Rational Automation Framework

Reduces operational costs

• Eliminates the time and resources required to deploy and manage WebSphere environments, resulting in significant cost savings.
• Reduces the costs of compliance, disaster recovery and IT governance.
• Uses an agentless technology to communicate with WebSphere environments, allowing you to manage them from a central location.
• Provides a customizable framework, which supports your existing investment in tools and middleware management and deployment scripts. Rational Automation Framework actions can also be used.

Increases productivity

• Provides a multi-cell tool for WebSphere middleware environments, which delivers automation and consolidation capabilities to the WebSphere development, Q&A, staging and production administration functions.
• Allows administrators to easily set up new cells and environments, and apply patches, upgrades and interim fixes.
• Enables administrators to rapidly deploy applications, automate middleware configuration settings and gain visibility into environment changes.
• Facilitates team-based administration via an automation engine with enhanced performance and reliability.

Improves application delivery

• Provides a data-driven, centralized framework. This helps ensure the right data is associated with the right application in the right environment—each time, every time.
• Helps ensure that deployment process information is captured when artifacts are managed. This self-documentation feature enables various teams to use artifacts in the same manner.
• Keeps deployment artifacts separate from deployment processes. This promotes reuse and increases scalability.
• Connects to other software development processes to form a complete solution from development to deployment.