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The basics
Overviews of IBM Rational SCM and CM solutions.
Why IBM Rational?
Our SCM solutions are market leaders. Here's why.
Success stories
Our customers tell you how IBM Rational solutions improved their businesses.
Technical data
We play well alone and with others. Get the details on product integrations, technical specifications, range of products, administration, features and functionality.
Best practices
Learn about managing change and software configuration across the enterprise.

Best Practices

Better Software Configuration Management Means Better Business: the Seven Keys to Improving Business Values (pdf). Discusses the seven major aspects of SCM that support development, and argues for how a good SCM practice provides a positive ROI. The seven keys are: Safety, stability, control, auditability, reproducibility, traceability, scalability. Each is discussed relative to its business value.

Enterprise Transformation (html). Enterprise Transformation: Compliance and Standards

Learn about how IBM Rational's three-dimensional approach to mitigating regulatory and standards compliance risk helps you:
Ensure traceability and validation from regulation or standards requirements through system/application implementation
Manage change and ensure state of compliance through process and automated workflow enforcement
Measure, document and report on compliance efforts in the context of your IT portfolio

The Power of Unified Change Management (html). Overview of UCM that explains some essential concepts such as level of abstraction, project, component, baseline, and activity.