Rational Asset Manager (RAM) is a collaborative software development asset management solution that supports the Reusable Asset Specification (RAS) and enables organizations to identify, manage and govern the design, development and consumption of software assets, including services as part of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiative.
Rational Asset Manager is a development asset management repository that uses the Reusable Asset Specification (RAS) to define, create and modify assets. It provides asset type specific search & governance, and measures asset reuse in development.
Rational Asset Manager handles any kind of asset, such as applications, components, patterns, software that runs systems and products, services, frameworks, templates, etc. Rational Asset Manager includes the following functionality:
Asset upload, download, update, packaging
Support for asset types, asset categorization, attributes and asset relationships.
Security and access control
Asset permissions based on groups, roles, users and asset types
Search
Search using categories/facets/keywords
File contents search, text, word, powerpoint, ear, war, zip files
Workflow & Review Boards
Basic review/approval flow built in with configuration possible through integration with Rational ClearQuest
Metrics and reporting
Record usage, feedback
Export delimited file
Collaboration
Discussions, Email and RSS feeds
User interface
Eclipse v3.2 client
Web Client
Process guidance
Asset-based development guidance in Rational Method Composer
Create and update asset versions
Support for Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest and WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
Rational Asset Manager provides several benefits for development organizations.
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 Reusable Asset Specification 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.