IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery V2.0 helps organizations reduce software delivery cycle times and improve quality
IBM United States Software Announcement 212-435October 30, 2012
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IBM SmartCloud™ Continuous Delivery is an agile, scalable, and flexible solution for end-to-end, lifecycle management. It allows organizations to:
- Reduce software delivery cycle times.
- Improve quality.
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| Overview |
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Statistics show that software projects do not live up to today's business challenges. Up to 50% of applications released to production are later rolled back. Fifty-one percent of projects are over budget and often lack critical features. Sixty to eighty percent of the cost of software development is rework.
Innovative companies know that software is the way to new efficiencies, differentiated products, and services from the competition. These businesses find ways to quickly develop and deploy revenue generating projects on time and under budget.
IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery is an agile, scalable, and flexible solution designed to meet these challenges by allowing organizations to reduce software delivery cycle time and improve quality.
IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery provides:
- Continuous, end-to-end software delivery that influences an integrated development and operations solution
- Automated, one-touch provisioning and deployment of pre-defined target environments
- Incremental adoption of integrations for extended DevOps capabilities (like performance monitoring and test management)
IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery helps organizations reduce cycle times and improve delivery throughput, quality, and operations efficiency:
- Simplified, standardized, and automated delivery of production-like environments to development and test
- Improved success rate of production rollouts
- Improved visibility to delivery bottlenecks, quality and performance through a linked set of data across development, test, and operations
- Influencing existing develop-test-build tools and process
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| Key prerequisites |
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For details, refer to the Specified operating environment section.
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| Planned availability date |
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- October 30, 2012: Electronic availability
- November 13, 2012: Media availability
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| Description |
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IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery automates an integrated development and operational, end-to-end software delivery lifecycle. It can be incrementally adopted to include continuous integration, automated provisioning and deployment, continuous testing, process simplification, and application performance management.
The enterprise framework supports the integration of IBM , Open Source, and third-party products built on open standards (OSLC).
Client pain points are addressed by the solution:
- Lack of standardization that impacts communication between Development and Operations
- Too much manual effort to integrate builds of heterogeneous environments (for example, DB2® and Java™ )
- Inability to deploy and install software due to configuration issues
- Too many performance and functional issues that surface in production
- Lack of control to optimize IT infrastructure based on end-to-end, application needs
- Excessive time spent to manually set up diverse testing production environments
- Fragile and ad-hoc, point-point integration of tools that lead to unreliable and costly processes
IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery capabilities:
- Sets up a joint development-operations (DevOps) project with the pipeline work flow and tasks, such as build, test and deploy.
- Tracks project changes including development code, application configuration, instrumentation, and installation scripts.
- Executes pipeline tasks when triggered by changes, such as code check-in by a developer.
- Provides no-touch, automatic execution of tasks including build and packaging, provisioning of the systems in the Cloud, set up of the system, application configuration, and testing.
- Contains an internal Library to track versions of releases that enable tracing of defects to environment.
- Provides a dashboard to track pipeline flow and metrics via visibility into a linked set of data.
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Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act
IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery is capable as of November 13, 2012 , when used in accordance with IBM's associated documentation, of satisfying the applicable requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, provided that any assistive technology used with the product properly interoperates with it. A US Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT), containing details on the products accessibility compliance, can be requested on the following website
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| Program number |
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Program number VRM Program name 5725-I06 2.0.0 IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery
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| Offering Information |
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Product information is available via the Offering Information website
Also, visit the Passport Advantage® website
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No publications are shipped with this product.
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Specified operating environment
Software requirements
Application servers
- Apache Tomcat 7.0 and future fix packs
- WebSphere® Application Server - Base V8.0 and future fix packs
Databases: DB2 Express® Edition V9.7 and future fix packs
Installation: Capilano Components ( IBM Installation Manager and IBM Packaging Utility) V1.5.2 and future fix packs
Web browsers
- Microsoft™ Internet Explorer 9.0 and future fix packs
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 and future fix packs
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 and future fix packs
- Mozilla Firefox 3.6 and future fix packs
- Mozilla Firefox ESR 10 and future fix packs
Linux™
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 11.0 SP2 x86-64
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 11.0 SP2 x86-32
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10.0 x86-32
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10.0 x86-64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Client 6 Update 3 x86-64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Client 6 Update 2 x86-64
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 11.0 x86-64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Client 6 Update 2 x86-32
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Update 7 Desktop editions x86-32
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10.0 SP4 x86-64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Client 6 Update 3 x86-32
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10.0 SP4 x86-32
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Update 6 Advanced Platform x86-64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Client 6 Update 1 x86-64
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 11.0 x86-32
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 6 Update 1 x86-64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Client 6 Update 1 x86-32
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Update 7 Desktop editions x86-64
Windows™
- Windows XP SP3 Professional x86-32
- Windows XP SP3 Professional x86-64
- Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Professional x86-64
- Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Professional x86-32
The program's specifications and specified operating environment information may be found in documentation accompanying the program, if available, such as a README file, or other information published by IBM , such as an announcement letter. Documentation and other program content may be supplied only in the English language.
Planning information
Customer responsibilities
Software Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance) is included with licenses purchased through Passport Advantage and Passport Advantage Express . Product upgrades and technical support are provided by the Software Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance) offering as described in the Agreements. Product upgrades provide the latest versions and releases to entitled software, and technical support provides voice and electronic access to IBM support organizations, worldwide.
IBM includes one year of Software Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance) with each program license acquired. The initial period of Software Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance) can be extended by the purchase of a renewal option, if available.
Packaging
IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery
Security, auditability, and control
The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features, administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication facilities.
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This product is only available via Passport Advantage . It is not available as shrinkwrap.
Product information
Licensed function title Product group Product
category
IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery Software Software
Change and Change and
Configuration Configuration
Management Management
Program name PID Charge unit
number description
IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery 5725-I06 Per Application Instance
for System z
IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery 5725-I06 Per Application Instance
Charge metrics definitions
Application Instance
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For the purpose of Application Instance licensing, each instance of a build engine, continuous integration server or agent, or other build, integration, staging, or deployment process that are managed by the Program is considered a separate Application Instance.
Passport Advantage program licenses
IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery
Part description Part
number
IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery
SmartCloud Continuous Del Per Application Instance E0F25LL
Annual SW S&S Rnwl
SmartCloud Continuous Del Per Application Instance D0UYBLL
Initl FT Lic+S&S 12 Mo
SmartCloud Continuous Del Per Application Instance Lic D0UYHLL
+ SW S&S 12 Mo
SmartCloud Continuous Del Per Application Instance SW D0UYILL
S&S Reinstate 12 Mo
SmartCloud Continuous Del Per Application Instance E0F21LL
Subsq FT Lic+S&S 12 Mo
Passport Advantage supply
IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery V2.0.0 IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery V2.0 Multiplatform BT0HXML Multilingual Media Pk
Passport Advantage customer: Media pack entitlement details
Customers with active maintenance or subscription for the products listed are entitled to receive the corresponding media pack.
IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery V2.0.0
Entitled maintenance Media packs description Part offerings description number
IBM SmartCloud Continuous IBM SmartCloud Continuous BT0HXML
Delivery per Application Delivery V2.0
Instance Multiplatform Multilingual
Media Pk
IBM SmartCloud Continuous IBM SmartCloud Continuous BT0HXML
Delivery per Application Delivery V2.0
Instance for System Z Multiplatform Multilingual
Media Pk
Cross-platform products
Cross-platform products for use on System z
Order the part numbers that follow when the product is used for either the development of code that will be deployed on System z® servers or when the product will be communicating or transferring data between a distributed server and a System z server. Otherwise order from the other set of part numbers in this announcement. This set of part numbers provides the identical supply and authorization as the other set in this announcement
IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery
Part description Part
number
IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery
SmartCloud Continuous Del Per Application Instance Sys z E0F26LL
Annual SW S&S Rnwl
SmartCloud Continuous Del Per Application Instance Sys z D0UYCLL
Initl FT Lic+S&S
SmartCloud Continuous Del Per Application Instance Sys z D0UYJLL
Lic + SW S&S 12 Mo
SmartCloud Continuous Del Per Application Instance Sys z D0UYKLL
SW S&S Reinstate
SmartCloud Continuous Del Per Application Instance Sys z E0F22LL
Subsq FT Lic+S&S
Cross-platform product for use on System z IFL engines
Order the part numbers that follow when the product is intended to run on the Linux operating system on System z IFL engines. If the product is not intended to run on the Linux operating system on System z IFL engines, order from the other set of part numbers in this announcement. This set of part numbers provides the identical supply and authorization as the other set in this announcement.
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Program name Program Form
number number
IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery 5725-I06 L-JHKN-8WJRW7
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Yes
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System i Software Maintenance applies
No
Educational allowance available
Not applicable.
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