Rational Software Architect
Features:
General modeling with the industry's most robust support for UML 2.2 and a configurable modeling environment that can be tailored to expose "just enough" UML based on role, model, life-cycle phase, and current task
BPMN2 support including interchange with products supporting BPMN2 standards compliance like WebSphere Business Modeler
Requirements integration, with end-to-end traceability and impact analysis
Model analyses and metrics; extensible query and analysis frameworks
Model reporting with BIRT
Rich SCM integrations, model compare-merge, and extensible team modeling framework
Rapidly develop custom software factories
- Quickly create UML-based domain-specific modeling languages tailored to your problem and solution domains
- Use graphical mapping tools to quickly development model-to-model transformations
- Use exemplar-driven pattern capture tools combined with a rich JET authoring environment to quickly develop model-to-text/code transformations
Lifcycle integrations
- IBM® InfoSphere® Data Architect
- IBM® Rational® Requisite Pro
- IBM® Rational® Asset Manager
- IBM® Rational® Team Concert
- IBM® Rational® ClearCase
- IBM® Rational® ClearQuest (shell-share)
- IBM® Rational® DOORS (third-party integration)
- IBM Rational System Architect
- IBM Rational Requirements Composer
Built-in transformations
- UML object model to SQL logical data model (IBM InfoSphere Data Architect)
- UML to XSD; XSD to UML
- UML to Java, Java to UML
- UML to JPA, JPA to UML
- UML to C#, C# to UML
- UML to VB.NET, VB.NET to UML
- UML to CORBA
Graphical editors
- Java
- C#
- VB.NET
Java architectural analysis, review, and metrics tools
C# review and metrics tools
Cloud Client console for interacting with IBM Compute Cloud environments: connect to the Cloud environment and discover, provision, activate, and relinquish Cloud resources
Rational Software Architect’s features can be extended using the following extensions:
| Rational Software Architect Extension for Integrated Architecture Frameworks | Leverage Integrated Architecture Frameworks and integration with requirements management to represent business concerns and richly interconnect them to the requirements and representations of your solution architectures |
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| Rational Software Architect Extension for Deployment Planning | Bridge the Development-Operations communication gap with semantically rich topology templates and deployment models to ensure that your software solutions deploy correctly on the first attempt |
| Rational Software Architect Extension for SOA and WebSphere | Extends the value of IBM® Rational® Software Architect to the delivery of Java Enterprise Edition solutions, SOA solutions, and solutions targeted to IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Portal Server |
| Rational Software Architect Extension for C++ | Extend the value of IBM® Rational® Software Architect to solutions that include C++ implementations |
| Rational Software Architect Extension for Communications Applications | Extends the value of IBM® Rational® Software Architect or IBM® Rational® Software Architect for WebSphere to provide advanced design and delivery tools for solutions that include Communications Enabled Applications (CEAs) and integration of CEAs with back-end operational and billing systems (OSS/BSS) |
| Rational Software Architect Simulation Toolkit | Extends the value of IBM® Rational® Software Architect or IBM® Rational® Software Architect for WebSphere to be able to test and validate your architecture to ensure high quality applications, by providing advanced capabilities for requirements identification and validation, design review and validation, and front-end quality assurance |
