Introduction to Rational products

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.

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