Rational software helps you drive greater value from your software investments and deliver innovative products and services. It enables organizations to seize business opportunities, achieve precision in desired business outcomes, and execute with reduced risk and cost.

Rational software enables your business to:

• Transform information technology - deliver software at the speed of your business demands.
• Optimize technology assets - lower the total cost of multiplatform applications.
• Deliver smart products - build smarter, innovative, high quality systems and products.

Rational solutions for:

• Business planning and alignment - Enable effective enterprise change by aligning business technology and operational execution to strategy.
• Portfolio, product, and project management - Align software and systems investments with business objectives to improve project and portfolio success.
• Design and development - Design, implement and test software, applications, products, and systems.
• Product and application lifecycle management - Manage the flow of people, process and information across the software and systems delivery lifecycle.
• Security and compliance management - Secure applications, protect data and meet regulatory and corporate compliance requirements for applications and web sites.
• Small and midsized business - Ensure software and systems delivery success for small and midsized businesses.