Rational regulatory compliance solutions

If you need to:

• Apply the de facto industry standard software development process

• Make your process easy to access and use with a Web interface

• Customize a standards-based process to your organization by adding process variants or practices

• Ensure that all members of your systems development teams get the same information at the same time and know what to do next

Rational recommends the following:

IBM Rational Unified Process® (RUP®) methodology, process guidance content included in the IBM Rational Method Composer framework that delivers proven best practices in a configurable architecture.

IBM Rational Method Composer, which allows you to easily customize the RUP solution. You can select and deploy only the process components you need for each stage of your project, and then publish them through the Internet.

If you need to:

• Manage a program that is implementing one of the frameworks or standards

• Improve the use of resources with the ability to prioritize, track, and manage projects at the portfolio level

• Increase performance with the ability to analyze expected and actual return on investment

• Proactively monitor progress against milestones

Rational recommends IBM Rational Portfolio Manager, a real-time process and portfolio management solution that helps you maintain IT and systems alignment with the business, with process efficiency, and with resource effectiveness.

If you need to automate compliance management of frameworks and standards, Rational recommends the following:

IBM Rational Team Unifying Platform™, an integrated suite of infrastructure tools and processes that helps unify a team by providing common access to development assets, communication alerts, and workflow processes.

IBM Rational ClearCase®, configuration management software that manages and controls software development assets.

IBM Rational ClearQuest®, change management software that automates and enforces development processes for better insight, predictability, and control of the software lifecycle.

If you need to manage compliance with a variety of requirements, including CMMI requirements, by using a proven best practices approach to managing change in software development from requirements to release, Rational recommends both Rational ClearCase and Rational ClearQuest.