Enterprise Scale Build Forge Implementation
Standard, Compliant Build and Release Using IBM Rational Build Forge

A Fortune 100 life insurance company had many different build and release policies and procedures across its many business units and departments. The industry, in general, was under increasing audit and compliance pressures. The build and release procedures were not only non-standard but also non-compliant. The current SCM tools that the company used could not handle the build and release requirements of the various business units. Therefore, no standard solution was possible.

An Enterprise-wide Use Case Knowledge Center
Black Diamond Experts Accelerate Use Case Adoption in Projects by 40%

Over the past five years, a top-ten insurance company had developed a standard system development process based on the Rational Unified Process. An essential part of the process required use cases. Project teams were either not employing use cases or duplicating the effort by also developing functional requirement specifications.

Deployment of the Complete Rational Tool Suite
Black Diamond Partners with IBM Global Business Systems

Within a very large CRM project at a top-ten insurance company, the entire Rational Suite needed to be deployed. There was very little knowledge of Rational on a team that was large and geographically separated, including offshore locations. The implementation of Rational was concurrent with the CRM project schedule. The system development life cycle was under pressure and changing.

Getting Global Development Teams Together Using Rational
Black Diamond Clears Regulatory Hurdles by Getting Four Geographically-separated Teams to Work Together

A Fortune 100 pharmaceutical company had four geographically-separated application development teams forced together by acquisition. Each team had its own institutionalized software development process with different documentation sets. Software documentation was subject to review by internal quality groups and the FDA. The company's multiple processes lead to serious inefficiencies, especially for global projects. Software that was certified for use at one site was not accepted at the other sites. Therefore, software had to be re-certified for each site using the sites' particular process and documentation.

ClearQuest MultiSite Architecture and Implementation
Black Diamond Migrates Key Projects to ClearQuest MultiSite

A mid-sized medical devices company needed to standardize the change process for multiple geographically-distributed development teams. Some of the teams were resistant to change. Projects needed to be migrated with minimal downtime.

Enterprise ClearCase and ClearQuest Implementation
Black Diamond Installs and Implements ClearCase and ClearQuest

A mid-market technology company had two divisions. Each division had its unique software development process, yet was using the same ClearCase and ClearQuest development environment. The environment needed to be split while critical projects remained on track.

Managing SOA Complexity with Rational Software Architect
RSA is Used to Link Existing Systems in a Major SOA Initiative

A medium-sized media company was embarking on a major SOA/Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) initiative to link existing systems and provide a solid foundation for new development. Each system required that a service contract be developed that outlined the services it provided and the domain objects used as arguments and results. The contract then needed to be rendered into XML schema definitions and WSDL files. The sheer volume of the required XML documents created both management and comprehension problems.