Rational software helps organizations create business value by improving their software development capability. This development platform integrates software engineering best practices, tools and services. With it, organizations thrive in an on demand world by being more responsive, resilient and focused.

Rational's standards-based, cross-platform solution helps software development teams create and extend business applications, embedded systems and software products.
 
Within Rational, VSS primarily focuses on visual construction development with IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software. This solution enables rapid design, development, assembly, testing, profiling and deployment of high quality Java/J2EE, Portal, Web, Web services and SOA applications.

Architecture Management  Model, design and rapidly build resilient architectures for SOA, systems and applications.
 
Change and Release management  Improve software delivery and lifecycle traceability from requirements through deployment.
 
Process and Portfolio Management  Align business goals, best practices and projects for improved productivity and predictability.
 
Quality Management  Ensure software functionality, reliability and performance in development and production.