Introduction to Rational Products

IBM® Rational® provides a full range of offerings to meet the needs of any business. Rational® ensures software and system delivery success through practical, reliable, and extensible components. Designed with the needs of business users in mind, Rational provides flexible time saving technologies designed for day-one productivity, high-fidelity results, and costs savings. Rational allows users to achieve consistent delivery of assets to meet and exceed business commitments. Whether working as an individual contributor or as a member of team, Rational’s offerings match your environmental preferences with powerful technologies optimized for competitive success. To support your need for quick investment returns, Rational's reliable and extensible solutions are designed to bolster productivity, and deliver consistent, high-quality results and cost savings from day one. The Rational solutions cover:

Architecture management

Model, design and rapidly build resilient architectures for 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 lifecycle traceability from requirements through deployment. IBM 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 about more than defining and managing requirements -- it's about making them part of the full development lifecycle and linking them directly to the business -- meaning 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. IBM Rational process and portfolio management products are used to manage the development process, including software project management, managing resource utilization and project costs, tracking project scope and measuring development progress. IBM Rational’s solutions provide portfolio dashboards, project management best practices and asset lifecycle 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

Ensure 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. At IBM Rational®, we provide efficient, cost effective solutions to deliver high quality, secure, and compliant web, packaged application software, and in house applications, optimized to improve the responsiveness and flexibility of small and midsized businesses.
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