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Table of contents
Accelerate design and development 3
● Overview 3
● IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software 4
● IBM Rational Team Concert 6
● IBM Rational Software Architect 8
● IBM Rational Asset Manager 10
Reduce cost of quality 12
● Overview 12
● IBM Rational Requirements Composer 13
● IBM Rational Quality Manager 15
● IBM Rational Functional Tester 17
● IBM Rational Performance Tester 19
● IBM Rational PurifyPlus 21
Optimize web security 23
● Overview 23
● IBM Rational AppScan 24
● IBM Rational AppScan OnDemand 25
Reduce web compliance costs 26
● Overview 26
● IBM Rational Policy Tester 27
● IBM Rational Policy Tester OnDemand Privacy, Quality and Accessibility Edition 28
● IBM Rational AppScan 29
● IBM Rational AppScan OnDemand 30
Reduce software deployment and operational costs 31
● Overview 31
● IBM Rational Software Architect 33
● IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere 34
● IBM Rational Asset Manager 10

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Accelerate design and development > Overview

Accelerate design and development
Accelerate design and development Overview ● Is it possible to adhere to agile, formal or hybrid
● Overview To succeed in today’s marketplace, the ability to development practices and maintain full project
● IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software rapidly build, customize and deliver high-quality busi- visibility for effective management, even while
● IBM Rational Team Concert ness solutions is essential. However, software proj- developing complex software in distributed
● IBM Rational Software Architect ects often hit roadblocks or end up costing more teams? Can you have lean work management,
● IBM Rational Asset Manager than budgeted. Geographically displaced “virtual” source code management and defect manage-
teams are frequently unable to effectively collaborate ment integrated into a development environment
Reduce cost of quality
with agility, resulting in key design considerations customized for IBM software? Check out
Optimize web security
often being overlooked when building their IBM Rational Team Concert™ solutions.
Reduce web compliance costs Can you manage the complexity of WebSphere
solution. The result is that organizations often find ●

Reduce software deployment and operational costs themselves unable to leverage the full power of software solutions and their deployment? Can
IBM WebSphere® solutions because their software teams design, deliver and deploy robust, scalable,
delivery teams lack necessary skills, time, effective innovative solutions that leverage the latest tech-
collaboration or resources. nology and performance benefits of using
WebSphere software? To capitalize on your
● Could your development teams benefit from an WebSphere investment in your software delivery
environment that accelerates the development, shop, check out IBM Rational Software Architect
test and deployment of high-quality enterprise solutions.
applications customized for WebSphere software? ● Teams are often solving the same or similar prob-
Check out IBM Rational® Application Developer lems, duplicating effort. The invisible threads con-
for WebSphere Software solutions. necting software outputs are too often stored in
someone’s head or personal desktop. Formal
handoffs between teams are often manual and
poorly managed. Can you benefit from an effective
asset strategy that helps maximize reuse and
existing asset visibility and management? Check
out IBM Rational Asset Manager solutions.

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Accelerate design and development > IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software

Accelerate design and development IBM Rational Application Developer packs—including performance analysis and proﬁling
● Overview for WebSphere Software on the server, integrated WebSphere test servers,
● IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere and seamless Rational Team Concert collaboration.
● IBM Rational Team Concert Software (Rational Application Developer) solutions
● IBM Rational Software Architect help Java™ developers quickly design, develop, Deliver IBM WebSphere Application Server and
● IBM Rational Asset Manager assemble, test and deploy Java; Java Platform, IBM WebSphere Portal software solutions an
Enterprise Edition (Java EE); portal; web; web average of 40 percent faster.2
services; and service-oriented architecture (SOA) ● Gain faster development and simpler implementa-
applications. Using visual development tools, the tion with Java EE technology.
Reduce web compliance costs ● Reduce time writing and developing code with the
solution helps team members learn Java applica-
Reduce software deployment and operational costs help of automated code generation.
tions faster. In an Evans Data Corporation user
satisfaction survey of developers, the Rational ● Leverage quick ﬁxes, wizards, validation, migration
Application Developer for WebSphere Software, and refactoring support.
Version 7.5 solution was chosen as the leading web
design and development tool.1 Rational Application Build responsive SOA, Web 2.0 and communica-
Developer solutions are particularly well-suited tions applications faster.
to the WebSphere development environment in ● Visually construct rich Internet applications and
part because of their capabilities supporting SOA services with simplicity.
IBM WebSphere Application Server feature ● Enable developers to learn as they go and reduce
the barrier to entry for new technology.

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Accelerate design and development > IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software

Accelerate design and development Collaborate and deliver within agile projects.
●Realize up to 60 percent faster test cycles with CETaqua
● Overview
● IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software
integrated profiling and testing.3 Challenge
● IBM Rational Team Concert
●Use Rational Team Concert integrations for collab- CETaqua, a not-for-profit water management technol-
● IBM Rational Software Architect orative team debug and code coverage as well as ogy research center in Barcelona, Spain, was using an
● IBM Rational Asset Manager work item and source-code management within integrated solution based on IBM WebSphere Portal
geographically distributed agile teams. and IBM Lotus® Domino® software. Because the
versions of its Lotus Domino and WebSphere Portal
Optimize web security software were no longer supported, the research
Rely on an integrated platform for life-cycle
Reduce web compliance costs application management. center decided to migrate to the newest versions of
Reduce software deployment and operational costs the software.
●Incrementally deploy to integrated WebSphere
Application Server software and IBM WebSphere
Solution
Portal Server software to reduce deployment and
IBM helped CETaqua upgrade to WebSphere
testing effort by up to 80 percent.4 Portal Version 6.1 and Lotus Domino Enterprise
Server 8.5 software and installed the latest version
Learn more: of the IBM Rational Application Developer for
ibm.com/software/awdtools/developer/application/ WebSphere Software application, which the organiza-
tion uses to develop WebSphere Portal portlets,
IBM Lotus Notes® servlets and WebSphere servlets.

Benefits
● Improved performance and response times
● Gained the ability to take advantage of
Web 2.0 technology in development processes

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Accelerate design and development > IBM Rational Team Concert

Accelerate design and development IBM Rational Team Concert ● Improve project transparency with automated
● Overview IBM Rational Team Concert software helps support reporting to streamline status meetings.
● IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software agile development so you can rapidly build better ● Organize and coordinate project and product
● IBM Rational Team Concert quality solutions with a comprehensive, lean release plans, team plans, and individual plans in
● IBM Rational Software Architect development framework that includes agile, formal multiple views and paradigms.
● IBM Rational Asset Manager and hybrid planning and reporting. Designed to
connect dispersed WebSphere Application Server Support distributed teams.
development teams, Rational Team Concert soft- ●Collaborate using capabilities such as communi-
ware helps increase individual and team productivity cation in context, event feeds and automated
Reduce web compliance costs traceability.
and compress development cycles. Based on the
Reduce software deployment and operational costs IBM Jazz™ platform, Rational Team Concert ●Support best practices and align your project
software supports practically any plan, process teams, their internal organization and the artifacts
and platform. Formal planning templates support they are working on.
traditional project phases, while new risk manage- ●Simplify debugging, improve code coverage of
ment capabilities suit traditional, agile or hybrid your test cases and resolve issues earlier by inte-
teams. It also includes customizable process grating with the Rational Application Developer for
automation and guidance features that can WebSphere Software application.
help you enforce your organization’s processes ●Enhance stakeholder participation with a powerful
to ensure predictable results. web UI for project leads, users, customers and
external partners to participate in WebSphere
Build better software and products. Application Server projects, check status
●Help maximize developer productivity through and submit defects.
integration with the Rational Application Developer
for WebSphere Software application.
●Break through development planning challenges
with comprehensive template options.

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Accelerate design and development > IBM Rational Team Concert

Accelerate design and development Simplify and automate project management.
● Improve the planning and predictability of Large hotel chain in the United Kingdom
● Overview
WebSphere development projects using task Challenge
● IBM Rational Team Concert boards, Gantt charts, product backlogs A large hotel chain in the United Kingdom recognized
● IBM Rational Software Architect and dashboards. that its existing booking website did not have the
● IBM Rational Asset Manager
● Exploit a scalable infrastructure that provides reliability, scalability and maintainability to meet the
common processes and security as well as open current and future needs of the business.
integrations and services.
Optimize web security Solution
● Integrate source code management and defect
Reduce web compliance costs management, helping to ensure more-accurate The company engaged IBM Business Partner Imtech
Reduce software deployment and operational costs ICT to implement a comprehensive IBM WebSphere
project updates.
and IBM Rational solution.

Learn more: Beneﬁts
ibm.com/software/rational/products/rtc/index.html ● Addressed the client’s current demands and
positioned it to accommodate future demands
Calculate your ROI. ● Handled the demands for the client’s marketing
sales days, which drive a high level of visitors, and
Use Rational Team Concert software at no cost increased the number of bookings
for up to 10 developers.
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Accelerate design and development > IBM Rational Software Architect

Accelerate design and development IBM Rational Software Architect Software Architect solutions also include modeling
● Overview The IBM Rational Software Architect application is and development support for industry-specific mod-
● IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software IBM’s most comprehensive architecture, design and els and standards and provide teams the ability to
● IBM Rational Team Concert construction solution. It provides architects with a create a flexible, robust architecture that is cus-
● IBM Rational Software Architect wide variety of capabilities, including software solu- tomized for their needs.
● IBM Rational Asset Manager tion design for Java, Java EE and SOA applications;
architecting how that software will be deployed; and Reduce maintenance and development costs.
allowing transformations between business models, ●Manage solution complexity with abstraction.
SOA models and services. Rational Software ●Capture specific business logic with just-enough
Reduce web compliance costs modeling and agile sketching.
Architect solutions can also build on Rational
Reduce software deployment and operational costs Application Developer software and have all of that
application’s development capabilities, including the Deliver applications that scale and address busi-
WebSphere software–specific development, test and ness objectives.
deployment functions that help make it simpler and ●Leverage automation to support innovation
faster to create WebSphere software. Rational initiatives.
●Free up overhead resources with pattern reuse
and analysis.

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Accelerate design and development > IBM Rational Software Architect

Accelerate design and development Shorten learning curves and reduce the need for
specialized training. Eastern European travel agency
● Overview
● Automate design, delivery and testing with visual Challenge
● IBM Rational Team Concert construction. An Eastern European travel agency needed to inte-
● IBM Rational Software Architect grate an inflexible green-screen sales application with
● IBM Rational Asset Manager Enable continual engagement with stakeholders. its Web-based flight booking system. It also needed to
●Enable quick responses to fixes and new require- update its legacy systems to comply with European
ments with iterative development. Union regulations.
Reduce web compliance costs Learn more: Solution
Reduce software deployment and operational costs The company created a new web browser–based
ibm.com/software/awdtools/swarchitect/
system running on IBM WebSphere Application Server
software and an IBM DB2® Workgroup Server Edition
database. It used IBM Rational Software Architect for
WebSphere Software solutions to protect, manage,
model and develop the new business application with
a user-friendly front end. The travel agency is creating
similar interfaces for other travel service products that
will enable customers to purchase tickets directly
online.

Benefits
● Simplified and sped the creation of a robust
architecture
● Enabled reuse of patterns for new offerings


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Accelerate design and development > IBM Rational Asset Manager

Accelerate design and development IBM Rational Asset Manager Unlike stand-alone BPM tools and SOA registries,
● Overview IBM Rational Asset Manager software is a definitive IBM Rational Asset Manager software enhances
● IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software library management system you can use to catalog, these solutions by governing the development
● IBM Rational Team Concert organize, use, reuse, manage and report on virtually assets so solutions can be delivered with speed and
● IBM Rational Software Architect any type of asset for business, technology or soft- quality beginning with the initial design.
● IBM Rational Asset Manager ware across your enterprise. If your organization is
implementing business process management Catalog, govern and share assets for WebSphere
(BPM) or SOA initiatives, asset management can software using key integrations.
enhance them. Asset management keeps stake- ● IBM WebSphere Business Modeler,
Reduce web compliance costs IBM WebSphere Integration Developer and
holders engaged in your BPM and SOA initiatives by
Reduce software deployment and operational costs involving them in the governance of the BPM assets IBM WebSphere Business Monitor software inte-
and their relationship to solution assets. In addition, grate with Rational Asset Manager software. Users
governance for SOA development assets such as can browse, add and import BPM assets directly
models, code, Web Services Description Language, from within their supported WebSphere products.
or XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) improves ● IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
the quality of run-time services. They can be built and Rational Asset Manager software govern the
faster by reusing shared components, can be of service life cycle from creation to consumption.
higher quality by ensuring that common definitions The integration supports publishing and synchro-
and frameworks are used (such as an enterprise nizing the development SOA assets with their
definition of the customer XSD), and are designed to associated run-time services, closing the loop on
meet service level agreement requirements from comprehensive SOA governance.
producers and consumers.

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Accelerate design and development > IBM Rational Asset Manager

Accelerate design and development
● Rational Software Architect software integrates
with Rational Asset Manager software. Users can Shell
● Overview
publish, consume and manage model assets Challenge
● IBM Rational Team Concert including standard models, deployment and Every day, more than 10 million people around the
● IBM Rational Software Architect topology models. world pull into 45,000 Shell service stations for fuel.
● IBM Rational Asset Manager
● IBM Rational Automation Framework for But filling gas tanks accounts for only one part of the
WebSphere and IBM Rational Build Forge® Shell business. This global group of energy and petro-
software integrate with Rational Asset Manager chemical companies is working to develop innovative
Optimize web security approaches to addressing the world’s current and
software. Users can publish and consume assets
Reduce web compliance costs such as approved deployment entities. Automation future energy challenges. It wanted to deliver IT
Reduce software deployment and operational costs services consistently, reliably and repeatedly to
projects can be invoked automatically based on
better support business goals, enhance business
the life cycle of an asset.
agility and promote innovation.

Learn more: Solution
jazz.net/projects/rational-asset-manager/ Shell IT teamed up with IBM to create a knowledge
management system (KMS) based on IBM Rational
Asset Manager software to address its challenges.
The KMS provides the tools to support IT processes
efficiently while helping the IT group link, manage and
access IT information from a wide range of sources.

Benefits
● Better aligned IT with the business, helping to
increase business agility and facilitate innovation
● Enhanced IT efficiency by providing easy access to
IT information, improving reuse of existing solutions,
accelerating training and increasing staff flexibility
● Created a foundation that can be extended across
additional lines of business and geographic regions

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Reduce cost of quality > Overview

Accelerate design and development Overview ● Do you struggle with achieving quality goals and
Success or failure often depends on one thing: ensuring that business-critical applications
whose product is of the highest quality? Moreover, address user requirements and performance
● Overview
supporting business transformation through ongoing criteria? Check out IBM Rational Quality Manager
● IBM Rational Requirements Composer
innovation is essential—as is the need to optimize software.
● IBM Rational Quality Manager
results and control risk and cost while increasing ● Does your testing team struggle to keep pace with
● IBM Rational Functional Tester
productivity of your WebSphere development. That’s development? Check out IBM Rational Functional
● IBM Rational Performance Tester
● IBM Rational PurifyPlus why it’s important to establish a more coordinated, Tester software.
agile and transparent approach across the product ● Are you getting optimal performance and availabil-
and service life cycle. IBM Rational quality manage- ity from your WebSphere applications? Check out
Reduce web compliance costs IBM Rational Performance Tester software.
ment solutions can help by offering a collaborative,
Reduce software deployment and operational costs process-led approach, supported by integrated data, ● Do your developers need to write reliable code
tooling and real-time metrics for managing project more quickly? Check out IBM Rational
quality health for proactive governance. PurifyPlus™ software.

● Do you need a better way to effectively deﬁne Managing project quality can help
requirements, gain consensus and then manage
changes? Check out IBM Rational Requirements
produce signiﬁcant cost savings. Accord-
Composer software. ing to the Carnegie Mellon Software
Engineering Institute, “Data indicate
that 60-80 percent of the cost of
software development is in rework.”5


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Reduce cost of quality > IBM Rational Requirements Composer

Accelerate design and development IBM Rational Requirements Composer Collaborate with business and technology
IBM Rational Requirements Composer software experts.
provides a single, shared location for requirements ● Enable teams to examine the same requirements
● Overview
information, helping to unify product and service from different perspectives.
development teams and better drive reﬁnement of ● Allow teams to connect artifacts to other elements
WebSphere solutions. The software can help and artifacts, providing a big-picture view of a
improve quality, speed time to market, and keep requirement on operations.
● IBM Rational PurifyPlus business objectives and IT solutions aligned
throughout the development life cycle.
Reduce web compliance costs
Build consensus with an open, collaborative
Reduce software deployment and operational costs platform.
● Gain a Web 2.0–based approach to team
collaboration.
● Achieve customizable, real-time views of project
information and requirements.


IBM Software

Reduce cost of quality > IBM Rational Requirements Composer

Accelerate design and development Simplify information organization, interaction
and retrieval. IAG
● Gain a single location for managing requirements Challenge
● Overview
inputs, enabling teams to store, tag, and link infor- IAG Consulting is a leading specialist in requirements
mation and artifacts. discovery and management operating across North
● Enable users to more easily find relevant informa- America. Its consultants are placed into demanding
tion with robust search and filter capabilities. engagements in which time is invariably short and the
volume of information to be generated is substantial.
● IBM Rational PurifyPlus
Learn more: ibm.com/software/awdtools/rrc/ IAG’s team must follow strict guidelines and adhere to
Optimize web security certain elicitation techniques the company has found
Reduce web compliance costs to be optimal. The pace and rigor of requirements dis-
Calculate your ROI.
Reduce software deployment and operational costs covery at IAG places a set of challenging requirements
on any technology used by the IAG team, and conse-
quently, the IAG team has seen few tools capable of
meeting its demands.

Solution
The IAG team developed a solid solution for its analyst
teams composed of IBM Rational Requirements
Composer, IBM Rational RequisitePro® and, for
certain engagements, IBM Rational Software
Architect software.

Benefits
● Dramatically reduced rollout costs and
training costs
● Consumed less than 10 percent of overhead by
using Rational tools in direct requirements discovery
● Saw significant overall savings for customers across
the requirements life cycle

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Reduce cost of quality > IBM Rational Quality Manager

Accelerate design and development IBM Rational Quality Manager Lower cost of quality by optimizing transparency
IBM Rational Quality Manager software helps organ- and traceability of artifacts.
izations optimize project quality with a single, shared ●Speed cycle time by automating build, test and
● Overview
test management hub that provides integrated life- debug activities.
cycle support across virtually any platform and type ●Write builds and test cases to approved and vali-
of testing. It provides a customizable, role-driven dated requirements.
solution for test planning, creation and execution as ●Gain comprehensive traceability of defects back to
● IBM Rational PurifyPlus well as workﬂow control, tracking and metrics original requirements for analysis.
reporting. You can cut risk and cost with transparent, ●Optimize lab efficiency and asset utilization to save
role-based collaboration; speed time to market by on test lab overhead.
automating labor-intensive, error-prone activities;
Reduce software deployment and operational costs and improve WebSphere applications by proactively Increase efficiency of manual testing.
managing with real-time, fact-based insights. Overall, ● Reduce keystrokes with the help of simpliﬁed and
these capabilities help align project decisions and faster navigation.
deliverables with business objectives. ● Rely on step-by-step capture and execution with
assisted data entry.
Help reduce costs by understanding and control-
ling sources of risk.
● Discover defect sources for proactive corrective
action.
● Prevent duplicate defects.
● Prioritize testing tasks with risk-based testing tied
to business objectives using risk ranking and
assessment.


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Reduce cost of quality > IBM Rational Quality Manager

Accelerate design and development Proactively govern with real-time analysis and
actionable reporting. An IT solutions company
● Measure and manage quality, projects and teams Challenge
● Overview
using real-time intelligence based on best-practice Headquartered in New Zealand, this organization
metrics, customized dashboards and reports. plans, develops, runs and maintains comprehensive IT
● Respond more easily to regulatory requirements solutions. To improve insight and decision making,
and compliance audits. the company needed to automate its labor-intensive,
manual test management processes.
Learn more:
ibm.com/software/rational/offerings/quality/
Reduce web compliance costs The business implemented IBM Rational Quality
Reduce software deployment and operational costs Manager software to plan tests, manage test assets,
Calculate your ROI.
enable requirements-based testing and improve col-
laboration across the testing team. The software also
gave the company the ability to offer its customers
view-only access to IBM Rational Quality Manager
assets, providing an up-to-date view of project
progress that included reports detailing tested and
to-be-tested requirements.

Beneﬁts
● Reduced test management time by an estimated
20 percent
● Reduced time spent tracing requirements to test
cases by 60 percent
● Improved insight into all aspects of the testing
process, enabling managers to make better-
informed decisions, allocate resources, improve
predictability and mitigate business risk



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Reduce cost of quality > IBM Rational Functional Tester

Accelerate design and development IBM Rational Functional Tester Help reduce test maintenance with scripts
IBM Rational Functional Tester software provides resilient to application changes.
automated testing capabilities for functional testing, ● Free quality assurance departments to focus on
● Overview
regression testing, GUI testing and data-driven test- more thorough rather than basic tests.
ing, helping your test teams keep pace with develop- ● Reuse individual tests with multiple sets of test
ment. It helps teams of virtually any skill level data, and automate tests that are resilient to fre-
minimize test maintenance, providing wizards and quent application user interface changes with
● IBM Rational PurifyPlus storyboard testing to enhance automation and IBM ScriptAssure® technology.
speed test creation for new users.
Give team members of every level the tooling
Reduce web compliance costs they need.
Automate regression testing for rapid validation
Reduce software deployment and operational costs of core functionality. ● Gain support for analysts, testers, GUI developers
● Simplify test visualization and editing with and just about anyone else involved in quality
storyboard testing that uses natural language assurance and test activities.
and rendered screenshots.
● Allow the use of key words to power portions of
manual tests with automated testing.


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Reduce cost of quality > IBM Rational Functional Tester

Accelerate design and development Simplify test efforts with preconfigured
integrations. Middle Eastern kingdom
● Integrate with Rational Quality Manager software, Challenge
● Overview
which offers a number of benefits, including the A Middle Eastern kingdom struggled to respond to cit-
following: izen inquiries because most of its processes were
– Simplifying the process of creating, executing manual, with staff taking days or even weeks to
and managing test assets respond. The kingdom sought to implement anytime,
– Optimizing quality, reliability, performance and anywhere services.
compliance of delivered WebSphere product
and software solutions
Reduce web compliance costs The kingdom implemented a solution to modernize
● Improve access to work items with integration of
Reduce software deployment and operational costs services that includes an array of IBM technologies,
the IBM Jazz Eclipse Client, Version 2.0 platform
including WebSphere software and IBM WebSphere
for IBM Rational Team Concert and Rational
DataPower® SOA Appliance devices hosting IBM SOA
Quality Manager servers. middleware products. IBM Rational Functional Tester
software provides comprehensive support for build,
Learn more: test and release management, which is key to
ibm.com/software/awdtools/tester/functional/ enabling the anywhere, anytime access to services.

Calculate your ROI. Benefits
● Streamlines the interaction between the government
and the people
● Helps reduce response time from days to minutes
● Improves efficiency of government agencies and
increases staff productivity



IBM Software

Reduce cost of quality > IBM Rational Performance Tester

Accelerate design and development IBM Rational Performance Tester ● Gain a rich, tree-based test editor that delivers
IBM Rational Performance Tester software is a per- both high-level and detailed views of tests.
formance testing tool used to identify the presence ● Analyze the location and root cause of system
● Overview
and cause of system performance bottlenecks. It performance bottlenecks in WebSphere Portal
provides test teams of virtually all skill levels with software environments.
● IBM Rational Functional Tester automated performance testing capabilities to
validate the scalability of web- and server-based Leverage advanced data access and
● IBM Rational PurifyPlus applications—before a system goes live. The soft- manipulation.
ware is designed to reduce load testing complexity ●Gain automated tracing of complex data relation-
while providing ﬂexible workload scheduling and ships through WebSphere Portal applications,
Reduce web compliance costs which may overburden other performance testing
reporting capabilities.
Reduce software deployment and operational costs tools.
Quickly achieve higher productivity. ●Attain ﬂexible modeling and emulation of diverse
●Enable experts to pinpoint issues by using an user populations.
innovative, no-code approach to performance
testing that masks code but exposes underlying
details, facilitating rapid, large-scale performance
tests.


IBM Software

Reduce cost of quality > IBM Rational Performance Tester

Accelerate design and development Measure performance results against business
objectives. Telecommunications provider
●Automate service level agreement mandates and Challenge
● Overview
provide reports to stakeholders. A telecommunications provider in the Philippines
needed to reach a new level of agility in the creation
Learn more: and management of promotional service offerings.
ibm.com/software/awdtools/tester/performance/
Solution
In a joint engagement, IBM and Nokia Siemens
Optimize web security Networks designed and built an SOA-based service
Reduce web compliance costs creation and delivery platform for the provider
Reduce software deployment and operational costs that enables it to rapidly and cost-effectively create
service offerings from reusable service components.

IBM Rational Performance Tester, IBM Rational
Functional Tester and IBM Rational Service Tester for
SOA Quality solutions help staff identify the presence
and cause of system performance bottlenecks, auto-
mate functional and regression testing, and improve
the quality of web service–based SOA applications.

Beneﬁts
● 600 percent increase in promotion effectiveness
● More than 95 percent reduction in the time and cost
of developing new promotions



IBM Software

Reduce cost of quality > IBM Rational PurifyPlus

Accelerate design and development IBM Rational PurifyPlus Gain access to four basic capabilities packaged
IBM Rational PurifyPlus software dynamically into a single product.
analyzes software to help increase developer pro- ● Memory debugging
● Overview
ductivity and improve application reliability and per- ● Memory leak detection
formance. With four capabilities included in a single ● Performance profiling
product—including memory error and memory link ● Code coverage analysis
● IBM Rational Performance Tester detection, application performance profiling, and
● IBM Rational PurifyPlus code coverage analysis—you can optimize Develop high-quality code faster.
WebSphere applications from their first release. ●Pinpoint hard-to-find bugs.
●Increase productivity and flexibility by gaining
Reduce web compliance costs the ability to instrument an entire application or
Reduce software deployment and operational costs portions of it.
●Reduce development disruptions with direct analy-
sis of executables, with no recompilation.


IBM Software

Reduce cost of quality > IBM Rational PurifyPlus

Accelerate design and development Streamline team development processes.
● Gain rapid creation of defect reports through inte- Digital document management technology provider
gration with IBM Rational ClearQuest® software. Challenge
● Overview
● Take a proactive approach to improving overall A digital document management technology and serv-
code quality by using both dynamic and static ices provider needed to increase development effi-
analysis tools—specifically by using IBM Rational ciency, improve quality and decrease time to market
PurifyPlus software with IBM Rational Software for its innovative print systems. It sought a new
Analyzer software to reduce the number of code approach to real-time software development that pro-
defects. moted software reuse and enabled development of
Optimize web security increasingly complex embedded systems.
Reduce web compliance costs Learn more:
Reduce software deployment and operational costs Solution
ibm.com/software/awdtools/purifyplus/
The company adopted IBM Rational solutions for
model-driven development and software change and
configuration management to build its embedded sys-
tems. It uses IBM Rational PurifyPlus software to per-
form code coverage analysis and identify memory
leaks during model-driven development.

Benefits
● Enabled reuse of more than 50 percent of software
components
● Enabled early hardware and software loop testing to
help ensure quality



IBM Software

Optimize web security > Overview

Accelerate design and development Overview According to the IBM X-Force®
Web applications are increasingly among the most
targeted attack points for enterprising hackers
2010 Trend and Risk Report,
around the world. This is no coincidence as the use 49 percent of all vulnerabilities
● Overview
● IBM Rational AppScan
of web applications to interact and work with disclosed in 2010 were web application
employees, partners and customers continues to
● IBM Rational AppScan OnDemand
grow. Given the monetary and brand-related costs to
vulnerabilities.6
being hacked, web security is an essential compo-
Reduce software deployment and operational costs nent of cost and risk optimization. IBM Rational soft-
ware can help keep your WebSphere applications
ahead of security threats.

● Do you need help ﬁnding and prioritizing web
application security issues? Check out
IBM Rational AppScan® software for help
automating the process.
● If you want to reduce up-front investment costs
and hasten time to value of a Rational AppScan
software solution, check out IBM Rational
AppScan OnDemand software.


IBM Software

Optimize web security > IBM Rational AppScan

Accelerate design and development IBM Rational AppScan
IBM Rational AppScan software provides compre- Web development company
hensive security capabilities—including scanning, Challenge
reporting and fix recommendations—for complex This company was looking for a solution that would
● Overview
web applications. Use the software to automatically better secure its web applications and provide protec-
scan and test for common web application vulnera- tion from online security breaches.
bilities in WebSphere applications, including those
Reduce web compliance costs Solution
highlighted by the Web Application Security
Reduce software deployment and operational costs Consortium. The company leverages a floating user license to
deploy multiple copies of IBM Rational AppScan
Standard Edition software to create a security-rich
Find and fix web application security issues.
web portal environment. Its security and quality
● Gain support for broad application coverage, assurance staff are able to test all of the company’s
including integrated web services scanning, web applications on a regular basis to identify
JavaScript execution (including asynchronous vulnerabilities.
JavaScript and XML, or AJAX) and parsing.
Benefits
Assess and remediate security vulnerabilities. ● Helped ensure web application security
●Address scripting and buffer overflow and ● Increased confidence about application safety
gain intelligent fix recommendations to ease among high-profile customers
remediation.
● Enabled the company to leverage its services in the
marketplace
●Get advanced remediation capabilities, including a
comprehensive task list necessary to fix issues Want proof? Read more case studies.
uncovered during the scan.

Learn more: ibm.com/software/awdtools/appscan/


IBM Software

Optimize web security > IBM Rational AppScan OnDemand

Accelerate design and development IBM Rational AppScan OnDemand Get a periodic assessment of application
IBM Rational AppScan OnDemand software is a security.
software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of ● Understand improvements to your security posture
IBM Rational AppScan software. Because you can over time based on tracking by the IBM team,
● Overview
quickly and cost-effectively achieve actionable helping you communicate findings to stakeholders
results, it provides a great way to bolster web appli- throughout the organization.
cation security—without the need for infrastructure ● Leverage guidance from IBM experts as they
Reduce web compliance costs explain and decipher findings to ease the remedia-
investments. The hosted solution is run by an experi-
Reduce software deployment and operational costs enced team of security and compliance experts tion process.
from IBM. The service also gives you access to the
IBM team for a set number of hours each month, so Maintain consistency with monthly scans.
you can benefit from its expertise on industry best ●Rely on proven IBM processes that help keep
practices, get help interpreting scan results and security on track through regular scanning and
learn valuable remediation tips. updates.

Gain support for comprehensive testing of Learn more: ibm.com/software/awdtools/appscan/
applications.
●Test either preproduction or production applica- Reduce online cost and risk without in-
tions up to a specified number of pages.
house resources using one of the fastest
routes to actionable information.


IBM Software

Reduce web compliance costs > Overview

Accelerate design and development Overview ● Do you need help ensuring that websites are
Web compliance is complex and multidimensional, accessible to disabled users and protecting user
involving not only security but also accessibility, pri- privacy? Check out IBM Rational Policy Tester®
vacy and even compliance with internal quality stan- software.
dards. And given the critical role the web now plays ● Do you want to hasten time to value and reduce
● Overview up-front investment costs of a Rational Policy
in business, regulators and industry organizations
● IBM Rational Policy Tester Tester solution? Check out IBM Rational Policy
are continually adding rules and regulations
● IBM Rational Policy Tester OnDemand Privacy, Quality and Tester OnDemand Privacy, Quality and
Accessibility Edition
designed to protect customers and shareholders
and guarantee access to disabled users. The result Accessibility Edition software.
is that, in many industries, organizations must ﬁgure ● Do you need help with security-related compli-
out how to control costs while complying with strict ance? Check out IBM Rational AppScan software.
Reduce software deployment and operational costs
and evolving regulations. IBM Rational solutions can ● Do you want to hasten time to value and reduce
help you address compliance in WebSphere appli- up-front investment costs of a Rational AppScan
cations while keeping costs in check. software solution? Check out IBM Rational
AppScan OnDemand software.


IBM Software

Reduce web compliance costs > IBM Rational Policy Tester

Accelerate design and development IBM Rational Policy Tester Learn more:
IBM Rational Policy Tester software can help your ibm.com/software/awdtools/tester/policy/
organization address compliance with privacy, qual-
ity and accessibility requirements through auto-
mated scanning and reporting. The solution crawls
● Overview Semiconductor manufacturer
through website content and applications to analyze
● IBM Rational Policy Tester Challenge
data, stores findings, and generates actionable
● IBM Rational Policy Tester OnDemand Privacy, Quality and A semiconductor manufacturer sought a solution that
reports that you can use to address virtually any
could help it deal with an array of issues related to
issues uncovered during scans. The software sup-
website management, including widespread broken
IBM Rational AppScan OnDemand
ports multiple user roles and prioritizes issues.
●
links, difficulty keeping track of content and identifying
Reduce software deployment and operational costs potential privacy issues.
Analyze websites for quality, compliance, privacy
and accessibility issues based on best practices, Solution
regulatory requirements and internal policies. The company implemented an IBM Rational Policy
● Learn whether sites meet Section 508 of the Tester OnDemand solution, which enabled it to find
Rehabilitation Act and Web Content Accessibility and fix broken links and perform end-of-life and
Guidelines (WCAG) requirements to ensure site orphan analysis on web pages. It also can now inven-
accessibility for disabled users. tory metatag and page content as well as generate an
● Gain support for the privacy of customers’ person- inventory of privacy policies on websites to compare
ally identifiable information entered on websites. with regulatory compliance requirements.

Benefits
Gain web quality testing to optimize website ● Improved the customer experience by reducing bro-
functionality and support a positive user ken links and obsolete content
experience. ● Identified the effect on web pages of removing old
content from the website
Address compliance with regulations such as the ● Reduced the cost of migration work by identifying
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability unlinked content
Act (HIPAA), the Children’s Online Privacy
Protection Act (COPPA) and Safe Harbor with Want proof? Read more case studies.
comprehensive privacy testing.


IBM Software

Reduce web compliance costs > IBM Rational Policy Tester OnDemand Privacy, Quality and Accessibility Edition

Accelerate design and development IBM Rational Policy Tester OnDemand
Entertainment company
Reduce cost of quality Privacy, Quality and Accessibility
Optimize web security Edition Challenge
IBM Rational Policy Tester OnDemand software is An entertainment company was losing business and
designed to allow privacy and compliance issues to faced increasing costs as a result of poor website
● Overview quality. It sought a solution that could help it minimize
● IBM Rational Policy Tester be addressed consistently—even with a limited staff.
broken links and reduce customer support calls.
● IBM Rational Policy Tester OnDemand Privacy, Quality and Providing many of the features of IBM Rational Policy
Accessibility Edition Tester software, it can help you cost-effectively iden- Solution
● IBM Rational AppScan tify and prioritize web privacy and regulatory compli- The company implemented IBM Rational Policy Tester
● IBM Rational AppScan OnDemand ance risks with an auditable system of records with a OnDemand software.
Reduce software deployment and operational costs rapid time to value.
Beneﬁts
Track your organization’s compliance ● Reduced broken links from 10 percent (issues per
posture over time with leading software in a page scanned) to 1 percent
subscription-based service. ● Achieved a rapid ROI by decreasing the number
of support calls and reducing manual site veriﬁca-
tion efforts
Rely on a scalable, reliable and security-rich
hosting environment with no maintenance or Want proof? Read more case studies.
setup costs.

Leverage a team of experienced solution
managers to optimize the cost and efficacy of
compliance.

Learn more:
ibm.com/software/awdtools/tester/policy/
ondemand/


IBM Software

Reduce web compliance costs > IBM Rational AppScan

Accelerate design and development IBM Rational AppScan
IBM Rational AppScan software provides a leading National air navigation services provider
web application compliance and security solution Challenge
that can help you more easily track compliance with To stay ahead of emerging risks and maintain a
key industry and regulatory requirements. The soft- security-rich flow of business-critical information
● Overview across internal stakeholders and airline customers,
ware includes more than 40 out-of-the-box compli-
● IBM Rational Policy Tester a national air navigation services provider needed to
ance reports and also enables users to produce
● IBM Rational Policy Tester OnDemand Privacy, Quality and adopt the latest web application security technology.
custom security reports that facilitate faster
resolution of critical compliance issues.
Solution
● IBM Rational AppScan OnDemand The provider adopted a comprehensive solution—
Support major regulatory requirements, includ-
Reduce software deployment and operational costs based on IBM Rational AppScan software—that auto-
ing the following: mates security and compliance-related issue testing
● National Institute of Standards and Technology of its core web applications and that easily integrates
Special Publication (NIST SP) 800-53 into its software development life cycle.
● Open Web Application Security Project
(OWASP) top 10 Benefits
● Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard ● Enhanced the security of web applications through
(PCI DSS) best practices such as regular scanning for vulnera-
● Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) bilities throughout the software life cycle
● Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)
● Provided ease of use and clear fix recommenda-
tions, resulting in quick developer acceptance and
● Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
improved productivity
Act (HIPAA)
● Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) Want proof? Read more case studies.
● Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
Act (FIPPA)
● Payment Application Best Practices (PABP)



IBM Software

Reduce web compliance costs > IBM Rational AppScan OnDemand

Accelerate design and development IBM Rational AppScan OnDemand Rely on a scalable, reliable and security-rich
The IBM Rational AppScan OnDemand offering hosting environment with no maintenance or
provides a way to rapidly realize the beneﬁts of setup costs.
IBM Rational AppScan software without the need for
infrastructure investments. The hosted solution is Leverage a team of experienced solution
● Overview managers to optimize the cost and efficacy of
run by an experienced team of compliance and
● IBM Rational Policy Tester security compliance.
security experts from IBM.
● IBM Rational Policy Tester OnDemand Privacy, Quality and
The service also gives you access to the IBM team Support major regulatory requirements,
for a set number of hours each month, so you can including the following:
beneﬁt from its expertise on industry best practices ● NIST SP 800-53
and get help interpreting scan results and learning ● OWASP top 10
valuable remediation tips. The software includes ● PCI DSS
more than 40 out-of-the-box compliance reports ● SOX
and also enables users to produce custom security ● GLBA
reports that facilitate faster resolution of critical com- ● HIPAA
pliance issues. ● FERPA
● FIPPA
● PABP



IBM Software

Reduce software deployment and operational costs > Overview

Accelerate design and development Overview Deployment planning and automation solutions
As your WebSphere environments grow, the from IBM can help you gain signiﬁcant cost and
complexity of application deployments makes it operational efficiencies in the development and
imperative for stakeholders, solution architects and operations (DevOps) areas through an integrated
IT operations teams to be able to communicate plan-automate-govern life cycle for your WebSphere
Reduce software deployment and operational costs deployments. These solutions help you deploy the
effectively to prevent risks and costly downtime.
● Overview Moreover, the switch to agile development has made right deliverables, with the right plan, using the right
● IBM Rational Software Architect deployments a far more frequent occurrence that automation. You can govern, catalog and share
● IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere must be automated to cut down on manual tasks application artifacts, standard templates and deploy-
● IBM Rational Asset Manager and IT downtime. ment plans. From the governed catalog, you can
plan your desired deployment using discovered
resources and standard conﬁguration templates.
Planning helps ensure that the right solution deploy-
ment requirements can be expressed in an explicit,
formal and repeatable format (deployment diagrams)
that can be used to automate deployment and free
staff to work on more value-added tasks.


IBM Software

Reduce software deployment and operational costs > Overview

Accelerate design and development With integrated planning, automation and gover-
nance, you can improve the speed and quality of Plan
DevOps deployment for WebSphere software.
Reduce web compliance costs ● Are you looking to get better insight into your exist-
Reduce software deployment and operational costs ing WebSphere application infrastructure? Would
● Overview you like to plan your WebSphere deployments to
● IBM Rational Software Architect maximize existing IT usage or create procurement
● IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere plans? Check out IBM Rational Software Architect
● IBM Rational Asset Manager software. Govern Automate
● Are you looking for ways to automate WebSphere
administration, builds and deployment while
reducing operational costs and increasing quality
and consistency? Check out IBM Rational
Automation Framework for WebSphere software. Figure 1: Improve the speed and quality of DevOps deployment
● Are you looking for ways to catalog, govern and for WebSphere software with an integrated plan, automate and
govern life cycle.
share formal DevOps assets? Check out
IBM Rational Asset Manager software.


IBM Software

Reduce software deployment and operational costs > IBM Rational Software Architect

Accelerate design and development IBM Rational Software Architect Create a visual representation of how the
IBM Rational Software Architect solutions offer your software will be deployed.
organization the ability to explicitly design how soft- ● Deployment artifacts representing WebSphere
ware will be deployed on physical IT assets. This servers, databases and different physical locations
helps ensure that your software solutions consis- where software will be deployed can be charted
Reduce software deployment and operational costs out, and connections between these artifacts can
tently deploy correctly without a lot of rework. Smart
● Overview tools for discovering and representing infrastructure be deﬁned.
● IBM Rational Software Architect help you maximize the use of your existing assets,
● IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere while the ability to store deployment information in Enhance communication between architects,
● IBM Rational Asset Manager best-practice conﬁguration templates allows repeat- developers and IT operations teams.
able deployments with reduced risk and effort. ●Allow IT to start planning in advance, reducing the
risk that there won’t be sufficient resources when
they’re needed during test and deployment stages
of software delivery.

Learn more:
ibm.com/software/awdtools/swarchitect/


IBM Software

Reduce software deployment and operational costs > IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere

Accelerate design and development IBM Rational Automation Framework Automate, consolidate and simplify administra-
for WebSphere tive activities for WebSphere Application Server
IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere and WebSphere Portal environments.
software provides general purpose automation ● Deliver software faster with fewer resources with
services with deep configuration and deployment the help of application deployment automation.
Reduce software deployment and operational costs ● Leverage a library of more than 850 field-tested
capabilities for installing, patching and deploying
● Overview configuration and installation scripts.
applications and services to numerous WebSphere
● IBM Rational Software Architect ● Accomplish automated multiple cell administration.
and non-WebSphere platforms, including
● IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere ● Automate WebSphere software installation and
WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere
● IBM Rational Asset Manager patching.
Portal applications, the IBM WebSphere Business
Process Manager suite, IBM WebSphere MQ
software and IBM WebSphere Message Broker Gain the ability to check that configuration
software. The framework helps you create more- changes are applied correctly to the right
accurate, -reliable and -consistent WebSphere appli- environment in the right sequence.
cations by maintaining normalized configuration ●Support accurate and reliable WebSphere soft-
data, applying the right data to the right WebSphere ware deployments.
environment and applying data in a repeatable man- ●Gain the ability for WebSphere Application Server
ner to WebSphere environments. administrators to consistently make changes
across cells, mitigating the risk of human error
while improving the quality of environments and
time to market.
●Apply data in a repeatable manner to WebSphere
environments for consistency.


IBM Software

Reduce software deployment and operational costs > IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere

Accelerate design and development Decrease WebSphere Application Server and An IBM business value assessment for a
WebSphere Portal software downtime.
●Gain fast rollback with a conﬁguration change ﬁnancial services company found that
management repository that maintains a history of Rational Automation Framework for
deployment steps. WebSphere software could save it at
●Hasten resolution of environment differences with
● Overview tools that help users visually compare settings in
least US$276,000 per year in
● IBM Rational Software Architect different environments. WebSphere administration time.
● IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere
● IBM Rational Asset Manager Learn more: ibm.com/software/rational/products/
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