IBM Rational

The solutions IBM Rational are solutions for process optimization of software development. They help developers to organize effective team work and to bring into accord with requirements of modern standards the processes connected with development, implementation and support of the software: project management, business simulation, analysis and design, requirements management and changes, testing and configuration management.

Application of methods of management of IT projects with use of methodology and the IBM Rational tools provides reduction of total costs on development and support of the software, raises performance indicators of implementation and use of information technologies. Ninety eight companies from the list of Fortune 100 use work benches of IBM Rational for acceleration of creation of the qualitative software.

IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) is the economic solution for shared control lifecycle. The better software and products helps the companies to create this solution, using the complex environment of collective development with the opportunities of the flexible, formal and mixed planning and accounting available on one platform.

The solution Rational Team Concert based on Jazz technology supports work with any plans, processes and platforms. New templates of formal planning support traditional project phases, and groups of the traditional, flexible or mixed planning also can use new abilities to manage risks.

IBM Rational Requirements Composer helps the working groups to define and apply effectively requirements at all stages of project lifecycle.

Requirements are created and used by all participants of the working group in spite of the fact that at the same time the business analyst can play the leading role. More rapid and effective development of requirements reduces need of completion of the project, accelerates entry into the market and improves business results.

The wide range of customers and other interested persons allows to include in development process of requirements. Allows to use intuitive storyboards, charts of processes, examples of use and other visual and text acceptances for determination of scenarios and detection of needs of the customer. Provides fast achievement of consent between concerned parties due to effective joint work and high transparency of actions of all participants.

IBM Rational Quality Manager provides to quality control groups of means of tracking of all actions connected with quality assurance.

IBM Rational Quality Manager helps to establish cooperation between the working groups of the small or average size, allowing them it is easy to communicate, use the automation equipment for acceleration of project implementation and to make the reports on control indicators of projects providing acceptance of reasoned decisions about release of the software.

The expanded and configured reports meet requirements and tasks of business analysts and heads. The built-in means of the reporting on investment payback indicators for laboratories of testing and assets of testing correspond to approach of Measured Capability Improvement Framework (MCIF).

For information

The Evans Data company published in May, 2011 survey results about tools of development, carried out among more than 1200 programmers around the world. Respondents gave the highest mark to IBM Rational, and took the second and third place according to the environment of Microsoft Visual Studio and Zend Studio.

Rational received the highest overall rating and a victory in six categories: modeling of applications, requirements management, quality of technical support, support of remote development, frameworks and multilingual capability. At the Visual Studio the highest marks on integration into databases, support of visual design and declarative programming and also on the value and the qualitative structure of community of users. Zend whose main specialization - web-design, won category of appropriate means of development and also on availability of third-party tools.

Among other products mentioned in poll - Oracle JDeveloper, JBoss, Eclipse, Genuitec MyEclipse, Adobe Flash Builder and Embarcadero Delphi. According to in Evans, poll it was not financed by suppliers of development environments.