IBM's latest products and major enhancements to the core solutions from in the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform unify development team members on the open Eclipse framework and more tightly link business, development and operations organizations. In addition, IBM's Ready for Rational software partner program enabling business partners to extend the capabilities of the IBM Software Delivery Platform and customers the solutions they need.

• IBM Rational Software Modeler is a UML-based visual modeling and design tool for documenting and communicating the different views of a system.

• IBM Rational RequisitePro is an easy-to-use requirements management solution that combines the familiarity and ease of Microsoft Word documents with powerful database capabilities for more effective requirements management.

• IBM Rational Software Architect is a design and construction tool that leverages model-driven development with the UML for creating well-architected applications and services.

Also, new additions to the Rational portfolio include two enhanced and rebranded WebSphere products:

• IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software (formerly WebSphere Studio Application Developer) is a comprehensive, integrated development environment for rapidly designing, developing, analyzing, testing, profiling and deploying Web, Web services (including Web services that participate in SOA) Java, J2EE or Portal applications.

• IBM Rational Web Developer for WebSphere Software (formerly WebSphere Studio Site Developer) is an integrated development environment that simplifies and accelerates the development, testing and deployment of Web, Web services (including Web services that participate in SOA) or Java applications.

• IBM Rational Manual Tester is a manual test authoring and execution tool that promotes test step reuse to reduce the impact of software change on testers and business analysts.

• IBM Rational Functional Tester is an advanced, automated functional and regression testing tool for testers and GUI developers who need superior control for testing Java, VS.NET and Web-based applications.

• IBM Rational Professional Bundle includes all of the desktop tools needed to design, construct, and test J2EE/Portal/Service-oriented applications, in a single purchase vehicle with one maintenance contract to manage.

• IBM Rational ClearCase and IBM Rational ClearQuest provide a complete software configuration management for any size team, anywhere.

• IBM Rational Unified Process is a flexible software development process platform that will help you deliver customized yet consistent process guidance to your project team.

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