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Thursday, 20 July 2017 07:25

Cognos, IM and TM1 Services

Customized services in the area of Information management, planning, and BI and Informix

Informix Services

We can provide the following Capabilities:
  • Installation and configuration of database server IBM Informix Dynamic Server 
  • System Administration for Informix Dynamic Server, performance tuning
  • Database management and optimization
  • Backup and restore, setting up a secondary high availability server
  • Setting up a server cluster
  • Database design, query optimization, the development of stored procedures. Performance Monitoring
  • Installation, configuration, and administration of OS Linux. Delphi 6 - XE, DLL, MDI, FastReport, DevExpress, com. Multithreaded applications
  • Versioning management (StarTeam, SVN)
  • Specialists of our ETL Teams (Datastage) has more than 5 years of experience with Datastage development and administration

Cognos & TM1

We can provide the following Capabilities:

  • A big spectrum of topics for your project success
  • Project management, Project- and partial project leadership
  • Seminars, Training, and Workshops
  • Business Analysis and Conception
  • Reporting and OLAP
  • Data Warehouse Design and Modelling
  • ETL-Tools
  • Database Administration
  • Software development

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Friday, 21 July 2017 06:14

Certification GmbH

Friday, 21 July 2017 19:23

System Engineering Foundation Course

Course Descriptions

The Systems Engineering foundations course provides a solid background of the core Systems Engineering discipline. Including learning and practicing the application of Systems Engineering methodologies, enhancing know-how with an interactive workshop and covering detailed use cases.

The course attendance is strictly limited to a ratio of no greater than 6:1 Participants: Presenters, thus enhancing the effectiveness of the training. Given that Systems Engineering needs to be tailored to each Participant's unique needs, increasing the Presenter's availability per Participant, is a key quality measure of this training course.

In addition, an evening meal with the course presenters is included in the course fees.

Learning Outcomes

• To know the origins of Systems Engineering and the application of the role.
• To speak competently about the discipline of Systems Engineering.
• To know how to apply Systems Engineering methodologies to complex project developments.
• To know how to optimize Systems Engineering on your project.
• To assess the scope of applying for Systems Engineering professional accreditation, ASEP or CSEP.

Duration

3 days

Delivered By

Seb Klabes
Mike Johnson 

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Thursday, 03 August 2017 20:07

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Features

Rational Team Concert/RTC as a tool to fight chaos in software development
IBM Rational Team Concert is a powerful tool that is designed to be used in the software development area. But its key advantages are not in simple capabilities which can be found in a lot of other similar instruments. These advantages are based on collaboration mechanisms and the possibility to organize the effective work of numerous developers grouped into teams and sub-teams. It brings team awareness to all project members about current project status, a unified security model supported by roles and users, dashboards, and reporting capabilities.
The tool can not be called a new one because it's developed by the Rational Software brand of IBM and was first released in 2008. The software is available in various deliveries: “thick” clients, “thin” web client, and cloud solution. Additionally, there's a separate ISPF client to support developers in z/OS, COBOL, and PL/1 using TSO/ISPF but we will not be concentrated on these specific aspects here.
If we could take a look at the main milestones of Rational Team Concert development so we will note one very important fact: the tool is very stable at the last time. We can see that the periods between global releases are big. As users of this tool, we can believe that IBM will not wonder us very strongly by the full rebuilding of the capabilities and graphical users interface at least. Accordingly, we will not spend a lot of time and money retraining our developers and rebuilding out process descriptions to conform to those changes. Nevertheless, take into account that the development process continues constantly and many enhance and defect fixes are produced persistently.
Speaking more strictly, IBM Rational Team Concert is a collaboration tool designed to unite each member into a conveyor that can support persistent software development production with high quality and control throughout many projects of an organization. It provides a collaborative environment that software development teams use to manage all aspects of the process – change request management, version and configuration management, planning, building automation, revision control, reporting, etc.
Rational Team Concert isn't a cheap tool but it can be legally used for free by development teams with several developers from one to ten. In this case, the technical support from IBM will not be available for you but a lot of information placed at jazz.net and Jazz Forum will mitigate this problem significantly.
All Rational Team Concert artifacts have URI links defined for them. It's created in the core of the Jazz platform the part of which is the Rational Team Concert. The tool provides traceability across all artifacts allowing the link to them into information chains in the same way as the Internet can do it. For instance, you can link together such artifacts as work items, changesets, builds, tests, requirements, and so on. And the especially interesting fact that most of those links can be created automatically in the process of your work.

Change Management

Request (it's called a work item in Rational Team Concert) is a usual point to start any efforts in a project. It's an atomic kind of data in projects. Work items can be of various types, contain many attributes, and support various workflows with specific states and transitions among the states. They are used to trace and coordinate tasks by project members. And it's never minding which kinds of tasks are used. A project manager can be confident that all tasks will be realized or, at least, it will be easy to make it clear why some tasks are delayed or are the blockers for other ones.
The change management process is customizable at all. You can use diverse approaches to establish change management in your company. For example, you can use some typical templates coming to Out-Of-The-Box together with the installation of Rational Team Concert. Those templates bring some standard work item types (for example, epics, stories, tasks, defects, and so on, in case of using the Scrum process template). You can improve those work item types by customizing their attributes and workflows or develop your own work item types from scratch. In this way, only your imagination can limit the ways how you could apply a Rational Team Concert!

Version Control And Configuration Management

Rational team concert includes integrated version control and configuration management subsystem. It supports parallel development for teams of any size – from single groups of developers to big teams formed from many separate groups. The teams can be located somewhere in one place or be distributed everywhere in the world. The subsystem is seamlessly integrated with change management capabilities, so you can easily track which changes were made in codes, documents, and other files based on any tasks assigned to any developers.
But the force of Rational Team Concert is especially perceptible when you apply the tool for managing the versions of whole repositories but not single files only. You will save your artifacts in one or many components, fix the status of the components with snapshots and baselines. As a result of this, you will be able to restore the state of your project to a point how it was any time before. The flexibility of streams allows you to develop the software products in parallel, start any research where the results aren't clear still and avoid mixing them with the project artifacts, urgently fix any defects in the final phase of testing, and continue the development in parallel without any breaks and unexpected impacts.
Developers can work with Eclipse IDE and Microsoft Visual Studio which Rational Team Concert can be directly integrated into. In the case of non-integrated IDEs (for example, Delphi or others), you can easily work in parallel with the native Rational Team Concert Eclipse client available for installation. If you aren't a developer who works with numerous files simultaneously, it will be enough to work with Web-browser. Nevertheless, you can additionally install Rational Team Concert Shell which is a client embedded into Windows Explorer if you work in a Windows-compatible operation system.

Planning

The planning subsystem gives you a powerful mechanism for building plans, tracking single and related tasks, grouping the tasks at the level of a whole project or a single development sub-team.
To perform the tasks, you are to define timelines and iterations projects which define time constraints for any tasks to be created. You can define multiple timelines in a project if you have several teams working in various time schedules (for example, the main development team and a group providing tech support for customers).
It's possible to consider the developers as resources with having the predefined amount of time which they can spend in their work. Common time of all developers is an available collective resource in the project. You will see in real-time how the common time available in the project is being reduced by distributing the tasks among the developers. It gives you a precise tool to exactly plan the project based on the time really available for planning. Moreover, moving through the project, you will control how your expectations to finish the work at the predefined time conform to reality. It will give you feedback on whether you have to do something to accelerate the project works, or change the number of developers to successfully finish the project, or perform other urgent actions.
In a project, you can define overall project plans and specific plans for separate teams. Accordingly, some tasks can be directed to different plans excluding any ways to see the tasks assigned to other teams.

Automated building

IBM Rational Team Concert includes built-in management by building processes. It can be integrated with a lot of building engines (Maven, Hudson/Jenkins, Ant, command line supported, etc). And as everywhere in Jazz, building capabilities are closely integrated with another part of the instrument.
It's possible to realize the full process when delivery of some code to the mainstream will start its building automatically. Moreover, if the building was successful, it can result in launching the testing scripts in the related IBM Rational Quality Manager which is responsible for testing processes.
Of course, the building can be started manually or by schedule. It's easy to plan building processes by nights at the non-working time especially if it takes several hours, for example. When you come to the office in the morning, you will only check the building results and fix the problems.

Reports And Dashboards

Rational Team Concert can work with reports developed in external tools such as Eclipse BIRT, Rational Publishing Engine, Rational Insight, etc. Those reports can be printed or imported into Rational Team Concert to be able for generating data directly within Rational Team Concert in a typical Web-browser. Moreover, you can convert some reports into dashboards to control project status in real-time.
The reporting tool informs about any actions in the environment, behavior, and performance of work of a team in the project. Visualization of information about the development process can reveal certain trends that otherwise remain hidden or unclear. By making this information visible, reports can improve the effectiveness of decision-making efforts.
Rational Team Concert includes a big library of report and dashboard templates. For example, install the tool, create a project area and use the report informing about blocking tasks, the report about building results, the report displaying tasks of a single sub-team, the report with most valuable tasks, and others. The templates can be modified and created anew.

Process

Any project in Rational Team Concert is based on a process. A process in Rational Team Concert is a combination of roles, permissions, work item types, follow-up and behavior triggers, timelines, etc. The tool can strictly automate the activities for different users which have assignments to one or several roles. It will guarantee that nobody will do something that is forbidden to him and everybody can access only the data which is permitted to access for him.
You can constantly improve the development process and build your own process fixing it as a process template. Starting another project, you will be able to use that template to deploy the best practices which were found to be effective in your environment into this project.

Collaboration

You can set components owners at the level of sub-teams or single developers so that only some developers could access these components. Capabilities to setup visibility of project areas and separate components allow you to involve a lot of external developers restricting their access to some data. For example, external developers will not even know that there are other projects in your organization or other components with artifacts within a project. You can give access to customer representatives with read-only access for monitoring purposes.
Rational Team Concert simplifies the exchange of information in the context of the work performed. The project members can be automatically notified of any changes to the project activities. Changes can be provided in the form of discussion in various work items. Interested parties can automatically track the status of an individual task and subscribe themselves to future notifications.
Multiple views allow you to share information about the team. You can monitor the work of the team, change the level of details of information and customize the displayed information. For example, “My Work” and “Team Events” views create a comfortable private workspace to be informed about the current project state and effectively participate in the development process.

Community

The jazz technology platform is hosted at jazz.net where you can be informed about the capabilities of Jazz and register for participation. You can open requests for improvements, track schedules, participate in discussions, communicate with the developers of Jazz and Rational Team Concert, and get known about the last releases of Rational Team Concert and other products based on Jazz. Developers of Jazz and Rational Team Concert itself work closely with the community and publish a lot of technical documentation at the site jazz.net.
 
 

 

  • Agree and manage the requirements
  • Agree and manage the interfaces
  • Prepare the test and support systems
  • Track progress against a plan

The solution contains predefined Modules:

  • Generic Test plan/Test specification and Template for the Test report according to EN50128
  • Generic Validation plan and Template for Validation Report according to EN50129
  • Generic Safety plan and Template for Proof of Safety according to EN50129

Compliance with EN 50128

The software safety standard EN 50128 originates from the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation or CENELEC. Its full title is ‘Railway applications. Communications, signaling, and processing systems. Software for railway control and protection systems. The internationally published version of the CENELEC EN 50128 standard is IEC 62279. The content of both publications is identical.

The standard requires that all systems with safety implications and which contain software should be assigned a Software Integrity Level (SIL), ranging from a value of 0 to 4. The standard then details in a number of ‘normative’ and ‘informative’ ways, the software development activities appropriate to each SIL that should be carried out, and evidence for the completion of which should be generated.

Rhapsody Kit for EN 50128

Documentation for the Rational Rhapsody Kit for ISO 26262, IEC 61508, IEC 62304, and EN 50128Rational Rhapsody Kit for ISO 26262, IEC 61508, IEC 62304, and EN 50128

IBM Rational Solution for Rail Engineering - CENELEC EN 50128 (beta)

The IBM Rational Solution for Rail Engineering - CENELEC EN 50128 is a set of best practices to help organizations develop products for certification under the EN 50128 safety-critical standards. The scope of these practices covers the objectives, plans, tasks, and work products described and specified by the EN 50128 standard They have been developed to support incremental adoption, thereby accelerating the adoption of common process support, practices and tools so as to reduce the time to value for the client’s process improvement initiatives. More information.

You can download the process asset here.

 

 

Solution Highlights

Automate Risk Management and Compliance

  • Workflow control of individual work items enables streamlined, interdependent processes
  • Linking of work items delivers full traceability throughout the lifecycle and across projects
  • Comprehensive, automated history of all artifacts facilitates proof of compliance - Integrate risk management processes leveraging the ISO 14971 Template

Quick-Start with Automated Industry Processes

  • Proven medical processes including the above customizable templates help get you started
  • Automated workflow control includes routing, approval, and escalation
  • Support for unlimited, fully linked variants speeds up development

Synchronize Collaboration In Real Time

  • Centralized 100% browser-based tool drives real-time collaboration
  • Online “easy-as-Word” authoring speeds up adoption
  • DOORS NG Round-trip™ for Microsoft® Excel® smooths external exchange
  • Native RIF/ReqIF exchange with IBM® Rational® DOORS® etc. connects specialists

Automate Your Validation and Verification (V&V):

V&V is supported via comprehensive traceability, automated forensic-level accountability, and real-time reporting throughout the lifecycle as well as across projects.

Furthermore, it is supported via review and approval of any work item with an electronic signature, combined with uninterrupted traceability starting at the design phase.

Benefits for Development Manager

Unlock Complexity and Streamline Processes

  • Get started quickly using Rational Team Concert work items and workflows and intuitively customize them to reflect unique company processes
  • Enforce workflows in the product development process using the sophisticated rules engine
  • Seamlessly integrate ISO standards and SOP requirements into product requirements
  • Manage QMS documents in Rational Quality Manager for full traceability and easy proof of compliance
  • Leverage generic Medical Device traceability tables

Automate Proof of Compliance

  • Leverage RQM’s compliant electronic signature functionality for FDA 21 CFR Part 11
  • Fully integrate company product design controls
  • Easily set up automated traceability across design, manufacturing, and testing
  • Plan user management and improve release predictability

Extend and Reuse Your Work

  • Integrate Requirements with Verification and Validation (Design V&V) processes
  • Drive requirements into Manufacturing
  • Integrate the design Master Validation Plan
  • Execute flawless design transfer
  • Accelerate external exchanges with DOORS NG Round-trip and native RIF/ReqIF

Benefits for Quality Managers

Automate Proof of Medical Device Compliance

  • Leverage RQM’s compliant electronic signature functionality for FDA 21 CFR Part 11
  • Full integration of company product design controls
  • Very specific requirements traceability including integration with design, manufacturing, and testing traceability
  • Predictable user management and integrated workflows

Create and Manage your company SOPs in IBM CLM

  • Quickly construct a QMS traceability table
  • Easily integrate SOP requirements with product requirements
  • Benefit from managing all QMS documents in IBM CLM for multi-directional traceability
  • Effectively plan for and manage internal audits

Help your development group manage complexity

  • Integrate ISO standards with product requirements
  • Establish a Medical Device comprehensive traceability table
  • Easily enforce workflows in the product development process

Extend and Reuse Your Work

  • Integrate Requirements with Verification and Validation (Design V&V) processes
  • Drive requirements into Manufacturing
  • Integrate the design Master Validation Plan
  • Execute flawless design transfer
  • Accelerate external exchanges with DOORS NG Round-trip and native RIF/ReqIF

Enabling the generation of MISRA C/C++ compliant code

  • You can generate MISRA C compliant code if you add the MISRA C settings and the MISRA C types to your IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® model.
  • You can generate MISRA C compliant code using MicroC-MXF with IBM® Rational® Rhapsody®-C model.
  • You can generate MISRA C++ compliant code if you add the MISRA C++ settings and the MISRA C++ types to your Rational® Rhapsody® model.

ALM Benefits

IBM CLM gives organizations one unified solution that delivers project transparency through real-time aggregated management information. Everyone is aligned around what is being built and why to drive advancement while protecting integrity and compliance. This helps teams respond faster and with better quality to new business opportunities and customer demand.

Immediate Benefits and Value

  • Unlock synergies across all collaborators with 100% browser-based access to a single data source
  • Increase productivity with an intuitive and role-based user interface
  • Achieve better quality and regulatory compliance through end-to-end traceability and automated audit trails
  • Adopt modern agile techniques at once or incrementally with out of the box project templates that can be adjusted to your needs
  • Optimize planning, prioritization, and release predictability via flexible planning and real-time reporting

IBM DOORS (Classic) was and is a leading requirement management tool for most industries with complex systems. Nowadays, however, customers require many more things from a requirement tool that could not be addressed by DOORS which is using robust and reliable but 25-year-old architecture. Therefore, ten years ago IBM decided to develop DOORS Next Generation which is running on a modern Jazz Platform and together with Rational Team Concert and Rational Quality Manager can satisfy very demanding customer needs as well.
For customers interested in taking advantage of the IBM Jazz Platform, Softacus provides services to migrate from IBM DOORS to IBM DOORS Next Generation.

Wednesday, 24 January 2018 06:50

DOORS NG Import & Cleanup Service

This Service intends to help DOORS NG Users to get unstructured or not optimally formatted data into DOORS Next structured data quickly.

Tuesday, 13 February 2018 06:01

IBM Maximo Implementation Services

The consulting company Softacus is an internationally operating IBM Certified Business Partner for consultancy, conception, optimization, and implementation. As part of IBM Portfolio, we provide all-around service for the product IBM Maximo as well as for organizational processes in the field of Enterprise Asset Management including plant engineering, automotive, oil & gas, conventional power plants, and renewables, and chemical industries.

The focus is holistic support from offering the right solution, concept, implementation of a solution, and alignment with the solution of the asset management strategy. Our high technical competence based on many years of experience and our profound knowledge of Maximo help ensure the success of your project.

We help you find the right mix for your needs:

Start with a simple core and extend if required by using case-based and industry-based extensions.

MaximoParts

Services include:

  • Initial presentations and business case
  • Concept setup
  • Implementation
  • System Migration
  • Training
  • Customization
  • Ongoing support as add on to IBM Sofware Support

CaptMaximo

 

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Saturday, 17 February 2018 21:24

HP ALM to IBM Jazz ALM CLM Migration

Rational provides Collaborative Lifecycle Management through its Jazz-based framework RTC, RQM, and DOORS NG is the ideal solution to migrate improve and optimize your quality management.t

Migration HP RQMFor customers interested in taking advantage of the IBM Jazz Platform Softacus provides services to migrate from HP to IBM Jazz CLM.
Hewlett Packard's Quality Center is a platform for managing a quality management infrastructure providing support for defects, requirements, tests, and business components.

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