Is maintaining consistency across your WebSphere® infrastructure a constant struggle? Are your WebSphere configurations becoming more complex and difficult to maintain?

Many companies today face large WebSphere infrastructure management challenges. Operations teams are tasked with providing greater levels of service across growing infrastructures without additional resources.
In order to meet the growing productivity demands, operations teams are looking to automated change management. Leveraging IBM® Rational® Automation Framework for WebSphere (RAFW) provides a way for teams to easily gain and maintain control of their existing environments.

The challenge of managing the lifecycle of an application, and its hosting Application Server environment, involves a complex network of people, processes, and technologies that all need to be integrated for optimal control. Without this, the organization may never fully know what was delivered to production...until after it breaks.

To cope with the ever-increasing demands for high-quality products, at more frequent intervals, organizations need a solid foundation of repeatability, reliability, and tracking. Communication and integration throughout the lifecycle are also essential, but mandating consistency across teams can create political turf wars which ultimately defeat the original purpose. Automated change management brings the consistency, process repeatability and overall control of the environment needed to effectively and efficiently manage these environments.

The IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere is a powerful automated change management solution that empowers teams the ability to automate, integrate, and report on any tool in their organization. Leveraging IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere will:

• fully integrate the build, configuration and release procedures of WebSphere environments through a single automated process framework
• automate the promotion of WebSphere application builds from development to QA to staging to production with minimal human intervention
• provide a self documenting/audit trail and environment disaster recovery capability

I'd be happy to meet with relevant stakeholders in your company and provide more detail on this innovative solution.  Please feel free to contact me.