Are you missing windows of opportunity for adopting new and innovative business solutions? Does a lack of collaboration and poor visibility across your IT organizations keep you from achieving your business objectives?

Statistics show that software projects are not living up to the challenge. Up to 50% of apps released to production are later rolled back.* 51% of projects are over budget and often lack critical features. ** 60 – 80% of the cost of software development is rework. ***

Innovative companies know that software is the way to new efficiencies, differentiated products and services from the competition. These businesses are finding ways to quickly develop and deploy revenue generating projects on time and under budget.

IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery is an agile, scalable and flexible solution for end-to-end lifecycle management and automation, creating an environment that takes collaboration between development and operation teams to the next level.

IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery enables:

• Accelerated code-to-deploy from days to minutes through automation, standardization and repeatable processes
• Rapid low touch deployment designed to meet business growth with near-instant deployment of 100s of virtual machines
• Saves IT labor resources at scale by enabling self-service request and highly automated operations
• Reduces complexity through repeatable lifecycle artifacts

Key Solution Capabilities

• Sets up the DevOps project (RTC) with the pipeline work flow and tasks, such as, Build, Test, Deploy
• Tracks project changes (in RTC SCM) including dev code, app config, instrumentation, and installation scripts
• Executes Pipeline Tasks when triggered by changes, such as, Code check-in, by a developer.
• No-touch automatic execution of tasks including build & packaging, provisioning of the systems in the Cloud, set up of the system, app and configuration, and testing
• Internal Library to track versions of releases enabling tracing of defects to environment
• Dashboard to track pipeline flow and metrics

Learn more

• Learn about IBM’s Service management strategy and design services
• Read the whitepaper, Collaborative DevOps with Rational and Tivoli (PDF, 901KB)
• Watch the video, Better management of deployment-related Assets (00:01:59) (link resides outside of ibm.com)
• Collaborative development and operations solution brief (PDF, 2MB)

* Ptak, Noel & Associates
** softwaremag.com
***Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute

Learn more about these IBM Software solutions:

• agility@scale™
• Cloud computing
• IBM SmartCloud Provisioning
• Insight and product innovation
• Integrated service management
• Rational Team Concert

Make the move to IBM:

• Learn more on the ways you can migrate to IBM IT service and network management solutions.
• Learn more on the ways you can migrate to IBM industry-leading software and systems engineering delivery solutions.

Rational Innovate 2011 impact brief

Enterprise Management Associates elaborates on the key messaging from Rational Innovate 2011: integration, collaboration, optimization.

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A conversation with IBM Software executives

Marketing vice-presidents Gina Poole (IBM Rational) and Scott Hebner (IBM Tivoli) discuss the significance of collaborative development and operations.

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