Rational automotive industry solutions

Over the years, most automotive OEMs and suppliers have made significant investments in IT software and systems to help automate their businesses and operations. These investments often resulted in the accumulation of a wide array of technologies, methodologies, and platforms—disjointed, poorly managed assets lacking any real architectural governance.

With the recent economic downturn, the accelerating rate of change in the industry and the growing complexity of IT environments, automotive OEMs and suppliers face real challenges in optimizing their investments and avoiding potential inhibitors to their business growth.

The ability to deliver innovative services, while mitigating risks requires a process of continuous modernization of enterprise assets, skills, and processes. In today's challenging economic times, automotive leaders must do whatever they can to better harness the capabilities of their accumulated software assets to reduce costs, while still delivering the innovation the marketplace demands.

IBM® Rational® enterprise modernization solutions help automotive customers lower the total cost of ownership of application delivery across IBM System z®, IBM i, and distributed platforms.

IBM enterprise modernization solutions help automotive customers evolve core IT systems into modern architectures and technologies, cost effectively and incrementally. This evolutionary process helps reduce the maintenance burden and free up resources for developing new business capabilities.

Rational software enables you to:

• Leverage your application portfolio. Deploy cost-effective strategies to reuse proven applications in more flexible architectures with the latest middleware and server innovations.

• Empower people. Drive greater business agility and IT productivity by better leveraging existing domain knowledge and fostering new skills acquisition.

• Unify team infrastructure. Improve collaboration, efficiency, and governance across global software teams with a common team infrastructure, thereby reducing project costs and risks.