Jazz Foundation

The foundation of the collaborative application lifecycle management (C/ALM) system

Jazz is a scalable, extensible team-collaboration platform that integrates tasks across the software lifecycle. The platform also provides useful building blocks and frameworks that facilitate the development of new products and tools. This unprecendented approach is unique within the industry and has significant advantages.

Collaboration and integration across the entire application lifecycle

• Report on and manage projects spanning teams and repositories
• Automate tasks and processes, and reuse assets
• Work across functional, geographic and organizational boundaries
• Use a single consistent UI framework for all tasks
• Reduce cost of ownership by integrating with an open and flexible framework

The Jazz Integration Architecture

Jazz Team Server

• Each Jazz Team Server provides the foundational services which enable a group of tools to work together as a single logical server, and includes any number of Jazz Team Server Extensions that provide the tool-specific functionality.

Jazz Team Server

Jazz Team Server Extension

• A Jazz Team Server Extension is tool-specific functionality which is affiliated with a particular Jazz Team Server instance. Each tool uses certain facilities provided via Jazz Foundation Services in order to interact within the Jazz Team Server, and exposes its own services and data through RESTful Web services.

Jazz Team Server Extension