Enabling software-driven innovation with IBM Rational solutions

Enhance cross-team collaboration on software and system design

Applications, systems and products are becoming increasingly complex and often interconnected — requiring greater capabilities and improved performance while maintaining high quality. To meet the demands of a competitive marketplace, stakeholders from across your organization need to collaborate more effectively.

IBM Rational® solutions for collaborative design management enable an organization to bring together a broad set of stakeholders—customers, line-of-business managers, operations, development teams, and others—to contribute to and influence the design of products, software and systems. This new level of collaboration can help to drive improved quality and achieve successful business outcomes.

IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® Design Manager (US) and IBM Rational Software Architect Design Manager (US) provide an intuitive, web-based and IBM Rational Jazz-enabled user experience to:

Engage all stakeholders in the design process with self-serve web-based access to designs from anywhere—speeding decision-making with automated design reviews.
Unify designs across the lifecycle and teams enabling multi-design search for review, analysis and reuse.
Accelerate project delivery with automated reporting for audits and compliance, and rapid adoption to improve overall team effectiveness.

Feature	Benefit
Intuitive, web-based client	Provide the entire team with self-serve access to designs and the review process—from anywhere at anytime. Facilitate communication with the supply chain, internal and external to organization. Shorten the learning curve to search, navigate, and review designs.
Cross-team, discipline, and organizational design collaboration	Speed up decision-making with comprehensive design reviews at all stages of development. Enable an open, collaborative environment for automated design reviews and management.
Automated dashboards, document generation and reporting	Manage risk and improve project predictability. Easily generate comprehensive documentation for specifications, communication, compliance and auditing. Meet compliance requirements by including OSLC link and design review information.
Jazz-based central design hub	Use traceability features to inspect or determine the impact of design changes. Search multiple designs for review, analysis and reuse using a web client.