PLANNING AND LEADERSHIP FOR A BETTER WORLD
PLANNING AND LEADERSHIP FOR A BETTER WORLD Often, the puzzle for technology these days isn't about, "Can this work?" It's about, "Can all of this work together?"
Integration, of course, has been the driving force of technology for decades now. And the demand for newer, "smarter" technologies that better integrate software, gadgets and equipment has never been greater. Organizations that once thought of themselves as purely equipment manufacturers are now creating products with sophisticated software features. The auto industry, for example, makes products that are essentially complex computer networks that happen to go 60 mph on the freeway.
Products and systems that once operated independently must now meet industry standards to ensure that they can operate as part of a larger system. In the growing field of sustainable energy, sophisticated wind turbines, control stations, power generation systems, power grids and utility companies must operate as one to provide clean electricity to consumers' homes. Development teams often include members from customer and vendor organizations.
All of this means there are a whole lot of people, tech tools and networks that have to gather in the "same room" to make everything, well, work right. Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM is seeking to address these needs with its newly released IBM Rational Software. The product serves three critical needs:
Systems management, so businesses can get a view of their solution architecture and information systems infrastructure to improve processes and manage scenarios.
Defining product requirements, which is required to help businesses manage product and project requirements when building and connecting systems.
Innovative development, as software developers and systems engineers must evaluate software designs before they are written into code. New enhancements to IBM's Rational Rhapsody include features that increase collaboration between development and quality assurance teams, improve the specification/capture/documentation process of systems engineering designs, and extend Rhapsody's native language capabilities to include Japanese.
With its WebSphere Software product, Rational Software also helps developers who have little or no service-oriented architecture (SOA) experience develop SOA solutions with greater speed, so they can use them to connect and support distributed smart devices. And IBM Rational Software Architect includes features that allow the design and development of next-generation communication services, such as "click-to-call" features and integrated voice, video and Web.
European Aeronautic Defence and Space (EADS), an Ottobrunn, Germany-based company that specializes in aerospace, defense and related services, is using the new IBM software products to design an increasing number of its complex products and systems for its Airbus and Security divisions. "This software platform helps us to differentiate ourselves in the market—we will be able to increase our quality while reducing the time to market for our products," says Simon Bradley, vice president of the Technology Capability Centre with EADS.
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