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Agenda
 Challenges to the Effective Delivery of
Software
 IBM Rational – Our Unique Value
 The IBM Rational Product, Project and
Portfolio Solutions
 Return on IT Assets: Achieving great
value from your investments
 Summary
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Businesses are facing an unparalleled rate of change
Manage business
transformations
Enable business
flexibility
Differentiate
products
Exploit
globalization
React to
market shifts
Manage regulatory
mandates
Deliver real
customer innovation
Successful businesses will use software
to drive innovation and competitive differentiation
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Challenges to the effective delivery of software
A history of cost overruns, schedule slips and quality issues
“34% of software projects are deemed
successful costing $300B annually”
“49% of budgets suffer overruns and
62% fail to meet their scheduled”
“Only 22% of executives felt that their IT and
business strategy were tightly integrated”
“50% of outsourced projects are
expected to under perform”
30% of project costs are due to rework
and poor execution of requirements”
Growing focus
on business outcomes
“Business leaders and CIOs are under pressure to enable their teams to become
catalysts for change. However, change is outpacing their ability to deliver.
They are reorienting their teams to focus on ROI and quantified
business outcomes and to mitigate risk and reduce costs.”
– IBM CIO Survey, 2008
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IBM Rational software
Delivering greater value from your investments in software
Analyzing and managing
change by aligning
investments with business
priorities
Making better decisions
based on real-time, accurate
information and consensus
across stakeholders
Delivering quality
solutions through
improved governance
and risk management
Successful businesses will use software
to drive innovation and competitive differentiation
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Successful businesses will manage software and systems
delivery as a robust business process
Collaborate
Automate
Report
Achieve common goals
by optimizing how
people work
Increase control
and efficiency by
integrating workflows
Continuously improve
by measuring progress
in real time
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Enabled by the Rational Software Delivery Platform & ecosystem
Modernize
Enterprise Assets
Transform
Information Technology
Business Planning
& Alignment
Product & Project
Management
Deliver
Smarter Products
Compliance
& Security
Collaborative Lifecycle Management
Design & Development
IBM and Business Partner Ecosystem
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Delivered through a rich set of software delivery capabilities
Modernize
Enterprise Assets
Enterprise
Architecture
Transform
Information Technology
Product
& Project
Management
Portfolio
Management
Business Planning & Alignment
Requirements
Definition
& Management
Performance
Management
Product & Project Management
Configuration
& Change
Management
Build
& Deploy
Management
Asset
Management
Deliver
Smarter Products
Compliance
Management
Security
Management
Compliance & Security
Quality
Management
Collaborative Lifecycle Management
Architecture
Tools
Modeling
Tools
Development
Tools
Testing
Tools
Design & Development
IBM and Business Partner Ecosystem
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IBM – A Thought Leader in Project and Portfolio Management
 Over 300,000 professionals managing projects and portfolios that impact clients
around the globe
 Over 35,000 employees using IBM technologies for Project Management
 Over 12,000 PMI Certified Project Managers (largest concentration in on organization).
IBM is also one of the 21 members of PMI’s Corporate Council
 Recognized process and methodology leader, contributor to the Project Management
Institute (PMI), ITIL and COBIT and Software Development processes
 Winner of PMI’s “Top-20 Outstanding Organizations in Project Management”
 Winner of PMI Distinguished Project Award
 Winner of PMI Professional Development Provider of the Year Award
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IBM Rational Product, Project and Portfolio Management
“Making the
Right
Investments”
“Right Market,
Right Time,
Right Scope”
“Doing Things
Right”
“Measure
Performance
Against
Business
Objectives”
Improve
predictability
of product
success
Manage and
optimize
Execute
project
execution
Measure team
performance
and project
results
Plan
Align
investments
with business
objectives
Measure
Improve
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IBM’s modular, flexible, open and integrated solutions
Performance
Management
Portfolio
Management
Product
Management
Project
Management
“Making the
Right
Investments”
“Right Market,
Right Time,
Right Scope”
“Doing Things
Right”
“Measure
Performance
Against
Business
Objectives”
Align
investments
with business
objectives
Improve
predictability of
product
success
Manage and
optimize project
execution
Measure team
performance
and project
results
Best Practice Processes and Guidance
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Align investments with business objectives
Portfolio
Management
Increase investment value by avoiding offstrategy projects that waste an average of
10% of IT budgets*
 Measure, analyze and objectively
evaluate investment scenarios
 Focus on business direction and strategy, rather
than resource utilization
 Pre-configured product portfolio workspace,
backed by best practices provides day-1
productivity
Ensure strategic
alignment of planned
investments to
business priorities
 Central oversight of budget, risks,
demands and investment management
 Information captured at all levels of the
organization (in one solution) for consistent
decision making
 Analyze and prioritize enterprise architecture work
identified by Rational System Architect
“Reduce cost per project by 37%, eliminate 78%
of redundant projects, and increase IT staff
productivity by 14%.*”
* Source: IDC whitepaper, “How Project and Portfolio Management Solutions are Delivering Value to Organizations”, September 2008
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Product
Management
Improve predictability of product success
Improve investment strategy to drive
20% higher margin in the market*
 Organize work around value; identify and
sequence activities and deliverables
 Perform cost/benefit and trade-off analysis to
make informed investment decisions
COST / BENEFIT
 Quickly align and adjust roadmaps to changing
market needs and business value
 Decision-making based on objective information
for strategic and agile roadmaps
 Analyze stakeholder needs to drive scope
and objectives
 Understand the market needs that will return
value to the business
 Information captured at all levels of the
organization via a collaborative web environment
Focus on customer value
to drive success and
product profitability
“By enhancing our decision making,
[IBM Rational] has helped us choose the products
and features that deliver the greatest customer
and business value. This has improved our
productivity and reduced costs because we are
developing the right products for our markets.”
Tobias Chyssler, Product Management
ABB Process Automation
* Source: Aberdeen Group Study, “The Product Portfolio Management Benchmark Report”, August 2006
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Project
Management
Manage and optimize project execution
Enable collaborative and process-driven
execution to overcome the issues that
cause 59% of projects to fail*
 Reduce delays and mistakes
with real-time, “in-context” collaboration
Scope, Tasks
and Time
Financials
Built on the Jazz open architecture to transparently and
seamlessly integrate across disciplines or the entire
application lifecycle
Software as a Service (SaaS) for lower cost of
ownership, ease of deployment and faster time to market
Integrated
project
management
 Guide teams on best practice processes for
increased consistency and predictability
Supports traditional, agile and hybrid methodologies
Leverages best practices and the integrated IBM
Rational Software Delivery Platform
 Validate investments continually
Analyze and estimate costs, benefits and risks; redeploy
resources with changing priorities
Resources
Skills
“Today we have higher quality in our projects. There
is no doubt that the control of the projects has been
improved – it has saved us time and a lot of
resources”
-- Kasper Schmidt, Manager City of Copenhagen
* Source: IBM Study, “Making Change Work” (http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/bus/pdf/gbe03100-usen-03-making-change-work.pdf), 2008
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Measure team performance and project results
Performance
Management
Automate project and process measurement
to improve team productivity by 10-15%*
 Measure, monitor, analyze and trend
project and process performance
Access data across the entire application
lifecycle through the open Jazz architecture
Real-time
information in a
single view across
projects, products
and geographies
Automatic collection of data using built-in
collectors
Built-in library of industry best practice metrics
and dashboards
 Continual process improvement to
improve organizational outcomes
Process improvement and best practice guidance
through the Measured Capability Improvement
Framework (MCIF)
Built on best-in-class business intelligence
platform from IBM Cognos
Control
Settings
Better
Results
“Organizations exercising world-class
performance management practices enjoy
a 2.4 times market returns of
typical companies”
BusinessWeek Study:
The Payoff of Pervasive Performance Management
* Source: Based on hundreds of client interactions of the IBM Rational Services Organization, as observed by VP Services, IBM Rational
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Achieving great value from your investments
Balancing the top-line and bottom-line drives real returns
Enable improved
Enable collaborative
decision-making and
and process-driven
increased
execution to
predictability through
overcome the issues
best practices and
that cause 59% of
collaboration across
projects to fail
disciplines
Improve
Organize
work
investment
around
strategy
tovalue
drive
customer
20% higher
to drive
success
margin
in the
and
profitability
market
( Risk )
(
Increase
investment
Objectively
evaluate
value by avoiding
offinvestments
to align
to
strategy projects
business
prioritiesthat
and
waste
an
average
reduce costs of
10% of IT budgets
Benefits
Total Asset Cost
)
Automate
project
Measure project
and
and process
process
measurement
to
performance for
improve
team
continual
productively
by
improvements
10-15%
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The Right investment strategy leads to Real returns
Improve value and efficiency, manage risk
Improve Benefits
 20% margin increase
from better investment
strategies
 10-15% ROI increase
from faster time to market
Reduce Cost
Control Risk
 Reduce portfolio spending by
10% by removing offstrategy and duplicate
projects
 Optimize execution to
overcome issues that cause
59% of projects to fail
 Automate reporting to
improve productivity by 10%
 Real-time status & alerts
reduce failure costs up to
100x
Sample ROI on a $10M Annual Portfolio with 50 resources over 5 years
Goal
Issue
Intended Benefit
Improve Benefits
Customer and market requirement churn impacts speed to
market and adoption impacting ROI stream up to 33%
Hit the right market at the right time with the
right offer and improve project returns 20%
$2,000,000
Reduce Cost
Off-strategy investments and redundant projects consume
20% of a typical portfolio
Re-deploy capital to more valuable
investments, saving 10% annually
$1,000,000
Control Risk
Time consuming and error-prone reporting fails to identify
risks that cost 100X to fix and drive project costs up an
average of 30%
Improve team productivity 10% through
reporting automation and risk mitigation
Savings
Cost
Cost / Benefit
Benefit / (cost)
$ 1,000,000
$4,000,000
PPM solution
$500,000
$3,500,000
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Manage costs by improving productivity
ECONOMIC IMPACTS
Business
Value
Improve
Automation
Improve
Collaboration
Improve
Process
Increase Flexibility
& Investment Value
Cost to Implement:
Cost to Implement:
Cost to Implement:
Cost to Implement:
<5%
5%-10%
10%-35%
25%-50%
Very predictable
Predictable
Some culture change
Much culture change
Productivity:
Productivity:
Productivity:
Productivity:
5-25%
15-35%
25-100%
2x – 10x
Timeframe = Days
Timeframe = Weeks
Timeframe = Months
Timeframe = Years
Efficiency
Control
Implementation costs
are per person per year
Individual
Team
Organization
Business
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Summary: Why choose the IBM Rational solutions?
Addressing your needs through differentiation
We offer… Modular, flexible, open and integrated solutions
Scalable/Extensible
ALM and Jazz
 Scalable and extensible
including integrations with
industry-leading software
estimation tools and support for
heterogeneous environments
 Proven and integrated solutions
that span the complete
application lifecycle
 Leverage the power of Jazz,
enabling improved decisionmaking through collaboration
across the disciplines
Process Improvement
 Measured benchmarks to
ensure progress towards
business objectives using the
Measured Capability
Improvement Framework
Methodologies
 Simultaneous support for
traditional, agile and hybrid
methodologies for added
flexibility
Software & Systems Delivery
 Integrated solutions that are
optimized for both Software and
Systems Delivery
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Product, Project and Portfolio Management
Additional information
For additional information on the IBM Rational Product, Project and Portfolio
Management solutions please refer to the following websites:
IBM Rational Product, Project and Portfolio Management:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/offerings/ppm/
IBM Rational Portfolio Management:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/offerings/ppm/portfolio.html
IBM Rational Product Management:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/offerings/ppm/product.html
IBM Rational Project Management:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/offerings/ppm/project.html
IBM Rational Performance Measurement and Management
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/offerings/ppm/performance.html
IBM Rational Process Management:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/offerings/ppm/process.html
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Portfolio
Management
Product
Management
Project
Management
“Doing the
Right Things”
“Right Market,
Right Time,
Right Scope”
“Doing Things
Right”
 Rational
Focal Point
 Rational Focal
Point
 Rational
Insight
 Rational
Insight
 Rational Focal
Point for Project
Management **
 Rational
System
Architect
 Rational Insight
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Management
“Measure
Performance
Against
Business
Objectives”
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Insight
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Measured
Capability
Improvement
Framework
Best Practice Processes and Guidance
Integrated Software & Product Lifecycle Management Platform
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Customer Success Stories
“Today we have higher quality in our projects …There is no
doubt that the control of the projects has been improved – it
has saved us time and a lot of resources …”
-- Kasper Schmidt, Manager City of Copenhagen
“Management now has much better project status
information to support crucial portfolio decisions.”
-- Henrik Jeberg, CIO, Okonomistyrelsen, the Danish
Agency for Governmental Management
“By enhancing our decision-making....This has improved our
productivity and reduced costs because we are developing
the right products for our markets.”
-- Tobias Chyssler, Product Management
ABB Process Automation - System
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Service Offerings for IBM Rational Solutions
 Assessments
 Objective insight and
recommendations for
improvement
Accelerates deployment enabling rapid
realization of benefits
Provides a roadmap aligned to business
needs and current situation
Aligns to best practices utilizing IBM’s thoughtleader expertise
Mitigates risks commonly associated with
introducing new technologies and processes
Provides a path to quick self-sufficiency through
mentoring
 Deployment Services
 Deployment planning
 Installation and administration
 Usage model definition and
configuration
 End-user rollout
 Follow-up deployment review
 Measured Capability
Improvement Framework
(MCIF) Service Offering
 4 phases for well-governed
process improvement
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Managing Across the Portfolio
Missing Category
Target Investment Level
P1
P2
P3
Serious overinvestment
P4
P5
P6
P7
P8
 Achieve balanced investment across the portfolio
 Assure that the portfolio covers the marketscape  note missing category
 Target investment level for each portfolio element is a function of:
 Strategic alignment
 Customer and market demand, competitive positioning
 Investment, returns, ROI, etc.
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Drill Down into Product Line Sub-Portfolio
Portfolio Drill-Down
Target Investment Level
P1
P2
P3
Drill down into product line
P5, and consider
investment into the
individual products/offerings
that comprise the product
line and again balance
investment against similar
drivers.
P4
P5
P6
P7
P8
Target Investment
Level
P5-a
P5-b
P5-c
P5-d
P5-e
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Drill Down into Specific Product Features/Requirements
Drill down into Product P5-e and
prioritize features and
requirements within products,
again applying business drivers.
Target Investment
Level
P5-a
P5-b
P5-c
P5-d
P5-e
RESULT:
Consistent
process that
scales from
portfolio, to
product line, to
product, to
product features
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Repository for Project Portfolio information
 Escape chaos of
spreadsheets, documents
and emails
 Standardize submission of
new project requests
 Easily answer questions
like:
 what projects are
running?
 what new projects are
being requested?
 who is asking for them
and why?
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Evaluate & Prioritize Projects
 Evaluate new project
requests against strategic
objectives
 Prioritize projects by
expected value, contribution
to objectives
 Visualize trade-offs – value
vs. cost vs. risk
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Monitor & Review Portfolio
 Produce real-time
portfolio status
overviews
 Reduces need for
reporting
 Reprioritize or cancel
failing projects sooner
to reduce waste
 Maximize the business
value of the portfolio in
relation to IT costs
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Crystallize business priorities for IT action
Make planning actionable
 Prioritize competing projects and supporting
investments
 New integration enables cost-benefit and trade-off
analysis of the business and IT architecture
 Enable collaboration on priorities across
broad constituencies
 Show impact of portfolio decisions
 New workflow to extend application planning
into enterprise architecture
 Assure projects remain aligned
with business goals
 New IT roadmaps guide planning to successful outcomes
“[We] saved time and money by prioritizing
applications for reuse, and by identifying areas
where spend is not aligned to the IT roadmap.”
Rational System Architect
Rational Focal Point for Product
and Portfolio Management
Chief Information Officer
Large Financial Organization
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Adapt the project to changing business and customer needs
Involve stakeholders continuously
to achieve positive results
 Identify changing needs early
Engage continuously with your stakeholder via the
collaborative web environment
 Evaluate trade-offs and select
optimal solutions
Generate an optimized roadmap and assess impact
against that roadmap
 Monitor investments to ensure delivery of
promised scope and highest value items
Adjust project investment levels based on new
customer needs, changing economic conditions,
and shifting business objectives
Rational Focal Point for Product
and Portfolio Management
Rational Requirements Composer
“The biggest return on investment…
is improved customer satisfaction because
they know we’re listening to them. Additionally,
we feel more confident that we are improving our
product to better meet our customers’ needs.”
Rich Paulson, VP of Marketing Product Management,
MarketLinx
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Confidently deliver incremental improvement
Drive necessary change at lower cost
with a proven, repeatable approach
 Reach goals and maximize value
with improvement roadmap
Identify customer business challenge and align to
operational objectives
Apply proven best practice to achieve objectives
Progress checkpoints
Continuous
and measurable
improvement
Data analysis
 Drive continuous and measurable
improvement
End-to-end lifecycle framework drives 15-25%
productivity improvement of selected priorities
 Check results and iterate as needed
Progress checkpoints and data analysis
determines results and improvements still needed
Measured Capability Improvement Framework
Learning opportunities
“IBM’s advice was not ‘product centric’ but rather
focused on the business outcomes for Qantas
and how we could go about achieving those.”
Brad Tate, Manager Enterprise Solutions
Qantas
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Drive business innovation and reduce costs through measured
and continuous process improvement
Empower teams to measure,
manage, and incrementally improve
their software delivery capability
 MCIF is a phased approach that helps teams
 Adopt an incremental, measured approach
to transformation
 Focus on the core practices that matter most
 Accelerate adoption through out-of-the-box assets
 Articulate capability improvements in terms
of business value
 Support any method optimized for Agile practices
Phase
1
Establish business and
operational objectives
Phase
2
Prioritize practices and
define roadmap
Phase
3
Accelerate adoption
with tools and services
Phase
4
Report, analyze and act
on results
Start next incremental
improvement
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Measure and manage software delivery performance
Deliver performance and predictability
with integrated lifecycle intelligence
 Measure process and project outcomes
Real-time intelligence based on IT industry
best-practice metrics, dashboards and models
 Inform decisions and drill into issues
Alerts and automated analysis focuses owner
to take action on root causes, before mitigation
costs balloon 1000%
Integrated
lifecycle
intelligence
Control
Settings
Better
Results
 Take real-time action on relevant data
Proven BI-backbone automates collection and
analysis to improve lifecycle productivity 10-15%
Rational Insight
“Organizations exercising world-class
performance management practices enjoy
a 2.4 times market returns of
typical companies”
BusinessWeek Study:
The Payoff of Pervasive Performance Management
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Why IBM Rational Insight?
 Monitor and analyze project and
process performance
Collaborate by leveraging an
open Jazz architecture
Automate collection of actual data
with built-in collectors
Report on relevant data with a
built-in library of industry best
practice metrics and dashboards
 Drive business innovation and
reduce costs through measured and
continuous process improvement
 Built on best-in-class business
intelligence platform from IBM
Cognos
Real-time
information in a
single view across
projects, products
and geographies
“Until now we were gathering metrics by manual
methods. Rational Insight simplifies the presentation...
Overall great tool to have for optimizing project efforts
and giving management a birds eye view of the
project performance at all stages.”
-- Unisys
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Jazz-based collaborative Project and Portfolio Management
 Optimize software delivery - minimize costs
Plan and steer projects with dynamically
changing circumstances
 Capture objective measures of value and cost
Insight into scope, opportunities, resources and
risks
 Better decision making using informed views
Views into past performance, current status,
and predicted estimates-at-complete including
values, trends and variances
 Extensible planning engine
Connect to and integrate with many sources
to support heterogeneous software
Open and extensible on
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 Collaborate in context
 Right-size governance
 Day one productivity
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Manage the impact of change, consolidation and M&A
Increase operational efficiency,
reduce recurring costs and mitigate risks
Redundant, Inefficient, High Cost
 Gain clarity in enterprise decision making
 Enhanced web collaboration creates a common
perspective of the organization, from one location
 New enterprise search quickly reveals critical data
required for accurate decisions
 Identify redundancy and reuse
of business and technology assets
Increase
Operational
Efficiency
 Enhanced heat maps report IT information
in business-friendly formats
Consolidated, Reused and Optimized!
 Identify and minimize execution risk
 New “work space” feature groups information
for more accurate integration planning
Rational System Architect
“We used enterprise architecture to guide
the consolidation of our US operations in an
efficient and cost-effective manner.”
Director of IT
Leading Express Shipping Organization
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Enterprise Architecture Management
IBM Rational System Architect
Gartner Group EA Magic Quadrant, 2008
Better
Decisions
Prioritize
Investments
Manage
Risk
Strategy
to Results
 Define Vision: Assure products support
business need
 Govern and Manage Architecture
Development: Plan, Govern, & Execute
Solution Implementation
 Identify IT/Engineering assets and
applications that support design
environment
 As-Is versus To-Be Analysis
 Impact Analysis across Organization:
Control expenses, indentify reuse
 Frameworks: Defense Architecture
(DoDAF, NAF, MoDAF), TOGAF
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Execute efficiently through global collaboration and agility
Reduce costs, improve governance,
and assess risk as a unified team
 Unify globally diverse teams of all sizes
Support thousands of developers, stakeholders and
partners on multiple projects with enhanced scalability,
security, high availability and performance
 Enable teams to adapt rapidly
Identify high risk plan items early with enhanced
agile planning and schedule risk assessment
 Integrate existing tool and infrastructure
investments
Consolidate and reduce costs by supporting
J2EE, .NET, IBM i, System z, Microsoft Sharepoint®,
Lotus Quickr® and business partner offerings
Rational Team Concert
“We've seen a 30% productivity gain on our
global projects. The ability to easily suspend and
resume work, along with advanced SCM
features, helps team members juggle multiple
tasks and priorities without missing a beat.”
Alain Bergeron
VP Consulting Services, CGI
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IBM Software Group | Rational software
Deliver quality solutions to meet stakeholder objectives
Align project deliverables to
stakeholder business needs
 Smart team collaboration leads
to faster stakeholder consensus
Web-based review enhances communication
to help decrease project overruns 20%
by reducing requirement errors
 Requirement definition techniques
improve effectiveness
Visual and textual prototyping speeds consensus
and improves productivity, reducing costs up to 10%
 Align business and IT through
application lifecycle
Traceability keeps analysts, architects,
developers, and testers aligned to business
needs and requirements
Rational Requirements Composer
“… We can work collaboratively with the
business stakeholders to visualize requirements.
User interface sketches and story boards can be
drawn…to elaborate the user experience in order
to further elicit and validate requirements...”
Kenny Lew, CEO
Noblestar
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