IBM Rational Awards

Congratulations to the 2008 Rational Award Winners and Finalists! The award winners have proven they combine their deep technology and industry expertise with IBM technology to deliver exceptional solutions that solve real business problems. Chosen from more than 400 eligible business partners, winners were honored during the IBM Rational Software Development Conference keynote session on Wednesday, June 4. On behalf of the IBM Rational team, thank you for your continued commitment.

Architecture Management tools enable clients to model, design and rapidly build resilient architectures for SOA, systems and applications. Winning IBM Business Partners in this category are those who strive to improve their customers agile, iterative and other application development projects.

Winner – Rocket Gang
www.rocketgang.com (link resides outside of ibm.com)
Rocket Gang, Scottsdale, AZ Rocket Gang helps customers be successful in software development with architecture management solutions based on IBM software. Training, consulting and software assessments are delivered by specialists with decades of software engineering experience.

Change & Release Management tools enable clients to improve software delivery and lifecycle traceability from requirements through deployment. Winning IBM Business Partners in this category are those who strive to improve their customers’ productivity by gaining better visibility into their projects and processes by managing distributed teams & providing audit trails & traceability across the software development lifecycle.

Winner – Ascendant Technoloy
www.a-tech.com (link resides outside of ibm.com)
Ascendant Technology, LLC, Austin, TX Ascendant Technology works with large and small organizations to build modern solutions using existing IT investments combined with IBM software and the most innovative Web 2.0 applications and tools.

Quality Management tools enable clients to ensure software functionality, reliability, and performance in development and production. Winning IBM Business Partners in this category are those who strive to improve their customers automated & manual testing, along with ensuring good test management and identifying best practices for their projects.

Winner – BSD Group
www.bsdgroupinc.com (link resides outside of ibm.com)
BSD Group, Denver, CO BSD Group helps customers manage their business processes. Combined with IBM core software, BSD works with customers to automate and simplify their software release development and testing - particularly with a solution that helps companies migrate from costly and proprietary Hewlett Packard test assets to IBM Rational software.

Requirements & Portfolio Management tools enable clients to track and manage requirements throughout the development process, while aligning their business goals, best practices and projects for improved productivity and predictability. Winning IBM Business Partners in this category are those who strive to improve their customers management of requirements and their project productivity across the software development lifecycle for fast delivery of high-quality software.

Winner – CROZ
www.croz.net (link resides outside of ibm.com)
CROZ, Zagreb, Croatia CROZ helps customers improve documentation of the software development process. CROZ solutions combined with IBM software improve productivity across all team-based roles in the software development lifecycle.