Change and Release Management

IBM provides integrated software change and release management solutions that help development and IT teams empower the business by accelerating software delivery, making global teams more efficient, and governing end-to-end software processes. These solutions include:

• IBM software configuration management products to manage and control software assets
• IBM software change management products to automate and enforce software processes
• IBM build and release management products to accelerate build and release cycles

These solutions can help you improve productivity, gain better visibility into projects and processes, manage distributed organizations, and provide audit trails and traceability across the software lifecycle for fast delivery of high-quality software.

IBM offers the following products for change and release management:

• Rational RequisitePro®: Integrated requirements and use case management.
• IBM® Rational® ClearCase® Change Management Solution: Integrated change and configuration management for medium to large development projects.
• IBM Rational ClearCase Change Management Solution Enterprise Edition: Integrated change and configuration management for medium to large development projects that need distributed access to information through repository replication.
• IBM Rational ClearCase: Software asset management for medium to large projects.
• IBM Rational ClearCase LT: Version control for small, local projects.
• IBM Rational ClearCase MultiSite®: An option to Rational ClearCase to support geographically distributed projects through repository replication.
• IBM Rational ClearQuest®: Process automation, reporting, and defect and change tracking across the project lifecycle.
• IBM Rational ClearQuest MultiSite: An option to Rational ClearQuest to support geographically distributed projects through repository replication.
• IBM Rational ClearCase and ClearCase MultiSite: Software asset management solution for geographically distributed projects.
• IBM Rational ClearQuest and ClearQuest MultiSite: Process management, reporting, and defect and change tracking for geographically distributed projects.
• IBM Rational Build Forge™: Automated build and release management.
• IBM SCLM Advanced Edition for z/OS®: Version control and build support for the IBM z/OS platform.

IBM also offers select change and release management products as part of an overall lifecycle solution for the development of software products and systems:

• IBM Rational ClearQuest and Functional Testing: An enterprise test management bundle that offers testing teams an integrated solution for defect management, test management and automated and manual functional software testing.
• IBM Rational Professional Bundle: Includes all the desktop tools your enterprise needs to design, construct, and test J2EE, portal and service-oriented applications on both Microsoft® Windows® and Linux® and to test Microsoft Visual Studio .NET applications.
• IBM Rational Team Unifying Platform™: Designed to equip teams with the infrastructure tools, processes, and integrations they need to work together more effectively. This solution unifies your team by providing common access to development assets, communication alerts and processes to maintain project momentum and focus.
• IBM Rational Suite®: Provides a full lifecycle solution of analyst, developer and tester products to unify cross-functional teams and support enterprise software projects from requirements to release.