Introduction to IBM(R) Rational(R) Asset
Manager
Carlos Ferreira
Product Manager, IBM
carlos.ferreira@us.ibm.com
Dr Gili Mendel
Architect, IBM
gmendel@us.ibm.com
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Agenda
 Business challenges addressed by a definitive software library
 Introduction to Rational Asset Manager
 Demonstration
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Managing assets to get more value out of your enterprise
Enterprise Architects
Architects
Testers
To reduce risks, automate
reviews and EA adoption
With System Architect
To reduce costs by sharing
data models, business processes &
proven reference architectures
With Rational Software Architect, Data
Architect and WebSphere Business
Modeler
To reduce defects by sharing the
correct test data & virtual environments
With Rational Testing Solutions
Business
Process
Rational
Asset
Manager
Test
Data
Data Model
Gold
Build
Software Image
Service
WebSphere
Service
Registry
Endpoint
Tivoli
CMDB
Administrators in
Operations
SLA
Portfolio
Manager
Notes, Wikis
& Sharepoint
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Encryption
Component
Rational
Team ClearCase
WSDLConcert
Subversion
Business People
To reduce outages by
understanding the impact of
operational change on business
& technical assets with Tivoli
CCMDB & WebSphere
Build
Forge
To save time finding solutions in docs
like Viso, Word, PDF in Sharepoint and
Wikis or assets that meet
requirements in Req Pro & Doors
Developers
To reduce costs and legal risks
by re-using only approved
components With Eclipse, Build
Forge & Rational Team
Concert
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What is an asset and how are you managing them?
 When zero, one or more set of work products are shared or referenced to meet a
recurring need from one or more stake holders
 Organizational asset collaboration and understanding
 Which types of assets and how are they related?
 What set and version of work products?
 What meta data is required and from which repository?
 What is asset version?
 Organizational asset governance
 Asset visibility and permissions?
 Who needs to review this asset?
 What set of policies must be met are have been met?
 Organizational asset discovery and maintenance
 How to harvest assets?
You must be
able to answer
these questions
in order to
reduce
solution
delivery costs
 How to find assets?
 Which assets do I maintain and how?
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What is Needed to Create, Maintain and use Assets?
Integral
to SOA
Scalable, Flexible, Enterprise-Level Solution
Catalog and
Organize
Asset
Review
Impact
Assessment
Audit and
Report
Repository to store
and quickly find
assets & services
• Reduce
duplication
• Reduce
maintenance
costs
• Improve
consistency
Automate
reviews and
business and
technical policy
enforcement
• Eliminate
costs from
difficult to
enforce
policies
Capture asset
relationships,
plan change and
understand
impact
•Prevent
changes that
result in
unexpected
costs
Identify value
add or nonperforming
assets
•Allocate
resources to
optimize ROI
•Reduce
compliance
costs
Integrate with your design and operational environment including other
existing repositories
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Rational Asset Manager
 Provides a definitive software library for cataloging, maintaining, and governing
business and software assets across the enterprise using Jazz
 For clients who want to:
 Understand what assets they have, how they are related and are driving business value
 Reduce the overall cost of governing, planning, implementing and maintaining solutions
 Deliver solutions faster and decrease time to market
 Reduce delivery risk by being more consistent and using proven assets, resulting in
increased quality and reliability of solutions
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Definitive Software Library
Manage published software and business assets like..
Tasks
Pro
pos
e
Identify
Busines
s
Need
Enterprise Arch
Develop
Retire or
create
new
version
Use
or
Deploy
Publish
and
Review
Data Model
Doc of Understanding
SLA
Service Specification
Design Model
Application
Bus Case
Deploy Plan
Release
Install Guide
Third Party Binary
Reference Arch
Open Source Jar
Bus Process
Harvest
assets
Measure asset
performance
Test Data
Create, publish, search &
use assets
Business
Tuning Guide
Virtual Image
Test Results
Report
Policies
Build
Understand
Impact of change
Development
Business
Manager
All Roles
Portfolio
Mgmt
Insight
Reporting
Microsoft
System
Architect
Analyst
WebSphere
Business
Modeler
Req Pro
Architect
Rational
Software
Architect
Developer
WebSphere
Integration
Developer
VM
Measure asset
performance
Operations
Project
Tester
Manager
RFT Build Mgr
Rational
RPT
Build
Method
ClearForge Composer
Quest
Policy
Manager
Weblayers
Deployment
Manager SOA Architect
Tivoli
CCMDB
Service
Registry
Eclipse
Sharepoint
Wikis
Requirements
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Defects
Builds
Policies
CMDB
UDDI Registry
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Each phase of the Asset Lifecycle has different challenges
Asset Development
Rational Asset Manager Can Help You
Create, maintain, find and use assets!
Time consuming to create
and find assets
Tester
 Find and use assets
 Be notified about asset activity
Inefficiencies caused by poor
collaboration across teams
Developer
Automate creating, cataloging and
maintaining assets
Costly decisions caused by
incorrect asset information in
spreadsheets
Business
Analyst
Architect
Cost overruns caused by
creating similar assets multiple
times
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Each phase of the Asset Lifecycle has different challenges
Asset Governance
COE
Architect
Compliance is important but
manually reviewing assets is
costly and error prone
 Avoid duplicate assets
Need to control and eliminate
“rogue services” an unapproved
open source or licensed library
use
Operations
Manager
Rational Asset Manager Can Help You
Control asset compliance and use!
 Ensure asset reviews occur
COE
Architect
SLA violations and slipped
schedule caused by not being
able to understand how asset
changes have an impact on
development assets
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 Automate asset policy compliance and
reporting
 Prevent unapproved asset use,
changes or deployment
 Understand asset relationships and
impact of change
 Notify stakeholders of asset plans and
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Each phase of the Asset Lifecycle has different challenges
Asset Planning
Need better ROI by funding
assets that are driving revenue
and are being used
Rational Asset Manager Can Help You
Improve asset return on investment
LOB
Managers
 Report on asset usage
 Quantify ROI
Product
Manager
Reduce costs by sharing
asset development costs with
others who also need similar
capabilities
 Understand the impact of retiring
an asset
 APIs to automate getting and
setting asset metadata
Need to reduce costs by retiring
unused assets
LOB
Managers
Product
Manager
Time consuming to share
asset plans and information
in format all the stakeholder
want
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Rational Asset Manager In the Developer Cloud
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Where can you learn more?
 Visit Us in the Solutions Center
 Join the RAM v7.2 Managed Beta email Carlos.Ferreira@US.IBM.COM
 Rational Asset Manager Insider Blog
 http://rationalassetmanager.wordpress.com/
 Includes best practices, Web cast tutorials and demos
 Try it on Product Page or in the Developer Cloud Preview
 http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/ram/
 Discussion Forum
 http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=1122
 Developerworks
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/products/ram/
 Rational Asset Manager Exchange
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/exchange/ram_exchange/ind
ex.html?S_TACT=105AGX15&S_CMP=LP
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Other Sessions
 Get a demo at the Rational Asset Manager Pedestal
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Rational Asset Manager is key part of CALM JAZZ
RAM 7.2 New or
improved
integrations
Software Development Platform
Architect
Rational
Software
Architect
RSD
RSM
Analyst
WebSphere
Business
Modeler
CVS
ClearCase
Developer
RAD
WebSphere
Integration
Developer
Eclipse
Harvest
assets
Developer
Rational
Asset
Analyzer
Project
Manager
Rational
Method
Composer
Business
Manager All Roles
Developer
WebSphere
Service
Registry &
Repository
RAM Web Client
Rational Team
Concert
Subversion by
Clearvision
Tester
RFT
RPT
Create. modify, use &
review cloud assets
RAM administration
RAM Eclipse
Client & Plug-in
Create, publish, search
& RAM
use Cloud
assets
Services
Deployment
Manager
Tivoli
CCMDB
Publish, search,,
& impact analysis
RAM Asset Management Server
Measure
performance
eWAS
Metadata
Business
Manager
DB2
Portfolio Management
Insight Reporting
Link
Requirements
with assets
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Submit
and
query
change
requests
All Roles
ClearQuest
Oracle
SQL Server
LDAP
Build
execution
Asset Management Platform
Includes RUP for Asset Based Development
ANT
All Roles
Doors, Caliber
Requisite Pro
Storage
Policy
Manager
Weblayers
Report
Policies
Build Mgr
BuildForge
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