IBM® Rational® offers industry-leading architecture management tools for architecture and design modeling, model-driven development, component testing, static and runtime analysis activities. Focused on software analysts, architects and developers, Architecture Management is a capability centered on managing changes to software architectures and to ensure architectural integrity and alignment with current requirements and implementations, while providing best of breed development environments. IBM Rational’s Architecture Management portfolio is based on the industry leading Eclipse open source software development framework, ensuring tight integrations with other IBM and third party applications.

• Manage your evolving architecture and maintain architectural integrity throughout the software development process. Rational Software Architect offers common platform that facilitates easy roundtrip engineering and synchronization of models and code. Rational Software Architect.
• Reuse existing services and benefit from reuse of software assets maintaining quality, corporate compliance and eliminating redundant work with Rational Asset Manager.
• Eliminate manual error prone software development and achieve faster application delivery by focusing on business logic, with Rational Application Developer visual and graphical construction software development tools.

IBM Rational® Software Modeler:

A Unified Modeling Language™ (UML™) 2.0-based visual modeling and design tool for architects, systems analysts and designers who need to ensure that their specifications, architectures and designs are clearly defined and communicated.

IBM Rational® Data Architect:

A comprehensive enterprise data modeling, integration and development tool designed to help data architects discover, model, visualize, relate and develop heterogeneous data assets.

IBM Rational Modeling Extension for .NET: An extension for Rational products that unifies heterogeneous implementations with UML model-driven .NET and Java applications and services. Rational Modeling Extension enables UML-based model-driven development of applications to be implemented fully or partially on the Microsoft .NET platform. It complements other IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform offerings to provide a complete, full-lifecycle governance solution for project portfolios that target a mix of .NET, Java, and other implementation platforms that installs into an IBM Rational architecture management tool such as IBM Rational Software Modeler or IBM Rational Software Architect.

IBM Rational Modeling Extension for .NET:

An extension for Rational products that unifies heterogeneous implementations with UML model-driven .NET and Java applications and services. Rational Modeling Extension enables UML-based model-driven development of applications to be implemented fully or partially on the Microsoft .NET platform. It complements other IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform offerings to provide a complete, full-lifecycle governance solution for project portfolios that target a mix of .NET, Java, and other implementation platforms that installs into an IBM Rational architecture management tool such as IBM Rational Software Modeler or IBM Rational Software Architect.

IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere® Software:

A comprehensive IDE for software developers that enables them to design, develop, analyze, test, profile and deploy SOA, Java, J2EE, and portal applications.

IBM Rational® Software Architect:

An eclipse based modeling and development environment that includes all the capabilities of IBM Rational Application Developer Web- Sphere Software and IBM Software Modeler with additional capabilities focusing on architectural code analysis, C++, and model-driven development with the UML for creating resilient applications and services for SOA. This solution improves the productivity of the software development teams to accelerate development with design-to-code transformations for Java™/J2EE™, Web Services, SOA and C/C++ applications for an integrated design and development experience.

Rational Asset Manager:

A collaborative software development asset management solution, IBM® Rational® Asset Manager software enables organizations to identify, manage and govern the design, development and consumption of software assets, including services as part of a service-oriented archi¬tecture (SOA) initiative. The software helps IT organizations deliver inno¬vative IT solutions while controlling costs, reducing application backlogs and improving business flexibility and responsiveness by facilitating software asset reuse.

Rational PurifyPlus:

A runtime analysis solution designed to help developers write faster, more reliable code. Runtime analysis includes four basic functions: memory corruption detection, memory leak detection, application performance profiling, and code coverage analysis. Rational PurifyPlus packages support for all four of these functions in a single solution.