Systems and software design

In systems and software design and development, delivering on business goals is critical. IBM Rational® software provides you sound, foundational systems and software design and development tools to align business with product, systems, and IT; to deliver quickly on changing business needs; and to give you control over your evolving architecture.

The Rational model-driven, Eclipse-based, and integrated platform using the industry-standard Unified Modeling Language™ facilitates team collaboration, maintains requirements-to-code traceability, and simplifies architecture to code transition to jumpstart development.

Rational systems and software design and development tools:

• Ensure your architecture is reliably communicated in a global environment through support for distributed teams, helping to meet compliance mandates.
• Accelerate service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives by providing first-class modeling tools for architecting Web services and integrating with business processes.
• Improve productivity and quality, increase communication through graphic modeling, and provide validation through simulation and automated testing.
• Provide automated transformations from model-to-model and model-to-code with model-to-code reconciliation to help ensure requirements are met.
• Enable true traceability with integrated business processes to deployed infrastructure, allowing you to act quickly to business changes.