What is IBM® Rational® Asset Manager?

IBM Rational Asset Manager enables your organization to efficiently govern and reuse all types of assets in a distributed development environment.

It helps to manage and govern the business and technical assets involved in software and systems delivery from one or more published products shared or referenced across the organization.

Benefits

• **Get the most from an asset library: **Use a library to manage and govern business and technical assets involved in software and systems delivery.
• **Manage business and software assets: **Simplify the initial bulk loading of your definitive software library and keep it current by integrating with other repositories and third-party libraries.
• **Get advanced scalability and flexibility: **Use IBM WebSphere® Application Server clustering for scalability to satisfy your need for search, edit and reuse.

Editions

• Standard Edition - Manages business, technology, systems and software assets for pilot programs and entry-level projects - Makes software delivery more collaborative and transparent using IBM Rational Jazz™ - Provides automation that simplifies the initial bulk loading of your definitive software library - Helps you keep the library current by integrating with other repositories and third-party libraries - Uses pre-existing materials that are tested to reduce risk and increase quality and reliability - Helps ensure the assets are organized so users can find them, use them and provide feedback on them - Uses approved deliverables and information, governed in the definitive library - Includes stakeholders, resulting in approved, published and auditable software and business assets - Automates asset governance and maintenance processes to help ensure assets are relevant
• Enterprise Edition - Manages assets for deployments requiring advanced scalability and licensing options - Includes all the capabilities of IBM Rational Asset Manager Standard Edition - Provides advanced scalability and flexibility - Includes IBM WebSphere® Application Server clustering for scalability - Allows publisher and collaborative users to satisfy needs for search, edit and reuse - Includes a floating user license to achieve more affordable solutions - Uses custom workflows based on IBM Rational Team Concert capabilities