IBM launches PHIAD
IBM, in collaboration with the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s (NTI) Global Health and Security Initiative and the Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance (MECIDS), has created a unique technology that standardizes the method of sharing health information and automates the analysis of infectious disease outbreaks, in order to help contain diseases and minimize their impact. The secure, Web-based portal system, the Public Health Information Affinity Domain (PHIAD), is being deployed in the Middle East first, and the partners are pushing for international deployment.
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IBM reveals plans for IBM’s Jazz platform Team Concert 1.0
Team Concert 1.0, the first commercial product derived from IBM’s Jazz platform for collaborative development, will be available on June 30, with nearly 20 related offerings from IBM and partners set to ship by the end of 2008, the company announced Monday.
It will come in a number of versions, including the free Express-C Edition, which is aimed at teams of 10 to 50 people; a Standard Edition for midsize companies, which has additional features, such as metrics for determining a project’s “health” in real-time; and in 2009, an Enterprise Edition that includes greater capabilities for managing work items and source code.
IBM intends to bake Jazz into all of its Rational products over the next several years, rather than try to move customers wholesale to a new platform. It has already begun this process, announcing Monday that Rational Requirements Composer, software for planning a project’s design, and a testing-focused product, Rational Quality Manager, are now in beta.
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IBM Reveals Jazz Product Launch Wave
