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Evaluate: IBM Rational Requirements Composer

Rational Requirements Composer helps teams of all sizes and complexity to better capture, define, analyze, report, and manage requirements, and communicate effectively across the project lifecycle. Stakeholders in the requirements process bring their expertise together using intuitive rich requirements text and visual notations in a collaborative, web-based environment. Rational Requirements Composer makes it much easier to automate deployment, trace, and report across multiple Jazz products that span requirements, development, and test management. Rational Requirements Composer seamlessly integrates with Rational Team Concert and Rational Quality Manager. Through role-based information access, project teams can shorten planning cycles and reduce rework by aligning development and test effort with requirements and business objectives.

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Use Rational Requirements Composer V3.0.1 on the cloud. Develop your applications on the IBM Smart Business Cloud - Enterprise using Rational Requirements Composer. Rational Requirements Composer helps teams to define requirements more effectively and manage them efficiently across the project lifecycle.

Rational Requirements Composer V3.0.1 is included in the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management image. V2.0.0.2 is available on the IBM Cloud as a separate image.

IBM Smart Business Cloud - Enterprise

IBM Smart Business Cloud provides you with quick access a security-rich, enterprise-ready testing and development environment to help reduce costs, shorten cycle times and improve quality. With the IBM Cloud, you can access and pay for development and testing resources as you need them.

The IBM Cloud gives you rapid self-service provisioning, high payback through reduced costs, error reduction, and accelerated application development through on-demand provisioning.

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To start developing with Rational Requirements Composer on the IBM Cloud, you need and to set up an account. Contact your IBM representative for access to get you started. Learn more about IBM Rational Software delivery services for cloud computing. If you already have an account, log in and get started now.

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