There are several categories of users for Rational Asset Manager. These include:
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managers: team leads, project managers
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administrators: integration administrators, community administrators, repository administrators
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practitioners: analysts, architects, developers, testers
For each of these categories of users Rational Asset Manager provides support for asset management scenarios, as
introduced in the image below. These asset management scenarios may be conducted from Web clients as well as Eclipse
clients.

To support these scenarios, Rational Asset Manager uses the Reusable Asset Specification (RAS) from the OMG as the core
structure for asset metadata. Additional metadata is required for integrating with tools and other repositories and
registries such as WebSphere Service Registry and Repository. A sampling of the asset metadata is illustrated below:
RAS provides a structure for unique asset identification as well as metadata extension. Using RAS in Rational Asset
Manager the enterprise can configure asset types to meet their particular needs. For example, this means a service asset
can be defined as a single asset type containing all necessary artifacts, or it means the enterprise can decompose the
service into many asset types such as ‘service interface', ‘service implementation', ‘service test'. |