Globalize your On Demand Business

Rational software helps organizations worldwide create business value by improving their software development capability. Rational software powers the IBM Software Development Platform, a complete and modular solution that encourages teams to:

• Adopt iterative development practices that reduce project risk
• Focus on architecture to develop more resilient systems
• Continuously ensure quality across the software development lifecycle and across geographies
• Effectively manage change and protect critical strategic assets worldwide

It facilitates the development and deployment of global on demand business applications, offering easy access to information through a personalized (language and culture), single-user interface accessible on any device, anywhere and anytime, with a consistent language/cultural behaviors across products and platforms. Reducing worldwide deployment and management costs. The result: a more proficient software development team, and a more responsive, resilient, and focused business.

Regardless of platform or application type — Eclipse, Java, .NET or embedded and pervasive applications — Rational takes you from start to finish, ensuring the complete success of your projects.

Global collaboration, global development and global success

Companies continue to invest large amounts of capital into their IT application portfolio. Factors such as development labor cost and time to market are being scrutinized in order to achieve a greater return on investment on IT projects when developing multilingual, multicultural applications, leveraging worldwide development and testing teams. Global development and delivery offers several benefits to your global organization - development labor cost reduction, availability of a 24 x 7 development staff on a worldwide basis, flexibility to allow in-house staff to focus on strategic projects, critical to the business needs, along with increased flexibility to adapt quickly to volatile business needs.