IBM Products to Unite Distributed Teams
By CXOtoday Staff
Mumbai, 28 Aug 2008, 1444 hrs IST

By the end of 2008, IBM and its business partners expect to release 20 products harnessing the collaborative capabilities of Jazz. The Jazz collaborative technology to help geographically distributed software delivery teams work together in real-time.

A press statement said technologies built on, or using, Jazz can interoperate with software from other vendors allowing customers to improve communication of data within and between their enterprise.

"Currently, organizational, geographical, and technical silos inhibit business agility and return on software investments. In a globally integrated enterprise, organizations need to transform how they collaborate to get the job done," said Steve Robinson, VP (worldwide sales) Rational Software of IBM. "IBM's Jazz platform breaks down location, infrastructure and organizational barriers, transforming the practice of global software delivery."

IBM has also said that it will be incorporating social networking and Web 2.0 practices into new versions of its software delivery system.

IBM is developing Jazz and future products in conjunction with the software development community at www.jazz.net.


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