IBM DevOps Announcements - June 2014

IBM DevOps Announcements – June 2, 2014
Highlights of new DevOps services, capabilities and practices
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Rapidly changing business environments, technology trends, evolving customer expectations, multi-sourcing and
complex supply chains are leading to higher expectations of IT to help drive improved business outcomes.
However, most enterprises spend more than 40% of their IT investment on overhead work and less than 60% of
their time on productive, value added activities. Business can enhance agility by improving their overall software
delivery efficiency and by eliminating the unnecessary friction and wasted energy in the end-to-end software
development and delivery lifecycle. However, speed must be balanced with cost and risk. IBM DevOps approach
provides an enterprise capability for continuous software delivery that enables organizations to seize market
opportunities and reduce time to customer feedback. For details on four adoption paths and six related practices
shown below, please visit: ibm.com/devops
Continuous
Customer Feedback
& Optimization
Collaborative
Development
Continuous Release and
Deployment
Continuous
Monitoring
Continuous
Business Planning
Continuous
Testing
Operate Develop/
Test
Deploy
Steer
DevOps
Continuous
Feedback

New DevOps services, capabilities and practices we are announcing include:
1) IBM BlueMix DevOps services to accelerate development and delivery in the cloud
2) DevOps capabilities to balance speed, cost, quality and risk for traditional enterprise applications
3) DevOps capabilities to reduce time-to-customer feedback of multi-channel apps
4) IBM and Ecosystem DevOps practices for an incremental adoption of DevOps
1) IBM BlueMix DevOps services to accelerate development and delivery in the cloud: IBM BlueMix
offers ‘mix-n-match’ building of apps including DevOps, data analytics, cloud integration and the
Internet of Things. New and enhanced services provide ready-built services to quick-start mobile
and web applications. IBM BlueMix DevOps services are targeted at practitioners, IT organizations
and business teams who are looking for an open, integrated rapid development environment that
scales from individual developers to enterprise teams.
DevOps Practices What’s new
Continuous Business Planning  New Agile planning and tracking service to accelerate
collaboration among stakeholders to create backlogs, manage
defects, create plans in the cloud.
Collaborative Development  Web IDE service to connect to Git repo to develop, edit code and
auto-deploy in IBM BlueMix.
 Continuous integration service capabilities to host a complete
build system to compile, run unit tests, and package application
for deployment as well as trigger automatic build every time a
new change is delivered to repository.
 Success Story: Financial Insurance Management Corp. –
Delivers a mobile solution in just three months
Deployment
 Continuous Delivery Pipeline service offers automation of the
activities for deploying and releasing applications in IBM
BlueMix.
Continuous User Feedback and
Optimization:
 Mobile quality assurance service offers enhanced frictionless
bug reporting, in-app crash reporting and sentiment analysis to
mine app ratings and reviews to extract actionable feedback
before they go viral.
2) DevOps capabilities to balance speed, cost, quality and risk for traditional enterprise
applications: Leverage a consistent software delivery approach and practices for on-prem
enterprise applications spanning mobile, back-office mainframe, IBM i or SAP platforms. Respond
more rapidly to customer feedback while balancing speed, cost, quality and risk. New and
enhanced capabilities being announced include:

Continuous Business Planning  Empower teams of all sizes and complexity to define, analyze,
and manage with collaborative Enterprise Architecture, enabling
effective communication between EA, Project and Portfolio
teams. New client RM JavaScript extension scripting
improvements.
 Improve visibility and understanding across the development
lifecycle with improved traceability across requirements, test,
and development. Improved RM screen real estate utilization;
filtering of modules and collections by folders. New Jazz-based UI
for stakeholders interacting with an EA.
 Beta - Requirements Configuration Management offers
versioning and configuration management of requirements. Full
support existing RRC and RDNG data, parallel development and
workspace variant management with streams.
Collaborative Development  IBM Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management
which includes enhanced Rational Team Concert 5.0, DOORS
Next Gen 5.0 and Rational Quality Manager 5.0 offers: Improved
ETL performance and liveliness (a single application, 2x
improvement and multiple application instances, up to 10x
improvement). Enhanced reporting so the team can manage the
lifecycle more efficiently. Faster installs - up and running in 1
hour.
 New Rational Developer Family of IDEs and Power Compilers to
exploit the latest architectures offer fast and efficient multi-
language / multi-platform applications development including
enhanced debugging capabilities cover all major subsystems on
System z. New ISDz trial on SoftLayer and New XL C/C++ and XL
Fortran compilers exploit POWER8 architecture.
 Success Story: IBM Rational software helps Schwäbisch Hall
Kreditservice AG modernize applications, close staffing gaps.
Continuous Testing  Rational Test Workbench offers continuous testing and
deployment of multi-platform applications including enhanced
support for IMS, CICS and SAP applications. New Testing support
for SAP XI 3.0 & SAP PI version 7.31 and above. New
Virtualization support of SAP XI 3.0 interfaces, enhanced SAP
BAPI and RFC testing capability and enhanced SAP RFC
virtualization.
 Success Story: Large North American government organization
manages change quickly, efficiently and more cost effectively for
both SAP and non-SAP solutions.
Deployment
 IBM UrbanCode Deploy and Release streamlines deployment of
multi-platform applications including automated deployment to

mobile devices and emulators, native mainframe z/OS
deployment and orchestrating changes spanning systems of
engagement (SOE) to systems of record (SOR).
 Maximize global productivity by caching deployment of artifacts
to optimize globally distributed deployments. Manage,
coordinate and control environment usage efficiently across
multiple releases and teams. Empower users locally with full
multi-cultural and translation support.
 Design open, full stack application environment in a graphical or
text editor, deploy to any cloud and manage environment
lifecycle.
 Fidelity Worldwide Investment achieves predictable release
schedules and simplifies regulatory compliance.
3) DevOps capabilities to reduce time-to-customer feedback of multi-channel apps: Mobile and
DevOps are inextricably linked and DevOps capabilities are driving increasing business value to
organizations who are adopting a mobile first perspective to achieve improved customer
engagement. User sentiment analysis and mobile app quality are important aspects of the IBM
MobileFirst strategy, and IBM technology for mobile app testing and quality assurance forms a key
ingredient in delivering quality engagements with customers.
Collaborative Development  Enhanced developer experience with new IBM Worklight
Platform with integrated Foundation, Quality Assurance, and
Application Scanning. New IBM BlueMix DevOps Services and
BlueMix Mobile Services.
 Success Story: Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. – Leaps 2-3 years ahead
of its competition with mobile banking solution
Continuous Testing  Visibility into mobile app quality with enhanced IBM Mobile
Quality Assurance offering to engage users in app testing with
feedback and metrics with BlueMix (SaaS) and Worklight (On-
Prem) versions.
 New Rational Test Workbench Mobile Test Edition enables
teams to automate mobile app functional testing offering
support for Dojo & jQuery frameworks, and cross-platform web
testing – desktop and mobile.
Deployment
 Control over mobile app deployment with enhanced automated
deployment planning and execution with UrbanCode Deploy
plugins for Worklight Foundation 6.2 sdk, Android sdk, and
AppPurify.
Continuous User Feedback and
Optimization:
 Mobile quality assurance service offers enhanced frictionless
bug reporting and in-app crash reporting. Sentiment analysis to

mine app ratings and reviews to extract actionable feedback
before they go viral.
4) IBM and Ecosystem DevOps practices for an incremental adoption of DevOps: We are
announcing new services, practices and tools to help customers plan and execute a staged
adoption of DevOps practices to improve their business outcomes. The goal of the Adoption
Framework is to help customers adopt a lean way of working to achieve business value and work
leaner. The focus is not on adoption, but on achieving measurable business outcomes. The
DevOps Adoption Framework includes 3 key components - Adoption Model, Solutions and
Community.
Consulting Services What’s new
DevOps Self-Assessment  DevOps practice proficiency assessment is designed to provide
our clients with a self-guided appraisal of their DevOps practices.
This offering covers practices in each of the DevOps adoption
paths defined in IBM's approach to DevOps. During the
evaluation clients can review the relative results of others and
obtain their results in a practice proficiency model report used
for planning their DevOps improvements.
On Demand Consulting
services
 On demand consulting services provides our clients just-in-time
access to deep technical expertise and shares best practices with
our client's Rational solution deployment teams. This service
offers a “virtual” center of excellence for client's Rational
technology implementation, deployment and adoption, helping
them develop their in-house expertise on real projects and
establish a successful track record. It is a cost effective way for
clients to access an expert resource to build their team's
capabilities for long-term self-sufficiency.
Discovery and
Deployment Planning
workshop:
 The goal of discovery and deployment planning workshop is to
facilitate a cross-functional, collaborative discussion to
understand client’s challenges with their software delivery
practices, identify and prioritize improvement goals and deliver a
practical roadmap and architecture for adopting Rational
solutions.
Ecosystem What’s new
Scaled Agile Inc  Gold-level partnership with Scaled Agile Inc, certifying more
IBMers
 SAFe Learning Circle – a roadmap for building skills in scaling agile
 SAFe Zone at Innovate 2014 – meet the experts in scaling agile
 Building and supporting an ecosystem of skilled business
partners, including:

o Blue Agility – consulting, RTC SAFe template add-on and
bluejazz practice advisor
o 321Gang – consulting, applying SAFe in the systems
domain
o Arcisphere – consulting, deep Rational and SAFe skills
o Sellegi – consulting, Advanced Collaboration Tool (ACT)
for enterprise agile planning
o IconATG – consulting and training, with extensive SAFe
and Rational skills
Intellicorp  Intellicorp, an IBM business partner is announcing LivePublish
1.0. This adds competitive advantage to Rational Requirements
Composer in the SAP market. SAP Solution Manager is mandated
by SAP. By integrating Rational Requirements Composer with SAP
Solution Manager, LivePublish makes it easier for customers to
adopt Rational Requirements Composer when implementing SAP
projects. Alternative to LivePublish would be manually re-key the
data. For small projects that could take about 10-20 days rising to
50-90 days for a large project.
For more information visit: ibm.com/software/rational/announce

IBM DevOps Announcements - June 2014

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