Collaborative design, development and test environment for system engineers and embedded software engineers

IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® products provide collaborative design and development for systems engineers and software developers creating real time or embedded systems and software. These products help to analyze and validate requirements, design rapidly with prototypes, and deliver more consistent applications using Systems Modeling Language (SysML) and Unified Modeling Language (UML). The Rational Rhapsody family of products includes a variety of editions focused on the needs of systems engineers and embedded software developers.

Product editions

Rational Rhapsody Architect for Software: Provides an integrated software development environment to graphically architect, design and reuse embedded software
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Rational Rhapsody Architect for Systems Engineers: Low cost entry point including SysML to elaborate and analyze requirements with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and parametric constraint evaluation to optimize architectures.
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Rational Rhapsody Design Manager: Enables you to collaborate, share, review and manage designs and models with the entire engineering team.
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Rational Rhapsody Designer for Systems Engineers: Adds simulation and execution to the Systems Engineering environment to enable early validation of requirements, architecture and behavior.
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Rational Rhapsody Developer: Helps you develop and validate embedded software applications with simulation, behavioral code generation and real-time system integration.
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