Rational Rhapsody features and benefits

The IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® solution offers you the flexibility to integrate design and development functions into one cohesive environment. By helping enable team collaboration, requirements traceability, design specifications reviews, automatic documentation generation and rapid prototyping of the system as it is being built, the Rhapsody solution helps improve quality, reduce time-to-market and increase productivity.

The IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® Tools And Utilities Add On provides additional capabilities to help software developers improve the software development lifecycle, from initial concept to the finished product.

• Customizable documentation generation with Rhapsody ReporterPlus

• Automate documentation generation meeting company or industry standards

• Advanced requirements analysis and traceability capabilities with Rhapsody Gateway feature ( see Requirement Engineering tab)

• Interchange model information using XMI for reuse between modeling tools

• XMI support validated at least through OMG Model Interchange Working Group (MIWG) test case 2

• Support for SOA design approach with generation and import of WSDL files

• Specify net-centric systems at a high level of abstraction and refrain from low level implementation details.

• Siemens Teamcenter Systems Engineering integration provides traceability from design environment to PLM

The Rational Rhapsody Tools and Utilities Add On provides advanced capabilities for design validation and debugging for the Rational Rhapsody Developer and Rational Rhapsody Designer for Systems Engineer editions:

• Graphical panels with knobs, buttons, dials, and meters for creating a mock up for simulation

• Automatically generate a web based interface for rapid prototyping when using Rational Rhapsody Developer or Rhapsody Designer for Systems Engineers

• Co-simulation of the plant models and architecture developed in Rational Rhapsody to validate design