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IBM Buys BuildForge

IBM announced the acquisition of BuildForge, a company that specializes in helping corporate customers meet compliance regulations. The purchase of the Austin, Texas, company was very needed by IBM in a time when companies are being forced to ship software faster Build Forge and it`s software will enable programming teams to quickly and easily chart what application was created and make the development process faster.

The combination of BuildForge and Rational software can help customers track, audit and analyze their application development without having to buy additional management tools. Such coordination of development projects is an important characteristic to help enterprises meet compliance regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC 17a-4 and HIPAA.

Financial details were not disclosed. This kind of "cradle-to-grave" data management has come to be a focus of all manners of technology in the high-tech sector. Buying BuildForge makes sense for Big Blue, which has acquired a wide swath of software management, integration and development companies to round out its five software lines. More than 80 percent of BuildForge`s customers are deploying Rational software to guide their software development process.