When using the Rational suite of tools to define, develop, and manage your software development you are constantly using the functionality of the Rational Team Unifying Platform to provide the core infrastructure. This provides basic functionality shared by all of the systems to support the rational system. Aside from providing a management structure for projects developed with the Rational system, the team unifying platform also helps support the environment that allows teams to work together on a project, updating the status and progress of the project throughout it’s development.Read the full Tutorial.