Mobile computing and cloud technologies are two strong trends with the potential to help companies to become more competitive. For this reason, IBM relies on DevOps–an integrated software distribution philosophy, covering the entire life cycle of the development process, from planning to the creation, delivery and evaluation.

The aim is to enable “continuous delivery” of software solutions allowing companies to take advantage of market opportunities and better meet customer demands. Improving development processes for cloud applications is critical for companies. However, traditional approaches to software development can make the changes but innovations take weeks and to succeed in a changing marketplace, organizations can not afford to prolong the time.

That’s why IBM has created these solutions to improve and streamline these processes. And here’s how the mega-giant world corporation seeks to do that:

Cloud Solutions

The company continues to add analytical capabilities to its solutions in the cloud. Newest of these is the Log Analysis, part of IBM SmartCloud Analytics. Log Analysis can bring the power of automated analysis to records of IT assets from the terabytes of unstructured data produced from infrastructure and applications. IBM SmartCloud Monitoring Application Insight is a solution that helps companies monitor the performance and availability of applications hosted on a cloud in real time.

The other offering is the Expanded IBM SmartCloud Application Services. Developers can use SmartCloud Application Services to deploy and manage applications written in the PHP programming language using Zend Server 6. The support for this language makes it easier for developers to create native applications in the cloud.

“Software is the invisible thread driving transformations in businesses of all industries and sizes,” said Kristof Kloeckner, general manager IBM Rational Software.  “As organizations and the dynamic markets in which they conduct business become more complex, it is critical that they adopt a DevOps approach to continuously delivery software-driven innovations to their clients.”

Mobile Solutions

Enabling efficient development and management of mobile apps, IBM at the start of the year launched MobileFirst initiative. As part of the initiatives, IBM has launched new tools to help companies deliver better mobile applications faster and at lower cost.

Now extending the inventiveness, the company introduced IBM Rational Test Workbench. With this solution, developers can record, modify, reproduce and evaluate the test scenarios to automate hundreds (even thousands) of tests of a mobile device. They will also be able to virtualize and test parts of the application that have not been completed yet.

IBM Worklight & IBM SmartCloud Application Services is a free service that allows developers to create applications and deploy them in IBM SmartCloud with IBM Worklight technology. Companies can develop mobile applications quickly avoiding early costs in the project management using this service.

IBM Joins Hands with AT&T to Enhance MobileFirst Strategy

IBM and AT&T have announced a partnership to help companies to develop high performing mobile applications. The integration of both companies’ technologies will help improve the testing process and analysis of the applications and the battery life of mobile devices, giving organizations the time to make changes and improve performance.

As part of the IBM MobileFirst strategy, mobile developers can verify the performance of their corporate mobile applications on any wireless network and improve their performance.

The integration of AT&T’s Application Resource Optimizer (ARO) with IBM’s software development solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) tackles finding and fixing performance and power bottlenecks of apps. ARO can help developers create apps that conserve battery life, load pages faster and consume network resources in a smarter way, all of which improve the customer experience.