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Accelerate design and development 3

● Overview 3● IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software 4● IBM Rational Team Concert 6● IBM Rational Software Architect 8● IBM Rational Asset Manager 10

Reduce cost of quality 12

● Overview 12● IBM Rational Requirements Composer 13● IBM Rational Quality Manager 15● IBM Rational Functional Tester 17● IBM Rational Performance Tester 19● IBM Rational PurifyPlus 21

Optimize web security 23

● Overview 23● IBM Rational AppScan 24● IBM Rational AppScan OnDemand 25

Reduce web compliance costs 26

● Overview 26● IBM Rational Policy Tester 27● IBM Rational Policy Tester OnDemand Privacy, Quality and Accessibility Edition 28● IBM Rational AppScan 29● IBM Rational AppScan OnDemand 30

Reduce software deployment and operational costs 31

● Overview 31● IBM Rational Software Architect 33● IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere 34● IBM Rational Asset Manager 10


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Accelerate design and development > Overview

Accelerate design and development

OverviewTo succeed in today’s marketplace, the ability to

rapidly build, customize and deliver high-quality busi-

ness solutions is essential. However, software proj-

ects often hit roadblocks or end up costing more

than budgeted. Geographically displaced “virtual”

teams are frequently unable to effectively collaborate

with agility, resulting in key design considerations

often being overlooked when building their

solution. The result is that organizations often find

themselves unable to leverage the full power of

IBM WebSphere® solutions because their software

delivery teams lack necessary skills, time, effective

collaboration or resources.

● Could your development teams benefit from an

environment that accelerates the development,

test and deployment of high-quality enterprise

applications customized for WebSphere software?

Check out IBM Rational® Application Developer

for WebSphere Software solutions.

● Is it possible to adhere to agile, formal or hybrid

development practices and maintain full project

visibility for effective management, even while

developing complex software in distributed

teams? Can you have lean work management,

source code management and defect manage-

ment integrated into a development environment

customized for IBM software? Check out

IBM Rational Team Concert™ solutions.● Can you manage the complexity of WebSphere

software solutions and their deployment? Can

teams design, deliver and deploy robust, scalable,

innovative solutions that leverage the latest tech-

nology and performance benefits of using

WebSphere software? To capitalize on your

WebSphere investment in your software delivery

shop, check out IBM Rational Software Architect

solutions.● Teams are often solving the same or similar prob-

lems, duplicating effort. The invisible threads con-

necting software outputs are too often stored in

someone’s head or personal desktop. Formal

handoffs between teams are often manual and

poorly managed. Can you benefit from an effective

asset strategy that helps maximize reuse and

existing asset visibility and management? Check

out IBM Rational Asset Manager solutions.


● Overview

● IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software

● IBM Rational Team Concert

● IBM Rational Software Architect

● IBM Rational Asset Manager

Reduce cost of quality

Optimize web security

Reduce web compliance costs

Reduce software deployment and operational costs

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Accelerate design and development > IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software

IBM Rational Application Developerfor WebSphere SoftwareIBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere

Software (Rational Application Developer) solutions

help Java™ developers quickly design, develop,

assemble, test and deploy Java; Java Platform,

Enterprise Edition (Java EE); portal; web; web

services; and service-oriented architecture (SOA)

applications. Using visual development tools, the

solution helps team members learn Java applica-

tions faster. In an Evans Data Corporation user

satisfaction survey of developers, the Rational

Application Developer for WebSphere Software,

Version 7.5 solution was chosen as the leading web

design and development tool.1 Rational Application

Developer solutions are particularly well-suited

to the WebSphere development environment in

part because of their capabilities supporting

IBM WebSphere Application Server feature

packs—including performance analysis and profiling

on the server, integrated WebSphere test servers,

and seamless Rational Team Concert collaboration.

Deliver IBM WebSphere Application Server andIBM WebSphere Portal software solutions anaverage of 40 percent faster.2● Gain faster development and simpler implementa-

tion with Java EE technology.● Reduce time writing and developing code with the

help of automated code generation.● Leverage quick fixes, wizards, validation, migration

and refactoring support.

Build responsive SOA, Web 2.0 and communica-tions applications faster.● Visually construct rich Internet applications and

SOA services with simplicity.● Enable developers to learn as they go and reduce

the barrier to entry for new technology.

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CETaqua

ChallengeCETaqua, a not-for-profit water management technol-ogy research center in Barcelona, Spain, was using anintegrated solution based on IBM WebSphere Portaland IBM Lotus® Domino® software. Because the versions of its Lotus Domino and WebSphere Portalsoftware were no longer supported, the research center decided to migrate to the newest versions ofthe software.

SolutionIBM helped CETaqua upgrade to WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 and Lotus Domino Enterprise Server 8.5 software and installed the latest version of the IBM Rational Application Developer forWebSphere Software application, which the organiza-tion uses to develop WebSphere Portal portlets,IBM Lotus Notes® servlets and WebSphere servlets.

Benefits● Improved performance and response times● Gained the ability to take advantage of

Web 2.0 technology in development processes

Read the entire case study.

Collaborate and deliver within agile projects.● Realize up to 60 percent faster test cycles with

integrated profiling and testing.3

● Use Rational Team Concert integrations for collab-

orative team debug and code coverage as well as

work item and source-code management within

geographically distributed agile teams.

Rely on an integrated platform for life-cycleapplication management.● Incrementally deploy to integrated WebSphere

Application Server software and IBM WebSphere

Portal Server software to reduce deployment and

testing effort by up to 80 percent.4

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Accelerate design and development > IBM Rational Team Concert

IBM Rational Team ConcertIBM Rational Team Concert software helps support

agile development so you can rapidly build better

quality solutions with a comprehensive, lean

development framework that includes agile, formal

and hybrid planning and reporting. Designed to

connect dispersed WebSphere Application Server

development teams, Rational Team Concert soft-

ware helps increase individual and team productivity

and compress development cycles. Based on the

IBM Jazz™ platform, Rational Team Concert

software supports practically any plan, process

and platform. Formal planning templates support

traditional project phases, while new risk manage-

ment capabilities suit traditional, agile or hybrid

teams. It also includes customizable process

automation and guidance features that can

help you enforce your organization’s processes

to ensure predictable results.

Build better software and products.● Help maximize developer productivity through

integration with the Rational Application Developer

for WebSphere Software application.● Break through development planning challenges

with comprehensive template options.

● Improve project transparency with automated

reporting to streamline status meetings.● Organize and coordinate project and product

release plans, team plans, and individual plans in

multiple views and paradigms.

Support distributed teams.● Collaborate using capabilities such as communi-

cation in context, event feeds and automated

traceability.● Support best practices and align your project

teams, their internal organization and the artifacts

they are working on.● Simplify debugging, improve code coverage of

your test cases and resolve issues earlier by inte-

grating with the Rational Application Developer for

WebSphere Software application.● Enhance stakeholder participation with a powerful

web UI for project leads, users, customers and

external partners to participate in WebSphere

Application Server projects, check status

and submit defects.

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Simplify and automate project management.● Improve the planning and predictability of

WebSphere development projects using task

boards, Gantt charts, product backlogs

and dashboards.● Exploit a scalable infrastructure that provides

common processes and security as well as open

integrations and services.● Integrate source code management and defect

management, helping to ensure more-accurate

project updates.

Learn more:ibm.com/software/rational/products/rtc/index.html

Calculate your ROI.

Use Rational Team Concert software at no cost

for up to 10 developers.

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Large hotel chain in the United Kingdom

ChallengeA large hotel chain in the United Kingdom recognizedthat its existing booking website did not have the reliability, scalability and maintainability to meet thecurrent and future needs of the business.

SolutionThe company engaged IBM Business Partner ImtechICT to implement a comprehensive IBM WebSphereand IBM Rational solution.

Benefits● Addressed the client’s current demands and

positioned it to accommodate future demands● Handled the demands for the client’s marketing

sales days, which drive a high level of visitors, andincreased the number of bookings

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IBM Rational Software ArchitectThe IBM Rational Software Architect application is

IBM’s most comprehensive architecture, design and

construction solution. It provides architects with a

wide variety of capabilities, including software solu-

tion design for Java, Java EE and SOA applications;

architecting how that software will be deployed; and

allowing transformations between business models,

SOA models and services. Rational Software

Architect solutions can also build on Rational

Application Developer software and have all of that

application’s development capabilities, including the

WebSphere software–specific development, test and

deployment functions that help make it simpler and

faster to create WebSphere software. Rational

Software Architect solutions also include modeling

and development support for industry-specific mod-

els and standards and provide teams the ability to

create a flexible, robust architecture that is cus-

tomized for their needs.

Reduce maintenance and development costs.● Manage solution complexity with abstraction.● Capture specific business logic with just-enough

modeling and agile sketching.

Deliver applications that scale and address busi-ness objectives.● Leverage automation to support innovation

initiatives.● Free up overhead resources with pattern reuse

and analysis.

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Eastern European travel agency

ChallengeAn Eastern European travel agency needed to inte-grate an inflexible green-screen sales application withits Web-based flight booking system. It also needed toupdate its legacy systems to comply with EuropeanUnion regulations.

SolutionThe company created a new web browser–based system running on IBM WebSphere Application Serversoftware and an IBM DB2® Workgroup Server Editiondatabase. It used IBM Rational Software Architect forWebSphere Software solutions to protect, manage,model and develop the new business application witha user-friendly front end. The travel agency is creatingsimilar interfaces for other travel service products thatwill enable customers to purchase tickets directlyonline.

Benefits● Simplified and sped the creation of a robust

architecture● Enabled reuse of patterns for new offerings


Shorten learning curves and reduce the need forspecialized training.● Automate design, delivery and testing with visual

construction.

Enable continual engagement with stakeholders.● Enable quick responses to fixes and new require-

ments with iterative development.

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Accelerate design and development > IBM Rational Asset Manager

IBM Rational Asset ManagerIBM Rational Asset Manager software is a definitive

library management system you can use to catalog,

organize, use, reuse, manage and report on virtually

any type of asset for business, technology or soft-

ware across your enterprise. If your organization is

implementing business process management

(BPM) or SOA initiatives, asset management can

enhance them. Asset management keeps stake-

holders engaged in your BPM and SOA initiatives by

involving them in the governance of the BPM assets

and their relationship to solution assets. In addition,

governance for SOA development assets such as

models, code, Web Services Description Language,

or XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) improves

the quality of run-time services. They can be built

faster by reusing shared components, can be of

higher quality by ensuring that common definitions

and frameworks are used (such as an enterprise

definition of the customer XSD), and are designed to

meet service level agreement requirements from

producers and consumers.

Unlike stand-alone BPM tools and SOA registries,

IBM Rational Asset Manager software enhances

these solutions by governing the development

assets so solutions can be delivered with speed and

quality beginning with the initial design.

Catalog, govern and share assets for WebSpheresoftware using key integrations.● IBM WebSphere Business Modeler,

IBM WebSphere Integration Developer and

IBM WebSphere Business Monitor software inte-

grate with Rational Asset Manager software. Users

can browse, add and import BPM assets directly

from within their supported WebSphere products.● IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository

and Rational Asset Manager software govern the

service life cycle from creation to consumption.

The integration supports publishing and synchro-

nizing the development SOA assets with their

associated run-time services, closing the loop on

comprehensive SOA governance.

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● Rational Software Architect software integrates

with Rational Asset Manager software. Users can

publish, consume and manage model assets

including standard models, deployment and

topology models.● IBM Rational Automation Framework for

WebSphere and IBM Rational Build Forge®

software integrate with Rational Asset Manager

software. Users can publish and consume assets

such as approved deployment entities. Automation

projects can be invoked automatically based on

the life cycle of an asset.

Learn more:jazz.net/projects/rational-asset-manager/

Shell

ChallengeEvery day, more than 10 million people around theworld pull into 45,000 Shell service stations for fuel.But filling gas tanks accounts for only one part of theShell business. This global group of energy and petro-chemical companies is working to develop innovativeapproaches to addressing the world’s current andfuture energy challenges. It wanted to deliver IT services consistently, reliably and repeatedly to better support business goals, enhance businessagility and promote innovation.

SolutionShell IT teamed up with IBM to create a knowledgemanagement system (KMS) based on IBM RationalAsset Manager software to address its challenges.The KMS provides the tools to support IT processesefficiently while helping the IT group link, manage andaccess IT information from a wide range of sources.

Benefits● Better aligned IT with the business, helping to

increase business agility and facilitate innovation● Enhanced IT efficiency by providing easy access to

IT information, improving reuse of existing solutions,accelerating training and increasing staff flexibility

● Created a foundation that can be extended acrossadditional lines of business and geographic regions

Watch a video on the case study.

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Reduce cost of quality > Overview


OverviewSuccess or failure often depends on one thing:

whose product is of the highest quality? Moreover,

supporting business transformation through ongoing

innovation is essential—as is the need to optimize

results and control risk and cost while increasing

productivity of your WebSphere development. That’s

why it’s important to establish a more coordinated,

agile and transparent approach across the product

and service life cycle. IBM Rational quality manage-

ment solutions can help by offering a collaborative,

process-led approach, supported by integrated data,

tooling and real-time metrics for managing project

quality health for proactive governance.

● Do you need a better way to effectively define

requirements, gain consensus and then manage

changes? Check out IBM Rational Requirements

Composer software.

● Do you struggle with achieving quality goals and

ensuring that business-critical applications

address user requirements and performance

criteria? Check out IBM Rational Quality Manager

software.● Does your testing team struggle to keep pace with

development? Check out IBM Rational Functional

Tester software.● Are you getting optimal performance and availabil-

ity from your WebSphere applications? Check out

IBM Rational Performance Tester software.● Do your developers need to write reliable code

more quickly? Check out IBM Rational

PurifyPlus™ software.

Managing project quality can help produce significant cost savings. Accord-ing to the Carnegie Mellon SoftwareEngineering Institute, “Data indicatethat 60-80 percent of the cost of software development is in rework.”5

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● IBM Rational Requirements Composer

● IBM Rational Quality Manager

● IBM Rational Functional Tester

● IBM Rational Performance Tester

● IBM Rational PurifyPlus





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Reduce cost of quality > IBM Rational Requirements Composer

IBM Rational Requirements ComposerIBM Rational Requirements Composer software

provides a single, shared location for requirements

information, helping to unify product and service

development teams and better drive refinement of

WebSphere solutions. The software can help

improve quality, speed time to market, and keep

business objectives and IT solutions aligned

throughout the development life cycle.

Build consensus with an open, collaborative platform.● Gain a Web 2.0–based approach to team

collaboration.● Achieve customizable, real-time views of project

information and requirements.

Collaborate with business and technologyexperts.● Enable teams to examine the same requirements

from different perspectives.● Allow teams to connect artifacts to other elements

and artifacts, providing a big-picture view of a

requirement on operations.

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IAG

ChallengeIAG Consulting is a leading specialist in requirementsdiscovery and management operating across NorthAmerica. Its consultants are placed into demandingengagements in which time is invariably short and thevolume of information to be generated is substantial.IAG’s team must follow strict guidelines and adhere tocertain elicitation techniques the company has foundto be optimal. The pace and rigor of requirements dis-covery at IAG places a set of challenging requirementson any technology used by the IAG team, and conse-quently, the IAG team has seen few tools capable ofmeeting its demands.

SolutionThe IAG team developed a solid solution for its analystteams composed of IBM Rational RequirementsComposer, IBM Rational RequisitePro® and, for certain engagements, IBM Rational SoftwareArchitect software.

Benefits● Dramatically reduced rollout costs and

training costs● Consumed less than 10 percent of overhead by

using Rational tools in direct requirements discovery● Saw significant overall savings for customers across

the requirements life cycle

Read the entire case study.

Simplify information organization, interactionand retrieval.● Gain a single location for managing requirements

inputs, enabling teams to store, tag, and link infor-

mation and artifacts.● Enable users to more easily find relevant informa-

tion with robust search and filter capabilities.

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IBM Rational Quality ManagerIBM Rational Quality Manager software helps organ-

izations optimize project quality with a single, shared

test management hub that provides integrated life-

cycle support across virtually any platform and type

of testing. It provides a customizable, role-driven

solution for test planning, creation and execution as

well as workflow control, tracking and metrics

reporting. You can cut risk and cost with transparent,

role-based collaboration; speed time to market by

automating labor-intensive, error-prone activities;

and improve WebSphere applications by proactively

managing with real-time, fact-based insights. Overall,

these capabilities help align project decisions and

deliverables with business objectives.

Help reduce costs by understanding and control-ling sources of risk.● Discover defect sources for proactive corrective

action.● Prevent duplicate defects.● Prioritize testing tasks with risk-based testing tied

to business objectives using risk ranking and

assessment.

Lower cost of quality by optimizing transparencyand traceability of artifacts.● Speed cycle time by automating build, test and

debug activities.● Write builds and test cases to approved and vali-

dated requirements.● Gain comprehensive traceability of defects back to

original requirements for analysis.● Optimize lab efficiency and asset utilization to save

on test lab overhead.

Increase efficiency of manual testing.● Reduce keystrokes with the help of simplified and

faster navigation.● Rely on step-by-step capture and execution with

assisted data entry.

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Proactively govern with real-time analysis andactionable reporting.● Measure and manage quality, projects and teams

using real-time intelligence based on best-practice

metrics, customized dashboards and reports.● Respond more easily to regulatory requirements

and compliance audits.

Learn more:ibm.com/software/rational/offerings/quality/

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An IT solutions company

ChallengeHeadquartered in New Zealand, this organizationplans, develops, runs and maintains comprehensive ITsolutions. To improve insight and decision making, the company needed to automate its labor-intensive,manual test management processes.

SolutionThe business implemented IBM Rational QualityManager software to plan tests, manage test assets,enable requirements-based testing and improve col-laboration across the testing team. The software alsogave the company the ability to offer its customersview-only access to IBM Rational Quality Managerassets, providing an up-to-date view of projectprogress that included reports detailing tested and to-be-tested requirements.

Benefits● Reduced test management time by an estimated

20 percent● Reduced time spent tracing requirements to test

cases by 60 percent● Improved insight into all aspects of the testing

process, enabling managers to make better-informed decisions, allocate resources, improve predictability and mitigate business risk


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IBM Rational Functional TesterIBM Rational Functional Tester software provides

automated testing capabilities for functional testing,

regression testing, GUI testing and data-driven test-

ing, helping your test teams keep pace with develop-

ment. It helps teams of virtually any skill level

minimize test maintenance, providing wizards and

storyboard testing to enhance automation and

speed test creation for new users.

Automate regression testing for rapid validationof core functionality.● Simplify test visualization and editing with

storyboard testing that uses natural language

and rendered screenshots.● Allow the use of key words to power portions of

manual tests with automated testing.

Help reduce test maintenance with scriptsresilient to application changes.● Free quality assurance departments to focus on

more thorough rather than basic tests.● Reuse individual tests with multiple sets of test

data, and automate tests that are resilient to fre-

quent application user interface changes with

IBM ScriptAssure® technology.

Give team members of every level the toolingthey need.● Gain support for analysts, testers, GUI developers

and just about anyone else involved in quality

assurance and test activities.

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Middle Eastern kingdom

ChallengeA Middle Eastern kingdom struggled to respond to cit-izen inquiries because most of its processes weremanual, with staff taking days or even weeks torespond. The kingdom sought to implement anytime,anywhere services.

SolutionThe kingdom implemented a solution to modernizeservices that includes an array of IBM technologies,including WebSphere software and IBM WebSphereDataPower® SOA Appliance devices hosting IBM SOAmiddleware products. IBM Rational Functional Testersoftware provides comprehensive support for build,test and release management, which is key toenabling the anywhere, anytime access to services.

Benefits● Streamlines the interaction between the government

and the people● Helps reduce response time from days to minutes● Improves efficiency of government agencies and

increases staff productivity


Simplify test efforts with preconfigured integrations.● Integrate with Rational Quality Manager software,

which offers a number of benefits, including the

following:

– Simplifying the process of creating, executing

and managing test assets

– Optimizing quality, reliability, performance and

compliance of delivered WebSphere product

and software solutions● Improve access to work items with integration of

the IBM Jazz Eclipse Client, Version 2.0 platform

for IBM Rational Team Concert and Rational

Quality Manager servers.

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IBM Rational Performance TesterIBM Rational Performance Tester software is a per-

formance testing tool used to identify the presence

and cause of system performance bottlenecks. It

provides test teams of virtually all skill levels with

automated performance testing capabilities to

validate the scalability of web- and server-based

applications—before a system goes live. The soft-

ware is designed to reduce load testing complexity

while providing flexible workload scheduling and

reporting capabilities.

Quickly achieve higher productivity.● Enable experts to pinpoint issues by using an

innovative, no-code approach to performance

testing that masks code but exposes underlying

details, facilitating rapid, large-scale performance

tests.

● Gain a rich, tree-based test editor that delivers

both high-level and detailed views of tests.● Analyze the location and root cause of system

performance bottlenecks in WebSphere Portal

software environments.

Leverage advanced data access and manipulation.● Gain automated tracing of complex data relation-

ships through WebSphere Portal applications,

which may overburden other performance testing

tools.● Attain flexible modeling and emulation of diverse

user populations.

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Telecommunications provider

ChallengeA telecommunications provider in the Philippinesneeded to reach a new level of agility in the creationand management of promotional service offerings.

SolutionIn a joint engagement, IBM and Nokia SiemensNetworks designed and built an SOA-based servicecreation and delivery platform for the provider that enables it to rapidly and cost-effectively createservice offerings from reusable service components.

IBM Rational Performance Tester, IBM RationalFunctional Tester and IBM Rational Service Tester forSOA Quality solutions help staff identify the presenceand cause of system performance bottlenecks, auto-mate functional and regression testing, and improvethe quality of web service–based SOA applications.

Benefits● 600 percent increase in promotion effectiveness● More than 95 percent reduction in the time and cost

of developing new promotions


Measure performance results against businessobjectives.● Automate service level agreement mandates and

provide reports to stakeholders.

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Reduce cost of quality > IBM Rational PurifyPlus

IBM Rational PurifyPlusIBM Rational PurifyPlus software dynamically

analyzes software to help increase developer pro-

ductivity and improve application reliability and per-

formance. With four capabilities included in a single

product—including memory error and memory link

detection, application performance profiling, and

code coverage analysis—you can optimize

WebSphere applications from their first release.

Gain access to four basic capabilities packagedinto a single product.● Memory debugging● Memory leak detection● Performance profiling● Code coverage analysis

Develop high-quality code faster.● Pinpoint hard-to-find bugs.● Increase productivity and flexibility by gaining

the ability to instrument an entire application or

portions of it.● Reduce development disruptions with direct analy-

sis of executables, with no recompilation.

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Digital document management technology provider

ChallengeA digital document management technology and serv-ices provider needed to increase development effi-ciency, improve quality and decrease time to marketfor its innovative print systems. It sought a newapproach to real-time software development that pro-moted software reuse and enabled development ofincreasingly complex embedded systems.

SolutionThe company adopted IBM Rational solutions formodel-driven development and software change andconfiguration management to build its embedded sys-tems. It uses IBM Rational PurifyPlus software to per-form code coverage analysis and identify memoryleaks during model-driven development.

Benefits● Enabled reuse of more than 50 percent of software

components● Enabled early hardware and software loop testing to

help ensure quality


Streamline team development processes.● Gain rapid creation of defect reports through inte-

gration with IBM Rational ClearQuest® software.● Take a proactive approach to improving overall

code quality by using both dynamic and static

analysis tools—specifically by using IBM Rational

PurifyPlus software with IBM Rational Software

Analyzer software to reduce the number of code

defects.

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Optimize web security > Overview




● Overview

● IBM Rational AppScan

● IBM Rational AppScan OnDemand




OverviewWeb applications are increasingly among the most

targeted attack points for enterprising hackers

around the world. This is no coincidence as the use

of web applications to interact and work with

employees, partners and customers continues to

grow. Given the monetary and brand-related costs to

being hacked, web security is an essential compo-

nent of cost and risk optimization. IBM Rational soft-

ware can help keep your WebSphere applications

ahead of security threats.

● Do you need help finding and prioritizing web

application security issues? Check out

IBM Rational AppScan® software for help

automating the process.● If you want to reduce up-front investment costs

and hasten time to value of a Rational AppScan

software solution, check out IBM Rational

AppScan OnDemand software.

According to the IBM X-Force®2010 Trend and Risk Report,49 percent of all vulnerabilities disclosed in 2010 were web applicationvulnerabilities.6

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Optimize web security > IBM Rational AppScan

IBM Rational AppScanIBM Rational AppScan software provides compre-

hensive security capabilities—including scanning,

reporting and fix recommendations—for complex

web applications. Use the software to automatically

scan and test for common web application vulnera-

bilities in WebSphere applications, including those

highlighted by the Web Application Security

Consortium.

Find and fix web application security issues.● Gain support for broad application coverage,

including integrated web services scanning,

JavaScript execution (including asynchronous

JavaScript and XML, or AJAX) and parsing.

Assess and remediate security vulnerabilities.● Address scripting and buffer overflow and

gain intelligent fix recommendations to ease

remediation.● Get advanced remediation capabilities, including a

comprehensive task list necessary to fix issues

uncovered during the scan.

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Web development company

ChallengeThis company was looking for a solution that wouldbetter secure its web applications and provide protec-tion from online security breaches.

SolutionThe company leverages a floating user license todeploy multiple copies of IBM Rational AppScanStandard Edition software to create a security-richweb portal environment. Its security and quality assurance staff are able to test all of the company’sweb applications on a regular basis to identify vulnerabilities.

Benefits● Helped ensure web application security● Increased confidence about application safety

among high-profile customers● Enabled the company to leverage its services in the

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Optimize web security > IBM Rational AppScan OnDemand

IBM Rational AppScan OnDemandIBM Rational AppScan OnDemand software is a

software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of

IBM Rational AppScan software. Because you can

quickly and cost-effectively achieve actionable

results, it provides a great way to bolster web appli-

cation security—without the need for infrastructure

investments. The hosted solution is run by an experi-

enced team of security and compliance experts

from IBM. The service also gives you access to the

IBM team for a set number of hours each month, so

you can benefit from its expertise on industry best

practices, get help interpreting scan results and

learn valuable remediation tips.

Gain support for comprehensive testing of applications.● Test either preproduction or production applica-

tions up to a specified number of pages.

Get a periodic assessment of application security.● Understand improvements to your security posture

over time based on tracking by the IBM team,

helping you communicate findings to stakeholders

throughout the organization.● Leverage guidance from IBM experts as they

explain and decipher findings to ease the remedia-

tion process.

Maintain consistency with monthly scans.● Rely on proven IBM processes that help keep

security on track through regular scanning and

updates.


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● IBM Rational Policy Tester

● IBM Rational Policy Tester OnDemand Privacy, Quality and

Accessibility Edition





OverviewWeb compliance is complex and multidimensional,

involving not only security but also accessibility, pri-

vacy and even compliance with internal quality stan-

dards. And given the critical role the web now plays

in business, regulators and industry organizations

are continually adding rules and regulations

designed to protect customers and shareholders

and guarantee access to disabled users. The result

is that, in many industries, organizations must figure

out how to control costs while complying with strict

and evolving regulations. IBM Rational solutions can

help you address compliance in WebSphere appli-

cations while keeping costs in check.

● Do you need help ensuring that websites are

accessible to disabled users and protecting user

privacy? Check out IBM Rational Policy Tester®

software.● Do you want to hasten time to value and reduce

up-front investment costs of a Rational Policy

Tester solution? Check out IBM Rational Policy

Tester OnDemand Privacy, Quality and

Accessibility Edition software.● Do you need help with security-related compli-

ance? Check out IBM Rational AppScan software.● Do you want to hasten time to value and reduce

up-front investment costs of a Rational AppScan

software solution? Check out IBM Rational

AppScan OnDemand software.

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IBM Rational Policy TesterIBM Rational Policy Tester software can help your

organization address compliance with privacy, qual-

ity and accessibility requirements through auto-

mated scanning and reporting. The solution crawls

through website content and applications to analyze

data, stores findings, and generates actionable

reports that you can use to address virtually any

issues uncovered during scans. The software sup-

ports multiple user roles and prioritizes issues.

Analyze websites for quality, compliance, privacyand accessibility issues based on best practices,regulatory requirements and internal policies.● Learn whether sites meet Section 508 of the

Rehabilitation Act and Web Content Accessibility

Guidelines (WCAG) requirements to ensure site

accessibility for disabled users.● Gain support for the privacy of customers’ person-

ally identifiable information entered on websites.

Gain web quality testing to optimize websitefunctionality and support a positive user experience.

Address compliance with regulations such as theHealth Insurance Portability and AccountabilityAct (HIPAA), the Children’s Online PrivacyProtection Act (COPPA) and Safe Harbor withcomprehensive privacy testing.

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Semiconductor manufacturer

ChallengeA semiconductor manufacturer sought a solution thatcould help it deal with an array of issues related towebsite management, including widespread brokenlinks, difficulty keeping track of content and identifyingpotential privacy issues.

SolutionThe company implemented an IBM Rational PolicyTester OnDemand solution, which enabled it to findand fix broken links and perform end-of-life andorphan analysis on web pages. It also can now inven-tory metatag and page content as well as generate aninventory of privacy policies on websites to comparewith regulatory compliance requirements.

Benefits● Improved the customer experience by reducing bro-

ken links and obsolete content● Identified the effect on web pages of removing old

content from the website● Reduced the cost of migration work by identifying

unlinked content


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Entertainment company

ChallengeAn entertainment company was losing business andfaced increasing costs as a result of poor websitequality. It sought a solution that could help it minimizebroken links and reduce customer support calls.

SolutionThe company implemented IBM Rational Policy TesterOnDemand software.

Benefits● Reduced broken links from 10 percent (issues per

page scanned) to 1 percent● Achieved a rapid ROI by decreasing the number

of support calls and reducing manual site verifica-tion efforts


IBM Rational Policy Tester OnDemandPrivacy, Quality and AccessibilityEditionIBM Rational Policy Tester OnDemand software is

designed to allow privacy and compliance issues to

be addressed consistently—even with a limited staff.

Providing many of the features of IBM Rational Policy

Tester software, it can help you cost-effectively iden-

tify and prioritize web privacy and regulatory compli-

ance risks with an auditable system of records with a

rapid time to value.

Track your organization’s compliance posture over time with leading software in a subscription-based service.

Rely on a scalable, reliable and security-richhosting environment with no maintenance orsetup costs.

Leverage a team of experienced solution managers to optimize the cost and efficacy ofcompliance.

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IBM Rational AppScanIBM Rational AppScan software provides a leading

web application compliance and security solution

that can help you more easily track compliance with

key industry and regulatory requirements. The soft-

ware includes more than 40 out-of-the-box compli-

ance reports and also enables users to produce

custom security reports that facilitate faster

resolution of critical compliance issues.

Support major regulatory requirements, includ-ing the following:● National Institute of Standards and Technology

Special Publication (NIST SP) 800-53● Open Web Application Security Project

(OWASP) top 10● Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard

(PCI DSS)● Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)● Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)● Health Insurance Portability and Accountability

Act (HIPAA)● Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)● Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy

Act (FIPPA)● Payment Application Best Practices (PABP)


National air navigation services provider

ChallengeTo stay ahead of emerging risks and maintain a security-rich flow of business-critical informationacross internal stakeholders and airline customers, a national air navigation services provider needed toadopt the latest web application security technology.

SolutionThe provider adopted a comprehensive solution—based on IBM Rational AppScan software—that auto-mates security and compliance-related issue testingof its core web applications and that easily integratesinto its software development life cycle.

Benefits● Enhanced the security of web applications through

best practices such as regular scanning for vulnera-bilities throughout the software life cycle

● Provided ease of use and clear fix recommenda-tions, resulting in quick developer acceptance andimproved productivity


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IBM Rational AppScan OnDemandThe IBM Rational AppScan OnDemand offering

provides a way to rapidly realize the benefits of

IBM Rational AppScan software without the need for

infrastructure investments. The hosted solution is

run by an experienced team of compliance and

security experts from IBM.

The service also gives you access to the IBM team

for a set number of hours each month, so you can

benefit from its expertise on industry best practices

and get help interpreting scan results and learning

valuable remediation tips. The software includes

more than 40 out-of-the-box compliance reports

and also enables users to produce custom security

reports that facilitate faster resolution of critical com-

pliance issues.

Rely on a scalable, reliable and security-richhosting environment with no maintenance orsetup costs.

Leverage a team of experienced solution managers to optimize the cost and efficacy of security compliance.

Support major regulatory requirements, including the following:● NIST SP 800-53● OWASP top 10● PCI DSS● SOX● GLBA● HIPAA● FERPA● FIPPA● PABP


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● IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere



OverviewAs your WebSphere environments grow, the

complexity of application deployments makes it

imperative for stakeholders, solution architects and

IT operations teams to be able to communicate

effectively to prevent risks and costly downtime.

Moreover, the switch to agile development has made

deployments a far more frequent occurrence that

must be automated to cut down on manual tasks

and IT downtime.

Deployment planning and automation solutions

from IBM can help you gain significant cost and

operational efficiencies in the development and

operations (DevOps) areas through an integrated

plan-automate-govern life cycle for your WebSphere

deployments. These solutions help you deploy the

right deliverables, with the right plan, using the right

automation. You can govern, catalog and share

application artifacts, standard templates and deploy-

ment plans. From the governed catalog, you can

plan your desired deployment using discovered

resources and standard configuration templates.

Planning helps ensure that the right solution deploy-

ment requirements can be expressed in an explicit,

formal and repeatable format (deployment diagrams)

that can be used to automate deployment and free

staff to work on more value-added tasks.

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AutomateGovern

Plan

Figure 1: Improve the speed and quality of DevOps deployment

for WebSphere software with an integrated plan, automate and

govern life cycle.

With integrated planning, automation and gover-

nance, you can improve the speed and quality of

DevOps deployment for WebSphere software.

● Are you looking to get better insight into your exist-

ing WebSphere application infrastructure? Would

you like to plan your WebSphere deployments to

maximize existing IT usage or create procurement

plans? Check out IBM Rational Software Architect

software.● Are you looking for ways to automate WebSphere

administration, builds and deployment while

reducing operational costs and increasing quality

and consistency? Check out IBM Rational

Automation Framework for WebSphere software.● Are you looking for ways to catalog, govern and

share formal DevOps assets? Check out

IBM Rational Asset Manager software.

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Reduce software deployment and operational costs > IBM Rational Software Architect

IBM Rational Software ArchitectIBM Rational Software Architect solutions offer your

organization the ability to explicitly design how soft-

ware will be deployed on physical IT assets. This

helps ensure that your software solutions consis-

tently deploy correctly without a lot of rework. Smart

tools for discovering and representing infrastructure

help you maximize the use of your existing assets,

while the ability to store deployment information in

best-practice configuration templates allows repeat-

able deployments with reduced risk and effort.

Create a visual representation of how the software will be deployed.● Deployment artifacts representing WebSphere

servers, databases and different physical locations

where software will be deployed can be charted

out, and connections between these artifacts can

be defined.

Enhance communication between architects,developers and IT operations teams.● Allow IT to start planning in advance, reducing the

risk that there won’t be sufficient resources when

they’re needed during test and deployment stages

of software delivery.

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IBM Rational Automation Frameworkfor WebSphereIBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere

software provides general purpose automation

services with deep configuration and deployment

capabilities for installing, patching and deploying

applications and services to numerous WebSphere

and non-WebSphere platforms, including

WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere

Portal applications, the IBM WebSphere Business

Process Manager suite, IBM WebSphere MQ

software and IBM WebSphere Message Broker

software. The framework helps you create more-

accurate, -reliable and -consistent WebSphere appli-

cations by maintaining normalized configuration

data, applying the right data to the right WebSphere

environment and applying data in a repeatable man-

ner to WebSphere environments.

Automate, consolidate and simplify administra-tive activities for WebSphere Application Serverand WebSphere Portal environments.● Deliver software faster with fewer resources with

the help of application deployment automation.● Leverage a library of more than 850 field-tested

configuration and installation scripts.● Accomplish automated multiple cell administration.● Automate WebSphere software installation and

patching.

Gain the ability to check that configurationchanges are applied correctly to the right environment in the right sequence.● Support accurate and reliable WebSphere soft-

ware deployments.● Gain the ability for WebSphere Application Server

administrators to consistently make changes

across cells, mitigating the risk of human error

while improving the quality of environments and

time to market.● Apply data in a repeatable manner to WebSphere

environments for consistency.

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Decrease WebSphere Application Server andWebSphere Portal software downtime.● Gain fast rollback with a configuration change

management repository that maintains a history of

deployment steps.● Hasten resolution of environment differences with

tools that help users visually compare settings in

different environments.

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buildforge/framework/

An IBM business value assessment for afinancial services company found thatRational Automation Framework forWebSphere software could save it atleast US$276,000 per year inWebSphere administration time.

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