Rational System Architect

Business efficiency

• Rational Systems Architect helps you execute strategy and eliminate organizational waste, resulting in increased productivity.
• With it, you can identify and avoid risk in the execution of future business plans.
• You can use Rational Systems Architect to create an organizational blueprint, maintaining relationships across business and IT, and to build an effective IT portfolio.
• Rational Systems Architect enables you to identify areas for consolidation and reuse.

Systems management

• Rational System Architect uses standard frameworks for industry standard methodologies.
• It uses a flexible framework manager to align with custom methodologies, including DoDAF, MoDAF, Zachman, TOGAF, TMForum NGOSS eTOM/SID, and others.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP)

• Rational System Architect helps you standardize processes, components, data, and functions in your ERP deployments.
• It can help you to understand dependencies across the organization.

Reporting

• You can gather and consolidate information with ready to use reports based on IBM Cognos® software.
• Rational System Architect offers an optional web client, Rational System Architect XT, for expanded team use and advanced publishing capabilities, including Microsoft® Office® documents, XML, and detailed web publishing.
• You can customize the reports without having to regenerate content.

Modeling

• Rational System Architect supports multiple modeling standards in one repository, including business process and strategy, IT portfolio, applications and services, and data to capture your current state.
• Rational System Architect supports all areas of modeling, including business and strategy modeling, component and object modeling, data modeling, and more.
• This software provides comprehensive support for Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN 2.0) for the visualization of organizational business processes
• You can integrate business processes with strategy maps, organizational charts, IT and application infrastructure models, functional hierarchy diagrams, and information data models with Unified Modeling Language (UML).