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Tools in the IBM Innovation Centers for Business Partners
The IBM Innovation Centers for Business Partners showcase some of the most advanced tools from IBM and Business Partners that may help cut your development time and enable you to be more productive. This is an excellent opportunity to try out the tools while working on your enablement at one of our centers. Support is available from the our technical consultants during your visit or from the relevant Business Partner's technical support.
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Rational Suite TestStudio® provides integrated testing tools and centralized control, organization and access to all testing assets and artifacts.
Reliability testing: automatically exercises every element and every path through the e-application under test.
Performance testing: scales to tens of thousands of users and isolates performance bottlenecks by analyzing e-commerce transactions, low-level client calls, and system resources. |
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Bowstreet Portlet Factory for WebSphere is used by IBM Innovation Centers to rapidly create flexible, configurable portlets. With Portlet Factory, even non-J2EE developers can create standards-compliant, well-architected J2EE portlets that expose existing applications' core functionality to portal frameworks. In addition, portlets created with Portlet Factory can easily be configured by application vendors' customers to meet their business needs - without requiring customers to install any tools or proprietary software. Bowstreet Portlet Factory enables solution vendors to increase customer satisfaction by delivering portlets that are flexible enough to meet even the most disparate customer requirements. |
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Cisco Systems provides the networking infrastructure for you to test and evaluate your application across a variety of networking topologies at IBM Innovation Centers for Business Partners worldwide. The sites permit end-to-end networking of applications running on operating system platforms from IBM across WAN, LAN, and EDGE infrastructures. This flexibility is made possible because of the underlying Cisco technology that ensures stable, uniform network testing scenarios that enable you to focus on the application in question, confident in the network infrastructure. |
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Quest Central® for DB2 combines all of the DB2 administration functionality database administrators (DBAs) need to improve database performance and DBA productivity for DB2 on z/OS, OS/390, Linux®, UNIX® or Windows® from a single console that incorporates:
- DB2 diagnostics and monitoring
- Database administration
- SQL tuning
- Comprehensive space management
Spotlight® on DB2 diagnoses performance problems on DB2 for Linux, Unix and Windows and DB2 for z/OS in real time by graphically displaying all database activity in an intuitive user-interface, enabling you to respond quickly to issues that need attention.
Toad™ for IBM DB2® simplifies database development and improves productivity for DB2 developers, DBAs and business analysts by providing an intuitive graphical user interface to DB2 for Linux, Unix and Windows and DB2 for z/OS. Toad for DB2 improves productivity and shortens development cycles by
providing a single console for:
- Creating and debugging stored procedures
- Generating SQL
- Viewing and editing DDL
- Automation of basic object management and more
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Developers of high performance computing and enterprise software are using RapidMind to accelerate their applications on the Cell Broadband Engine™. The RapidMind Development Platform achieves breakthrough performance without the challenges of understanding the processor hardware or sophisticated parallel programming techniques. It makes programming these processors as easy as single-threaded, single core programming, yet takes full advantage of all available resources.
The RapidMind developer portal is the gathering point where developers in the RapidMind community can share ideas and suggestions through various forums, browse sample code, and seek answers in the knowledge base and product documentation. The Developer Edition of RapidMind Platform is also available from the developer portal.
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V-ONE offers an innovative software solution that extends true, enterprise-class security across the Internet. SmartGate® software provides application level and IPSec VPN solutions to securely deploy the latest business-critical applications around the world -- all while maintaining manageability, scalability, reliability, and control. With proven expertise in deploying extranet, remote access and site-to-site solutions, SmartGate's strengths include:
- Easy firewall traversal
- Individual access control to specific information
- Broad range of supported platforms and networks-including wireless and Java™ technology
- Rapid end user deployment
- Strong user authentication
SmartGate (and SmartPass client for remote connectivity) is available through the VPN service. |
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VMware Workstation is powerful desktop virtualization software that runs multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC. Software developers, testers and enterprise IT professionals can run Windows®, Linux®, NetWare, or Solaris x86 in fully networked and portable virtual machines - no rebooting or hard drive partitioning required. VMware Workstation delivers advanced features such as memory optimization and the ability to manage multi-tier configurations and multiple snapshots.
VMware ESX Server is virtual infrastructure software for partitioning, consolidating and managing servers in mission-critical environments. Ideally suited for enterprise data centers, ESX Server minimizes the total cost of ownership of computing infrastructure by increasing resource utilization and its hardware-independent virtual machines encapsulated in easy-to-manage files maximize administration flexibility. VMware ESX Server allows enterprises to:
- Boost x86 server utilization to 60-80%
- Provision new systems faster with reduced hardware
- Decouple application workloads from underlying physical hardware for increased flexibility
- Dramatically lower the cost of business continuity
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Note: Terms and/or availability for tool usage and technical support may vary at the different IBM Innovation Centers for Business Partners. Please check with your local center for availability of a specific tool and any prerequisites. Licenses may be required for certain tools. As part of our agreement to provide these tools, we may be required to provide your company name, contact information, and e-mail address to the tools provider(s) who may use it to communicate with you about these tools. By using the IBM Innovation Centers for Business Partners and these tools, you agree that we may do so.
Use of these tools does not constitute an express or implied recommendation or endorsement of these tools by IBM. IBM makes no representations or warranties, express or implied, concerning the tools. IBM specifically disclaims all warranties and conditions, express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
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