While focusing on mobile and cloud, IBM has now revised its Rational CLM (Collaborative Lifecycle Management) software to function in clusters. The multinational corporation has also introduced a number of cloud-based development management services.
The company announced this Monday during the start of its annual Innovate software conference, being held this week in Orlando.
IBM vice president of Rational product development Harish Grama said the company has been building software deal with cloud as production environment “and mobile as an avenue to deliver business applications.”
IBM’s Rational CLM software becomes one of the updated products. The software coordinates information across other IBM Rational products including IBM Rational Requirements Composer, IBM Rational Team Concert, and IBM Rational Quality Manager.
CLM afterwards uses the information to summarize how a project progresses as it moves through development to testing to production.
The updated version of CLM, 4.0, can now be run across a cluster of servers hence allowing for larger development environments.
This also becomes the first version of the software to incorporate the virtual testing environments that IBM acquired when it purchased Green Hat earlier this year.
The company has also introduced some new development services on its SmartCloud hosted offerings.
A novel pilot dubbed, IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery, offers a means of coordinating project development using DevOps methodology.
The platform further “allows you to establish a pipeline of moving bits through various test cases,” Grama said.
It can also work with IBM development software and popular third-party software, including Puppet.
IBM also now provides a development management service specially for government agencies, called IBM SmartCloud for Government and CLM as a service through SmartCloud.
The company has also assembled a package for enterprise mobile development. The Enterprise Mobile Development collection includes Rational CLM, Worklight Studio 5.0, Worklight Server 5.0, Rational Application Developer version 8.5, Rational Developer for System z version 8.5, Rational Developer for Power Systems version 8.5, and IBM Application Center 5.0. It includes an SDK and emulator for testing mobile applications for use on Android phones, reported the InfoWorld.
