A collaborative requirements definition solution that provides textual and visual techniques to elicit, elaborate, and validate requirements with your stakeholders
Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) is IBM Rational's requirements context modeling tool. Rational Requirements Composer™, or RRC, allows the analyst and stakeholders to collaboratively create Process/Activity models, Use Case models and definitions, screen mock ups and storyboards. Requirements and Models defined in RRC can be easily conveyed to Rational’s requirements management tools for further modeling and change management.
| Current Version |
Rational Requirements Composer |
| Suggested Retail Price |
User License $4,200USD |
| How to order |
Contact IAG at 800.209.3616 |
| Benefits of ordering with IAG |
• Local North American Point of Contact
• Local Pre Sales Assistance
• Local Currency (USD or CDN$)
• Preferred Pricing
• Available implementation and consulting support
• Available on-site training
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Key Benefits |
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Gain faster stakeholder consensus with smart team collaboration techniques such as Web-based review |
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Improve productivity, while reducing costs by up to 10% by visualizing requirements before committing resources using business processes, use cases, storyboards and UI sketches |
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Facilitate requirements reuse by using tags, filters and advanced searches to organize and find requirement artifacts |
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Focus business and technology professionals on developing innovative solutions using multiple visual, scenario-driven techniques |
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Streamline requirements activities and align teams with a centralized platform for requirements elicitation, analysis, organization, validation, and management |
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Refine requirements into discrete types with custom attributes to foster effective requirement management practices |
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Integrate with Rational RequisitePro for lifecycle traceability and impact analysis. Jump-start solution analysis and design by reusing use case and business process diagrams in Rational Software Architect and Rational Software Modeler |
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Enable stakeholders to provide direct, high-quality feedback through the Web client |
Key Features
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Key Features |
| Open flexible platform for collaboration |
IBM Rational Requirements Composer uses a collaborative wiki-like, platform to allow business and technology teams to work together in an online community for requirements. The single location allows users to view, comment, and query “in-context” any textual or graphical element, and to link to other resources on the internet or your intranet. Host review documents within a collaborative environment where users can comment on issues, and engage in discussion threads with other stakeholders and team-members, ensuring that everyone participates in the review and approval of requirements. |
| Richtext authoring |
Consolidate unstructured information (rich text, images, and link internal and external documents) with easy document creation. Embed artifacts (diagrams, sketches) to create concise and clear vision and specification documents. Using this editor, users capture the annotated information to support any project, business goal or requirement. |
| Organize and find requirements |
IBM Rational Requirements Composer has filters, tags, and searches to organize and find requirements and requirement artifacts. These features help improve productivity and increase reuse. |
| Business Process Diagrams |
Using a subset of BPM notation through a simple editor, users create, share and validate current and future state business processes.; including roles, rules, tasks, and decision points. Link business process diagram elements, tasks, and decision points to use cases, UI sketches, and requirements. Allow stakeholders to conceptualize how various inputs, outputs, and roles can work together to execute processes that create value for the business. |
| User Interface Sketching |
Simulate User Interfaces with wire frame models through a simple UI Sketching editor. Create mock-ups and workflow examples for web-based interactions that link any UI component to rich document descriptions and requirements. Visualize system transactions and interactions as the user would, identify user experience issues prior to costly web-development. |
| User Interface Storyboards |
Easily create and maintain storyboards as changes are propagated. Link any UI part to rich document descriptions and requirements. Quickly assemble storyboards by sequencing, reusing, and re-factoring sketches using reusable components to quickly gain consensus on flow and content. Elaborate the user experience to further elicit and validate requirements. |
| Use Case Models |
Create use case diagrams that capture system behavior. Elaborate use cases with rich document descriptions. Link use cases diagrams with use case specifications, user interfaces sketches, storyboards, process flows and requirements. |
| Dynamic Glossaries |
Support multiple glossaries to catalog definitions of commonly used terms. Includes support for: search, synonyms, and related terms. Promote consistency and clarity of communication across the organization, capture key concepts across all deliverables into a single repository that allows for quick searches, and alert users when terms they are typing or viewing are defined within the glossary. Link to glossary terms from anywhere there is text via content assistance tools. |
| Provides Lifecycle traceability |
IBM Rational Requirements Composer is designed to enhance the lifecycle versioning and traceability to design, test, development and release activities. Requirements Composer integrates with IBM Rational RequisitePro to ensure that managing changes and traceability is seamless and effective |
| Integrates with RequisitePro |
Integrated with RequisitePro to enhance traceability with lifecycle assets in Rational Quality Manager, Rational Software Architect, Rational Software Modeler, Rational ClearQuest®, Rational Application Developer, Rational Data Architect, Rational Systems Developer, WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Integration Developer, Rational SoDA®, Rational Unified Process and Rational TestManager ®. |
| View workitem history |
A sidebar contains recent comments, recent requirements, and links to allow quick and easy viewing of team's work artifacts. |
Versions/Editions
| Version |
Description |
| Single Client Access User |
IBM Rational Requirements Composer Reviewer Client Access Authorized User License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months (D079WLL) |
| Single Client Access System z User |
IBM Rational Requirements Composer Reviewer Client Access for System z Authorized User License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months (D079YLL) |
| Single Author Client Access User |
IBM Rational Requirements Composer Author Client Access Authorized User License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months (D06WBLL) |
| Single Author Client Access System z User |
IBM Rational Requirements Composer Author Client Access for System z Authorized User License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months (D06WDLL) |
| Server - 3 Users |
IBM Rational Requirements Composer Server 3 Authorized Users License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months (D079SLL) |
| Server - 3 Users - System z |
IBM Rational Requirements Composer Server for System z 3 Authorized Users License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months (D079ULL) |
| Upgrade |
Upgrade from one version to another |
| Academic |
For Educational Institutions |
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1.800.209.3616
IAG's RRC Service Offerings
| IAG Services |
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| Product Evaluation |
Complementary assistance in determining the suitability, application and benefits of Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) within your organization |
| Product Licensing |
IAG is a fully qualified reseller for IBM Rational and can provide complete turnkey assistance from ordering through implementation. Contact IAG for professional assistance. |
| Implementation/Integration Services |
Including planning, configuration, installation, and software integration assistance |
| Requirements Process/Practice Integration |
IAG offers assistance in the adaptation of your company's requirements process based on the implementation of the technology solutions. This may be part of an existing transformation program to evolve your organization's requirements management maturity level, or simple help in updating procedures and templates. |
| User Training, Coaching & Mentoring |
IAG provides training courses and coaches to assist clients in adopting and using RRC as effectively as possible and as quickly as possible. |
| Project Consultants (Outsourcing) |
IAG consultants certified as RRC specialists can be engaged (in a staff augmentation role, or as mentors) for requirements elicitation and definition services using RRC on your projects. |
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