Compliance

Coping with compliance: Meeting regulatory mandates with Good Systems Practices

This roundtable focuses on how new compliance issues are affecting companies that build and maintain software systems for regulated environments. It looks at how these companies are improving their development processes and product quality by adopting Good Systems Practices (GSP) that also ensure compliance.

Achieving Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Maturity Level 2 Using IBM Rational Software's Solutions

This paper addresses how a company, organization, or project can leverage IBM Rational Software's process and tool solutions as a viable means toward the achievement of a Capability Maturity Model Integration® (CMMI®) SE/SW Version 1.1 maturity level 2 appraisal rating.

Reaching CMMI Levels 2 and 3 with IBM Rational Unified Process

This white paper describes how the Rational Unified Process® can support an organization that is trying to achieve CMM Level-2, Repeatable, and Level-3, Defined, software process maturity levels.

Using IBM Rational Portfolio Manager to implement PMI practices

By illustrating the relationship between IBM Rational Portfolio Manager and the Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), the author explains how organizations familiar with the PMI PMBOK can begin taking advantage of IBM's recent addition to its process management toolbox.

How Rational configuration and change management products support the Software Engineering Institute's Software Capability Maturity Model

This Rational Edge article explains how Rational Software Configuration Management (SCM) tools relate to the SEI SW-CMM Key Process Areas.

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IT responses to Sarbanes-Oxley

In connection with the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, IT organizations within public companies are now subject to public audits, with control requirements for application change management as well as application and data security. In clear, understandable language, this article explains the ins and outs of these requirements and suggests ways that organizations can achieve compliance efficiently and cost-effectively through the use of automated tools.

Manage Risk and Compliance with IBM Rational Compliance-Driven Development Solutions

Solutions to mitigate the regulatory risks associated with the development, validation, and deployment of software assets - including those that automate your company's financial processes.

Good Electronic Records Management(GERM) Using IBM Rational ClearCase and IBM Rational ClearQuest

Proven software development processes and configuration management processes can simplify the deployment of Good Electronic Records Management (GERM) compliance issues. Industry-leading products IBM Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest provide robust Configuration Management and Change Request Management solutions for the administration of artifacts produced throughout the lifecycle of automated systems.

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Rational Build Forge

Rational Build Forge is an automation software that aids in the building, testing and releasing of software development projects

Rational Portfolio Manager

Rational Portfolio Manager provides drill-down metric analysis of software projects that auditors and managers can use to document compliance with development business controls. Helps project managers and IT executives prioritize, track, and manage compliance projects across the IT portfolio.

Rational RequisitePro

Rational RequisitePro creates requirements linked to specific compliance mandates, tracks requirements across your application portfolio, and helps you analyze the impact of changes to both requirements and compliance mandates.

Rational ClearQuest

Rational ClearQuest enforces an auditable workflow management process throughout your software lifecycle, with electronic signature, audit trail, and user authentication support.

Rational ClearCase

Rational ClearCase automates asset management, and complements ClearQuest to help ensure that software deliverables include only authorized files built via auditable workflow processes.

Rational Functional Tester, Manual Tester and TestManager

Rational Functional Tester, Manual Tester and TestManager continuously validate that applications meet compliance requirements through functional, manual, and regression testing.

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