IBM Rational – Small and medium business

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Small and midsized businesses are adopting strategic technologies to gain a competitive advantage. This has led to the expansion of increasingly complex environments that need to be maintained. Organizations are forced to deal with:

• Customizing and deploying packaged applications
• Managing outsourced development
• Designing and developing custom in-house applications or integrations
• Maintaining deployed applications and systems on various platforms
• Integrating various applications and systems
• Modernizing or standardizing existing applications and systems

Customizing and deploying your packaged applications

IBM Rational software can help you with customization, testing, and maintenance of your packaged applications so you have the time and resources to get back to work on what differentiates your company from the competition.

Managing outsourced development resources

IBM Rational’s software and best practices provide a streamlined workflow to manage change; thereby ensuring development assets are in sync with outsourced teams throughout the development process. So you can rest assured that the assets you outsourced for external development will work with those you developed in-house.

Designing and developing applications internally

Rational software can help you cross-platform code, create models, and reusable assets that align with your business requirements; trace application and system features from requirements through code; adhere to standards and governance processes; and improve your utilization and reuse of assets. And all this empowers you to deliver successful applications faster at lower cost.

Maintaining applications and systems

IBM Rational offers solutions and best practices to help you improve communication and business process management, and efficiently manage IT changes and configurations throughout your company, no matter what its size.

Integrating your applications and systems

IBM Rational can provide you with comprehensive market-leading model-driven development tools with modeling and design capabilities to enable your teams to integrate your applications and systems quickly by reusing already developed assets to leverage existing trusted investments and business critical processes to ensure robust software architectures that can grow with the business. Asset reuse helps minimize inaccuracies and risks from coding errors and helps speed development time.

Modernizing applications and systems

IBM Rational solutions can help your IT staff modernize processes by providing tools that capitalize on their existing skills and expertise. Conversion to powerful, scalable Web-based applications or to more flexible architectures such as service-oriented architectures (SOAs) can be quickly realized with IBM Rational software. These modernization capabilities can help you improve project team and end-user productivity, decrease development costs and deliver your solutions fast to keep pace with changing business needs.

To gain control of complex environments and enable small or midsized businesses to be competitive and nimble to market opportunities, IBM Rational® provides the core technologies that optimize the business processes for developing, delivering and maintaining mission-critical applications and systems. IBM Rational’s market-leading best practices and open software development and delivery platform can be custom tailored to address the challenges and budgets of small and midsized business, thereby ensuring that just the right amount of process and technology is implemented so that companies can focus more on their business.