As an IBM Rational Business Partner, Ascendant Technology works to build and maintain strategic business assets for our client, combining best practices in development and project process to control the true costs of your infrastructure and improve the function of your systems across business units. Using the common methodology and best practices developed by IBM, we provide both overhead and granular oversight to software engineering projects. Tracking development and ownership through the full software lifecycle is designed to align information technology partners with business goals and timelines. Threading the needle between light, agile practices, quality management, and business innovation, Ascendant Technology provides the tools and processes to understand the true cost and savings of development, automation, and enhancements to your business assets.
Software Delivery Automation
Software is growing more complex. The interconnection between portals, commerce sites and back-end applications requires greater attention to development processes when time-to-market is a business goal. Advances in automation allow you to forecast costs and timelines in a more accurate fashion, as well as creating a baseline for future builds and upgrades. Accurate planning also requires that development and maintenance be treated in a cohesive theme throughout the enterprise, demanding different levels of automation for communication between development groups and business units. Software Delivery Automation helps reduce the inefficiencies in disparate and widespread groups collaborating in enterprise systems. No matter the time zones, language, or cultural differences, automation keeps each group on the same page and reduces process errors and inefficiencies.
Agile Process Adoption
Agile development gives you enormous advantages in speed to market and innovation, but long-term success and cost control requires some model of documentation and testing. Atech utilizes best practices in software management and maintenance to guide Agile Process Adoption without burdening development teams with ineffective oversight. Utilizing IBM Rational Team Concert, Atech enables collaborative development, source code management and work item management across remote groups. Automated reporting and build tracking provides a light management touch to ensure timelines are met and costs controlled.
Quality Management
IBM Rational quality management solutions balance innovation and risk with a lifecycle approach to software development. Instead of treating quality management as an additional expense, we adopts concurrent testing practices, keeping development teams on track with business goals and enhancing quality in real-time.
Testing should not be saved or planned as an end of project task. Performed in the correct order, testing enhances the entire service lifecycle from requirements, design, development, quality assurance, security, and compliance to deployment and operations. Designing and tracking development as it occurs allows you to understand the real costs and impact on business without code defects or compliance surprises from front-end business units.
Enterprise Blue For Rational
This exclusive, enterprise-class offering allows your team to get an Agile software delivery environment up-and-running in a cloud environment without the need to invest in hardware, internal IT, or support staff. In addition to the standard SaaS model, pilot projects for 30-day, 60-day and 90-day engagements are available to allow you to scale your project based on need with a single, affordable monthly bill that includes RTC licensing and hosting.
