IBM Rational Asset Manager offers a definitive library to help organizations manage and govern the business and technical assets involved in software and systems delivery. An asset is one or more published workproducts shared or referenced across the organization that meet a recurring business or technical need, and have a positive economic value to the enterprise.

Important assets provide a solution to a problem, yet they are of little value unless they can be found, used, reused, improved, measured, and governed. Rational Asset Manager enables your organization to efficiently govern and reuse all types of assets in a distributed development environment. Rational Asset Manager offers flexible pricing and licensing models that suit a wide range of organizations, ranging from small businesses to large-scale enterprises.

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Features and benefits
FeatureBenefit
Asset upload, download, update, packaging Categorize assets based on type, attributes and relationships between assets. Asset categorization is completely customizable. Access assets (upload, download or update) through the web or Eclipse clients. Package artifacts of all types (documents, models, source code, DLLs, requirements etc.) into assets.
Security and access control Protect assets with fine-grained permissions based on groups, roles, users or asset types.
Search Search using categories/facets/keywords. File contents search: text, Microsoft Word & PowerPoint, ear, war and zip files.
Workflow & Review Boards Review, track and monitor asset usage with configurable, out of the box Review/approval workflow or integration with Rational ClearQuest
Metrics and reporting Track asset usage, asset feedback and asset quality metrics for reporting purposes. Export metrics as a delimited file for import into other reporting solutions.
Collaboration Collaborate with other project members via discussions, Email subscriptions and RSS feeds for notification of asset changes and availability of new or updated assets.
User interface Eclipse client integrates with other Eclipse v3.2.1 based development environments, including Rational Application Developer and Rational Software Architect. Web UI allows access to assets from anywhere in the world, facilitating geographically distributed development.
Process guidance Asset-based development guidance is available in Rational Method Composer
Create and update asset versions Version control asset artifacts via integrations with ClearCase and CVS.
SOA Governance Federated services search and publish through integration with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository.
Integrated with Tivoli CCMDB Manage your software asset lifecycle from development to deployment and operations.
Asset Traceability Views Smart impact analysis on software development assets, to quickly assess the impact of change.
Batch population process Populate your repository and get jumpstarted quickly

System requirements

The following information lists the basic software requirements for using IBM Rational® Asset Manager. For the complete list of system requirements, see the detailed system requirements.


Operating SystemSoftwareHardware
AIX 5L v5.3, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4, SUSE Linux Enterprise SLES for OS/390 9, 2.6 Kernel 31 bit, Windows 2003 Enterprise SP2, Windows 2003 Standard SP2, Windows 2008, Windows Server 2003 , Windows XP Professional SP2, Windows Vista Business Application Server:Database Application:Web browser One of the following supported Web browsers is required to run the Rational Asset Manager Web client, to view the documentation, and to support the Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) browser widget:Requirements for the Rational Asset Manager Eclipse client The following software is required for installing the Rational Asset Manager Eclipse client.Requirements for installing the Rational Asset Manager Eclipse client into an existing Eclipse IDE The Rational Asset Manager Eclipse client can be installed into, or extend, the following Eclipse IDE's:Additional software requirementsOther You can optionally use Rational Asset Manager in conjunction with any of the following software: Server (Windows® or Linux®)

Processor: Minimum: 2 GHz Intel® Pentium® 4, dual CPU (or higher for best results)

Memory: Minimum: 1 GB RAM (with embedded WebSphere® Application Server and DB2® Enterprise Server Edition) or 2 GB (with ClearCase® or ClearQuest® clients)

Disk space: Minimum: 5 GB (with embedded WebSphere Application Server and DB2 Enterprise Server Edition); if you plan to add ClearCase or ClearQuest clients, consult their disk space requirements

Display: 1024 x 768 display minimum using 256 Colors (or higher for best results)

Other hardware: Microsoft® mouse or compatible pointing device

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Server (AIX®)

Processor: Minimum: 2 GHz IBM® POWER5™ (or higher for best results)

Memory:

Minimum (non-production environments): 1 GB RAM (with embedded WebSphere Application Server and DB2 Enterprise Server Edition)

Minimum (production environments): 2 GB RAM (with embedded WebSphere Application Server and DB2 Enterprise Server Edition) or 4 GB RAM (with ClearCase or ClearQuest clients)

Disk space: Minimum: 5 GB (with embedded WebSphere Application Server and DB2 Enterprise Server Edition); if you plan to add ClearCase or ClearQuest clients, consult their disk space requirements

Display: 1024 x 768 display minimum using 256 Colors (or higher for best results)

Other hardware: Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device

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Client

Processor: Minimum: 1.4 GHz Intel Pentium 4 (or higher for best results)

Memory: Minimum: 512 MB RAM

Disk space: Minimum: 500 MB

Display: 1024 x 768 display minimum using 256 Colors (or higher for best results)

Other hardware: Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device

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