IBM Rational System Architect

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• Integrate enterprise and software architectures

  Save time and find traceability gaps by linking enterprise architecture elements in IBM Rational System Architect with model elements in IBM Rational Software Architect extension for Design Management.

• Success criteria for public sector enterprise architecture

  Jan Gravesen, an IBM Executive Industry Architect, analyzes several successful public sector enterprise architecture programs around the world to determine what characteristics they have in common.

• Adapt enterprise architecture to cloud services: A hybrid SaaS

  Using a hybrid software as a service (SaaS) example, this article shows how to use enterprise architecture (EA) notations and Rational System Architect to specify requirements for a public cloud service.

• Integrate Rational System Architect 11.4 with CLM apps by using OSLC

  IBM Rational System Architect Version 11.4 is based on different technology and architecture than the 2012 versions of the Rational applications that work with Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM). This article explains how to use Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration, or OSLC, to integrate them so that all applications work together seamlessly.

• Reasons for resistance to enterprise architecture and ways to overcome it

  Although it keeps evolving and interest keeps growing, many enterprise leaders are still ambivalent or skeptical about enterprise architecture. Jan Gravesen discusses the considerable value that EA offers and how it can be implemented to overcome much of that resistance.