IBM® Rational®Build
Forge® provides build
automation and management capabilities that accelerate and streamline
software and systems delivery.
Rational® Build
Forge® products offer
an adaptive execution framework that creates a software assembly line
to automate and accelerate software development and delivery. It also
orchestrates, manages, and tracks all of the processes within the
assembly line. Now you can standardize and automate repetitive tasks,
uncover development bottlenecks, determine trends for specific projects,
and manage compliance mandates.
The Build
Forge® products
integrate with your current environment and support major development
languages, scripts, tools, and platforms. You can continue using your
existing investments such as assets, scripts software, and hardware
while adding valuable capabilities around process automation, acceleration,
notification, and scheduling.
The adaptive execution framework of Rational® Build
Forge® automates software
development and the build process.
- Unifies automation across development and test to eliminate delays
and hand-offs among discipline silos
- Controls existing tools across disciplines through a standard
automation system
- Systematically reduces or removes dependence on complicated or
old scripts
- Achieves consistent, measurable, and improvable processes across
platforms and products
- Enables developer self-service ?? which removes dependence on
the build team
- Creates parallel automated activities with just a mouse click
- Provides a consistent view of processes and results so that you
can easily see status and troubleshoot problems
- Eases the process of showing compliance through consistent, automatically
generated reports
- Improves quality by enabling more process ??"turns" in the same
amount of time
- Provides agents for popular platforms, with a source kit provided
and supported for remaining platforms