IBM and SAP to develop joint software
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Services and software companies IBM  and SAP , longtime technology partners, will bring out their first joint software product in the fourth quarter of this year, the two companies said on Monday.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- IBM on Tuesday released a series of new products and services in its Workplace productivity software lineup. IBM Workplace blends collaborative tools from Lotus Notes/Domino with WebSphere Portal and Everyplace technologies.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. plan to release a jointly developed product in July as part of an expansion of their existing alliance around telecommunications network management and service assurance, the companies said Thursday. The new offering, Cisco Assurance Management Solution, integrates Cisco's Active Network Abstraction (ANA) device management and mediation technology with IBM's Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus and Netcool/Precision management software, according to Alan Ganek, chief technology officer, IBM Tivoli Software. The vendors have been working on the product for about a year, he said. Ganek's hopeful that the new product will appeal not only to telecom carriers but also to large enterprises such as financial services providers that are looking for a simpler way to manage their heterogenous networks. IBM does have "very high expectations" about the likely revenue the codeveloped product might generate, Ganek said, though he declined to name a figure. IBM and Cisco also didn't provide any financial details about their expanded relationship. "IBM's overall partnership with Cisco has largely been around the services area," Ganek said. "This new one really gets into our development teams in the software world." IBM and Cisco struck a broad-based strategic alliance back in 1999 and in recent months have been collaborating on multiple fronts including an expansion of their unified communications partnership and a combined cooperative support offering. The first version of Cisco Assurance Management Solution will offer features including network fault monitoring, trouble isolation and real-time service-level event management. Future versions of the software will include more of IBM's Tivoli systems and network management technology, Ganek said. The next natural additions would be the Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database and Tivoli Monitoring, he added. Over the long term, new releases of Cisco Assurance Management Solution could also include technology IBM acquired from the purchase of network performance monitoring software company Vallent, Ganek said. IBM closed the purchase of Vallent in February and the software became part of its Tivoli business unit. IBM gained access to the Netcool software after buying network management specialist Micromuse in February 2006. It's also possible that IBM and Cisco may release other jointly developed software, he added. Ganek stressed that the IBM/Cisco relationship isn't exclusive and that IBM also has "great relationships" working closely with most of the other network equipment providers. Cisco's ANA already interoperates with other members of the Tivoli family including Tivoli Netcool/Impact and Tivoli Business Service Manager. Cisco has been rebranding IBM's Tivoli Netcool as Cisco Info Center for some time and it's being used by more than 500 of its customers. Â
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E-mail software from IBM Corp. will be available on Apple Inc. iPhones and iPod Touch devices under a new partnership that brings together two big rivals of Microsoft Corp.
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IBM said Monday that it is partnering with ACI Worldwide, an electronic payment software vendor, to create a payments system based on service oriented architecture (SOA) principles.ACI&#39;s software will be combined with IBM&#39;s System z mainframe, DB2 database, WebSphere middleware, Tivoli IT management software and Crypto-chip technology, according to an IBM statement. ACI also intends to host its software in IBM&#39;s data centers, for customers who desire an on-demand payments system.IBM said the combination of ACI&#39;s technology and its own will result in an SOA foundation that allows payment information to be shared throughout enterprises, many of which see a tangle of legacy systems strewn across their IT environments.The partnership will first result in a version of ACI&#39;s BASE24-eps online payments software optimized for System z; a wholesale payments product aimed at the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), and real-time fraud detection technology. Later, the companies will focus on smart card management, dispute management, online banking and a payment hub implementing IBM&#39;s Payments Framework, they said.ACI&#39;s customers include more than 110 of the world&#39;s top 500 banks, according to IBM.
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The combination of PeopleSoft applications with Oracle&#39;s database and middleware products could lead to a closer relationship between IBM and SAP.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM will begin delivering on its Jazz vision for collaborative application development Monday with the introduction of collaborative portal software intended to boost team productivity. Called IBM Rational Team Concert, the software is one of a series of product and program introductions planned for the IBM Rational Software Development Conference 2007 event in Orlando, Fla. IBM also will expand its Jazz.net Web site to enable users to check out Jazz-related projects and offer input. The Jazz Project focuses on collaboration across geographic boundaries and is based on Eclipse technology. With Team Concert, which currently is in a beta form, IBM is producing a portal optimized for agile development teams in mid- and large-sized businesses. IBM plans a family of Concert offerings and extensions to existing IBM products geared toward collaborative, team-based development. "It's a real-time, collaborative portal for improving the productivity and innovation of software delivery teams," said Scott Hebner, vice president of marketing and strategy for IBM Rational. Developers using Team Concert can collaborate in real time based on the context of the work they are doing. For example, if a requirement were changed, other developers would automatically be notified of the change, Hebner said. "[The change] would automatically show up in the code," he said. "It's more real-time linkage of the artifacts." Instant messaging capabilities will be featured in Team Concert. To bolster real-time collaboration, IBM will offer adapters to tie Team Concert to IBM's ClearCase source code management tool and the ClearQuest work item manager. Developers and customers can participate in the development of Team Concert through Jazz.net, Hebner said. General availability for Team Concert is set for the first half of 2008. With Jazz.net, IBM is expanding access to Jazz technology beyond the dozen or so customers who have had it so far. "We're opening up the Jazz.net community to Rational customers so they can get access to the technology," Hebner said. "We're going to be developing the products in a more open and transparent fashion." At the conference, IBM also will unveil "incubator" technologies based on Jazz that are focused on agile development. Incubator offerings are prototype technologies that may or may not become products; they will be offered for such purposes as story authoring, which is an agile development concept in which software projects are described in an evolving story format rather than relying on format requirements management. Incubators also are planned for team reporting, code analysis, and process authoring.Â  IBM describes Jazz as falling into the domain of ALM (application lifecycle management) 2.0, which features agility and greater flexibility. The company believes the open forum approach to its Jazz Project is different than what ALM rival Borland Software is doing, Hebner said. Borland also lacks infrastructure to bolster geographically distributed development, he claimed. HP's Mercury technology, meanwhile, does not offer a development environment, he said. An analyst expressed high hopes for IBM's efforts. "I am very bullish on Jazz," said Carey Schwaber, senior analyst at Forrester. "What Jazz does is gives you one interface to all the data about the project," Schwaber said "I think this is an opportunity for IBM to really re-take market leadership in the development tool space," said Schwaber. With its collaboration capabilities, Jazz is offering what Borland seeks to provide, Schwaber said. Mercury, meanwhile, has focused on bookending the development process with requirements management and testing but has not done much in ALM, she said. Also at the conference, IBM plans to announce products to support collaboration by geographically distributed development teams. Featured is Web-centric, lower-bandwidth software to reduce overhead costs of deploying clients. As part of this effort, IBM is announcing availability of IBM Rational Asset Manager, which provides intelligence into software assets and how they are consumed in a collaborative environment, on June 29. The Asset Manager software features a registry of design and development assets, such as codes, patterns, and tests. Organizations can reduce cost and time and communicate across disparate global teams. Also at the conference, IBM is unveiling version 7.01 of IBM Rational ClearCase. This product helps isolate data based on the location of a user, which can be critical in cases where a user is in a country with export controls preventing work on certain aspects of code. IBM also has built a plug-in focused on geographically distributed development teams for IBM Rational Composer 7.2. The Composer offering features a process helping developers deliver customized, consistent software development projects. Development teams from the IBM Lab in Bangalore, India, meanwhile, have published a Redbook entitled "Global Development and Delivery in Practice: Experiences of the Rational India Lab." The material, accessible here, covers common challenges in geographically distributed development environments and the steps IBM took to tailor Rational tools to solve these problems.SEE ALSO:IBM advancing global-based software developmentIBM Jazz-ing up collaboration
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Boeing and IBM said on Monday that they will join hands to develop ground and space-based systems to enhance US military communications, intelligence operations and homeland security.
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Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have joined forces in enticing software developers to create applications for Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Server software on the IBM Power platform, hoping to provide a boost for Linux among IBM hardware customers.
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Eastman Kodak Company and IBM will work together to develop and manufacture image sensors used in such consumer products as digital still cameras and camera phones.
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(InfoWorld) - In a move to strengthen its portfolio of analytic applications, SAP has agreed to acquire privately held Pilot Software, a maker of strategy management software based in Mountain View, California. SAP intends to integrate Pilot Software's core product, the business analytic application PilotWorks, into its suite of business software products that run on the NetWeaver integration platform, the Walldorf, Germany, company said Tuesday. No financial details were disclosed. In earlier interviews, SAP CEO Henning Kagermann said the company would make "fill-in" acquisitions in areas where it needed to "generate innovative add-on products around ... core products." Kagermann said "analytic capabilities are part of end-to-end business processes" and referred to embedded analytics as "the future." The Pilotworks application provides analytic tools for executives to manage goals and initiatives more effectively and bring structure and consistency to regularly scheduled operational review processes.
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OCTOBER 07, 2004  - Looking to penetrate further into the software infrastructure market, applications vendor SAP AG is rolling out a new set of Java and business intelligence enhancements to its NetWeaver middleware and integration stack.
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VoiceCon Spring 2007 -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced their intent to deliver a new platform for unified communications and collaboration client development.
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IBM Malaysia has recently signed a memorandum of understanding with its long-term partner Multimedia University to provide the university with software development knowledge technology transfer programmes under the IBM Academic Initiative Offering Agreement.
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InfoWorld - Business software vendor SAP has added an offering to its growing suite of quickly deployable applications aimed at helping businesses manage specific tasks across diverse industries.
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But this parcel is passing partners by IBM is developing off-the-shelf service products covering real-time collaboration, unified messaging and SOA, after launching a pair of networking packages last week.â¦
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SaaS buddies EMC may partner with German software giant SAP to develop a suite of web hosted storage and application services.â¦