Increase business flexibility with lower upfront and maintenance costs

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Plan and execute business strategy with a flexible cost structure

The current business environment demands change to innovate and achieve growth. Flexible businesses adapt successfully by cutting costs to fuel new innovation, by rapidly assessing new opportunities, and by following through with measurable execution.

Business flexibility is dependent upon flexible software delivery processes supported by a well architected infrastructure, enabling organizations to rapidly scale and make needed changes quickly using: .

Insightful design of a dynamic infrastructure for software delivery processes
Flexible pricing and term licensing options aligned to changing needs

Customers are achieving real value from an enterprise architecture-driven approach:

A global manufacturer and integrator designed an enterprise across the complete lifecycle – assets, operations, acquisitions, and training – delivering improved quality, faster time to market, and reduced risk.
A golf concierge service used Presto appliances to help preserve capital and to get enterprise tools for up to 75% off purchasing licenses.

Key capabilities

Cut costs with smarter architecture. IBM Rational® System Architect® provides organizations with visibility into the business structure, IT building blocks, and their interconnections. This helps them identify new opportunities to improve operational efficiency, to reduce redundancy, to increase reuse, and to evaluate IT services and infrastructure that can be virtualized in a cloud environment.

Reduce costs further with flexible licensing options. Organizations can lower overhead using on demand, pay-as-you-go pricing, lease, and pay monthly options and by buying capabilities with token licensing.

Assess new opportunities using enhanced visualizations. Assess new opportunities using enhanced visualizations. Analyze disparate, yet linked, technical and business data, and align business and IT stakeholders to create more realistic cost-benefit analyses through the integration of Rational System Architect and IBM Rational Focal Point™.

Improve initiative planning and execution with visibility across the software and systems delivery lifecycle. IBM Rational Insight® provides real-time visibility into execution across the software and systems delivery cycle by aggregating and correlating cross-domain data. This enables better understanding of trends, root-cause analysis, improved planning, and execution monitoring through early warning indicators.

IBM Rational Publishing Engine™ allows for automated production of cross-domain reports, aggregating correlated information from multiple repositories. Management teams can achieve more accurate status reports, less onerous audits, and improved team productivity through better information sharing and more efficient creation of reports.