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IBM partners sit in with Jazz Team Concert


By Robert Mullins
July 1, 2008 — 
As IBM launches its Team Concert platform for agile software development, technology partners are certifying their products to work with Big Blue’s.

Team Concert, a development server that includes the Jazz collaboration technology, was introduced at the IBM Rational Software Development Conference in Orlando in early June, and the third-party announcements coincided with that event.

Jazz defines IBM’s technology for software development collaboration among people in different business units, companies or locations. Team Concert acts as the portal for the software-building process and uses blogs, instant messaging and other communication tools to keep team members current on a project’s status.

IBM launched nine products, including different versions of Team Concert and other development tools. IBM partners offered 11 more products in various stages of certification to complement Team Concert and other Rational Jazz-enabled software products.

All partners are expected to complete certification before the end of the year, said Stephen Lauzon, senior manager of the Ready for IBM Rational partner program.

In some cases, IBM has delegated functionality to partner products, but in most others, the partner products enhance or extend the functionality of an IBM offering, Lauzon said.

For instance, IBM turned to Mainsoft to support existing collaboration platforms. Mainsoft, a provider of Microsoft-Java interoperability tools, said it would integrate future releases of Team Concert into its Web 2.0-based collaboration offerings for IBM Lotus Quickr and Microsoft SharePoint. Lauzon specifically mentioned the document management capabilities in those products as important to offer within Team Concert.

However, IBM picked two companies to support virtual test lab management in its IBM Quality Manager product, which was also released at the Orlando conference. Surgient and VMLogix products specifically manage testing software in virtualization environments.

“There is nothing out of the box [in Quality Manager] to support virtual environments, but we are working with partners like Surgient and VMLogix to hook up their existing virtual test lab management,” said Lauzon.

Another example of IBM’s choice to co-opt rather than conquer is QSM, which will integrate its estimation and project control tools into the Team Concert platform. Estimation software determines how long a project will take, what the personnel time and expense will be, and how costs and schedules vary, based on changes in requirements. The project control function tracks costs and time schedules throughout the project.

QSM, he noted, is an industry leader in project estimation and control, so there is no reason for IBM to develop a similar product.

“We can leverage the value of what they have together, rather than trying to build all of that ourselves,” he concluded.

Meanwhile, Black Duck Software, which studies code within an enterprise to ensure it complies with commercial and open-source licenses, is integrating its governing IP compliance feature into Team Concert.

CAST Software said it is integrating its application intelligence software, which measures the technical performance of business applications, into the Rational ClearCase 7.1 software configuration management tool.

IRise will incorporate its application simulation tool into Team Concert, letting developers emulate how an application will run while it is still under development.

Other partners highlighted at the development conference include CM-Logic, which is developing a connector to Team Concert for its change-management feature; Ravenflow, which is integrating its requirements module into Rational Requirements Composer; Source IQ, which is integrating its ALM governance solution into Team Concert; and WebLayers, which is offering an automated design time governance tool.


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