Rational Asset Manager

Overview

• Support for asset types, asset categorization, attributes and asset relationships.

• Asset permissions based on groups, roles, users and asset types

• Search using categories/facets/keywords
• File contents search, text, word, powerpoint, ear, war, zip files

• Basic review/approval flow built in with configuration possible through integration with Rational ClearQuest

• Record usage, feedback
• Export delimited file

• Discussions, email and RSS feeds

• Eclipse v3.2 client
• Web Client

• Asset-based development guidance in Rational Method Composer

• Support for Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest and WebSphere Service Registry and Repository

  Benefits

• Supports asset based development, warehousing and asset management
• Allows disparate teams to communicate securely and eliminate rework with asset traceability, categorization and utilization monitoring
• Implement compliant standards related to your intellectual property, providing the right level of access to countries, and/or teams.
• Mitigation of risks and lower costs of meeting compliance mandates by securing Intellectual property
• Straightforward discovery, storage and deployment of services in a service-oriented architecture
• Store information that is useful for collaborating on software development of Assets.
• Provides tools for defining, creating, reviewing and retrieving assets.
• Uses the RAS to describe and classify assets
• Supports any kind of asset – source code, DLLs, documentation, presentations, patterns, process flows, etc.
• Enables you to implement asset based development to and succeed with reuse strategies, cutting development costs.
• Flexible access to assets via an Eclipse or Web client.
• Integrates with other Rational Software and IBM tools, such as Rational System Architect, Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest or WebSphere Service Registry and Repository.