{"id":4627,"date":"2018-01-09T09:08:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T09:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/?p=4627"},"modified":"2021-11-18T06:02:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T06:02:05","slug":"is-it-end-of-rational-buildforge-era-or-urbancode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/is-it-end-of-rational-buildforge-era-or-urbancode\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it end of Rational BuildForge Era or UrbanCode?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTogether UrbanCode and IBM technology will be unmatched in the industry, providing businesses a continuous process for developing, testing, and delivering new and updated software,\u201d said&nbsp;<em>Maciej Zawadzki, chief executive officer, UrbanCode<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Recently, IBM Acquires UrbanCode with the following statement\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI am pleased to announce that IBM has acquired UrbanCode Inc. UrbanCode offers capabilities for application release automation (ARA), complementing IBM\u2019s DevOps solutions, enabling clients to more rapidly deliver mobile, cloud, big data analytics and traditional applications.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Innovation is increasingly being driven by software, but the rapidly changing software development landscape means that any changes an organization makes to its software environment needs to happen smoothly and without disruption to the creation and delivery of products and services. IBM delivers first class DevOps solutions enabling organizations to continuously deliver software so they can seize new market opportunities and gain competitive advantage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Acquiring UrbanCode strengthens IBM\u2019s DevOps strategy and capabilities. With UrbanCode\u2019s ARA solution, IBM will help improve our clients\u2019 ability to deliver software, enabling continuous release and deployment by:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Driving down cost<\/em><\/strong><em>&nbsp;by reducing the amount of manual labor, resource wait-time, and rework.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Speeding time to market<\/em><\/strong><em>&nbsp;by increasing frequency of software delivery.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Reducing risk<\/em><\/strong><em>&nbsp;by delivering higher quality application releases with increased compliance<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>This acquisition complements IBM\u2019s leadership in DevOps, enabling greater business agility by rapidly and more frequently delivering applications to market with reduced cost, risk and increased quality.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>UrbanCode\u2019s award winning software can help reduce software deployment time from months to minutes, and has helped save some clients two million dollars annually.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Together, we offer the most complete solution available today for continuously delivering software. UrbanCode\u2019s application release automation capabilities will help our customers accelerate their delivery of business critical software with improved quality, and at a lower cost and risk to the business.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some Key Inputs about acquisition based on google searches<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are IBM\u2019s plans for UrbanCode products?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UrbanCode technology will be a strategic part of the IBM DevOps solution. In addition to further integrating UrbanCode technology with IBM\u2019s offerings and consistent with our ongoing commitment to innovation and leadership in the DevOps domain, we continue to engage and gather input for potential future product enhancements from IBM, UrbanCode and our ecosystem of partners, integrators and customers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am an UrbanCode customer today, what should I expect?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UrbanCode product portfolio will be backed by IBM resources. IBM plans to make UrbanCode an important component of its DevOps portfolio, complementing existing DevOps capabilities and solutions. IBM also currently plans to continue to grow and enhance the functionality of UrbanCode&#8217;s technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why IBM Acquires UrbanCode?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As per the expert and official statement, IBM wants to leverage UrbanCode product to Mobile and Could Apps to make a powerful DevApps Application.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techweekeurope.co.uk\/news\/ibm-acquires-urbancode-114623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.techweekeurope.co.uk\/news\/ibm-acquires-urbancode-114623<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www-01.ibm.com\/software\/rational\/welcome\/urbancode\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www-01.ibm.com\/software\/rational\/welcome\/urbancode\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www-01.ibm.com\/software\/rational\/welcome\/urbancode\/answers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www-01.ibm.com\/software\/rational\/welcome\/urbancode\/answers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is IBM&nbsp;DevOps?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read more here\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/ibm\/devops\/us\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/ibm\/devops\/us\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"epyt-gallery\" data-currpage=\"1\" id=\"epyt_gallery_85320\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_44161\"  width=\"760\" height=\"427\"  data-origwidth=\"760\" data-origheight=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  data-epytgalleryid=\"epyt_gallery_85320\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><div class=\"epyt-gallery-list\"><div>Sorry, there was a YouTube error.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTogether UrbanCode and IBM technology will be unmatched in the industry, providing businesses a continuous process for developing, testing, and delivering new and updated software,\u201d said&nbsp;Maciej Zawadzki, chief executive officer,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4601,2275,4600,2272],"class_list":["post-4627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-ibm-acquires-urbancode","tag-ibm-urbancode","tag-rational-buildforge","tag-urbancode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25657,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions\/25657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}