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Five years ago, in February 2003, IBM solidified its leadership in the software development market by completing its $2.1B acquisition of Rational® software. Since the acquisition, Rational has had a tremendous impact on IBM's middleware portfolio and now delivers the industry's most complete, open, standards-based software development environment that enables developers to more easily govern their software and systems development and delivery. Founded in 1981, Rational currently has expertise and an expanded portfolio from several other acquisitions (Information Laboratory (2003), Systemcorp ALG (2004), BuildForge Inc. (2006), Watchfire Corp (2007), and Telelogic (close pending), 28,000 customers worldwide including Ericsson®, the National Football League®, NASA, and the U.S. Open®, and more than 750 business partners selling Rational software solutions.
IBM is committed to driving the changes that lead our customers to new levels of efficiency. Since 2001, IBM has invested more than $22 billion on 72 acquisitions that have helped IBM gain a jump-start into emerging markets and fill gaps in our existing technology, round out key aspects of our portfolio, and quickly move into new markets to further differentiate IBM from the competition. Rational is one of those success stories. |
Five things you should know about Rational
- With the Rational acquisition, IBM now delivers the industry's most complete, open, standards-based software development environment that helps developers deliver more reliable and precise, error-free code.
- IBM Rational software is the clear leader in Application Development and Project Portfolio Management (as ranked by Gartner analysts for six consecutive years).
- IBM Rational software is used by nine of the Fortune Top 10 companies, 45 of the Fortune Top 50 companies, and 87 out of the top 100 companies.
- Since the acquisition, more than 28,000 customers have purchased Rational software development solutions.
- IBM Rational has a tremendous impact on IBM's middleware portfolio. There are more than 2,000 Rational software developers within IBM focused on helping customers govern the business process of software and systems delivery.
Five focus areas for Rational in 2008
- Global development and delivery
Rational will continue to advance team collaboration in globally distributed development with Jazz technology - with announcements around Jazz.Net and the existing Rational portfolio.
- Complex systems development
With the pending close of the Telelogic acquisition, Rational will announce an even more comprehensive complex systems development portfolio that helps improve developer productivity and ensure the quality and reliability of products before they go to market.
- Enterprise modernization
Rational will deliver new software for both IBM System z and IBM System i that help mainframe, as well as mid-market i5/OS customers, adopt modern open-source based technology and more easily transition to SOA.
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Throughout 2008, IBM will further advance SOA adoption through new offerings enabling SOA asset reuse, process visibility and governance.
- Small and midsized business
Rational will announce more "Express" offerings to allow smaller organizations take advantage of the same collaborative and secure development software that enterprises are already using from Rational.
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