Standards and Technologies

For over 20 years, IBM has worked to promote, author, and leverage standards and standards-based technologies to help customers align product, systems, and software development lifecycles with business objectives and customer needs to dramatically improve quality and predictability, while significantly reducing time-to-market and overall costs.

These standards and technologies include:

  • AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture)
  • BPEL (Business Process Execution Language)
  • BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation)
  • CMMI (Capability Maturity Model® Integration)
  • CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture)
  • DO-178B/ED-12B
  • DoDAF (Department of Defense Architecture Framework)
  • Eclipse (Eclipse Process Framework)
  • MDA (Model Driven Architecture)
  • MODAF (Ministry of Defence Architecture Framework)
  • SDL (Specification and Description Language)
  • SysML (Systems Modeling Language)
  • TTCN 2 (Tree and Tabular Combined Notation v2)
  • TTCN 3 (Testing and Test Control Notation v3)
  • UML (Unified Modeling Language)

IBM's open, standards-based solutions deliver the flexibility, lower costs and investment protection customers need to automate and support best practices across the enterprise - from powerful business process management and enterprise architecture to requirements-driven development of advanced systems and software.