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Thursday 7 May 2009, 2:00 PM
IBM announces Rational Team Webtop
With IBM's Rational Software Developer Conference 2009 less than a month away now, the company is making reasonably enthusiastic noises about its new software platform (and related services no less) for product manufacturers and designers.
In a disappointingly generic announcement released today at 2pm GMT, IBM aligned its new collaboration-focused offering towards organisations that, “Often struggle with increasingly complex design environments.”
Citing Aberdeen Research, IBM highlights the estimation that two thirds of product manufacturers are turning to software to drive product innovation; and of those companies, those that have built a best-of-class competency in software are infusing 4.4 times more software into their products.
The statement today from Daniel Sabbah, general manager of IBM Rational Software was inspiring, but equally non-specific in terms of telling us what this new technology is or what it is actually called, “People of all ages have come to depend on products with features relying on increasing amounts of software-based intelligence. The successful organisations of the future will build a strong competency in delivering that software fused with sensor and electro-mechanical technologies to create products that are increasingly intelligent, instrumented and interconnected to the Internet and other systems.”
Digging a little deeper, it appears that the software announced today will provide an integrated software delivery platform that addresses requirements, design, development and management across electrical, mechanical and software technologies.
Digging deeper still into this announcement, it appears that the new product is called IBM Rational Team Webtop and is the integrated user front-end for the platform powered by Jazz. Team IBM says Webtop will help increase communication and productivity throughout extended product design teams by presenting information from multiple software delivery tools across the workflow in a single web-based view.
Great! At last. It's a web-based collaboration tool that delivers application lifecycle management information with an appreciation for complex product engineering design needs. We didn't need 500 words of preamble.
The announcement also includes updates to IBM Rational DOORS, IBM Rational Change and IBM Rational Synergy all designed to improve application quality by identifying the specific stages of complex, multi-step processes used when developing smarter products.
I could go on and talk about scalability and Agile development workflow and modeling capabilities in IBM Rational Rhapsody. All good news to be sure, but probably the sort of info that we needed up front than hidden way down the bottom of today's announcement and so consequently in my blog also.
We know Big Blue is big. But it doesn't have to give us the big picture first to justify big technology. We know they work big, develop big and collaborate big. Just give us the tasty morsels a little earlier next time please.
In a disappointingly generic announcement released today at 2pm GMT, IBM aligned its new collaboration-focused offering towards organisations that, “Often struggle with increasingly complex design environments.”
Citing Aberdeen Research, IBM highlights the estimation that two thirds of product manufacturers are turning to software to drive product innovation; and of those companies, those that have built a best-of-class competency in software are infusing 4.4 times more software into their products.
The statement today from Daniel Sabbah, general manager of IBM Rational Software was inspiring, but equally non-specific in terms of telling us what this new technology is or what it is actually called, “People of all ages have come to depend on products with features relying on increasing amounts of software-based intelligence. The successful organisations of the future will build a strong competency in delivering that software fused with sensor and electro-mechanical technologies to create products that are increasingly intelligent, instrumented and interconnected to the Internet and other systems.”
Digging a little deeper, it appears that the software announced today will provide an integrated software delivery platform that addresses requirements, design, development and management across electrical, mechanical and software technologies.
Digging deeper still into this announcement, it appears that the new product is called IBM Rational Team Webtop and is the integrated user front-end for the platform powered by Jazz. Team IBM says Webtop will help increase communication and productivity throughout extended product design teams by presenting information from multiple software delivery tools across the workflow in a single web-based view.
Great! At last. It's a web-based collaboration tool that delivers application lifecycle management information with an appreciation for complex product engineering design needs. We didn't need 500 words of preamble.
The announcement also includes updates to IBM Rational DOORS, IBM Rational Change and IBM Rational Synergy all designed to improve application quality by identifying the specific stages of complex, multi-step processes used when developing smarter products.
I could go on and talk about scalability and Agile development workflow and modeling capabilities in IBM Rational Rhapsody. All good news to be sure, but probably the sort of info that we needed up front than hidden way down the bottom of today's announcement and so consequently in my blog also.
We know Big Blue is big. But it doesn't have to give us the big picture first to justify big technology. We know they work big, develop big and collaborate big. Just give us the tasty morsels a little earlier next time please.
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