Today, IBM is rolling out a new product for software engineers, a lifecycle management system designed to let them “step back and view a project in its entirety to better understand the hundreds of thousands of complex interactions.”

These aren’t tools for churning out some hinky little side-project mobile app. Rather, IBM wants to help large enterprises with complex systems — think auto manufacturers or aerospace programs or Facebook — to manage software where one tweak to one bit of code can have repercussions for any number of sections of the system’s total of 10 or 15 million lines of code.

The company is also delivering a product for continuous delivery today. Both products are part of the company’s Rational line, which aims for cross-discipline collaboration, efficiency, and skillful handling of large systems.

The Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager, for example, lets engineers search, analyze, organize, and visualize projects from what IBM says is a more holistic point of view. Taking multiple engineering disciplines into account, the company says in a release on the news, “helps an organization make better design decisions by identifying potential conflicts and variables that could delay the project and cause cost overruns.”

Here’s a clip, featuring IBM Rational GM Kristof Kloeckner, on the new software released today:

Both the SmartCloud Continuous Delivery and the Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager are available now on the company’s Rational products site.

Top image courtesy of Sergey150770, Shutterstock

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The software industry is booming, with billions of dollars circulating in annual investment, acquisitions, deals, and IPOs, not to mention sky-high valuations. Businesses across all industries and around the world are run on software, and as venture capitalist Marc Andreessen put it “software is eating the world.” So who are the people behind this seismic shift? These new titans of industry? Why, the nerds, of course! Specifically, nerds that code.

“This isn’t the first time software and technology has been at the forefront of the economy,” said Patrick Moran, a VP at New Relic. “But it’s the first time developers are front and center.  Not CIOs. Not IT solution sellers. Developers. Redmonk has been talking about how developers are the new kingmakers and wielding unprecedented power thanks to the cloud, open source, and other macro trends.”

Moran wrote a blog post titled “Is this the ‘Nerd Economy’?” In true nerd form, the audience demanded data to back this up, and so New Relic created this info graphic. Check it out, and then buy your ticket to Devlandia, a land where Red Bull flows like water and everybody wears cotton T-shirts.

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