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IBM® Rational® Software Architect Design Manager enables teams to share, collaborate and manage design information across the application development lifecycle.
Focus the extended team to turn concepts and ideas into products and revenue. Leverage Jazz technology to more effectively manage complexity, mitigate risk, and improve the overall quality, time, and agility of software planning, design, and delivery.
- Built on the Jazz Platform, Rational Software Architect Design Manager enables teams to store, share and manage designs and models in a central location.
- Collaborate on designs with stakeholders from other teams for design correctness, alignment with requirements, feasibility, and compliance to organizational standards.
- Easily access information though a web client for extended stakeholders such as, customers, or contractors to facilitate team collaboration and an agile development process.
- Search across multiple designs to quickly locate key information for easier review, analysis and reuse of existing design.
- Develop in real time with text comments and graphically diagram mark ups view from desktop clients
- Automate design reviews with stakeholders to facilitate communication of requirements
- Create links to other designs and lifecycle data such as work items in Rational Team Concert via Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) to provide design traceability
- Analyze impact and dependencies with relationship diagram to visually explore relationships to other designs, design elements, and lifecycle data.
- Keep informed with customizable dashboards providing live status of latest design activities
- Generate comprehensive documentation and reports using Rational Publishing Engine to automate documentation generation.
- Author and publish designs with the Rational Software Architect family
- Supports Linux and Windows servers
- Design Manager and Design Reviewer roles available
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- Rational Software Architect Trial
- Webcast
Collaborative Design Management with Rational Software Architect and Rational Rhapsody – June 30th, 2011 – Speaker Jim Conallen, IBM