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Gain insight, predictability and reusability in your projects while accelerating and simplifying your software development with IBM Rational software development tools. IBM Rational offers industry leading proven software development tools and processes to enhance your agile, iterative and other application development projects. The Rational Architecture and Construction software development tools built on Eclipse boost all aspects of software development, including model driven or code-centric application development. The powerful software development tools help you manage change with requirements-to-code traceability within your application development projects.

Choose IBM Rational architecture and construction software development tools and deliver resilient applications that enable you to:

  • Manage your evolving architecture and maintain architectural integrity throughout the software development process. Rational Software Architect offers common platform that facilitates easy roundtrip engineering and synchronization of models and code. Rational Software Architect.
  • Reuse existing services and benefit from reuse of software assets maintaining quality, corporate compliance and eliminating redundant work with Rational Asset Manager.
  • Eliminate manual error prone software development and achieve faster application delivery by focusing on business logic, with Rational Application Developer visual and graphical construction software development tools.
 
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Live Webcast! The Role of Architecture in Creating Service Oriented Solutions

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Reduce IT complexity with the IBM software architect kit

Read the report: IBM vs. Microsoft Developer Productivity Study

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Software delivery in the face change: the IBM Rational advantage (124KB)

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