Aerospace and defense companies are faced with stiff challenges. Competition is increasingly fierce n commercial aviation. In defense, budgets are tightening, but the need for new capability keeps increasing. IBM Rational can help meet these challenges.
Reduce Risk and Improve Governance
IBM helps Aerospace & Defense programs deliver on time, within budget, reducing risk of program overruns and cancellation
Learn more:
Webcast: Increase your odds of success in complex product delivery (link resides outside of ibm.com)
Webcast: Measuring Agility in Aerospace & Defense (Walker Royce) (link resides outside of ibm.com)
Webcast: Frictionless Enterprise Engineering (link resides outside of ibm.com)
Podcast: What are the odds?
Improve systems engineering, improve program results
The IBM Rational solution for Systems and Software Engineering helps reduce program risk, improve schedule and decrease costs through requirements driven design, model driven systems development, with its requirements management and modeling tools
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Webcast: Advanced Systems Engineering with Rational Solutions for Aerospace & Defense (Barclay Brown)
Aviation Week Survey: The impact of systems engineering on A&D industry program results (PDF, 1.68MB)
Enterprise Architectures and Systems of Systems
IBM Rational helps companies assign "value" to product and systems investments to maximize profitability-- to understand the cost to the business vs. the value of the system; introduce new capabilities or components into a living ecosystem with a clear understanding of the risks and impacts; helps manage the complexity of specifying requirements, designing, developing, testing and operating an ecosystem as a core business process within an enterprise. IBM also helps companies comply with DoDAF and MoDAF requirements.
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Improving Software Delivery
IBM helps A&D companies reduce the cost of developing safety critical systems and demonstrating compliance with standards such as DO178B; helps improve embedded software delivery, helps improve software delivery capabilities.
Learn more:
Solution Brief: IBM Rational solutions for managing DO-178B compliance (PDF, 647KB)
White paper: DO-178B compliance: turn an overhead expense into a competitive advantage
Webcast: Reduce the Costs of Developing DO178B Certifiable Software with Automation (HighRely) (link resides outside of ibm.com)
Webcast: Improving the Economics of Developing Safety-Critical Systems (link resides outside of ibm.com)
Where Rational products help you
IBM Rational DOORS: IBM Rational DOORS, a family of requirements definition and requirements management solutions, improves quality by optimizing communication and collaboration and by promoting compliance and verification.
IBM Rational Focal Point: Evaluate investment scenarios to align product, project, and application portfolio decisions with the overall business value.
IBM Rational Insight: Measure, monitor, analyze, and trend project and process performance to make the best decisions for your business and for continual process improvements.
IBM Rational Method Composer: Implement effective processes with a flexible process management platform with tooling and the richest process library.
IBM Rational Publishing Engine: Automate document generation from disparate applications with a document generation solution with built-in extractors.
IBM Rational Quality Manager: IBM Rational Quality Manager is a web-based centralized test management environment for business, system and IT decision makers and quality professionals who seek a collaborative and customizable solution for test planning, workflow control, tracking and metrics reporting capable of quantifying how project decisions and deliverables impact and align with business objectives.
IBM Rational Rhapsody: IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® family provides collaborative design and development for systems engineers and software developers creating real-time or embedded systems and software. Rational Rhapsody helps diverse teams collaborate to understand and elaborate requirements, abstract complexity visually using industry standard languages (UML, SysML, AUTOSAR, DoDAF, MODAF, UPDM), validate functionality early in development, and automate delivery of innovative, high quality products
IBM Rational System Architect: IBM® Rational® System Architect® enables organizations to plan, control, streamline -- and innovate. System Architect 11.4 now supports enhanced usability, an improved web platform, PowerPoint interoperability, integrations to Asset Management, and support for DoDAF 2.0
IBM Rational Team Concert: Helps companies build better software and products with a complete lean development environment for teams, which includes agile, formal and hybrid planning and reporting, all on a common platform
