Internet Of Things Continuous Engineering Newsletter #1 - Feb 2016

INTERNET OF THINGS
CONTINUOUS
ENGINEERING TEAM

Welcome to the first quarterly edition of the Internet
Of Things Continuous Engineering Newsletter.
The purpose of this and future Newsletters is to
keep you informed of a variety of topics, such as
events that we are running or attending across the
UK, what's new, the team at IBM and introductions
to our Business Partners. We are interested in
hearing your thoughts on the Newsletter, content
you would like to see, or any other comments you
would like to make so that we can shape it in future
editions.
In this first edition, we share a viewpoint in terms of
what we consider to be the Internet Of Things in-
cluding some details on our Continuous Engineer-
ing solutions; insight into one of our Business Part-
ners - CloudOne; and the current events in plan
that will evolve in future quarters.
We hope you find the newsletter informative and
useful, and we all look forward to talking to you
sometime in the near future.
FIRST EDITION
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SCOTT MARKWOOD
IN THIS NEWSLETTER
02 Meet the team
03 Events
05 Internet Of Things
08 Collaborative Lifecycle Management
12 Requirements Management
16 Configuration Management for requirements
17 Modelling
19 Analytics and Reporting
21 Business Partners Corner

MEET THE TEAM
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Solution Architect
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Technical Specialist
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Embedded
Software
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Solution Architect
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For further information on anything you’ve read please contact Zoe Carberry on 01865 784713 / iotce@uk.ibm.com

Throughout 2016 we will be running a number of workshops and webinars,
mostly free of charge to enable you to learn and try out the latest solutions
and best practices to help advance your organisation. Take a look at the
next couple of pages to see what’s coming up.
IBM Requirements Management Platform
We are running workshops to provide your organisation, where
requirements management is critical to your business, with an opportunity
to spend the day trying out IBM’s Requirements Management Platform.
Event Registration
Where Success Begins ‘Back to Basics for Understanding
Requirements’
Integrate and IBM are running workshops to provide organisations where
requirements engineering is critical to the business with an opportunity to
spend the day understanding the fundamentals for good requirements writ-
ing, elicitation, and management.
The workshop discusses how requirements can help with compliancy and
risk and includes the potential pitfalls of using a manual process when man-
aging the requirements without any formal structure. Please find below the
flyer and registration link for Integrate's Writing Requirements Workshops
that are running in 2016.
Event Registration and to download the event flyer
EVENTS
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2016
February
Thursday 18th - Effectively Managing Top-Tier
Requirements in DOORS
Register for Webinar
InterConnect - 21-25 Las Vegas. Same event as last
year. This event will be particularly good for customers
looking to learn more than just Continuous Engineering.
March
Thursday 3rd - Next Generation Migration Toolkit for
DOORS 9.x to DOORS Next Generation
Wednesday 9th - IBM Requirements Management
Platform - Hands on Workshop at IBM South Bank, Lon-
don
Event Registration
Thursday 17th - Requirements Writing Workshop at IBM
South Bank
Thursday 17th - Creating Traceability in DOORS and Be-
yond – The Various Methods
April
Wednesday 13th - Application Lifecycle Management for
Healthcare as a Managed Service
Platform - Hands on Workshop at IBM Bristol
Event Registration
May
Platform - Hands on Workshop at IBM Manchester -
Event Registration
June
Platform - Hands on Workshop at IBM Hursley
Event Registration
July
Platform - Hands on Workshop at IBM South Bank, Lon-
don
Event Registration
September
Platform - Hands on Workshop at IBM Warwick
Event Registration
October
Platform - Hands on Workshop at IBM Edinburgh
Event Registration
November
Wednesday 23rd - IBM Requirements Management
Platform - Hands on Workshop at IBM Hursley
Event Registration
4For further information on anything you’ve read please contact Zoe Carberry on 01865 784713 / iotce@uk.ibm.com

INTERNET OF THINGS, WHAT IS IT?
IBM announced in 2015, that it will be shaping part of
it's business to focus on solutions for the Internet Of
Things. Along with this announcement, comes a signifi-
cant investment of $3B into that part of it's business.  
 
Many industry thought leaders have provided a definition of what
the Internet Of Things is, but for us it is really simple. It's about
producing solutions to problems that have an underlying princi-
ple of connectivity. These connected solutions, help improve the
value that stakeholders would derive from them if they weren't
connected. The range of ways in which you can gain value from
exposed data can be from something as simple as access to
data held within a white goods appliance, which can be used by
Engineers to improve their products, to connected sensors and
devices reconfiguring themselves based on a set of precise pre-
determined rules to continue operating an expensive solution
with high cost down time. 
 
The rate at which an industry can innovate or evolve it's solutions
using connectivity, will impact how quickly it can also create new
INTERNET OF
THINGS
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or improved solutions and business models.
There is no doubt that the speed at which an in-
dustry can embrace connectivity within it's core
business will have a direct impact on how
quickly connectivity will shape our lives over the
next decade. 
 
We are already discussing strategies with clients
related to how they can adapt their businesses to
gain direct beneﬁt from the changes we are see-
ing. Our solutions help in a variety supporting
functions, from idea creation and inception prior
to solution or product creation all the way
through to delivery of an fully optimised asset
management system for the most complex of
scenarios. Either way, we can provide some of
the key ingredients you need to enable the inno-
vation you strongly desire. 
 
It would be great to hear from you or your col-
leagues to see how we can help you innovate in
your business to achieve better results.
CONTINUOUS ENGINEERING
Continuous engineering is an enterprise capabil-
ity that speeds delivery of increasingly sophisti-
cated and connected products by helping busi-
nesses to evolve their engineering practices to
adapt to the accelerating pace of business
change.
Take two minutes to see how we can help:
Creating Better Products with Continuous Engineering
Requirements - Engineers can build in the need
for connected devices early in the engineering
lifecycle for parts of the operational aspects of
their solutions.
Modelling - Reduces the time to get the solution
right and the system behaviours understood fully,
exposing new business value.
Design and Develop or Select - This is often out-
sourced, or an off the shelf "best ﬁt" solution se-
lected to deliver what is required. You need
ways to manage that aspect of your engineering
process.
Test - Being able to continually validate engineer-
ing artefacts against what your solution should
be doing, is key to reducing overall engineering
costs. Testing in production increases engineer-
ing costs profoundly.
Release - Controlling how you release produc-
tion ready engineering artefacts into your prod-
uct release cycles is extremely important. You
need to be able to revisit what you have previ-
ously done in order to improve your solutions
throughout their operational life-spans.
Improve and innovate - Ensure you deliver feed-
back on operational aspects of a system, lead-
ing to a solution update and producing new go
to market strategies and business value.
IOT FOUNDATION
Fast and reliable device connectivity, over the
internet using a secure lightweight protocol.
IBM's Internet of Things Foundation is where you
can set up and manage your connected de-
vices. IBM's Bluemix platform is the place to
quickly and easily create applications that can
use real-time and historical data from your con-
nected devices.
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ENTERPRISE ASSET
MANAGEMENT (EAM)
Facilities and Asset Management solutions for
large and often complex operational scenarios
linked to IoT Foundation for clients wanting to
automate manual tasks through intelligent and
connected devices.
Try it out for free!
Want to gain an understanding of how things
work around here? There are a number of ways
you can get started for free.
When combined with the IBM Bluemix platform,
IoT Foundation provides simple, but powerful ap-
plication access to IoT devices and data. You
can rapidly compose analytics applications, visu-
alisation dashboards, and mobile IoT apps. Cre-
ate IoT applications that feed insights to your
backend enterprise applications.
Watson Internet of Things Platform
“A COMPREHENSIVE,
INTEGRATED SET OF
CAPABILITIES”

DO YOU HAVE ONE OR MORE CROSS-
DISCIPLINE TEAMS WORKING ON SYSTEMS
OR SOFTWARE DELIVERY?
The IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM)
platform is part of the Continuous Engineering solution within
Internet of Things (IoT). An enterprise-grade integrated delivery
environment for all team roles, available as a Software as a Serv-
ice (SaaS), on-premise installation or via a Cloud-based Man-
aged Service.
The key capabilities of the platform are outlined on the graphic at
the top of this page.
A number of extension capabilities from the IBM Rational Product
portfolio can be directly integrated into the CLM platform.
COMMON INTEGRATED PLATFORM
IBM Rational CLM Platform leverages IBMs Jazz Team Server
technology to provide a common integrated platform for all the
role-based capabilities such as requirements management, test
management and so on. The Jazz Team Server provides com-
mon services like team collaboration, security, authentication, re-
COLLABORATIVE
LIFECYCLE
MANAGEMENT
PLATFORM
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porting and contains a single repository for all in-
formation created by the role-focused modules,
providing end-to-end traceability and reporting
throughout the SDLC. For example requirements
entered by the requirements team are available
to the test team for reference within test cases.
Overview
IBM Rational CLM helps teams work together for
faster product and software delivery.
• Enhances team collaboration with integrated
features including work-item, build and soft-
ware configuration management.
• Facilitates planning and execution of agile or
formal projects with planning tools and tem-
plates. Consistent processes help improve soft-
ware quality.
• Provides linked requirement backlogs across
multiple teams with full traceability
• Improve predictability through automated pro-
duction of agile metrics.
• Provides high visibility into project activities
and team progress with multilevel dashboards
and reporting features, and in-context collabo-
ration features.
• Support for Open Standards via Open Services
for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC). See
Open-Services.net
• Integrates with many third-party development
tools.
SOLUTION HIGHLIGHTS
Real-time planning
Many teams face the pressure of improving their
time to delivery. But improving your time to
delivery requires that you have a solid grasp of
the scope of the project, which includes the work
needed to elaborate the requirements, the de-
sign and implementation effort, as well as the
size of the test effort, often defined in a test plan.
Real-time planning improves time to delivery by:
• Providing a single plan that spans
requirements, development, design and test
efforts.
• Integrating planning with execution ensuring
the plan always reflects the team's status.
• Inspiring full team participation in accurate
planning.
• Providing teams the real-time data to respond
to the unexpected.
The planning capability in Rational Team Concert
provides the backbone for the real-time plan-
ning. When working in an integrated, cross-
functional team, planning for all team members
becomes an imperative for improving time to
delivery.
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Work Items for all Roles
Planning can now include the work of the entire
team. Analysts, developers and testers can
share the same work item capability. The team
can now estimate and include the all work across
the entire team to include estimating the effort to
elaborate the requirements, deﬁne test cases,
and write test scripts and so forth. This reduces
surprises that can delay a release beyond the an-
ticipated, while improving the teams understand-
ing of the complete scope of the project.
IN-CONTEXT COLLABORATION
Collaborate with team members online, at any
time, regardless of geographic location. By con-
ducting online reviews and approvals, or captur-
ing threaded discussions directly on an artifact,
teams create a collective understanding of what
is most important to their stakeholders. With link
previews and feeds team members have informa-
tion at their ﬁngertips and the power to stay on
top of current events.
In-context collaboration improves product value
by:
• Making information immediately accessible to
all team members in the context of their work.
• Empowering teams to collaborate on and re-
view software development artifacts so they
can incorporate feedback early and often.
• Providing single source of truth hosted in a
shared repository so that team members can
collaborate effectively around the globe.
Reviews and Approvals
Reviews and approvals are supported for
requirements, work items and test assets. Teams
collaborate among themselves and with their
stakeholders using web based reviews and ap-
provals.
EXAMPLE APPROVAL FOR REQUIREMENTS
Reviews and approvals can be conducted on
most types of asset. Below is an example ap-
proval for a collection of requirements.
Online Discussions
Software is the product of many discussions.
Capture discussions in-context of the work to fa-
cilitate online, global communication. By captur-
ing discussions in-context of the artifact, teams
create a single source of the truth regarding
decisions.
Comments on requirements details are in-context
and provide threaded discussions.
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LIFECYCLE TRACEABILITY
Teams who face the challenge of improving qual-
ity often wonder where to start. High quality soft-
ware is the result of the work of many team mem-
bers who are dependent upon each other’s work.
Without understanding these relationships, gaps
can go unnoticed, teams may focus on the less
important areas, and decisions are made with lit-
tle insight on the impact, all of which can lead to
poor quality.
Lifecycle traceability establishes relationships be-
tween artifacts, and provides views for insightful
decision-making. By relationships between arti-
facts, your team can answer the more interesting
questions about project status.
Lifecycle traceability improves quality by:
• Establishing relationships between software ar-
tifacts raising awareness across team mem-
bers.
• Helping practitioners identify and close artifact
gaps across disciplines.
• Providing practitioners access to related arti-
facts so they can make fully informed deci-
sions.
• Providing a clear view of completeness from
requirement through release.
REPORTING INTELLIGENCE
The ability to make fact based decisions is funda-
mental to steering a project to a successful con-
clusion. Dashboards and reports that surface
team activity and trends from actual data provide
powerful insight and transparency for making de-
cisions. With the Rational solution all team mem-
bers have access to the same data. Team mem-
bers can use reports, dashboards, mash-ups,
personal, or a mini dashboards along with a cata-
logue of widgets for displaying a wide variety of
information using out of box and custom reports
and queries.
Reporting intelligence improves predictability by:
• Applying Business Intelligence techniques to
development projects;
• Enabling fact based decisions making (to com-
municate status, monitor progress, diagnose
problems, identify corrective actions);
• Providing transparency to help teams steer pro-
jects and programs to deliver on-time.
RELIABLE INTEGRATIONS
The IBM Rational solution is designed to in-
teroperate with open source and third-party tools
based on Open Standards speciﬁcations from
Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration.
WANT TO KNOW MORE?
Check out the IBM Rational CLM pages on
Jazz.net or contact your local IBM Sales Repre-
sentative. To ﬁnd out how see
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/alm/

WHAT’S NEW IN DOORS 9.6.1.3
DOORS 9.6.1.3 was released in June 2015 and in addition to ﬁx-
ing around 50 APARs, some new functionality was added.
The capability for migrating data from Rational DOORS to Ra-
tional DOORS Next Generation is now generally available and in-
cludes enhancements for the previous Beta functionality.
• Fully embedded migration functionality. There is no separate
toolkit required.
• Automated harmonization of DOORS type systems and links.
• Automated creation of Rational DOORS Next Generation arti-
fact types.
• The Migration Metrics utility is now included in the Rational
DOORS client installation.
A new OSLC DXL Services Manager is included in the Rational
DOORS client installation. This allows users to run DXL through
the OSLC api. See the InfoCenter for more details:
Pictures are now supported in the Rational DOORS Change
Management integration.
The Column/Attribute/Type dialog box now has a column that indi-
cates whether an attribute is DXL based or not.
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REQUIREMENTS

Provision of DXL to purge individual soft-deleted
objects.
Rational DOORS Change Management now uses
a getResourceURL DXL function to generate
URLs with http or https protocol rather than
"doors://". The change is applied to all new
URLs. To revise URLs that were created previ-
ous, contact Support.
Rational DOORS now supports Rational Direc-
tory Server version 6.0.0.2.
Java is no longer included in the Rational
DOORS client installation. This component is a
prerequisite for installation. Separate installation
of Java provides the opportunity for security up-
grades to Java outside of the Rational DOORS
release schedule.
The Find feature in the Rational DOORS client
now includes an option to copy the URL to a
found artifact. This is in the database level Tools
> Find.
The installed help system is now a 64-bit applica-
tion.
Latest Fix Packs
You can download DOORS 9.6.1.3 from Fix Cen-
tral
Fix packs have also just been released for the fol-
lowing DOORS 9.x versions:
Rational DOORS Fix Pack 11 (9.3.0.11) for 9.3
IBM Rational DOORS 9.3.0.11 has been made
generally available and contains fixes to version
9.3, including all predecessor fix packs.
9.4, including all predecessor fix packs.
9.5 including all predecessor fix packs.
Rational DOORS Fix Pack 6 (9.5.1.6) for 9.5.1
9.5.1 including all predecessor fix packs.
Rational DOORS Fix Pack 5 (9.5.2.5) for 9.5.2
9.5.2 including all predecessor fix packs.
9.6 including all predecessor fix packs.

DOORS Next Generation (DNG) v6.0, which was
made generally available at the end of June
2015, was one the largest and most feature-filled
releases we have ever delivered. With that ship-
ment, we introduced for the first time configura-
tion management of requirements as well as a
new, no browser plug-in graphical editor. You
can view all the details of this release on the
DNG 6.0 New and Noteworthy information page.
In December we released DNG v6.0.1, which
also included some major enhancements in the
following categories:
Requirement configuration management and
Product Line Engineering (PLE)
• Requirements change management
• Automatic module merging
• Link validity / suspect links
• CM aware reporting and dashboards
• Bulk data manipulation
Getting requirements data in and out of DNG in
various formats is an important part of many of
users requirements processes. We have fo-
cussed on some significant improvements in this
area for this release.
Perhaps one of the most highly requested fea-
tures for DNG has been CSV data round-trip sup-
port. The ability to export data, edit it in Excel,
and then bring just the changed requirements
back into DNG.
• Link by Attribute
• Improvements in data migration from DOORS 9
• Usability improvements
We continue to invest significant development
effort each release on improving the usability of
the tool with the goal of increasing user productiv-
ity. In v6.0.1 we have made over 30 usability im-
provements. Read about it in Richard Watsons’
blog on Jazz.net.
What’s new in DOORS Next Generation 6.0.1
Diagramming just got easier
Diagramming just got a whole lot easier in 6.0.
This provides a more free-form diagramming tool
to help you create what you need.
Diagram features
After you click Edit, you are presented with a pal-
ette of shapes in a series of folders. You can
drag the shapes onto the canvas, where you can
move and resize them or connect them to other
shapes.
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Extensive palette of shapes
From the palette of shapes, you can create many
types of diagrams. In addition to general shapes,
such as rectangles, circles, and arrows, the pal-
ette includes shapes for ﬂowcharts, use case dia-
grams, business process models, data ﬂow dia-
grams, and UML diagrams.
See the latest diagramming information on
Jazz.net.

Here’s a YouTube video demonstrating the
new diagram editor.
Shortcut keys for DNG Modules
In the web client for DOORS Next Generation,
you can use keyboard shortcuts to work with
requirements artifacts.
Tip: When you are in edit mode in a text editor,
press Alt+0 to show a window that lists many
common keyboard shortcuts.
The IBM Knowledgebase contains all related
shortcut keys available to you.
As we continue to develop DNG in future re-
leases, you can see what our product team are
working on. See what’s coming in:
DNG 6.0.2 Milestone 1
DNG 6.0.2 Milestone 2
USEFUL LINKS
DOORS Next Generation on Jazz.net
Jazz Deployment Wiki
IBM Knowledgebase for DOORS NG
DOORS Next Generation on YouTube

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
DOORS Next Generation 6.0 is our first release providing native configuration management (CM) of
requirements, enabling functionality for strategic reuse and Product Line Engineering.
Requirements Management offers
the ability to define the scope of a
project, program, or deliverable,
but unless you have control over
changing the scope, this could well
consume more of your project costs
than you expected. Placing
requirements under CM allows for
the scope to be controlled, while
enabling your teams to work in par-
allel versions at the same time with-
out the need to make project copies
to handle variants.
On a basic level, CM provides a way to manage groups of artifacts and their versions. Versions can
be split to support different variants and merged in order to deliver changes of requirements back to
accepted releases. With CM, users can efficiently create different streams to help manage parallel
versions without the need to make copies of their requirements. Additionally, there is robust linking
that is specific to the stream the user is working in. This means that following the link shows users the
requirement, test, or design element on the other end of the link that is appropriate for the stream
they are working in. The ability to compare across streams and baselines helps users to understand
how their versions or variants are different and to correct any mistakes.
The functionality has been designed expecting only a small number of people to engage directly with
parallel versions and CM, while
the rest of the engineers con-
tinue with their work, mostly as
if nothing has changed.
By default, these new capabili-
ties are turned off and project
administrators have to enable
them for the server and for
each project area where users
want to take advantage of them.

IBM Rational Rhapsody enables systems engineers to elaborate
and analyze requirements, optimize architectures, and validate
design behavior and performance while automatically creating
systems speciﬁcations, interface design documents and systems
test cases.
Two base editions are available for systems engineers:
Rational Rhapsody Architect for Systems Engineers: Low cost
system engineering environment for analyzing and elaborating
requirements, making architecture trade offs with parametric
evaluations, and documenting designs while automatically creat-
ing systems speciﬁcations, interface design documents and sys-
tems test cases using SysML, UML, AUTOSAR or UPDM (addi-
tional add on).
Rational Rhapsody Designer for Systems Engineers Includes all
the capabilities of Rhapsody Architect for Systems Engineers
above plus provides the ability to prototype, simulate and exe-
cute designs for early validation of requirements, architecture
and behavior.
MODELLING
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Model Based Systems and Software Engineering
Rhapsody and Rhapsody Design Manager sup-
port Systems Engineers who are deﬁning com-
plex systems. A complex system typically has
these characteristics:
• multi domain (electronic, mechanical, software)
• lots of requirements at different levels of ab-
straction (stakeholder, system, domain)
• must be developed in compliance with a stan-
dards (ASPICE, DO-178,ISO 26262.)
• safety critical
• multiple variants
By using the SysML modeling language, engi-
neers can create graphical abstractions to com-
plex systems, facilitating understanding, docu-
menting design decisions and providing a
bridge to implementation.
What’s new?
• Rhapsody 8.1.4 and Design Manager 6.0.1
were made generally available at the end of De-
cember 2015.
• Support for Global Conﬁguration Management
• Support for Harmony SE process using Design
Manager
• For testing, ATG now supports token-orientated
activity diagrams
• DNG, you can add multiple collections of
requirements to your models.

Figure 1 Rhapsody via Design Manager supports OSLC
traceability to DOORS, DNG and RQM allowing trace-
ability and impact analysis to reach into the modeling
space.

Figure 2 Within DOORS or DNG, see how
requirements are traced to models. The statechart is ren-
dered by Design Manager.

Figure 3 Team member commenting on a design in De-
sign Manager

IBM’s Jazz platform now includes a Report Builder, allowing you
to get the perspectives of your data that you want. Utilise one of
the many out-of-the-box templates included in the extensive li-
brary, or follow the step-by-step creation tool to quickly and eas-
ily start building your own.
• Choose data types from every application in the Jazz lifecycle,
and how those data types link together through traceability
• Search across the entire database, or focus on the project(s) of
your choice
• Build ad-hoc reports in graph form, or with a list of results
Want the team to see your report? Add it as a widget to one of
the project dashboards.
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REPORTING
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Choose the data Format the results Name it, share it Run it
Quick. Easy. Powerful.

Our partner eco-system has grown and we have business
partners which extend IBM’s offerings.
CloudOne helps the world’s best companies make their things for the
Internet of Things. We bring enterprise applications to the cloud, host-
ing, enabling global collaborative development, production and analy-
sis of software products in real time on individual, secure, private hy-
brid cloud environments. Trusted by leading brands, CloudOne’s scal-
able technology is supported by a team of experts and partners who
share a passion for making it easier, faster and more economical to
make things for the Internet of Things. For more information,
visit http://www.oncloudone.com.
Why CloudOne:
1. CloudOne is a Premier IBM Business Partner, (the highest level)
and the 2015 IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Continuous Engi-
neering Solution.
2. We’re the first in the world to offer true Software-as-a-Service for
IBM software products, and the first to build (and run) a cloud de-
signed specifically for IBM.
3. CloudOne is both a pioneer and global leader in delivering IBM
technology on-demand.
4. A Virtual Private Cloud is ideal for managing the natural ebb and
flow of projects and teams
BUSINESS
PARTNERS
CORNER
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5. Our Virtual Private Cloud is unique: it’s neither pri-
vate nor public. It connects directly into your own
network for easy access by employees, but can
be selectively opened for secure, direct access
to anyone you choose.
IBM Managed Continuous Engineering - by
CloudOne
IBM Managed Continuous Engineering Service offer-
ing provides a managed environment for IBM soft-
ware products. The service provides for the pay for
use hardware infrastructure model needed to effec-
tively host IBM products. IBM’s managed services
are designed specifically to enable managed cloud
delivery of IBM software products.
The IBM Managed Service team will oversee the con-
figuration and implementation of the IBM software
products, and deliver ongoing infrastructure, applica-
tion, and support service remotely. The IBM Man-
aged Service team will deploy the products using
infrastructure located in a data center facilities, moni-
tor the system for 24x7 availability, and provide re-
lated infrastructure support.
Customers access the IBM software products
through a secure site-to-site virtual private network
connection to existing internal customer networks. A
Client Success Manager is associated with the ac-
count to ensure the successful deployment of the so-
lution. This role will ensure that there is a successful
relationship between IBM and any business partner
providers.
Service Benefits
Reduces upfront capital costs typically associated
with Information Technology (IT) infrastructure invest-
ments. The IBM Cloud Managed Continuous Engi-
neering Service offering entails: deployment of IBM
products into a Managed Service data center, where
it is monitored for 24x7 availability. The IBM Rational
Managed Service team will provide related infrastruc-
ture support, including product service packs, patch
installation, and optional upgrades on a schedule
that is agreed upon with the Customer.
• Alleviates Customer responsibility of the day to
day operation and maintenance of IBM software
products.
• IBM will provide on-going expertise to assist in de-
riving the most value from their IBM software de-
ployment.
• IBM assigns a Client Success Manager for the du-
ration of the service. The Client Success Manager
is responsible for ensuring overall customer satis-
faction, driving adoption of the service and provid-
ing best practice guidance.
• IBM data center facilities are certified against SAS
70 Type II and SSAE 16 Type II and have built in
high availability, redundancy and failover support-
ing infrastructure.
• Upon contract expiration customers may maintain
their project data on an existing SoftLayer infra-
structure. The Managed Services would not be
maintained and the Customer will work directly
with IBM SoftLayer for Cloud hosting.
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For further information on anything you’ve read please contact Zoe Carberry on 01865 784713 / iotce@uk.ibm.com

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