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• Collaborate to work smarter, not harder

  Being late to market by six months or more can cost organizations 33 percent of their five-year return on investment¹. Rational quality management solutions are designed to accelerate delivery by involving stakeholders earlier in the lifecycle and by keeping the entire team in sync with changing requirements, schedules, and designs.

  ¹Donald Waters, in association with Price Waterhouse Coopers LLP, Operations Management (FastTrack MBA), Kogan Page Ltd., February 1999.

• Achieve faster time to value with automated process guidance

  Doing agile? Process guidance, automation, and role-based context are built into all quality management solutions that take advantage of IBM Jazz® technology. That means seamless coordination and prioritization of tasks and activities through real-time collaboration.

• Turn your test lab into a more efficient operational test factory

  Using pattern analytics, Rational quality management solutions can help optimize test-lab workloads and save on test infrastructure expenses per IBM estimates, potentially improving efficiency by 30 percent and reducing your carbon footprint.

• Stay on top of everything – really!

  What you can’t see can hurt, so don’t settle for an incomplete set of lifecycle assets. IBM Rational Quality Manager is a comprehensive solution that captures not only a list of test cases, but also requirements, defects, exit criteria, patterns, test assets, and roles, giving you greater control in planning your projects.

• Mitigate risks with an industry-leading application lifecycle management (ALM) solution

  Bolted-on integrations with other aspects of the application lifecycle can leave your applications seriously exposed. Jazz technology-based solutions provide inherent traceability and impact analysis. Stop chasing! Let Rational solutions take care of automatic updates of defects, work items, requirements, and tasks.

• Make confident decisions in real time

  Dashboard content tailored to individual needs provides both in-process as well as critical go/no go status information in context. More importantly, Rational Quality Manager can capture project-by-project patterns that can help teams improve the predictability and consistency of their results.

• Enjoy easy ramp-up time

  A Web 2.0 style interface with simple search, tagging, and project zones helps even novice users get up to speed quickly.

• Make your own choices

  From applications and skills technology resources, IBM delivers flexibility through a choice of platforms, a broad application portfolio and integrated virtualization capabilities – all built on open, industry standards to help meet your enterprise’s needs.

• Gain support from a trusted leader

  IBM is an industry ALM leader. Our IBM Rational AppScan® Standard Edition, IBM Rational Functional Tester, IBM Rational Performance Tester, and IBM Rational Software Analyzer Developer Edition solutions have earned 2008 Software Test and Performance awards. By using Rational solutions, you can take advantage of IBM process leadership and software innovation expertise enabled by our US$6 billion investment in R&D, our thriving partner and global system integrator ecosystem, and more than 2,000 software patents.

• Smile when you walk out of the CFO’s office

  Looking at year two maintenance renewal? Paying user licenses by location? Consider Rational quality management solutions for a smart, cost-effective alternative. Our flexible licensing model is transparent and scales with the needs of your business. Let us help you get the business case out of the way, so you can get back to delivering great software.

Maybe it’s time to stop paying so much for an incomplete lifecycle solution. Contact your IBM customer representative or IBM Business Partner to move to an IBM Rational solution today.