Rational communications solutions

To help communications service providers deliver new next generation products and services with speed and simplicity, IBM offers a breadth of software capabilities that span the product delivery lifecycle, including:

• Service concept and definition. Provide service ideation, conceptualization, and detailed requirements definition and management.

• Service design. Provide consistent architecture management for speed of integration and unambiguous communication of solution design and requirements.

• Service development. Implement new components and applications through exposure of legacy assets, procurement of new applications, and in-house development. Assemble services and composite applications. Integrate with BSS/OSS (Business Support Systems/Operational Support Systems).

• Service testing and service deployment. Test and deploy new services and applications.

• Product delivery management across the lifecycle. Align people, processes, and priorities to reduce project complexities while delivering more quickly than ever.