IBM's innovative offering for businesses

NEW DELHI, INDIA: IBM has announced a new software platform and related services to help product manufacturers and designers create innovative products that help people work and live smarter.

The software and services will provide capabilities that support collaboration, and help reduce the cost and risk of bringing more intelligent, instrumented and interconnected products to market.

The IBM software will provide a fully integrated software delivery platform that addresses requirements, design, development and management across electrical, mechanical and software technologies and helps organizations derive the greatest value from the products they deliver.

IBM is unveiling IBM Rational Team Webtop, the integrated user front-end for the platform powered by Jazz. Team Webtop will help increase communication and productivity throughout these extended product design teams by presenting information from multiple software delivery tools across the workflow in a single Web-based view.

IBM Rational DOORS is also being enhanced with new features that will allow teams to avoid paper-based review processes by managing the complex and multi-layered requirements of smart products and systems of systems through an easy-to-use Web interface.

The new version of DOORS enables an expanded set of stakeholders to review, analyze and modify requirements data using the Web.

IBM Rational Change and IBM Rational Synergy are being updated to help companies improve application quality by more accurately and efficiently identifying the specific stages of complex, multi-step processes used when developing smarter products.

The new version of IBM Rational Team Concert, which is based on the IBM Jazz technology platform, will provide new levels of scalability and security to enable collaborative, agile development among distributed product teams.

In addition, select Rational systems development products will be integrated into the IBM Jazz technology platform, providing greater collaboration across the development lifecycle, which will allow people to work together regardless of location.

New features in IBM Rational Rhapsody will help customers bring products to market faster with new agile software development workflow and modeling capabilities to deliver complex systems before the software, hardware and electronics come together.

This helps identify and correct potential design flaws as early as possible.