October 2008
IBM has unveiled the newest Express Advantage offerings, which include hardware, software, and services specifically developed for midsized businesses.
The portfolio of offerings provides IBM's extensive business partner ecosystem with a broad range of applications to deliver simple, affordable, customized solutions for their customers.
Midsize companies are looking for ways to better align their IT strategy with the needs of the business, improve access to information, reduce costs associated with manual processes and securely integrate information from disparate sources.
IBM is committed to helping midsize businesses find new and affordable ways to apply technology to provide greater value to their customers.
IBM has launched a new software offering that helps midsize companies deliver better quality software, improve operational efficiency and continuously lower risk.
IBM Rational Quality Manager Express is the first centralized Web-based test management solution built on IBM's Jazz technology.
The software provides a Web 2.0 collaborative, customizable environment for test planning, construction, deployment and execution.
It also enables workflow control and quantifiable metrics for project tracking and decision-making to ensure that the business objectives and outcomes of a software release have been met. A key benefit of the software is that it provides a central hub for business-driven software-quality delivery.
For example, the CIO of a company that manufactures electronic medical devices depends on the functionality of the company's software to ensure that the medical devices work.
Using Rational Quality Manager Express they can monitor the aspects of the software delivery process that are contributing to the development of the medical devices.
As a result of being informed in real-time, they can now make immediate decisions to enable delivery of a high quality product to the marketplace on time and ahead of their company's competitors.
With the implementation of Rational Quality Manager Express, if an issue with that software arises, the company and its IT staff would be alerted. The company is then able to take immediate action to fix the defects, thereby reducing delays and lost revenue.
"IBM's hardware, software and services offerings for the midmarket provide business partners with cost-effective solutions to help streamline business processes, gain information insights, employ new business models and secure more reliable access to critical resources," said Marc Dupaquier, general manager, IBM Global Midmarket.
"The addition of Rational Quality Manager Express to the Express Advantage portfolio will enable them to significantly increase their operational efficiencies, employee productivity, customer service and competitive advantage to support growth."
"We are excited about the addition of Rational Quality Manager Express to the Jazz suite of IBM solutions," said Arthur Povlot, Sales Manager of Tescom USA.
"Tescom is always looking to ease the process of software testing and improve business collaboration to meet the challenges of a constantly changing environment. This new software will enable us to achieve this while improving our customers productivity and increase their revenue."
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