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IBM offers better insight into development projects

By David Rubinstein

June 1, 2009 — (Page 1 of 3)
With the idea of providing business intelligence for the application development life cycle, IBM today announced Rational Insight, a data warehousing, analysis and reporting engine built for software development management at its Rational Software Conference in Orlando.

The company also rolled out the first parts of a cloud strategy designed to help IBM customers create and manage their own private clouds for software development.

The Rational Insight product is built on IBM’s Jazz collaboration technology and the Cognos business intelligence platform to provide metrics on such things as defect densities, development trends over time, task completion vs. requirements, and more, said Rational CTO Martin Nally. “There are a large number of standard analyses and reports tailored to the governance and management of software development,” he said.

In conjunction with the release, IBM is releasing to beta Focal Point for Project Management, an extension of the Telelogic tool that was used to “triage” new feature requests, and it now offers the kinds of measurements that can be applied to an overall project, Nally said. “Other project management tools are disconnected from the development process,” he claimed.

“Project managers walk around on Monday saying, ‘This is what we want,’ then they walk around again on Friday to find out, ‘This is what we did,’ and then a lot of time is spend manually reconciling those.

“In Insight, users can do planning based on actual work items, because it’s more tightly linked into the functioning of the development team,” he said.

Other Rational tools that round out the Insight offering are Team Concert, Requirements Composer and System Architect. Insight is also linked to IBM’s Measured Capability Improvement Framework, which Nally called “IBM’s guide to how to be successful in process improvement.”

IBM soars to the clouds
IBM also announced at the Rational conference initiatives to provide tools on the cloud, as well as tools for the cloud, Nally said.

The cloud offers IBM a new way to deliver—and for customers to deploy—Rational’s tools. Among cloud services IBM is delivering now are basic cloud services, such as registering a virtual machine, starting it, getting images onto it and the like, Nally explained.

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