IBM Rational software helps automate, integrate, and govern the core business process of software development and systems delivery.
Overview
The IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform offers an array of products as an open, modular, and proven solution that spans the entire lifecycle of planning, developing, testing, and delivering software applications and systems. The platform also includes best practices and tools to help you formalize the methods and standardize the process for doing this work.
Learn the basics
Select the Rational product that fits your teaching needs and explore our resources to learn about this product. Be sure to return to the Academic Initiative site to download full-version Rational software and courseware at no cost.
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For collaborative design and development: Rational Rhapsody
Rational Rhapsody provides collaborative design and development for systems engineers and software developers creating real-time or embedded components of a larger complex system.
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For quality management: Rational Quality Manager
Rational Quality Manager is a centralized test management environment that helps increase the efficiency and quality of software delivery through test planning, workflow control, tracking and traceability, and metrics reporting.
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For requirements management: Rational Requirements Composer and Rational DOORS
Rational Requirements Composer provides a collaborative requirements platform that enables business analysts, client stakeholders, and software development teams to capture, elaborate, manage, analyze, discuss, review, and validate requirements using a variety of requirements development techniques and collaboration capabilities.
Rational DOORS is a leading requirements management application that can help reduce costs, increase efficiency and improve quality by optimizing requirements communication, collaboration and verification, throughout an organization and across its supply chain.
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For team software development: Rational Team Concert
Rational Team Concert is a team-aware software development platform that integrates work item tracking, builds, source control, and agile planning. Rational Team Concert interoperates with other IDEs to support Eclipse and Visual Studio.
Get trained
Training opportunities
Take advantage of our no-charge training opportunities to learn about Rational products and prepare yourself to use them in your classrooms and labs.
- Academic Initiative courseware: Academic Imitative members have access to an expansive library of professionally developed Rational courses.
- Knowledge paths: Knowledge paths are focused learning guides that bring together diverse training resources for IT professionals, such as how-to articles, discussion forums, educational videos and podcasts, and hands-on exercises. These resources are specifically chosen by subject matter experts to guide you from conceptual awareness to task mastery.
- IBM Education Assistant: The IBM Education Assistant is a collection of multimedia educational modules that can help you gain a better understanding of IBM products and use them more effectively.
- On demand demos: These quick product walk-throughs range from installation and setup demos for beginners, to advanced functionality for experienced developers.
- developerWorks Live! briefings: developerWorks Live! briefings are worldwide, always free, and cover the latest topics related to IBM software and technologies. Find briefings in your area.
Sandbox trial environments
Enterprise Modernization Sandboxes enable you to experience and evaluate the solutions for the System z and IBM i platforms through hands-on participation, guided walk-throughs and usage of live, running systems. Rational products are included as part of the Team exercises. You and your students can "learn through play" about Rational products in enterprise environments without having to download and install the software.
Knowledge paths
Knowledge paths are focused learning guides that help you quickly and easily gain skills on IBM and open technologies. They include a sequence of diverse resources, such as how-to articles, trial downloads, discussion forums, educational videos, and hands-on exercises.
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Case studies
Learn how our customers have solved complex problems with Rational solutions.
