IBM® Rational®
provides a full range of offerings to ensure software and systems delivery
success through practical, reliable, and extensible components. Designed with
the needs of business users in mind, Rational® offerings provide flexible,
time-saving technologies that are developed for immediate productivity, high-fidelity
results, and cost-savings. With Rational offerings users can consistently
deliver assets to meet and exceed business commitments. Whether you work as
an individual contributor or as a member of a team, Rational offerings meet your needs
with powerful technologies optimized for competitive success.
Architecture management
Model, design, and rapidly
build resilient architectures for services-oriented architecture (SOA), systems
and applications. The need for architecture management becomes critical when
designing, developing and delivering complex software in a world where applications
are increasingly more modular and complex. Rational provides industry-leading
architecture management tools for architecture and design modeling, model-driven
development, component testing, and static and runtime analysis activities.
Change and release management
Improve software delivery
and life-cycle traceability from requirements through deployment. Rational offers
comprehensive, integrated build, change, and release management products for
successful software delivery. These solutions help software and systems delivery
teams within small and midsized businesses accelerate delivery and manage
their end-to-end software processes, all within budget.
Integrated requirements management
Define and manage
requirements and provide traceability and alignment with business processes.
Integrated requirements management is more than defining and managing requirements;
instead, it means making requirements part of the full development life-cycle
and linking the requirements directly to the business. Real integrated requirements
management means that the software you deliver meets the real needs of the
business users.
Process and portfolio management
Align business goals,
best practices, and projects for improved productivity and predictability.
Use Rational process
and portfolio management products to manage the development process, including
software project management, managing resource use and project cost management,
project scope tracking, and development progress measurement. Rational solutions
provide portfolio dashboards, project management best practices, and asset
life-cycle management capabilities that bridge the gap between development
and operations. IBM has
the proven expertise to help facilitate the organizational transformation
to align IT with business objectives and establish best practices for project
and portfolio management.
Quality management
Demand software functionality,
reliability, and performance in development and production. As new business
challenges arise and technology complexity increases, it is clear that testing
plays a much larger role in the success of applications for all businesses,
especially for small and midsized companies. Rational provides efficient, cost-effective
solutions for delivery of high quality, secure, and compliant Web-based software,
packaged applications software, and in house applications that are optimized
to improve the responsiveness and flexibility of small and midsized businesses.