IBM Rational solution for systems and software engineering

Creating high-quality systems and software is a demanding process—failure is not an option for products such as medical devices, automotive braking systems, or military avionics.

As value is increasingly delivered through software-intensive systems, effective development plays a key role in driving project success.

The IBM Rational® solution for systems and software engineering combines IBM development software, proven best practices, and flexible deployment services into a workbench to help you optimize project delivery.

Whether your focus is systems engineering, real time and embedded software development system-of-systems engineering or product line engineering, Rational can help you:

• Integrate data, process, and tools: (link resides outside of ibm.com) Leverage the IBM Jazz™ platform for extensible, open, and scalable team collaboration.
• Deploy robust and effective development practices (PDF, 2.09MB): Take advantage of IBM industry experience through the incremental adoption of customizable practices and methods.
• Get requirements right: Solicit, engineer, document, and trace requirements. Help your stakeholders define what they want, help them get it, and help your teams deliver when change inevitably occurs.
• Create resilient architectures and innovative designs: Use visual modeling to validate requirements, to derive architectures, and to build embedded and real-time software.
• Automate collaboration: Integrate planning and execution, automate workflows, and manage change across diverse engineering disciplines and development teams.
• Manage quality: Use collaborative quality planning, automated testing, and defect management to achieve quality by design.

The IBM Rational® solution for systems and software engineering is extensible to support key systems industries, including aerospace and defense and automotive. Extended capabilities are available through additional Rational or third party offerings.