IBM announces new software platform

The software and services announced would provide capabilities that help reduce the cost and risk of bringing more intelligent products to market.

IBM announced a new software platform and related services to “help product manufacturers and designers create innovative products that help people work and live smarter”.

The software and services announced would provide capabilities that support collaboration,and help reduce the cost and risk of bringing more intelligent,instrumented and interconnected products to market,it said.

“While this transformation is sparking unprecedented leaps in product value,it also introduces new challenges and business implications,” said Kalyan Sridhar of IBM Rational Software. “Whether we are at work,home or play,people of all ages have come to depend on products with features relying on increasing amounts of software-based intelligence. The successful organizations of the future will build a strong competency in delivering that software fused with sensor and electro-mechanical technologies to create products that are increasingly intelligent,instrumented and interconnected to the Internet and other systems. IBM helps its customers seize and effectively deliver on these new opportunities.