IBM Rational Build Forge ™ is an adaptive process execution framework that automates, orchestrates, manages, and tracks all the processes between each handoff within the assembly line of software development, creating an automated software factory. Rational Build Forge integrates into your current environment and supports major development languages, scripts, tools, and platforms; allowing you to continue to use your existing investments while adding valuable capabilities around process automation, acceleration, notification, and scheduling.

IBM Rational Build Forge provides complete build and release process management through an open framework that helps development teams standardize, automate tasks and share information.

Build Forge can help clients accelerate software delivery, improve software quality, as well as meet audit and compliance mandates.

Build Forge provides a management layer on top of your existing build scripts, batch files, and other processes. No new proprietary scripting languages are needed and no throw-away work! As a result, you are up and running in a matter of days.

Take the guesswork out of build processes

IBM Rational Build Forge automates, orchestrates, manages, and tracks all processes between each handoff within the assembly line of software development, creating an automated software factory.

Integrates into your current environment and supports major development languages, scripts, tools, and platforms.

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Automate software delivery across the lifecycle

• Unify automation across development, test, and operations to eliminate delays and handoffs among discipline silos
• Easily control existing tools across disciplines through a standard automation system
• Systematically reduce or remove dependence on obfuscated or just plain old scripts
• Achieve consistent, measurable, and improvable processes across platforms, products, and platforms
• Enable developer self-service and remove dependence on the build team
• Deep maintenance and deployment knowledge for popular IBM^® WebSphere^® middleware targets
• Easily parallelize automated activities with just a mouse click
• Ensure that development, test, and production environments are consistent with each other as well as within themselves
• Consistent view of process and results makes it easy to see status and troubleshoot problems if they occur
• Ease the process of showing compliance through consistent, automatically generated reports
• Improve quality by enabling more process 'turns' in the same amount of time
• Agentry available for popular platforms with a source kit provided and supported for the rest

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