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In this issue: IBM Rational
March 2015
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March 2015 Issue
Did you know there are over 27 certifications
available within the IBM Rational program?
What is IBM Rational?
Rational Software helps you collaborate more effectively, develop flexibly, and control risk and change, leading to successful project delivery. This results-oriented focus helps you to innovate, differentiate your products and maximize return on investment by increasing efficiency and selecting the right initiatives aligned to your business strategy.
What are the featured products within this program?
 Rational Team Concert: Helps companies build better software and products with an all-in-one Agile development environment for
teams, which includes agile, formal and hybrid planning and reporting, all on a common platform.
 Rational DOORS: A requirements management application for optimizing requirements communication, collaboration and verification
throughout your organization and supply chain. This scalable solution can help you meet business goals by managing project scope and
cost. Rational DOORS lets you capture, trace, analyze and manage changes to information while maintaining compliance to regulations
and standards.
 Rational Quality Manager: A collaborative hub for business-driven software and systems quality across virtually any platform and
type of testing. This software helps teams share information seamlessly, use automation to accelerate project schedules and report on
metrics for informed release decisions.
 Rational Change: A web-based change management solution that offers comprehensive change tracking and change control. Rational
Change unifies software change management and configuration management repositories through a centralized change server. Rational
Change improves consistency and accountability when managing software changes.
 Rational Rhapsody Developer: A visual development environment for embedded, real time or technical application software development based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML). It helps to improve productivity throughout the embedded software development
lifecycle—from requirements capture to implementation, test and deployment. Now you can reduce time-to-market of new products with
automated software development processes, early validation and enhanced model testing.
 Rational Software Architect: A comprehensive design, modeling and development tool for end-to-end software delivery. It uses the
Unified Modeling Language (UML) for designing enterprise Java® applications and web services. Rational Software Architect is built on
the Eclipse open-source software framework and is extensible with a variety of Eclipse plugins. You can also enhance functionality for
your specific requirements with separately purchased Rational extensions.
 Rational System Architect: An enterprise architecture solution for visualizing, analyzing, and communicating enterprise architecture
and business process analysis. This solution provides decision support, process optimization, and integration into solution delivery. Rational System Architect addresses all aspects of your organization’s enterprise architecture, including modeling, publishing, analysis, and
execution.
 Rational ClearCase: A software configuration management solution that provides version control, workspace management, parallel
development support, and build auditing. You can integrate Rational ClearCase with other IBM solutions, including IBM Rational Team
Concert, IBM Rational ClearQuest, IBM Rational Asset Manager, and IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software. Rational ClearCase scales to any size team from small workgroup to large, geographically distributed teams.
 Rational ClearQuest: Application lifecycle management (ALM) software that provides flexible change and defect tracking, customizable
processes, real-time reporting and lifecycle traceability for better visibility and control of the software development lifecycle. This solution provides scalable, multiplatform support to any size organization, so you can continue to use your customized processes as your
organization’s needs evolve. Rational ClearQuest supports the IBM AIX®, HP-UX, Linux®, Sun Solaris and Microsoft® Windows® operating systems.
 Rational Focal Point: Focal Point provides product and portfolio management driven by market needs and your business objectives.
This comprehensive solution helps you prioritize and select the right investments, balance change with business demands and align resources to deliver the right products at the right time. Now your executives and teams can make decisions that deliver greater value to
your customers and your business.
Source: IBM Certification Program (http://www-01.ibm.com/software/ca/en/rational/)
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IBM Certified Deployment Professional—Endpoint Manager V9.2
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IBM Certified BPM Application Developer—Business Process Manager
New on 12/31/2014
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New on 12/22/2014
IBM Certified Solution Implementer—SmartCloud Notes Hybrid
IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Security Directory Server
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IBM Certified System Administrator—SmartCloud Notes V1
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New on 2/13/2015
IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional—IBM Security for
IBM Certified Specialist—Rhapsody for Systems V8
Static and Dynamic Applications
New on 2/17/2015
IBM Certified Deployment Professional—Security Qrader QVM
IBM Certified Solution Designer—Content Collector V4.0
V7.2.1
New on 2/18/2015
New on 1/05/2015
IBM Certified System Administrator—Websphere Commerce V7
IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Sub Capacity Licensing
Tools & Processes V9
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New on 1/07/2015
IBM Certified Specialist—Cognos 8 Controller
IBM Certified Implementation Professional - Tealeaf Customer Ex-
IBM Certified System Administrator—PureApplication System V1.1
perience Management V9.0
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To be withdrawn on 3/31/2015
IBM Certified System Administrator—MQ V8.0
IBM Certified Specialist - IBM solidDB and IBM solidDB Universal Cache
New on 1/15/2015
IBM Certified Deployment Professional—Rational UrbanCode Re-
To be withdrawn on 5/31/2015
lease
IBM Certified Solution Implementer—SmartCloud Notes Hybrid
New on 1/23/2015
Configuration & Onboarding with Data Transfer
IBM Certified Application Developer—DB2 11 for z/OS
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