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Rational Software aims for format acceptance

Our Bureau

CALCUTTA, Nov. 26

THE Rs 572-million turnover Rational Software Corporation of the US hopes that the Objects Management Group (OMG) will accept its process standardisation format in the next six months. The Internet tools major has submitted for OMG's acceptance a standar dised Rational Unified Process (RUP) for software development.

According to Mr M.K. Bharatee, Country Manager of Rational Software Corporation (India) Pvt Ltd, -- a wholly-owned subsidiary of the US company -- the company has been focusing on preparing process standards that would be adopted universally for software development. ``Our endeavour is to standardise processes for software development.''

Mr Bharatee told newspersons at an informal interface here that OMG had earlier accepted as a global standard the Rational Corporation-authored Unified Modelling Language (UML). The language facilitates visual modelling for software designs. Besides, UML ensures that the software is reusable.

The Indian subsidiary is headquartered in Bangalore and is engaged in developing software tools. Rational of the US has a portfolio of different variants of 15 software tools that are sold across globally. In India, these tools are available for between Rs 30,000 and Rs 30 lakh. The company's clients in India include Ericsson, Hughes Software Systems, Honeywell India, Tata Consultancy Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers, TCG Group, Wipro, Infosys and Reliance, among others.

Rational's clients in India also include several software developers. ``Ninety-eight per cent of our customers are software developers who use our tools for software development, both Web-based and others'', Mr Bharatee observed. In fact, 80 per cent of Rational's global revenue was accounted for by tools used to develop software for Web applications.

He said that the Indian subsidiary has consistently registered a compounded annual growth of over 50 per cent since it was formed three years ago. With the increasing acceptance of objects technology, this growth is expected to be sustained. Since the Ra tional stock is listed on Nasdaq, Mr Bharatee refrained from providing any figures pertaining to revenue projections for the years ahead.