
As the traditional role of systems integrators evolves toward services integrator, optimizing the performance and collaboration of people and assets across the software supply chain is more important than ever.
A new level of multi-dimensional complexity – across applications, tools, teams, and processes – must be managed as a competitive necessity.
Unfortunately, common challenges such as inconsistency across projects, lack of objective, meaningful performance and program health measures, and siloed processes and teams can lead to missed targets, ultimately impacting your ability to gain and retain clients.
To create competitive advantage, IBM Rational® software can help computer services organizations leverage an industrialized approach to solutions delivery. Enabling services innovation with IBM Rational software can help you:
- Improve the efficiency and automation of software delivery with an open, market- leading, collaborative platform
- Increase program predictability by lowering cost and variance, improving skill portability and asset reuse across project lifecycles
- Deliver differentiated, cost- effective services with flexible acquisition models, scalable product and solution entry points, and unique capabilities to help you steer and implement measured software process improvement
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Quality management Ensure software functionality, reliability, and performance in development and production. |
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Software factories Integrate delivery across organizational boundaries and all stages of the lifecycle with shared tooling, repositories, and best practices that help improve time to market and reduce cost and risk. |
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Packaged applications Optimize lifecycle software delivery across heterogeneous application environments, including SAP and Oracle. |
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Performance measurement, management, and process Make informed decisions through automatic collection, measurement, and analysis of real-time data across the entire development and delivery lifecycle. |
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Cloud Lower your costs and improve flexibility with Rational cloud-based solutions |
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Highlights
- Market leadership in enterprise architecture tools
- What SIs are saying about Rational (link resides outside of ibm.com)
- Video: Jazz for collaborative ALM (link resides outside of ibm.com)
- How other systems integrators are enabling services innovation with Rational
- Team with IBM to develop your skills and to expand your solutions

