IBM Pulse 2014 has been full of exciting announcements - including several announcements around Rational offerings and DevOps solutions supporting the IBM Cloud initiative, plus exciting new capabilities for Mobile development.

 

IBM DevOps Services (JazzHub) optimized for Codename: BlueMix (open beta). New capabilities in JazzHub capitalizing on the learning from more than 5,500 projects to provide an end-to-end DevOps solution in the cloud with an open, integrated rapid development experience that scales. Bluemix is IBM's cloud platform providing all the instant services, runtimes, and infrastructure developers need to push their ideas into the present.  

BlueMix DevOps services provide an integrated experience to help developers accelerate time to market and improve quality. DevOps includes services to store and manage code (using the popular Git repository), a built-in Web integrated development environment (IDE), and Eclipse and Visual Studio integrations to let developers use whichever environment they prefer.  DevOps Services enable agile planning and tracking to share work and collaborate across team members, as well as application deployment automation to streamline the delivery of new function, mobile quality, and performance monitoring to help learn and iterate more quickly. By integrating across the software delivery lifecycle, DevOps services help developers move faster from an idea to an application that meets users’ needs.

 

IBM Mobile Quality Assurance (open beta). New cloud-based, Mobile Services to improve mobile app quality through in-app bug reporting, automated crash reporting, user feedback and sentiment analysis.

 

 

 

IBM UrbanCode Deploy plug-in for Android (1H) and iOS (2H). Expanding continuous release and deployment by automating deployment for mobile apps  by interacting with mobile platforms and mobile SDKs, including IBM Worklight, Android and iOS.