{"id":551397,"date":"2007-01-29T22:39:06","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T22:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/551397-ibm-advancing-global-based-software-development.html"},"modified":"2007-01-29T22:39:06","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T22:39:06","slug":"ibm-advancing-global-based-software-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/551397-ibm-advancing-global-based-software-development.html","title":{"rendered":"IBM advancing global-based software development"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Sabbah, GM of Rational, says that the company is re-architecting core elements of its product set to leverage the Internet and Web 2.0 concepts such as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML-based (AJAX) Web interfaces. The goal is to accommodate community-based software development, he adds.<\/font><\/p>\n

New products bearing these changes will start to appear toward the end of the first half of this year, Sabbah says. IBM seeks to make software engineering more flexible and more reactive with its plan, accommodating agile processes.<\/font><\/p>\n

"The aspect of it that is much more interesting is really building software engineering communities," Sabbah adds.<\/font><\/p>\n

Noting the trend toward collaboration between US and offshore developers, IBM seeks to provide a platform accommodating a global, distributed model. These developers will able to work on aspects of development, such as requirements modelling, architecture, changing legacy code, documentation, and bug fixes.<\/font><\/p>\n

According to Sabbah, the company seeks to optimise SOA development with its plan. SOA is largely about decomposing large parts of monolithic software into more flexible components, he adds.<\/font><\/p>\n

As part of the effort, Rational products will add capabilities to manage architectures and software lifecycles for building more flexible software in a globally distributed fashion. Internet-based community project efforts will also be enhanced, according to Sabbah.<\/font><\/p>\n

"There are plenty of examples of people doing organisationally distributed and globally distributed development, and they need better tools to be able to do that, and they need to understand the coherent architecture," Sabbah adds.<\/font><\/p>\n

"IBM’s effort is certainly related to application lifecycle management (ALM), but it is a different dimension of ALM, because in this particular case, the application itself has to be dynamically assembled, with many of the parts coming from places where you could not predict," Sabbah continues.<\/font><\/p>\n

"Every single element of our product portfolio will have a globally distributed element to it, and feature the ability to be hosted under Internet standards,\u201d Sabbah stresses.<\/font><\/p>\n

He raised the notion of offering Rational products via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, but did not openly commit to this.<\/font><\/p>\n

"As we transform our product portfolio down this particular path, our ability to deliver a software development platform will enable a SaaS model. But we are not announcing today any kind of a SaaS model," says Sabbah.<\/font><\/p>\n

A service supplier, whether it is IBM or someone else, could, for example, host a quality management process for distributed teams worldwide, Sabbah says. <\/font><\/p>\n

Sabbah calls IBM’s plan "a natural evolution of the capabilities that we provide today."<\/font><\/p>\n

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Building on its Jazz strategy for collaboratively building software, IBM Rational will offer versions of its products geared toward global co-operative development with an eye toward boosting SOA during this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}