IBM plans to offer new Tivoli management software to help customers manage IT processes as services. The plan is part of IBM's agenda to weave its software lines together into a services-oriented architecture (SOA).
Tivoli will help developers build IT processes and automate integration. The idea is to cut down on the time and cost of building and managing processes, simultaneously moving Tivoli from point-product status to an integrated services management model.
One of these products is a tool the Armonk, N.Y., company calls the IBM Tivoli Unified Process (ITUP). Rooted in process technology from IBM's Rational software line, ITUP provides a way to improve IT processes, an increasingly popular movement to manage time and cut labor costs.
