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Define the right solution with requirements and analysis tools that help you understand your problem space, capture and manage evolving requirements, model user interactions, define your database architecture, and incorporate stakeholder feedback throughout your project lifecycle.
Whether you're a project manager, analyst, developer, or tester,
requirements and analysis impacts your work. Good requirements and
analysis practices help reduce project risk and keep your project
running smoothly until the final product is successfully delivered
to your customer. IBM Rational requirements and analysis tools are an integral
part of the IBM
Software Delivery Platform, a complete and modular platform
for teams who build business applications, embedded systems, and
software products.
IBM Rational recognizes the many different talents required to make a project successful. Every team has a mix of roles and responsibilities working toward project success. One key role for successful software or systems development is the Analyst role. We break the Analyst role into distinct areas: Database Designer, Systems Engineer, and Business Analyst. Because teams vary, you might not use one of the specific titles below, but you might still perform this role on your team.
- Business analyst: Tasked with understanding and representing stakeholder needs, leading and coordinating the collection and verification of customer and business needs, documenting and organizing the requirements for a system, and communicating requirements to an entire team. Other titles or roles that might do these tasks are systems analysts, project mangers, program managers, or product managers.
Tools: IBM Rational RequisitePro and IBM WebSphere Business Modeler
- Software architect: Responsible for creating and maintaining the overall structure and layout of a software system's components and their interfaces within and outside the system.
Tools: IBM Rational RequisitePro, IBM Rational Software Modeler, IBM Rational Software Architect
- Systems engineer: Responsible for analyzing the role of the system in the broader enterprise, defining the requirements the system needs to meet, in terms of services and nonfunctional requirements, and defining the architecture of the system to meet the requirements. Systems architects may also perform similar activities in their roles.
Tools: IBM Rational RequisitePro and IBM Rational Software Modeler
- Database designer: Responsible for leading the coordination and collection of database requirements, documenting, organizing, and communicating the requirements for the database, modeling the database architecture, and ensuring it supports the business needs. Examples of other titles or roles that might do these tasks are database analysts, data modelers, or data architects.
Tools: IBM Rational Data Architect, IBM Rational Rose Data Modeler and IBM Rational RequisitePro
IBM offers the following products for requirements and analysis:
- IBM Rational RequisitePro: A powerful, easy-to-use, and integrated product for requirements
and use case management that promotes better communication, enhances
teamwork, and reduces project risk.
- IBM
Rational Software Modeler: A UML-based visual modeling and
design tool for architects, systems analysts, and designers who
need to ensure that their specifications, architecture, and designs
are clearly defined and communicated to their stakeholders.
- IBM Rational Software Architect: A design and construction tool for software architects and senior developers creating applications for the Java platform or in C++ that leverages model-driven development with the UML and unifies all aspects of software application architecture.
- NEW! IBM Rational Data Architect: An enterprise data modeling, integration, and development tool designed to help data architects understand heterogeneous data assets and their relationships, design federated databases and streamline database projects.
- IBM Rational Rose Data Modeler: Provides the data analyst with a UML-based visual modeling tool that integrates data modeling with application modeling and system development.
IBM WebSphere Business Modeler: Provides the business analyst with comprehensive business process modeling and collaboration capabilities to graphically design processes across people, partners, and applications.
IBM Rational also offers select requirements and analysis products
as part of an overall lifecycle solution for the development of
software products and systems:
IBM Rational
Professional Bundle: Includes all the desktop tools your enterprise
needs to design, construct, and test J2EE/portal/service-oriented
applications on both Windows and Linux and to test .NET applications.
With a single purchase you can get eight powerful software tools
and have just one maintenance contract to manage. The bundle provides
complete flexibility for individual practitioners, who can install
and use whatever tool(s) they need to do their job. Architected
for ease of adoption, all tools in the bundle are installed inside
an Eclipse-based application shell. IBM Rational
Team Unifying Platform: Designed to equip your teams with
the infrastructure tools, processes, and integrations they need
to work together more effectively. This solution unifies your
team by providing common access to development assets, communication
alerts and processes to maintain project momentum and focus.
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