:

• Apply intelligent, predictive capabilities across the lifecycle
• Automate manual hands-offs between software delivery and operational teams

Organizations are realizing a competitive edge when they orchestrate software delivery and operational team collaboration to achieve service level objectives:

• A global bank cut its software delivery costs by reducing the number of errors discovered at the final stage of testing and release by over 70%. It deployed a collaborative, iterative process that links requirements and testing more closely together.
• A healthcare company realized a 69% net reduction in the cost of rework, test preparation, and testing six months post deployment, working in one sixth the calendar time and one third the person hours.
• A telecommunications company reduced its average project cycle time by 76 days and completed twice as many projects over three years with an integrated delivery environment for asset sharing, reuse, and traceability between projects and teams.

Apply intelligent, predictive capabilities across the lifecycle. Understand and control risk early in the lifecycle for less disruption and cost to the business. Assess risk proactively, prevent duplicate defects from occurring, employ test autopsy to discover and analyze the source of defects, and manage business objectives anywhere in real time with custom reports and dashboards using Rational Quality Manager (Standard and Express Editions) and its integrations with IBM Rational Requirements Composer, IBM Rational DOORS® and IBM Rational Insight.

Improve application health with automated code quality analysis in the build process using IBM Rational Software Analyzer and its integration with IBM Rational Team Concert™, and lower the skill level to better manage quality assurance and actively engage non-technical staff in test activities with visual storyboard testing using IBM Rational Functional Tester.

Automate manual hand-offs between software delivery and operational teams. Speed performance problem replication and resolution using IBM Rational Performance Tester and IBM Tivoli® Provisioning Manager. Speed time to market by searching and provisioning test lab and production environments using IBM Rational Test Lab Manager, Tivoli Provisioning Manager and IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager.

Learn more about the entire Rational Fall Launch and let IBM Rational® solutions help you apply the visibility, control and automation of a dynamic infrastructure to software delivery.