Best Rational tool for technical requirements, solution diagrams, other technical design items
![]() For developers documenting technical requirements and detailed technical design type of information (modules, pseudo-code, along with Technical requirements and application architecture diagrams, etc.), which Rational Tool is intended for that? |
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Hi Michael,
Depending on what you're trying to do, you may also find that design manager is sufficient. Both rhapsody and rsa are UML base Modeling tools, which design manager supports. However design manager can also be deployed standalone, to provide sketching, writing design documents and capturing architectural decisions in the web. So if you don't want too much formality, design manager may be sufficient in itself.
There is a lot of overlap between rsa and rhapsody, but in general we tend to position rsa to it/business systems software developers who are normally developing in java or .net, whilst rhapsody is normally a better fit for systems developers (think sysml), embedded software and C++.
Both products integrate with design manager for either managing the UML models, or via an upload mechanism.
I hope this helps, but feel free to reach out to me on email if you've got questions.
Steve
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Hi Michael,
RSA is a family of products. The high level features are described here: http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/us/en/ratisoftarchfami and this matrix shows what specific features are contained in each offering: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27010975 I hope this helps, Lara |