Rational System Architect

For organizations going through mergers and acquisition, consolidation and cost reduction initiatives, Rational System Architect provides the capabilities to support transformation planning, IT investment management and impact analysis to manage the risks in the execution of these initiatives.

For organizations with the goals of streamlining their business and turning strategy into execution, Rational System Architect provides the capabilities for decision support, process optimization, and integration into solution delivery to enable them to efficiently reach these goals.

Rational System Architect provides a platform for visualizing, analyzing and communicating your organization's enterprise architecture and business process analysis, increases your competitive edge by improving your real-time decision-making.

• Multiple modeling standards supported in one repository, including business process/strategy, IT portfolio, applications/services, and data to capture your current state

• Explorer-type visual impact analysis and analytics enable accurate planning and forecasting

• Standard frameworks for industry standard methodologies as well as a flexible framework manager to align with custom methodologies, including Zachman, TOGAF, DODAF, NAF, MODAF, and TMForum NGOSS eTOM/SID

• Web client for expanded team use and advanced publishing capabilities, including Microsoft® Office documents, XML, and detailed Web publishing

• Integrations with the IBM® software suite to truly make enterprise architecture and business process analysis actionable and relevant

Reporting

An Enterprise Architecture Management is only as effective as the quality of output produced for those who need it. Rational System Architect provides powerful methods to enable communication in a simple-to-use format, reporting information to unique audiences in a manner that best meets their needs:

Business Intelligence Powered by Cognos: Rational System Architect provides out-of-the-box support business intelligence reporting and analysis powered by IBM Cognos. This capability assures that business leaders have the proper measurement information to help guide decisions about where to transform, how to achieve the maximum business impact and ROI, and where to steer clear of high risk areas

Web Publishing: The IBM® Rational® System Architect® Publisher Add On delivers static Web output that contains sophisticated reports enabling complex queries of the IBM® Rational® System Architect® repository. This dynamic view provided in Website format helps viewers answer questions about the business, whether the viewer is a manager asking high-level questions, or a member of the IT staff asking design-level questions about modeled systems and the enterprise architecture.

Web Client: IBM Rational System Architect XT is a web client with real time access to data, used for visualizing, analyzing, and communicating your enterprise architecture, empowering successful decisions.

IBM Rational System Architect reporting helps you:

• Increase the accuracy and efficiency of answering key questions about your business

• Make simple or complex against model information and get the answers you need right away

• Empower your managers with the information they need to make difficult decisions

• Deploy information quickly, to many different constituencies at the same time

• Modify look and feel — the look and feel of the information can be changed without having to regenerate the content

Government

Are you looking for a way to build applications that support the Department of Defense or Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) framework? Do you need to comply with government directives that mandate a uniform method for describing information systems?

The IBM® Rational® System Architect® environment provides solutions for government and Defense Architecture Frameworks (DoDAF 2.0, DoDAF ABM, MODAF, and NAF). The Rational System Architect solution offers comprehensive support for operational, systems, and technology modeling to produce required artifacts at the enterprise level for framework and industry requirements.

In the Rational System Architect tool, images of applicable DoDAF and other defense products are not simply drawings, but a dynamic collection of interrelated properties. Hence, data entered for one view, where applicable, can be reused in another. For example, the Rational System Architect solution can automatically build your OV-3 operational information exchange matrix from your OV-2 operational node connectivity description and OV-5 activity model. In addition, the DoDAF V2.0 solution supports net-centric data strategy, service-oriented architecture, and the federal enterprise architecture guidance from OMB.

The Rational System Architect solution assists your Enterprise Architecture for government and defense applications with:

• DODAF v2.0 and DoDAF ABM – IBM® Rational® System Architect® for DoDAF v2.0 Add On and the IBM® Rational® System Architect® DoDAF with ABM Add On is a comprehensive enterprise software solution that supports the US Department of Defense Architect Framework (DoDAF), formerly known as C4ISR Framework. Rational System Architect for DoDAF 2.0 Add On offers complete support for operational, systems, and technology modeling to produce required DoDAF 2.0 artifacts at the enterprise level.

• MoDAF – IBM® Rational® System Architect® for MODAF Add On for the Ministry of Defence Architecture Framework (MODAF) provides you with an environment designed for these applications. The Rational System Architect for MODAF Add On offers complete support for acquisition, capability, operational, systems, and technology modeling to produce the required MODAF views. MODAF is a key enabler for the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) Network Enabled Capability (NEC).

• NAF – The IBM® Rational® System Architect® for NAF Add On supports the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Defense Architecture Framework (NAF). Based upon the Rational System Architect environment’s solution for the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), this adaptation supports additional NAF views and work products.

• FEA Interface - The IBM® Rational® System Architect® for FEA Interface helps enable efficient and productive use of the OMB Reference Models in Enterprise Architectures for Federal Government applications. With its Integrated Reference Model Architect (iRMA) feature to graphically represent FEA reference models, the Rational System Architect for FEA Interface can help you build business cases for proposed investments, analyze agency architecture for gaps and overlaps, generate Exhibit 300 tables and produce line-of-sight views.

Visio

Imagine an organization where executives, business analysts, functional managers and IT all share a common view of business processes. They can collaborate to ensure maximum process efficiency, effectiveness and optimization. And imagine if the outcomes of process optimization projects are actionable and repeatable.

Imagine no more…the IBM® Rational® System Architect® Process Integrator tool helps link two powerful solutions to provide business process value. With Rational System Architect Process Integrator, you help enhance the widespread utilization and ease-of-use of Microsoft® Visio®, and combine it with the business analysis, collaboration and communication capabilities of the IBM® Rational® System Architect® solution.

The Rational System Architect Process Integrator solution is a Visio add-on that allows Visio process modelers to remain in the tool they know and prefer, while enabling business analysts and enterprise architects to access these models in Rational System Architect for advanced analysis and reporting.

The Rational System Architect Process Integrator solution helps you with:

• Visio templates and error checking ensure adherence to BPMN and organizational chart standards

• Active diagramming updates model icons based on modeling context

• Visio "Anchor Window" displays all diagrams and artifacts in the Rational System Architect repository for error checking, tracking and re-use

• Visio models saved in repository can be opened in Rational System Architect for editing, analysis, and reporting

• Common artifacts can be reused across Visio models, and updated automatically wherever a change to that object is made

ERP

Does lack of visibility into your ERP deployment make analysis of your critical organizational data challenging? Do you have difficulty capturing the details of your ERP deployment in your enterprise architecture efforts?

The IBM® Rational® System Architect® for ERP Interface extracts enterprise application meta-data solely for the purpose of exploration. It also links directly into your enterprise architecture for organizational analysis. It complements the existing Rational System Architect for ERP Interface repository, leaving you free to easily navigate complex ERP relationships with. Using SA/ERP, data managers can maintain control over the examination of meta-data and its results without reliance on enterprise application providers.

Users can navigate complex data dependencies using Rational System Architect solution ERP Interface solution's easy-to-use browser to search for tables and fields, navigate up and down relationship paths, and search by application module. The Rational System Architect for ERP Interface tool extracts key implementation information (tables, fields, relationships, indexes, etc.) from the enterprise application data dictionary using the most appropriate connection mechanism for each enterprise application

In each case, the Rational System Architect for ERP Interface product makes an initial connection to the system and then extracts the requested meta-data to a separate repository. So users work in an independent environment and make no further demands on the enterprise application team. The Rational System Architect for ERP Interface tool helps you process by:

• Increasing your internal ERP management capability

• Lowering costs by reducing your dependency on your ERP service provider

• Reducing the risks associated with customizing your ERP system

• Understanding how your ERP meta-data aligns to your business process needs

• Enabling data consistency throughout your organization

• Managing change via comparison capability

• Integrating your ERP meta-data with your enterprise architecture for complete traceability and analysis

Simulation

The IBM® Rational® System Architect® Simulator III Add On helps you simulate, analyze and predict the performance of models. Besides comparing actual results with expected results, simulation lets you see how well the model fits its purpose and if it works in line with expectations and aids your process with:

• Management to see if models are rigorous and robust

• Analysis of how well the model behaves when conditions change

• Fine tuning of models to improve performance

• Predictions about the impact of changes upon the organization

Rational The Rational System Architect Simulator III Add On enables companies to make effective business decisions and improve processes by gaining an accurate prediction of future changes while achieving bottom-line results. SA Simulator III provides simulation of BPMN Business Process diagrams, IDEF3 Process Flows, and/or Process Charts.
SA Simulator II helps you to:

The Rational System Architect Simulator III Add On helps you :

• Improve processes

• Run cost and resource analysis

• Predict quality outcomes

Getting Started

How can you ensure that your organization benefits from Enterprise Architecture (EA) at reasonable cost and commitment? Are you looking for a way to provide visibility to your EA program across the enterprise?

The IBM® Rational® System Architect® Quickstart program enables your organization to quickly and effectively prove the value of your EA program. Our skilled and certified EA consulting team leverage their years of experience with Enterprise Architecture deployments to build the foundation of your program's success.

 

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