Rational RequisitePro is a software requirements management product maintained by Rational Software, a division of IBM which helps you communicate better and reduces project risk and also increases collaboration within the project team framework.

Benefits

Powerful and simple-to-use product for requirements and use case management that promotes better communication, enhances teamwork and reduces project risk.
Combines the familiarity and ease of Microsoft® Word documents with powerful database capabilities for more effective requirements analysis and interrogation.
Gives teams the ability to understand the impact of change.
Ensures everyone on the team remains informed of the most current requirements information to ensure consistency.
Provides Web-based access for distributed teams

IBM Rational performance testing solutions enable you to execute large scale performance tests to validate application scalability. The IBM Rational performance testing portfolio of tools help your quality assurance teams in performance test creation, execution and analysis tool for validating application scalability and reliability.

Benefits

Identify the presence and cause of system performance bottlenecks
Create code free tests quickly without programming knowledge
Provides a rich, tree-based test editor that delivers both high-level and detailed views of tests Automates test data variation and enables insertion of custom Java code for flexible test customization
Automates identification and management of dynamic server responses
Offers flexible modeling and emulation of diverse user populations
Enables Windows, Linux and mainframe technology-based test execution
Reports in real time to enable immediate recognition of performance problems and renders an HTML browser-like view of Web pages in the test
Collects and integrates server resource data with real-time application performance data
Available with Windows and Linux software-based user interface
Minimizes the memory and processor footprint, enabling large multiuser tests with limited hardware resources
Supports load testing against a broad range of applications such as HTTP, SAP, Siebel, SIP, TCP Socket and Citrix
Operating systems supported: Windows, Linux

Rational ClearQuest is a workflow automation tool from the Rational Software division of IBM. The tool can be linked to Project Management tools to create ordered steps for resources assigned to specific goals.The product was originally designed for tracking defects (bugs) in software development projects. In addition to its capabilities to track bugs ClearQuest allows organizations to organize tasks related to new features.Designed to be used with other Rational Software testing tools, such as Rational Performance Tester, Rational Functional Tester and Rational Manual Tester, ClearQuest also provides a robust environment for software quality assurance.ClearQuest also integrates well with Rational ClearCase/UCM revision control system. This allows to correlate source code change sets with ClearQuest records (i.e. bugs), simplifying some aspects of bug tracking and source code management.

Benefits
Activity-based change and defect tracking Robust,
Flexible workflow support including email notification and submission options
Easily customized using simple point-and-click features
Comprehensive support for queries with extensive charting and reporting
Web interface for easy access from standard Web browsers
Seamless integration with Rational ClearCase for a complete SCM solution
Integrated with leading IDEs including WebSphere Studio, Eclipse and Microsoft .NET

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Telelogic® Focal Point™ is the only software solution for product management and product portfolio management that offers you these unique capabilities - Improved product value ,increased agility from idea conception all the way through the product lifecycle and Enhanced and constant focus on your customer's needs, while meeting project goals. This 5-minute demo gives you a quick introduction to Telelogic Focal Point for Product and Portfolio Management

IBM designed an automated process runtime engine through which Indecomm mapped, choreographed and deployed all of its internal business processes with the necessary process workflows. Indecomm has realized significant process improvements and an increase in customer satisfaction.

With projects all over the world Nucleus Software needed to utilize their every development resource. The need was for a software asset management solution that was flexible, scalable and configurable to support parallel development. IBM Rational Clear Case made this possible

Persistent required tools to design and build robust software architectures. Tools that would increase the efficiency of the product lifecycle, offer advanced functionality, performance and reliability for the client’s software development environment. With the new Rational and Lotus software, Persistent Systems can now design and build robust software architectures increasing efficiency and operational lifecycle.

Information Kerala Mission is a flagship e-Governance project of the Government of Kerala. Requirements for the project was based on practices set by numerous Government orders and amendments, and localized practices at various Government offices. The need was to formulate document requirements to cater to analysis at varying levels of details. IBM helped realize this dream.

KPIT has been recognized as one of the fastest growing in the ‘Deloitte Technology Fast 50 India’ program, International Association of Outsourcing Professionals ranked it a leading player in global outsourcing. IBM makes available the complete tool chain that reduces modeling time, almost eliminates coding and thereby helps KPIT put more efforts and resources into delivering better quality.

Some researches indicate that approximately 60-70% of all project failures occur as a result of poor requirements gathering analysis and management.

The need for web application security has never been greater as there are 1.4 billion people who have access to hundreds of millions of websites generating US$6.9 trillion in worldwide Internet eCommerce

IT organizations are struggling to do more with less. And they’re not getting a lot of encouragement. Less than 40 percent of stakeholders are satisfied with the speed of internal application development, and not even half of them are satisfied with the quality of those applications. There is no silver bullet to fix these problems; however, we can learn from other industries how to improve quality, customer satisfaction and productivity.

The IBM Rational® Software Analyzer application is designed to address the needs of your organization by automatically detecting and, in many cases, correcting coding problems

The demands of good business practices, competition and government regulation constantly push companies to reexamine, update, modernize or replace their business processes

BM’s Rational Method Composer, version 7.5, is a package comprising an authoring and configuring tool, a publishing tool (e.g., to HTML, PDF, Word), and an extensive content library covering processes and methodologies used in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and IT Governance. Rational Unified Process (RUP) and a core set of RUP streams are provided out-of-the-box with RMC, plus plug-ins such as RUP Business Modelling package, RUP for Commercial Off The Shelf software packages, RUP for Legacy Evolution, and many others. RMC plug-ins beyond RUP have expanded considerably, with content from IBM, such as Tivoli Unified Process, and also partners. Butler Group particularly liked the new feature, IBM Practices, a way of decoupling different process segments in the form of ‘practices’: this approach allows for maximum flexibility to fit the individual process requirements of organisations. RMC is built on the Eclipse Process Framework, and uses major parts of the Software Process Engineering Meta-model 2.0 (SPEM 2.0). RMC plays a central role in disseminating information on processes and methods to complement IBM’s ALM tools. RMC is most suitable for MLEs adopting a disciplined approach to ALM.

Organizations modernizing application development – for example, adopting agile or service-oriented development methods – need to make corresponding changes in ALM to plan, measure and report on their development activities. This MarketScope assesses the market offerings and their providers.

Manufacturers everywhere are being asked to deliver a new generation of smarter products. Companies need to deliver flawless products and software with fewer resources and shorter timeframes. Effective integration of software engineering with electronic and mechanical engineering is becoming an even more critical success factor.Please join IBM to discuss how we can help you deliver smarter products that are more interconnected,instrumented, and intelligent. With the IBM Rational Platform for Systems and Software you can improve both your software engineering and your systems engineering, and can more effectively connect your products to the Internet, back-end IT systems, and each other.A smarter planet needs smarter products. Join us to learn how to leverage IBM's software, hardware and services to achieve competetive advantage.

As Systems Engineering problems and solutions become more complex, it is harder for engineers to describe them and harder for reviewers and other stakeholders to understand the descriptions. By carefully combining textual requirements and the visual representation of these requirements using an industry standard graphical notation, more accurate and complete system descriptions are possible that are easier to understand and communicate. What is the relationship between requirements management and system modeling? How should they work together? And what are the potential benefits for different stakeholders? This Webinar and telebriefing take a process perspective to answer these questions

During this webcast, you will hear from Alyssa Dver, Author of "Software Product Management Essentials", who will examine how and why product managers need to be more creative and strategically focused. She'll uncover some typical traps that Product Managers fall into and give you tips to avoid them - or how to get out if its too late! Specific benchmarks and exercises will be provided so participants can leave and immediately assess and improve their own performance as a product manager or manager of PMs.

Every successful organization engages in strategic planning;yet too often the best laid plans remain just that: plans. Scott McBride explains how enterprise architecture (EA) can help you integrate your strategic goals into your organization's capital planning, business planning and technology architecture activities. In this way, your strategic planning outputs become actionable

Chris Sibbald talks about Telelogic® Harmony/SE™, which incorporates overall project flow with efficient design iterations to improve stakeholder requirements definitions and analysis, design synthesis, and interface definition. Early validation via executable models minimizes risk and helps you meet the needs of your customers. Learn how all this works by joining the webseminar.

Join Alyssa Dver, consultant and author of "Software Product Management Essentials" for the "why Product Management" Podcast. Product management ensures that products and services are developed and positioned to optimize profit and desirability. By gathering the needs of all stakeholders and objectively quantifying, justifying and prioritizing product decisions, product management ensures the company delivers what its customers want. Download this informative podcast and listen as Alyssa Dver explains why product management is so critical to company

Whether you are producing a product, an application, a system or a process, requirements drive the application process. During this podcast, Melinda Ballou program director of IDC's Application Life-Cycle Management Group will discuss how a connected requirements approach to the application development lifecycle strengthens your requirements management capabilities by unifying the requirements definition process and integrating requirements with the complete application development environment, techniques and best practices. No matter what you are building this approach can help you improve time-to-market, increase quality and reduce costs

This podcast describes how combing tools with processes and best practices leads to improved productivity in IT, embedded real-time software development and systems engineering

Enterprise Architecture: Deliver improved return on IT investments through alignment with business priorities

Paul Kaspian explains how rational software can help you to effectively address web application security with limited resources