IBM Rational software provides tools for organizations to better govern processes around software and systems development. It helps organizations better manage investments, control risks and change, while providing flexibility to run the business thereby leading to improved business results.

Gemini’s highly-skilled consultants are experienced in designing, developing, implementing and maintaining sophisticated technology solutions that leverage the IBM Rational Software Development Platform. Be it a compliance mandate driving you to manage software assets better, or productivity improvement of your organization, or the need to monitor your organization’s IT portfolio, Gemini can help you streamline your process, integrate your existing tools and, install and configure new tools to implement the software development infrastructure.

A typical software development lifecycle includes several stages, starting with the inception of a business idea and ends with a quality tested operationally functioning solution. Gemini’s expertise in applying various toolsets to the stages is depicted in the picture below.

Program Objectives (Process and Portfolio Management)

Portfolio Manager: IBM® Rational® Portfolio Manager enables companies to scrutinize internal processes, provide real-time visibility into operations, and incorporate discipline and intelligence into IT decision making.

Rational Unified Process: RUP is a process framework that delivers proven best practices and a configurable architecture.

Rational Method Composer: IBM® Rational® Method Composer is a flexible process platform containing processes and tools for use in multiple businesses.

Software Asset Management

Rational ClearCase LT and Clearcase Multisite: Provides life cycle management and control of software development assets across geographically distributed environments, and includes automatic backup and restore functions, thereby supporting business continuity in the event of disaster.

Rational Clearquest and Clearquest Multisite: Automates and enforces development processes for better insight, predictability and control of the software lifecycle. Electronic signatures, user authentication, user authorization, audit trails and lifecycle traceability help meet compliance mandates.

Rational Buildforge: Provides reliable, high-performance builds and streamlines software delivery throughout the development lifecycle. Improves product quality, speeds development cycles and increases staff productivity – using the tools you have in place today.

Business Requirements and Modeling

Rational Requisite Pro: Requirements and use case management tool for project teams who want to improve the communication of project goals, enhance collaborative development, reduce project risk and increase the quality of applications before deployment.

IBM Websphere Business Modeler: Helps organizations fully visualize, comprehend, and document their business processes. You can model business processes, then deploy, monitor, and take actions based upon KPIs, alerts, and triggers for continuous optimization.

System Design and Construction

Rational Rose: Design software solutions using the industry standard Unified Modeling Language™ (UML™) version 1.x. Architects, analysts and software and database designers can all use the Rational Rose family to produce visual models of software architectures, databases, business requirements and reusable assets, as well as to formulate management-level communications.

Rational Software Architect: Advanced model driven development and static analysis for software architects and model-driven developers creating Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), J2EE and portal applications.

Rational Data Architect and Data Modeler: An enterprise data modeling, integration, and development tool designed to help data architects understand heterogeneous data assets and their relationships, design federated databases and streamline database projects.

Rational Application Developer for Websphere, Rational Web Developer: An easy-to-learn IDE that helps Web developers build, test and deploy Web, SOA and Java applications.

Software Testing and End User Release

Rational Functional and Manual Tester: An advanced, automated functional and regression testing tool for testers and GUI developers who need superior control for testing Java®, Microsoft® Visual Studio .NET®, and Web-based applications.

Rational Robot: General-purpose test automation tool for QA teams who want to perform functional testing of client/server applications.

Rational Test Manager: Central console for test activity management, execution and reporting. Built for extensibility, it supports everything from pure manual test approaches to various automated paradigms including unit testing, functional regression testing, and performance testing.

Rational Performance Tester: Multi-user performance testing tool for any team needing to validate web application scalability before deployment.

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