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Why Rational Software?

We are the platform for governing software and systems delivery. Explore products by category or see the products A-Z list.

What Rational Software offers

  • Architecture management
    IBM® Rational® offers industry-leading architecture management tools for architecture and design modeling, model-driven development, component testing, static and runtime analysis activities. Architecture management is a discipline focused on governing changes with software architecture and to ensure architectural integrity and alignment with current requirements and implementations.

  • Change and release management
    IBM Rational offers comprehensive, integrated change and release management products for successful software delivery. These solutions help software and systems development teams empower the business by accelerating software delivery, making global teams more efficient, and governing end-to-end software processes.

  • Integrated requirements management
    IBM Rational offers a comprehensive, requirements management solution that is the cornerstone for successful software delivery: IBM Rational RequisitePro. Rational RequisitePro is part of the Rational Software Delivery Platform a set of software lifecycle products that work together to provide the continuous visibility and control that organizations need to effectively govern the business process of software and systems delivery.

  • Process and portfolio management
    IT management is at the core of most organizations' ability to execute corporate strategy and ensure compliance with a growing body of regulatory requirements. IBM Rational® software helps you enable and automate best practices for improved governance and clear visibility into portfolio and project performance across the entire IT project lifecycle -- from opportunity identification and prioritization through project execution and closure.

  • Quality management
    IBM® Rational® quality management provides a full set of software delivery process guidance, best practices and integrated tools, supporting a broad range of heterogeneous applications to help organizations achieve improvements in cost efficiency, quality metrics and time-to-value for business-critical projects.

  • Targeted solutions
    Satisfy lifecycle management and governance needs for industries, SOA, systems and more.

  • Small and midsized business
    IBM Rational® provides the essential capabilities that enable small and midsized businesses to streamline their development and delivery process for mission-critical software and systems. 

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