For companies in both the public and private sectors, regulatory compliance is not an option. Those that can't or won't meet new standards risk hefty fines and sanctions, class-action lawsuits, shattered public images, and even the possible imprisonment of company executives and board members.
Today's regulatory requirements and industry mandates are significantly affecting how companies develop and modify their business applications. Increasingly, they need software development infrastructures that deliver high-quality security, traceability, and repeatability features to help ensure that their software development architectures and processes are audit-ready.
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Karen Wade is a market manager for the Rational software brand within IBM Software Group. She is responsible for analyzing and responding to software development market trends, with a focus on software configuration management technology. Prior to joining IBM Rational, she held product marketing management positions at Progress Software and EMC Corporation. Before that, she worked as a software engineer for Raytheon and General Dynamics (formerly GTE Government Systems) for more than ten years. She holds a B.S. in electrical engineering and an M.S. in computer engineering from the University of Lowell and an M.B.A. from Boston University.




