Rational software for enterprise modernization

In today's challenging economic times, more than ever, businesses are taking steps to better understand their accumulated wealth of software assets. They need to reduce costs, while still delivering the innovation that their business strategies demand.

Delivering innovative services, while mitigating risk is becoming a function of continuously modernizing enterprise assets and skills and optimizing software delivery processes.

IBM® Rational® software can help you extend the value and performance of your existing software assets, skills, and processes often with quantified project pay back in less than a year.

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

• Reduce cost. Deploy cost-effective strategies to reuse proven applications in more flexible architectures with latest middleware and server innovation.

• Improve productivity. Drive greater business agility and IT productivity by better leveraging existing domain knowledge and by growing new skills.

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

These solutions help you evolve core IT systems towards modern architectures and technologies cost effectively and incrementally, which helps reduce maintenance burden and free up your resources for developing new business capabilities.