IBM Rational – Small and medium business

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With business success in mind, IBM Rational provides offerings, services, best practices, migration paths, and integration guidance to suit your needs. See the information below to learn more about why Rational is the right choice for small and midsized business and the Business Partners committed to software and systems development and delivery excellence.

• IBM Rational Application Developer for Borland® JBuilder® users: As a software development professional, you need a recognized and technically respected IDE that has the features you need to build better software faster.
• IBM Rational for Microsoft® Visual Studio® development: The IBM Rational solution for Microsoft works with Microsoft Visual Studio and integrates into Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.
• Migrate from HP to IBM Rational: Learn how IBM IT lifecycle quality management solutions can help you address the feeling that you’re locked in to a proprietary, expensive, or incomplete software delivery lifecycle solution.

	Rational and Agile development
	Rational and Eclipse
	Rational and Microsoft
	Rational and System i
	Rational and Tivoli
	Rational and WebSphere

• IBM Rational Agile development


• Agile SCM and the IBM Rational toolset


• Book review: Agile Web Development with Rails


• Test-First Design, Exploratory Testing, and Agile Process: An Interview with Brian Marick


• Service-oriented agility: Methods for successful Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) development, Part 1: Basics of SOA and agile methods


• Agility comes of age

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• Interview: Grady Booch discusses the V7 release of IBM Rational desktop tools, SOA, and Eclipse


• Installing and Using Eclipse-based IBM Rational Products


• Understanding the IBM Rational ClearQuest Client for Eclipse


• Automating installation and update of an Eclipse-based IBM Rational Software Development Platform product from a network on Windows


• Integrated SCM for Rational Developer products and Eclipse

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• IBM Rational for Microsoft Visual Studio development: The IBM Rational solution for Microsoft® works with Microsoft Visual Studio® and integrates into Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET.


• Using IBM Rational Test RealTime and the Microsoft Visual Studio Plug-In http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/04/r-3176/


• Runtime analysis of ASP.NET Web services with Rational PurifyPlus http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/972.html

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• Application Modernization with Rational Business Developer Extension


• Using Rational ClearCase for System i for source code management


• Rational and System i: Strategic Focus


• White paper: Increase the value from your System i investment


• System i5 Initiative for Innovation: Accelerating your growth and delivering greater customer value


• IBM System i Developer Road Atlas

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• Improving Software Quality with Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software


• IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Creating EJB clients using the Eclipse Rich Client Platform and Rational Application Developer V6


• IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Accelerated JSF development for XML-based SOA using Rational Application Developer and WebSphere Application Server


• WebSphere Studio team development with IBM Rational ClearCase: Part 3: Unified change management: the developer and working on activities


• Easiest, Breeziest EJB components: Using Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software

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• The Rational/Tivoli connection: New integrated toolkits support IT lifecycle management


• Deploying Rational Applications with IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager


• Using Tivoli software distribution with Rational ClearCase UCM


• Practical Use of Rational Robot in Transaction Monitoring


• Automate software release management and deployment with IBM Rational ClearCase/ClearQuest and IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager

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