Your business must be fast, agile, scalable, and efficient. Creation of your software and services must reflect those same qualities. Your developers must be enabled with the most effective tools for delivery of high-quality, innovative solutions on time and on budget. IBM offers a portfolio of IBM Rational Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) that span and are optimized for numerous:

• Platforms
• Languages
• Programming models
• Middleware solutions

These Rational IDEs are designed to help raise developer productivity, attract and retain talent, and reduce initial training costs as many new hires may likely already be familiar with the Eclipse workbench environment on which the Rational IDEs are based.

Where skillfully used for the tasks of creating and maintaining applications, these Rational IDEs help enable enhanced speed, agility, and quality outcomes. They provide capabilities to help optimize applications for various target platforms and middleware, and they support a variety of tools and techniques for maintaining, extending, and modernizing key business assets held in the form of heritage COBOL, PL/I, and RPG applications. They comprise a comprehensive set of tools for developing multi-tier, multi-channel applications that support a wide variety of client devices and influence a wide variety of back-end systems.

These Rational IDEs integrate tightly with IBM optimizing compilers and IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management, to serve as key elements of a complete multi-platform application development, porting, optimization, and Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management solution.

Version 9.0 delivers new and enhanced capabilities across the entire breadth of the Rational IDE portfolio.

When used to create and maintain applications, these offerings, the new IBM Rational V9.0 Integrated Development Environment (IDE) offerings:

• Help enable enhanced speed, agility, and quality outcomes.
• Help optimize applications for various target platforms and middleware.
• Support a variety of tools and techniques for maintaining and extending key business assets held in the form of COBOL, PL/I, and RPG applications.
• Represent a complete solution for creating multi-tier, multi-channel applications that support a wide variety of client devices and influence a variety of back-end systems.

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