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The IBM Rational® software platform for systems provides industry-leading tools and methodologies specifically dedicated to the development of smarter products, including:

Best practices and processes specific to systems and software development solutions based on the IBM Rational Jazz® technology platform for collaborative systems and software delivery

There are nine new and seven enhanced integrations, including:

New and enhanced offerings in the Rational software platform for systems include:

Rational Team Webtop: Enables teams to work on data from disparate tools across the project lifecycle from a single Web-based interface.

Rational DOORS: Extends requirements visibility and collaboration through new capabilities for Web-based editing and exchanging requirements data between companies.

Rational Rhapsody®: Provides new code development workflow to harmonize code, design, and documentation for maximum reuse of resources.

Rational Team Concert: Based on Rational Jazz technology; Now offers new levels of scalability and security to enable collaborative, agile development among distributed product teams.

Rational System Architect: Includes new features to help design and implement systems of systems interconnected to the Internet.

Rational Focal Point: Includes new financial planning capabilities that provide time-aware cost/benefit analysis, enabling continuous recalculation of value and cost as products are postponed or accelerated.

Rational Synergy™: Provides a new centralized deployment model enhancing productivity and governance of distributed teams.

Rational Change: Includes enhanced support for component-based development and software reuse, providing faster cycle times and lower development costs.

Rational Publishing Engine™: Has extractors for a wide range of Rational solutions to automate document generation across the development lifecycle.

Rational Harmony™: Provides new mappings to CMMI and tightly integrated processes for systems engineering and embedded software engineering

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