Rational Software Architect

Part of the Rational Software Architect family

A flexible, extensible, easy to use platform for delivering high quality architectures

Tame complexity, manage risk, ensure high quality software, and shorten the learning curve of technology or application concerns to allow you to focus on creative solutions and get to market faster with architectures and applications that are built to last.

• New! – Enhanced BPMN2 support to interchange BPMN 2.0 compliant models
• Sketching a simple and informal way to capture ideas and thoughts that can quickly kickstart a project and be transformed later on to formal architectures.
• Manage risk, quality, and change more effectively; flush out and better understand requirements; enable more accurate planning and estimating.
• Maintain more effective control of architecture and delivery outcomes.
• Effectively manage and re-use solution architectures and architectural building blocks.
• Manage evolution of, and adherence to, design contracts as development is carried out by geographically and organizationally distributed teams
• Focus on creative aspects of solutions and avoid mundane, repetitive work.
• Leverage scalable infrastructure services with access to the Cloud.
• Quickly create custom factory solutions based upon your own domain examples, using exemplar-driven authoring tools. Use domain specific languages to represent your unique problem and solution domains. Automate development with Patterns Based Engineering.
• Enhance the capabilities of Rational Software Architect with various extensions for a variety of problem and industry domains: Rational Software Architect Extension for Integrated Architecture Frameworks, Rational Software Architect Extension for Deployment Planning, Rational Software Architect Extension for Deployment Automation Planning, Rational Deployment Content Pack for RAFW and WAS , Rational Software Architect Extension for SOA and WebSphere, Rational Software Architect Extension for C++, Rational Software Architect Extension for Communications Applications, Rational Software Architect Simulation Toolkit
• Additional integrations with the IBM® Rational® software delivery platform include IBM® Rational® Team Concert, IBM® Rational® Asset Manager, IBM® Rational® Requirements Management, WebSphere Business Modeler, Rational System Architect, and more.
• Open and highly extensible to adapt to your needs. Powered by Eclipse 3.6, features are optionally installable and configurable at a fine-grained level to expose only the tooling capabilities you truly need.
• Operating systems supported: Linux, Windows family

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• General modeling with the industry's most robust support for UML 2.2 and a configurable modeling environment that can be tailored to expose "just enough" UML based on role, model, life-cycle phase, and current task

• BPMN2 support including interchange with products supporting BPMN2 standards compliance like WebSphere Business Modeler

• Requirements integration, with end-to-end traceability and impact analysis

• Model analyses and metrics; extensible query and analysis frameworks

• Model reporting with BIRT

• Rich SCM integrations, model compare-merge, and extensible team modeling framework

• Rapidly develop custom software factories

  • Quickly create UML-based domain-specific modeling languages tailored to your problem and solution domains
  • Use graphical mapping tools to quickly development model-to-model transformations
  • Use exemplar-driven pattern capture tools combined with a rich JET authoring environment to quickly develop model-to-text/code transformations

• Lifcycle integrations

  • IBM® InfoSphere® Data Architect
  • IBM® Rational® Requisite Pro
  • IBM® Rational® Asset Manager
  • IBM® Rational® Team Concert
  • IBM® Rational® ClearCase
  • IBM® Rational® ClearQuest (shell-share)
  • IBM® Rational® DOORS (third-party integration)
  • IBM Rational System Architect
  • IBM Rational Requirements Composer

• Built-in transformations

  • UML object model to SQL logical data model (IBM InfoSphere Data Architect)
  • UML to XSD; XSD to UML
  • UML to Java, Java to UML
  • UML to JPA, JPA to UML
  • UML to C#, C# to UML
  • UML to VB.NET, VB.NET to UML
  • UML to CORBA

• Graphical editors

  • Java
  • C#
  • VB.NET

• Java architectural analysis, review, and metrics tools

• C# review and metrics tools

• Cloud Client console for interacting with IBM Compute Cloud environments: connect to the Cloud environment and discover, provision, activate, and relinquish Cloud resources

• Rational Software Architect’s features can be extended using the following extensions:

Rational Software Architect Extension for Integrated Architecture Frameworks	Leverage Integrated Architecture Frameworks and integration with requirements management to represent business concerns and richly interconnect them to the requirements and representations of your solution architectures
Rational Software Architect Extension for Deployment Planning	Bridge the Development-Operations communication gap with semantically rich topology templates and deployment models to ensure that your software solutions deploy correctly on the first attempt
Rational Software Architect Extension for SOA and WebSphere	Extends the value of IBM® Rational® Software Architect to the delivery of Java Enterprise Edition solutions, SOA solutions, and solutions targeted to IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Portal Server
Rational Software Architect Extension for C++	Extend the value of IBM® Rational® Software Architect to solutions that include C++ implementations
Rational Software Architect Extension for Communications Applications	Extends the value of IBM® Rational® Software Architect or IBM® Rational® Software Architect for WebSphere to provide advanced design and delivery tools for solutions that include Communications Enabled Applications (CEAs) and integration of CEAs with back-end operational and billing systems (OSS/BSS)
Rational Software Architect Simulation Toolkit	Extends the value of IBM® Rational® Software Architect or IBM® Rational® Software Architect for WebSphere to be able to test and validate your architecture to ensure high quality applications, by providing advanced capabilities for requirements identification and validation, design review and validation, and front-end quality assurance

OS	Software	Hardware
Windows, Linux	Windows Windows Server 2003 Standard / Enterprise Edition (x86-32 and x86-64) Windows XP Professional (x86-32 and x86-64) Windows Vista Business / Enterprise / Ultimate (x86-32 and x86-64) Windows Server 2003 Standard / Enterprise Edition (x86-32 and x86-64) Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition (x86-32 and x86-64) Windows 7 Professional / Enterprise / Ultimate (x86-32 and x86-64) On all supported service packs Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9.0 x86-32 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10.0 (x86-32) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.0 (x86-32 and x86-64) SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 11.0 (x86-32) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11.0 (x86-32 and x86-64) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.0 Desktop editions (x86-32 and x86-64) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.0 Advanced Platform (x86-32 and x86-64) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 6.0 Advanced Platform (x86-32 and x86-64) Ubuntu 10.04 LTS x86-32 On all supported service packs and updates.	Display: 1024 x 768 minimum; 1280 X 1024 recommended Memory: 1GB RAM minimum; 2GB RAM or more recommended Processor: Intel® Pentium® III 800 MHz or higher recommended