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Rational Business Developer

Feature	Description	Benefit
Deliver more projects, faster	Addresses the spectrum of modern business application requirements including the development of business services, web applications, portlets, reports, batch systems, text user interface applications and tight integration of EGL and RPG/COBOL applications.	Enables quick delivery of rich Web 2.0-style solutions without needing to learn or program the intricacies of Ajax, JavaScript, REST, HTML, or XML. Build complete solutions, including front-end user interfaces, back-end services and business logic using a single language.
Modernize applications	Rational Business Developer simplifies and accelerates in-house development of web and SOA applications.	EGL hides the details of the target execution platforms and associated middleware, so you can focus on the business problem rather than underlying technologies. Little or no experience with Java and Web technologies? No problem. EGL helps you create enterprise-class services and applications quickly and easily. Little or no experience with i programming? No problem. EGL helps you quickly create highly optimized i web services and programs.
Developer productivity	Eclipse based EGL IDE with powerful editing, code templates, code completion, refactoring, browsing and searching etc.	Advanced development environment features create a high productivity environment for EGL coding. Build rich EGL applications using visual editors, wizards and code generation, merging and re-factoring tools. Ability to create batch applications. Support for local and remote calls to other languages and legacy programs.
Lower development and training costs	Familiar Programming Model using EGL development and generation capabilities, with extensive help.	EGL is easily adopted by business-oriented developers reducing learning curves and training expenses. Includes extensive productivity enhancements: Cheat sheets for common development patterns; Application samples library; How-to and scenario-based tutorials; Getting started and installation guide.
Integrated with collaborative application lifecycle management tool	Seamlessly integrates with IBM Rational Team Concert empowering teams to easily plug in to the established software development lifecycles and communication channels.	Improves programmer productivity and efficiency of the development organization.
Feature	Description	Benefit
Modernize applications	Supplied wizards create web services that can be extended to the web.	Easily reuse and extend valuable IT assets, such as RPG and COBOL programs and service programs to the web.
Developer productivity	Integrated development tools to understand, read, and write source code. Tightly integrated search, edit, compile and debug. Visual design tools for display files and printer files. Visual tools to see the structure of applications.	Makes it easier to understand, read, and write source code, improving application maintenance efforts. Makes it easier to switch between tasks. Makes it easier to create and maintain DDS on IBM i. Makes it easier to understand application code.
Common tools platform and developer skills	Eclipe-based integrated development environment for RPG and COBOL programming as well as web development.	Enables organizations to attract new developers who are familiar with the Eclipse platform and retain leading developers by providing them with modern development tools. Enables developers to use similar tools for different tasks, eliminating the need to learn different development tools and therefore lowering training costs. Enables different development teams within an organization to standardize on a common development environment across platforms, languages, and technologies. Enables developers to be portable across projects instead of one platform because of skills.
Collaborative application lifecycle management	IBM Rational Team Concert is the Jazz-based application lifecycle management software to improve team collaboration on Power Systems.	Improves programmer productivity and efficiency of the development organization.

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