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International Business Machines Corporation, famously nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, with a presence in over 175 countries. Founded on June 16, 1911, as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York, IBM is a publicly traded company and one of the 30 companies included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It stands as the largest industrial research organization globally, boasting 19 research facilities across a dozen countries, and notably held the record for generating the most annual U.S. patents for 29 consecutive years from 1993 to 2021. The company reported a substantial revenue of US$ 62.73 billion in 2024. Among its diverse product portfolio is the IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere, an application lifecycle management solution designed to streamline and enhance collaboration, planning, and change management. This integrated analysis and testing tool supports application development, deployment, testing, and management, enabling users to improve code quality through capabilities that work in unison with IBM Rational Team Concert to deliver detailed coverage metrics and program execution paths. This specific product has a rating of 4.0 based on 32 reviews, and offers both a free trial and a free version.