IBM Development Platform for Games and Interactive Entertainment
We are helping both large and small game developers cut costs and work more efficiently through the adoption of unifying development tooling technologies. The IBM Rational Software Development Platform is a complete solution that can help your organization operate more efficiently and deliver innovative games that set you apart from your competitors.
The advantage
By controlling the strategic business process of software development in an open, proven and yet modular manner, you can:
- Better respond to competitors and console vendor demands
- Make development easier
- Reduce the amount of iterations
- Improve return on investment
- Increase business agility
Benefits
Managing the chaos
In addition to mitigating much of the risk early on in a game development lifecycle, the introduction of the IBM Rational Software Development Platform can actually provide a means to respond quickly and flexibly to production demands. Accurately scope and measure projects, while remedying the root causes of project failures. Now you can manage your development assets, improve workflow and efficiency and help reduce infrastructure management complexity without increasing staff.
- Gain requirements management, data modeling and analysis tools which promote better communication, enhance teamwork and help reduce project risk
- Unify aspects of game architecture with tools for design modeling, component testing and run-time analysis
- Enable running of quality assurance on software products with automated testing tools for code consistency, quality, functionality and performance
- Work within an integrated or geographically dispersed development environment, while enabling comprehensive change and version control, asset management and defect tracking
- Better manage the development process pipeline throughout the game lifecycle with automated tools for organizing and prioritizing requirements, and measuring development progress
- Achieve reliable, high-performance game builds and streamline software delivery throughout the development lifecycle
Next steps
Jazz is IBM Rational’s next-generation technology platform for collaborative software delivery. It is uniquely attuned to global and distributed teams, including those found througout the Games and Interactive Entertainment industry. Rational Team Concert, the first IBM product based on Jazz, provides a collaborative portal for automating and integrating the activities involved in team-based software delivery. Download and participate in the Rational Team Concert Beta 2 today.
IBM Rational BuildForge accelerates software development, improves product quality, increases development team efficiency by automating and streamlining software delivery and supporting remote teams. And now it's even simpler with our latest offering, IBM Rational BuildForge Express.
IBM Rational PurifyPlus is a complete set of runtime analysis tools designed for improving game reliability and performance, combining memory error and memory leak detection, game performance profiling, and code coverage analysis into a single, complete package.
IBM Rational Test RealTime is a cross-platform solution for component testing and runtime analysis, allowing game developers to be more proactive in debugging, enabling developers to fix your code before it breaks. It offers run-time analysis, as well as unit integration and system-level testing for console platforms of Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo. It allows you to test and debug both host and target and to coordinate the two environments.
IBM Rational AppScan provides confidence your online applications are of the highest quality and security, all at a reasonable cost. Devote more resources in the testing process – like QA and development - through automated web application scanning and testing for all common web application vulnerabilities.
Other relevant development tools from IBM include:
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IBM Alphaworks Visual Performance Analyzer is an Eclipse-based performance visualization toolkit. It consists of five major components: Profile Analyzer, Code Analyzer, Pipeline Analyzer, Counter Analyzer, Trace Analyzer, and Control Flow Analyzer.
IBM Alphaworks Performance Inspector is a suite of performance analysis tools for 32-bit Windows® systems. A pinned buffer per processor is used along with instrumentation to capture kernel performance-related information. These tools can be used to help identify performance problems in an application and determine how the application interacts with the system and what resources are consumed.
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