IBM Rational Doors

IBM® Rational® DOORS® software is a leading requirements management application that can help you reduce costs, increase efficiency and improve quality by enabling you to optimize requirements communication, collaboration and verification — throughout your organization and across your supply chain.

• Provides a comprehensive requirements management environment
• Actively engaging all stakeholders in a collaborative requirements process by providing web browser access to the requirements database and integration to requirements definition capabilities
• Manages changes to requirements with either a simple pre-defined change proposal system or a more thorough, customizable change control workflow through integration to Rational's change management solutions.
• Supports the Requirements Interchange Format, which enables suppliers and development partners to be directly involved in the development process
• Links requirements to design items, test plans, test cases and other requirements for easy and powerful traceability
• Scales to address your changing requirements management needs
• Enables informal requirements discussions with DOORS Discussions
• Includes the Test Tracking Toolkit for manual test environments, so testers can link requirements to test cases
• Supports the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) specifications for requirements management, change management and quality management which provides a generic and open way to integrate systems and software lifecycle tools.
• Integrations include Rational change management solutions, Rational Rhapsody, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Focal Point, Rational System Architect, Rational Software Architect (through partner), Rational Requirements Composer and many third-party tools, to provide a comprehensive traceability solution.

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IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® is a visual development environment for systems engineers and software developers creating real-time or embedded systems and software. Rational Rhapsody helps diverse teams collaborate to understand and elaborate requirements, abstract complexity visually using industry standard languages (UML, SysML, AUTOSAR, DoDAF, MODAF, UPDM), validate functionality early in development, and automate delivery of innovative, high quality products.

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IBM Rational PurifyPlus is an award-winning dynamic software analysis solution designed to help developers write faster, more reliable code. It includes four capabilities packaged into a single product: 1) Memory debugging (pinpoints hard to find memory errors such as uninitialized memory access, buffer overflow and improper freeing of memory), 2) Memory leak detection (identifies memory blocks that no longer have a valid pointer), 3) Performance profiling: (highlights application performance bottlenecks and improves application understanding with a graphical representation of function calls) and 4) Code coverage (identifies untested code with line-level precision). PurifyPlus is supported on Windows, Linux, Solaris, and AIX .

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IBM® Rational® Focal Point™ provides market - and business-driven product and portfolio management - helping executives and teams to make the right decisions to deliver business, customer and market value.

• Capture inputs from customers, analysts, market research, and internal stakeholders and prioritize on which ones will provide the most value to the business
• Utilize visualization, prioritization, and unique road mapping and planning capabilities to ensure that plans are innovative, valuable and achievable
• Centralize information key to decision-making, status reporting and portfolio reviews to escape the chaos of managing data in emails, documents, and spreadsheets; speeding the ability to respond to changing market and business conditions
• Overcome the influence of the loudest voice in the room and use objective information to support decision making
• Reduce risk and improve cost estimations of investments by modeling financial and market impacts and by performing scenario, statistical and financial analysis
• Integrate enterprise architecture plans and project execution into portfolio management to ensure enterprise and project-level decisions are aligned with financial and market needs
• Quickly realize the benefits of Product and Portfolio Management and reduce costs of implementations by utilizing pre-defined configurations based on best practices
• Operating systems supported: Linux, Solaris (Sun microsystems), Windows

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IBM® Rational® System Architect® enables organizations to plan, control, streamline -- and innovate. Drive better-informed decisions and deliver innovation your customers demand with enterprise architecture solutions from IBM

• IT planning and optimization - Build an effective IT portfolio by identifying areas for consolidation and reuse and unlocking operational budgets required to fund innovation.
• Maintaining business efficiency - Execute business transformation that helps eliminate organizational waste, resulting in increased productivity.
• Service architecture management - Construct effective solutions out of enterprise and business elements that may create new or updated elements that can be used in future projects.
• More-effective management of systems of systems - Evaluate architectures across multiple systems, perform capability analysis planning and help maximize funding.
• Enterprise resource planning (ERP) and core systems governance - Attain control of your ERP deployments by standardizing components, data and functions as well as understanding dependencies across the organization.
• Harvest and consolidate information, build reports based on Cognos, and perform analysis to guide successful decisions
• Leverage one multi-user environment with support for all areas of modeling, including business and strategy modeling, component and object modeling, data modeling, and more
• System Architect 11.4 now supports enhanced usability, an improved web platform, PowerPoint interoperability, integrations to Asset Management, and support for DoDAF 2.0

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Thorough testing is required for any software offering, and Rational testing tools help you create tests, automate the testing process, and report on the outcome of the tests. This article explains how you can supplement the Rational Performance Tester and Rational Functional Tester capabilities with the database and data-generating capabilities of Optim to help you simplify the testing process and expand the depth of the performed tests.

IBM Rational functional testing solutions help you validate the quality of your application by automating regression tests to ensure that new changes to your application have not impaired existing functionality. The IBM Rational functional testing portfolio helps your quality professional teams to:

• Reduce application delivery time
• Increase test coverage and accuracy of your application
• Deliver reliable, consistent test execution and reporting

IBM Rational® performance testing solutions enable you to execute large scale performance tests to validate application scalability. The Rational performance testing portfolio of tools helps your quality assurance teams to:

• Quickly create scriptless tests with no programming knowledge
• Accurately emulate large population user transactions with minimal hardware
• Identify the presence and cause of application performance bottlenecks
• Easily visualize and assess performance results against business objectives