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Systems and software development tools for architecture management

Proven software development tools to design, develop, and deliver innovative applications

Systems and software development tools can accelerate and simplify development, allowing you to gain insight, predictability, and reusability in your development projects.

IBM Rational® offers industry-leading, proven systems and software development tools and processes to enhance your agile, iterative, and other development projects.

The Rational Architecture and Construction systems and software development tools leverage Eclipse to boost all aspects of software development, including model-driven or code-centric development. These powerful systems and software development tools help you manage change with requirements-to-code traceability within your application development projects.

Choose Rational Architecture and Construction systems and software development tools to deliver resilient systems, products, and applications that enable you to:

  • Manage your evolving architecture and maintain architectural integrity throughout the systems and software development process. IBM Rational Software Architect and IBM Rational Rhapsody® offer capabilities that facilitates easy roundtrip engineering and synchronization of models and code.
  • Reuse existing services and benefit from reuse of software assets maintaining quality and corporate compliance and eliminating redundant work with IBM Rational Asset Manager.
  • Eliminate manual, error-prone software development and achieve faster application delivery by focusing on business logic with IBM Rational Application Developer, visual and graphical construction software development tools.

Software development tools and architecture management offerings

Comprehensive, Eclipse-based rapid application development for Java developers

Software for creating, managing, and reusing any type of development assets, including SOA and systems development assets

A powerful workbench for Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) development

An advanced UML model-driven offering for implementing Microsoft .NET applications and heterogeneous applications

An award-winning, dynamic analysis solution designed to help developers write faster, more reliable code

A family of model driven development tools for systems and embedded software with C, C++, Java and Ada

A family of visual modeling design tools for designing with Unified Modeling Language (UML)

A model-driven development solution automating design-to-code translation for Java, C, and C++

A real-time, software development tool for communications systems

An UML-based, model-driven development tool for creating well architected applications and services

A software development tool with plug-ins that enable developers to create well architected applications that leverage UML

A UML 2.0-based visual modeling and design tool enabling architects to document and communicate processes, flows, and designs

A visual modeling, simulation, and prototyping solution that supports UML

A standards-based, model-driven development solution for complex systems