Congratulations on your selection of IBM® Rational® Software Modeler as
your application design tool. Rational Software Modeler supports
a range of analysis and design approaches and you can use it to rapidly
create, evaluate, and communicate software architectures and designs.
You can use standard Unified Modeling Language (UML) models and
can easily configure your environment to present "just enough" UML
tools to suit your needs. You can also use custom UML-based, domain-specific
modeling languages that are tailored to your problem and solution
domains and choose to completely hide standard UML.
You can use
Rational Software Modeler to
perform the following tasks:
- Specify and maintain key aspects of your requirements, your problem
domains, and your service, framework, and application architectures.
- Collaborate more effectively with your team members, communicate
more effectively with your project stakeholders, and help to ensure
that outcomes fulfill requirements.
- Manage complexity and assess risk in your projects.
Also, when other members of the team are using one of the
Rational Software Architect editions,
the models that you create can be the basis for automating development,
thereby reducing testing and lifetime maintenance costs.
If you have not already done so, take a few minutes to explore
the product overview and getting started information that is located
in the product welcome. Click Help > Welcome.
IBM Rational offers a structured
approach to helping software and systems delivery teams drive business
innovation through measured and continuous process improvement. The
Measured Capability Improvement Framework (MCIF) helps you gain competency
in the core development practices that most impact business outcomes.
Optimized for agile teams and methods, MCIF can automate the implementation
of any method. Although product-independent, MCIF is supported by
IBM Rational Jazz offerings that transform software delivery by helping
teams collaborate, automate, and report more effectively. Read more
about the Measured Capability Improvement Framework (MCIF) at http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/mcif/.