Rational

Rational solutions are designed to:

• Model, design and rapidly build resilient architectures for SOA, systems and applications.
• Improve software delivery and lifecycle traceability from requirements through deployment.
• Align business goals, best practices and projects for improved productivity and predictability.
• Ensure software functionality, reliability and performance in development and production.
• Gain insight, predictability and reusability in your projects while accelerating and simplifying your software development.

IBM Rational offers industry leading proven application development and design tools and processes to enhance your agile, iterative and other software development projects. 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.