What is IBM® Rational® Change?

IBM Rational Change is a web-based change management solution that offers comprehensive change tracking and change control. It unifies software change management and configuration management repositories through a centralized server and improves consistency and accountability when managing software changes.

Features

• **Integrated lifecycle change management: **IBM Rational Change provides traceability and impact analysis from business change requests through to systems and software implementation tasks.
• **Integrates with other IBM lifecycle management software: **This software integrates with other configuration management solutions, such as IBM Rational ClearCase®, to provide an integrated view of your project.
• **Robust change management reporting: **This software delivers historical trend analysis, status indicators, prioritization capabilities, multiple charting and visualization options, and powerful querying abilities.
• **Change management best practices: **This software includes IBM Rational Enterprise Change Process, a tool for monitoring and managing process improvements, quality initiatives, software enhancements and defects.

Benefits

• **Get started quickly: **Includes best practice templates and processes to support workflow.
• **Integrate sources of change data: **Supports distributed teams with a web-based interface for change requests and task submissions.
• **Improve reporting: **Provides high-level views into your development schedule, and offers quality assurance metrics.