IBM Rational solutions for Business Agility

Make better decisions driven by analytics

Improving business analytics often begins with a better understanding of your existing application portfolio. Business analytics helps companies produce the right products and services, and enables them to integrate strategy into the software development and delivery process.

Application portfolio management—a complex application portfolio can consume a large percentage of IT funds, leaving corporate business and IT leaders challenged to find the funds needed for business innovation. IBM solutions for application portfolio management help teams balance cost and risk with the need for agility, and allow better alignment of application investments with business needs.

Key products include:

• IBM® Rational® Focal Point
• IBM Rational System Architect

Market-driven product development—to deliver the right goods and services, companies need better control and enhanced visualization and transparency, cost versus risk and NPV/ROI assessments. This understanding enables software development to be driven by real-time market data, which yields higher customer satisfaction, faster time to market and greater revenue.

IBM Rational Focal Point delivers solutions for market-driven product development.

Delivery and performance management—performance measurement and management through the software and systems delivery process allows businesses to improve process efficiency and effectiveness. Business analytics help teams quickly locate root causes, prescribe course corrections and predict future outcomes. Effective delivery management connects business strategy to the software delivery process. These features deliver projects that are properly scoped with capabilities like project dashboards, allowing control at an executive level.

Key products include:

• IBM Rational Focal Point
• IBM Rational Team Concert™
• IBM Rational Insight