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Latest versions and releases of top-selling Rational products
Rational Focal Point (US)
IBM Rational Focal Point V6.5.1 delivers powerful portfolio management capabilities that are tightly coupled with the process of systems and software delivery.
- A new template is included with this release, allowing users to quickly establish a process for Application Portfolio Management.
- New and improved integrations between Rational Focal Point and both Rational Team Concert and Rational Requirements Composer allow users to translate strategy into actionable and traceable delivery plans.
Rational System Architect (US)
IBM Rational System Architect V11.4.1 enhances team integration across the enterprise by:
- Enhancing the value of an Enterprise Architecture by providing ability to view and update key information in the delivery lifecycle (such as requirements and work items) based on agreed-to strategic plans.
- Increasing the value of business processes documented and analyed by enterprise architects, solution architects and business analysts by providing key integrations with Business Process Management Tools.
- Enabling the migration of defense architectures by including a new DODAF 1.5 to DoDAF 2 Migration Toolkit, DoDAF 2 Hierarchy Diagram, and new reports.
- Providing improvements to workspaces capability, enabling the ability to restrict access to particular workspaces and an improved workspace merge workflow that greatly simplifies workspace merges.
Rational Developer for System z: Updates to v8.0.1 (US)
In addition to delivering over 45 customer requested enhancements, over 100 new and enhanced features and functions in V8.0.3 build on an already comprehensive set of features. They support the following themes:
- Improved compatibility with ISPF
- More productive application development and maintenance
- New tools to ensure application quality
What's new in IBM Rational Rhapsody, Version 7.5.2
Learn about the new features and improvements to IBM Rational Rhapsody 7.5.2 to assist systems engineers and real-time, embedded software developers improve the delivery of innovative and robust designs and products. This release provides capabilities to help mitigate the challenges of performing trade studies for architectural analysis, optimize design for multicore targets, visualize Android applications, develop applications for C#, and much more.
What's new in IBM Rational Business Developer Version 8
New features found in the IBM Rational Business Developer Version 8.0.1 are designed to benefit business developers, project managers and enterprise architects. You can build better Web 2.0 user interfaces for your business applications using improved layouts and new widgets based on the open source Dojo toolkit. In addition, you can build UI forms and tables automatically from EGL records — now derived from XML, JSON, and JSON schemas. Finally, you can help improve application quality using improved Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) generation and debugging, with support for conditional breakpoints.
What's new in IBM Rational Requirements Composer 3.0.1
IBM Rational Requirements Composer 3.0.1 makes it easier to define requirements, organise, manage, trace, and report across the IBM Rational Jazz technology-based products spanning requirements, development, and test management. It seamlessly integrates with IBM Rational Team Concert and IBM Rational Quality Manager, which gives project teams role-based information access. This helps shorten planning cycles and reduce rework by aligning development and testing with requirements and business objectives.
