Rational Software Engineering for Educational Development (SEED) Program

Software Architecture & Design using IBM Rational Software Architecture

Rational is an Object-oriented   programming (OOP) and unified modeling language (UML) tool to design enterprise-level software applications and components. It creates visual software application models under object oriented principles.

IBM Rational Software Architect provides comprehensive design, modeling and development tools for model-driven development (MDD) using robust support for Unified Modeling Language (UML). Rational Software Architect is built on the Eclipse open – source software framework and is extensible with variety of Eclipse plug-ins. A focus on architecture and design can help organization turn complex Software into simple design and deliver business goals. IBM Architecture and design solution help align products, Systems, and IT. It also help deliver quicker, based gain control over your evolving architecture.

Business Intelligence Using Cognos

Business Intelligence helps an Organization drive better decisions, achieve better results, and gain a deeper understanding of trends, Opportunities, weaknesses and threats. From Business Intelligence to Financial Performance and Strategy Management to analytics application, IBM Cognos software can provide what an organization needs to become top performing and analytics-driven.IBM Cognos BI lets them explore data, in any combination and over any time period with a broad range of analytics capabilities. With the ability to interact, search and assemble all perspectives of a business, IBM Cognos BI provides a limitless Business Intelligence workspace.IBM Cognos Report Studio is one of the main features of Cognos BI and it is a web- based report – writing tool. While professional BI Report Authors can create reports in a single environment and distribute them to the enterprise, business users create their own reports or modify existing reports with ease.

Enterprise Application for Cloud Environment using IBM Rational Application Development & IBM SmartCloud

Businesses today are much aware of the benefits and Importance of Cloud Computing. It is now key enabler of better service delivery and greater value. It offers a number of advantages over more traditional application deployment resources, easier and less expensive maintenance, and the ability to deliver consistent services through a variety of channels. Cloud computing also enhanced composite offerings to market very quickly.Developing cloud-based applications requires new approaches that address the unique requirements of Software-as-a-service.IBM Application Development Services for Cloud delivers on the promise of cloud application development by building custom applications from implementation planning to design, development and deployment.

Enterprise Mobile applications using IBM Worklight

IBM Worklight overview enables organizations to develop rich,cross – platform applications  that can access the full capabilities of a wide range of mobile devices.It’s part of IBM’s comprehensive mobile solution that helps:

  • Build rich, cross-platform applications using standard technology,such as HTML5, the native client platform software development kits(SDKs), and integration with the growing ecosystem of third-party tools, libraries, and frameworks.
  • Connect mobile applications to a variety of enterprise back-end systems and Cloud services through mobile-optimized middleware
  • Manage a portfolio of applications and the life cycle of their content from one centralized administration console
  • Secure mobile applications through numerous protection mechanisms, such as encrypted storage, online and offline authentication.

Software Quality & Automated Testing with Rational Quality Manager & rational Functional Tester

Rational Quality Manager is a web-based centralized  test management environment that provides a collaborative and customizable solution for test planning, workflow control, tracking and metrics reporting.

IBM Rational Functional Tester is an automated testing tool with capabilities for functional, regression, GUI, and data-driven testing. It supports a range of applications, such as Net, Java, Siebel, SAP, Terminal emulator-based applications, PowerBuilder, Ajax, Adobe Flex, Dojo Tookit, GEF and Adobe PDF documents. The solution helps minimize test maintenance, enhances automation and builds speed test creation for new users. An integration with the IBM Rational Quality manager solution aids in simplifying the testing process, helping to ensure quality, reliability, performance and compliance of your product and software solutions.