Jazz Community News

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST

Now IBM is getting serious about public IaaS

James Staten — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 4:00:00 EST

IBM has been talking a good cloud game for the last year or so. They have clearly demonstrated that they understand what cloud computing is, what customers want from it and have put forth a variety of offerings and engagements to help customers head down this path – mostly through internal cloud and strategic rightsourcing options.

Tagging and Emergent Value in Jazz

Christoph Treude — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 4:00:00 EST

In this research project, we are examining how software developers communicate and collaborate.

Migrating from Rational ClearCase LT to Rational Team Concert

Kenny Smith — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 4:00:00 EST

Last year, IBM announced it was withdrawing Rational ClearCase LT from marketing , meaning end of the road for the product.

Planning and tracking work items in Rational Team Concert

Kenny Smith — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 4:00:00 EST

Planning and tracking work items in Rational Team Concert. Team Concert is such a cool flexible tool, and there are so many features that its easy to miss, yet its easy to get started with.

The Jazz Process

Adrian Cho — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST

Software development projects fail all the time. Teams deliver late, blow out budgets, underwhelm or disappoint users with missing or deficient functionality or simply crash-and-burn before reaching their goal. Why do some projects and teams perform so poorly?

IBM Launches Academic Cloud to Speed Delivery of Technology Skills to College Students

IBM — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST

Today at a conference in New York, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced it will make key parts of its software portfolio available in a cloud computing environment to more easily allow professors around the world to incorporate technology into their curricula.

Supporting Jazz - Everyone Needs a Good Beat

Dan Toczala — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST

I have talked to a few customers since the turn of the new year, and they have been very honest and open with me in what they see, and what they perceive in the current marketplace.

Monitoring and Allocating Users Across Projects

Deepak Azad — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST

Most views and reports in Rational Team Concert (RTC) are project centric. They give information about a particular project, its members and their utilization and various other facades.

The Jazz Connection

Dave Johnson — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 2:35:00 EST

Here's something I've been closely involved with during my entire IBM career (almost 9 months now): making software development more social by integrating Rational Team Concert and Lotus Connections.

Real World Jazz Results - Our Customers are not "Kind of Blue"

Dan Toczala — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:00:00 EST

I have been wandering the world (electronically) and North America (physically) for the past year and half helping IBM customers understand the capabilities of Jazz, and the implications of the deployment of those capabilities for their organizations.

Jazz extensibility evolution

Bill Higgins — Mon, 03 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EST

Shortly before winter vacation, an IBM colleague contacted me to learn more about how extensibility - particularly web UI extensibility - works in the IBM Rational Jazz Platform on which I work.

Mainsoft linking IBM's Jazz and Lotus Connections

Paul Krill — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:30:00 EST

With a technology preview on Tuesday, Mainsoft seeks to link business persons into the software development process by integrating the IBM Rational Team Concert collaborative environment and IBM's Lotus Connections collaboration platform.

Web 2.0 for Software Engineering

Jorge Aranda — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST

The list of workshops for ICSE 2010 is out, and though many of them look very interesting I'd like to point your attention towards the workshop on Web 2.0 for Software Engineering ...

IBM pushes mainframe development to cut maintenance costs

Jeff Feinman — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST

IBM is promoting mainframe development as a way to reduce IT maintenance costs. The company today released Rational Developer for System z (RDz) version 7.6, which will look to attract new developers to mainframe development. Separately, IBM added a common repository to version 2.0 of Rational Team Concert for System z. According to Searle, the new repository is more consolidated regardless of the platform being developed on, bringing increased collaboration and information availability to distributed teams.

IBM greases mainframe app pipe

Austin Modine — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:00:00 EST

IBM is sweeping cobwebs off big iron with a host of new software products and updates aimed at streamlining maintenance and squeezing more workloads out of the System z mainframe, including Rational Team Concert for System z.

Rational Quality Manager and Rational DOORS

Brian Bryson — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST

At the Rational Software Conference last June, we did our first demonstration of Rational Quality Manager integrating with Rational DOORS (formerly Telelogic DOORS). With this integrations, users of Rational DOORS who manage their software and system requirements in DOORS can link these to a test plan and test cases in Rational Quality Manager. This link enables requirements based quality, where requirements drive the test plan.

Setting up Team Concert Express-C on Windows AWS

David Bows — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST

Rational Team Concert Express-C is a great product that can support a small team of developers with Agile development but has much more. Here is how to get started with it on AWS (Amazon Cloud).

Jazz Me Up!

doomsberry — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST

I started working on a new project, and here we used the IBM RTC (Rational Team Concert), which uses the IBM Jazz platform. I was amazed the way in which we could work in groups to develop software. Initially I have seen maintainers and developers add their names to identify the sections of code they changed and explanations of why they made the changes. With RTC on Jazz platform the RTC source control makes changes and delivers them to the RTC repository , which then tracks the sections of the code that are changed by whom and why. How cool is someone doing that for you. Well this is just one of the many features that I discovered with RTC.

IBM Brings ALM to the Cloud

Jeffrey Schwartz — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST

IBM today launched application lifecycle management tools for its public and private cloud-based services. The company's Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing consists of ALM tools for developing and testing applications running on IBM Cloud. The offering consists of compute and storage infrastructure services that let developers provision and test applications based on its WebSphere and Information Management platforms. The new services support development of Java and .NET applications as well as other open-source platforms. IBM said it will also offer services based on its Jazz Framework.

Integrate RTC and Performance Tester for collaborative script development, version control, and process management

Dan Liu and Chuck Berry — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST

When developing performance test scripts in Rational Performance Tester, you need version control tools to help better manage versions of the scripts. Rational Team Concert not only offers version control but helps you govern the development process. Rational Team Concert provides an efficient way to collaboratively develop the Rational Performance Tester projects and scripts.

IBM launches development and test cloud

James Urquhart — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST

With a nod toward the heterogeneous application development environments that exist in most enterprise IT departments, IBM on Wednesday launched a pair of services targeted at building cloud applications, including pre-configured integrations of some Rational services based on IBM's Jazz framework, its collaborative software platform.

Collaborative Software Development: Creating an integrated workflow process

admin — Tue, 3 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST

In this video, Randy Wyatt of the US Navy discusses how Rational Team Concert has fostered collaboration among his team. With Rational and other tools, the teams are involved in a more collaborative development process, rather than one group handing off to another in a siloed workflow system.

IBM Rational Executive Dashboard Based on Rational Insight for Performance Management

IBM Software Federal Team — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EST

IBM executives use Rational software to run their own business. Check out the Executive Dashboard that allows IBM executives to manage product development and delivery. Based on Rational Insight, the Executive Dashboard is designed around business and operational objectives. It pulls live data from a variety of sources from Jazz-based products, such as Rational Team Concert and Rational Quality Manager.

Black Diamond Software Offers 'Presto' for SMBs

IBM Software Federal Team — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EST

Black Diamond Software announced Presto software development appliances.

IBM Rational Functional Tester

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EST

IBM Makes It Easier for Businesses to Create, Deliver and Manage Services

WebSphere News Desk — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:00:00 EST

IBM today announced a more effective way for organizations to quickly build, deliver, and manage high quality services. Through new software integrations, organizations can manage and automate processes across their development, test, and operations teams. These new integrations give clients better control over the services they provide to customers while lowering the overall cost of delivery and shortening the time to market for new services.

IBM Intros Software Integration

IBM — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EST

IBM has announced tools for integrating IBM Rational and Tivoli software, making it easier for organizations to align their software delivery processes -- Rational automates the build cycle during the development phase and then releases it to Tivoli to automatically deploy it onto servers in production. This integration helps ensure that organizations have auditable and traceable software delivery, faster build and deployment cycles, reduced risk of production roll-backs, and lower overall costs.

We are all Agile in the eyes of the Jazz Admin

Dan Toczala — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EST

Another week, another customer that is either adopting Jazz, or very seriously thinking about it. I ran into an interesting situation in the past month, and I ran into it twice. It made me think a little bit about Agile development, Waterfall development, and how Jazz and Rational Team Concert can help an organization begin to get the troops marching in the same direction.

Making Jazz Social

Jonas Martinsson — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EST

Some months back, I posted our plans to add enterprise social features to the software delivery process. Today, I am showing you a screencast of our progress on integrating IBM Lotus Connections with IBM Rational Jazz.

Scott Ambler on the World of Agile Development

Matthew Heusser and Scott W. Ambler — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:00:00 EST

In this thought-provoking interview, Scott Ambler discusses his views on the Agile Process Maturity Model, the biggest challenge in Agile database techniques, Agile criticism, Agilistas' misunderstandings about CMMI, developer-specific magazines, and the future of Agile.

Agility at the core of s/w development

V. Sudhakshina — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:00:00 EST

The IBM Rational software conference 2009 dealt with the theme of agility as an important aspect in the software development life cycle.

Jazz Hands - Administration and Cost of Ownership

Dan Toczala — Wednesday, 6 Aug 2009 12:00:00 EST

Comparison of Rational Team Concert to various competitors across its solution space and the significant administrative, hardware and cost savings RTC enables.

IBM Rational Requirements Composer

IBM Software Federal Team — Wednesday, 29 July 2009 22:20:00 EST

The IBM Software Federal Team posts a presentation video on the benefits and features of RRC for requirements management and definition.

New Release: Rational Service Tester v8.1 & Service Stubbing

Brian Bryson — Friday, 24 July 2009 12:00:00 EST

Information about the just-released IBM Rational Service Tester v8.1, including info on integration with Rational Quality Manager 2.0 Express and Standard editions.

Real Innovation with Real Budgets: IBM Rational Quality Manager Express Animation

IBM Software Federal Team — Thursday, 23 July 2009 23:05:00 EST

The IBM Software Federal Team posts an animation promoting RQM for test planning with its Web 2.0 interface.

IBM Measured Capability Improvement Framework (MCIF) - Getting started

DEEPAK AZAD — Saturday, 11 July 2009 12:00:00 EST

Last month, IBM Rational announced their Measured Capability Improvement Framework (MCIF) offering, described in IBM's official news release. MCIF encapsulates 25 years of experience helping teams incrementally improve their practice maturity to deliver business results.

New Release: Rational Functional Tester v8.1 & Storyboard Testing

Brian Bryson — Wednesday, 15 July 2009 12:00:00 EST

An overview of the brand new Rational Functional Tester v8.1, including details on new and updated features. The highlight is Storyboard Testing, which is a revolutionary way to create and store test plans visually, improving tester communication and understanding.

Rational Quality Manager 2.0 - New Views

Brian Bryson — Wednesday, 08 July 2009 12:00:00 EST

Information about RQM 2.0's hierarchical views and how it adds new ways to view and manage assets. RQM's advanced tagging and searching capabilities will remain as well, giving testers more flexibility in controlling their test plans.

Rational Team Concert 2.0 Released

Kenny Smith — Tuesday, 07 July 2009 14:07:00 EST

A favorable review of RTC 2.0 by Strongback Consulting. Honorable mentions include RTC's free ExpressC version and integrated SCM functionality in contrast to other SCM-only products like Subversion.

IBM Rational Insight - Getting Started

Deepak Azad — Saturday, 04 July 2009 14:30:00 EST

A short demo and description of IBM Rational Insight, which pulls information from a variety of Rational products including the Jazz family to build dashboards for business and operational objectives.

Running Rational Team Concert (Jazz) on Eclipse 3.5 / Mac OS X

Bryan Hunt — Thursday, 02 July 2009 13:22:00 EST

Unofficial guide to configuring the Rational Team Concert Linux server and Eclipse client to work on Mac OS X. This workaround is unsupported by IBM, but according to Bryan works well.

Scaling Agile with C/ALM

Dave Johnson — Wednesday, 01 July 2009 11:35:00 EST

Commentary on IBM Rational's latest eBook, Scaling Agile with C/ALM. Dave talks about how he's found the book useful for understanding the Jazz philosophy and how OLSC is being positioned to help integrate various development tools.

IBM Maintains Leadership in Application Development

PR Newswire — Monday, 29 Jun 2009 14:30:00 EST

A discussion of recent awards received by IBM and IBM Rational from Gartner, Inc. and Evans Data Corp., as well as the advantage of an end-to-end application lifecycle management (ALM) solution.

What Rational is doing now - Scott Hebner at RSC 2009

Michael Cote — Monday, 29 Jun 2009 11:09:00 EST

Michael interviews Scott Hebner of IBM Rational about RSC 2009 developments, Rational products, how they integrate with Jazz and what they mean for business leaders.

Collaboration and Rational Tooling

Greg Hodgkinson — Monday, 29 Jun 2009 07:50:00 EST

Greg introduces a series of slides pitching Rational Team Concert as a highly effective tool for team collaboration. He bills RTC as a solution for diverse needs including process tracking, code history, team coordination and best practice adherence.

Scaling Agile with C/ALM (Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management)

Carolyn Pampino, Erich Gamma, and John Wiegand — Monday, 29 Jun 2009 04:11:00 EST

Information and excerpts from the new Agile-focused eBook released by IBM Rational centered around C/ALM. This article gives an introduction and overview of the strategies and main points of Pampino, Gamma and Wiegand's latest work on collaborative development.

Model Driven Service Development using a Definitive Software Library

Carlos — Wednesday, 24 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST

A description of a demonstration presented at RSC 2009 of how to use Rational Asset Manager in conjunction with Rational Software Architect, Rational Team Concert, and Build Management.

DOORS and RequisitePro Evolution to Jazz

Dwayne Dreakford and Richard Watson — Monday, 22 Jun 2009 12:35:00 EST

A discussion of RSC 2009 annoucements in the requirements space, and upcoming changes in IBM's requirements-based and Jazz products. Requirements Composer, Team Concert, Quality Manager, RequisitePro, DOORS are all covered, as are upgrades to Jazz Foundation-driven solutions and Jazz.net exposure.

IBM's New initiative to Help Organizations to Design & Deliver Smarter Products

Malvika Saxena — Monday, 22 Jun 2009 3:37:00 EST

Coverage of IBM's newly-announced Rational Webtop, Rational DOORS and the latest version of Rational Team Concert. Discusses the increasing need for development and process management across the software industry and how IBM is moving to help businesses deliver more quality at a faster pace.

Rational makes early moves with cloud and 'smarter products' strategy

Tony Baer — Monday, 15 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST

Ovum's Tony Baer discusses Cloud-related announcements at RSC 2009, and what they mean for IBM and the industry. Baer offers a good perspective on what this initiative means for IBM, the preliminary nature of the announcement, and how it will impact other industry players as well as IBM's supply chain.

Rational's Strategy for Requirements Definition and Management

Theresa Kratschmer — Wednesday, 17 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST

Commentary on RSC announcements regarding IBM Rational's requirements management products. Also includes some background on requirements strategies for different industries, and how Rational Jazz will help fuel the evolution of IBM Rational requirements software.

SCM tools are not configuration management tools

Frank Schophuizen — Monday, 8 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST

Frank discusses the pitfalls of modern SCM tools and how they fall short of their stated purposes. He gives an honorable mention to RTC as the closest product available to a true SCM tool.

IBM to hold "Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud"

IBM — Friday, 6 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST

Information and registration details for the upcoming webinar on IBM's Cloud initiatives. Billed as a technology preview, this webinar will discuss the public release of the IBM Cloud and integration with services from IBM's Rational group.

Jazz suite updated at IBM Rational Software Conference

Jack Vaughan — Friday, 5 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST

Coverage of Jazz suite updates from RSC 2009, including RRC and RTC. Also includes a history of Jazz and how it uses Eclipse, as well as an intro to Focal Point for Product Management.

iRise, Rational Tie-In Provides "Hi-Fi Simulations"

Vance McCarthy — Friday, 5 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST

iRise has released a new tool that integrations with Rational Requirements Composer to visualize software designs and simulate how well they mesh with business needs and existing products. iRise is built on the Jazz platform.

Nice short article about Rational Team Concert

Constantine — Friday, 5 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST

Constantine comments on a Jazz.net forum post describing the benefits of RTC. Integration, ease of installation and great documentation are highly regarded.

Rational Software Conference 2009: Why Are Customers Talking SharePoint?

Jenna Dobkin — Friday, 5 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST

Jenna blogs on the excitement surrounding RTC and SharePoint integration at RSC 2009. Mainsoft took center stage to give an overview of their latest product.

Mainsoft opens SharePoint blogs, wikis, My Sites to IBM developers

Techblogger — Friday, 5 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST

Techblogger reports on Mainsoft's Mainsoft 2.0 for Sharepoint and Rational Team Concert, which allows SharePoint's social networking to mesh with RTC's development model.

Rational Software Conference: Day 2 Recap

Brian Bryson — Monday, 2 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST

Brian blogs on new RQM info from RSC 2009: More great content in the Quality Management track at the Rational Software Conference 2009. The most interesting thing from those sessions was really how IBM Rational is using Performance Tester to test its own tools.

Rational Move: IBM Debuts Development, Cloud Computing Tools

Rick Whiting — Monday, 1 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST

IBM is expanding its lineup of Rational development tools and services, including technology the company said will make it easier to develop and implement software for cloud computing.

IBM Jazz-ing up software project management

Paul Krill — Monday, 1 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST

IBM will unveil on Monday software project management wares as a precursor to enabling access to Rational products via a cloud computing paradigm.

Spotlight on Jazz at Luxoft's round table

Igor Sukharev — Friday, 29 May 2009 12:00:00 EST

Igor talks about a Luxoft round table on reducing IT costs. He presented information on RTC, Jazz, as well as the community at jazz.net, and discussed how Rational Jazz products can be deployed in heterogeneous environments.

How Do I Deploy Jazz?

Dan Toczala — Wednesday, 20 May 2009 12:00:00 EST

In this blog, Dan tackles the question: I bought into your vision of Jazz making software development more streamlined, more transparent, and making teams accountable. Now that I own this thing, how do I roll it out quickly to my organization without turning my teams upside down?

Jazz 2.0 release candidate

Peter Hendriks — Sunday, 17 May 2009 12:00:00 EST

RC1 for Rational Team Concert (RTC) 2.0 was released yesterday. Even though it's only been a year since the 1.0 release, RTC got a lot of updates. First of all, there is now an Enterprise edition, which allows an unlimited amount of developers on a single server instance, a big improvement for large organizations with more than 250 developers. Cross-server and cross-project linking has been improved and formalized, one of the user-visible capabilities is that you can now create dashboards that contain information of several projects. This allows several interesting scenarios, such as a "Project of Projects" for a Project Office in a large orginization, or different companies with their own ALM deployments working together through the shared Jazz link.

IBM Rational helps manufacturers kill bugs

Alex Goldman — Friday, 8 May 2009 12:00:00 EST

IBM announced a full suite of products that help companies design smart products from the specification stage to actual manufacture.

IBM Announces New Resources to Help Organizations Design and Deliver Smarter Products

PR Newswire — Thursday, 7 May 2009 13:00:00 EST

As demand increases for products that are digitally aware and interconnected, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new software platform and related services to help product manufacturers and designers create innovative products that help people work and live smarter.

Update: IBM adds portal view to Rational line

Paul Krill — Thursday, 7 May 2009 12:00:00 EST

Company leverages the Jazz platform and Telelogic technology in a multiproduct rollout

What is Rational Quality Manager and How do I get started?

Brian Bryson — Friday, 1 May 2009 12:00:00 EST

In this blog post, Brian Bryson provides four steps to learning about Rational Quality Manager, with links to videos, articles, and other resources for learning.

From the Eclipse Platform to the IBM Rational Jazz Platform

Ferran Rodenas — Monday, 20 April 2009 12:00:00 EST

In this blog post, Ferran Rodenas writes about the IBM Rational Jazz platform and IBM Rational Team Concert. He talks about the Eclipse vision and how IBM Rational took it one step further to create the Jazz vision.

Jazz - Better the Second Time Around?

Dan Toczala — Wednesday, 8 April 2009 12:00:00 EST

I have just spent a couple of days with a customer that is looking at Jazz, and Rational Team Concert in particular, in a proof of concept. The customer is great. They are intelligent, fun to work with, and they have a good understanding of what they want to do, and how they want to get there.

Jazz in the Real World

Dan Toczala — Thursday, 2 April 2009 12:00:00 EST

In working with customers, I find many different attitudes and expectations associated with the Jazz platform, and the philosophy behind Jazz. People love the idea of a unified software development platform, and think that the technology is fantastic.

Mainsoft links Microsoft SharePoint, IBM Jazz

Paul Krill — Tuesday, 17 March 2009 12:00:00 EST

In partnership with IBM, Mainsoft on Tuesday will ship an integration package that links Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration platform and IBM's Rational Jazz system for application lifecycle management, enabling business users to have their say in application development.

The IBM Rational Jazz Strategy for Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management

Liz Barnett — Friday, 13 March 2009 12:00:00 EST

With the Jazz project, IBM Rational is providing integrated tools and processes that help people working on distributed teams become more effective in producing software solutions.

How Does Rational Jazz Compare with Open Source Solutions

Dan Toczala — Wednesday, 18 February 2009 12:00:00 EST

The issue revolves around how IBM/Rational deals with open source competition, and their close cousins the "cheap source" tools. You think of JIRA, Rally, Subversion, Version One and others. There are a lot of open source solutions out there, some good, some not so good. IBM/Rational has known for a while that many of their tools are slowly becoming commoditized, and they have a limited life expectancy.

Rational Team Concert use in the college classroom

Laurie Williams — Wednesday, 11 Feb 2009 09:00:00 EST

This paper, titled "On Preparing Students for Distributed Software Development with a Synchronous, Collaborative Development Platform", explores the student use of Rational Team Concert over a five week period in a college course. It includes the students' evaluation of Rational Team Concert, as well as lessons learned.

Gartner MarketScope for Application Life Cycle Management

IBM — Thursday, 05 Feb 2009 12:00:00 EST

Organizations modernizing application development -- for example, adopting agile or service-oriented development methods -- need to make corresponding changes in ALM to plan, measure, and report on development activities. This report assesses the market offerings and their providers. Download this 20-page report today to discover why, among twelve providers of ALM solutions, IBM is the only vendor rated "Strong Positive" by senior Gartner analysts. Registration on IBM.com required to download the report.

Certeon to Host Webinar on Improving the Performance of Distributed IBM Rational ClearCase and Team Concert Environments

centredaily.com — Monday, 02 Feb 2009 12:00:00 EST

Certeon today announced that it will be hosting a Webinar on improving the performance of distributed IBM Rational ClearCase and Team Concert environments. Charlie Kraus, senior director of business development for Certeon and Paul Weiss, senior manager of performance and reliability, Rational Division IBM Software Group, will discuss how Certeon's aCelera application acceleration software cost-effectively reduces Rational ClearCase and Team Concert application response times over the WAN by as much as 93%.

RIA Weekly #40 - Development

RIA Weekly — Tuesday, 27 Jan 2009 00:30:00 EST

In this weekly podcast episode, guest host Bill Higgins gives an update on the development of the Jazz Foundation.

Project Management for the Digital Media Age

IBM — Monday, 13 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST

IBM has released Rational Requirements Composer, a Jazz-based requirements definition tool set; intended to complement the Rational RequisitePro requirements manager.

2008 Jazz Innovation award recipients announced

IBM — Monday, 15 Dec 2008 23:00:00 EST

The 2008 Jazz Innovation Awards recognize outstanding research projects based on the use of Jazz technology in academic research and education.

IBM Promotes New Change-Management Software for i Systems

Vicki Hamende — Thursday, 4 Dec 2008 12:00:00 EST

IBM's new Rational Team Concert for i suite of change-management utilities promises i system shops a bigger chunk of the Rational Developer for i (RDi) pie when it comes to simplifying, automating, and governing application development.

New IBM Software Helps Companies Reduce Costs, Paper Consumption by Transforming Business Processes

IBM — Tuesday, 2 Dec 2008 12:00:00 EST

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new software to help organizations automate their business processes, thereby lowering operating costs and reducing paper consumption.

IBM Unveils Change Management Software for System i

Alex Woodie — Tuesday, 2 Dec 2008 12:00:00 EST

IBM last week unveiled and delivered Rational Team Concert for i, a new suite of change management utilities for System i and Power Systems shops. The software, which plugs into Rational Developer for i (RDi), is an i OS version of Rational Team Concert, and provides System i shops with integrated source control, change management, and build management capabilities, according to IBM.

Agile for a new age

Jeff Feinman — Monday, 1 Dec 2008 12:00:00 EST

Ask Jim York what it takes to master agile methods, and he points to the skill set of a team known for silliness, not software.

IBM 'Testing' HP's Market Position In Software Quality Management

Rick Whiting — Thursday, 27 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST

IBM (NYSE:IBM) is expanding its portfolio of software quality management and testing tools, part of its Rational development toolset, in a move that will heighten the company's head-to-head competition with Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) and its Quality Center suite

IBM To Link Acquired Telelogic Tools To Rational

Charles Babcock — Saturday, 22 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST

IBM is looking to use its Jazz platform as a way to integrate related Telelogic and Rational tools

Rational JAZZ Gets MOSS Document Collaboration

Barb Mosher — Wednesday, 19 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST

Mainsoft continues to bridge the divide between Java and .Net. Today they announced the Beta release of Mainsoft Document Collaboration for Rational Jazz, SharePoint Edition

IBM maps out future for Telelogic tools

David Rubinstein — Monday, 17 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST

IBM's acquisition of development tool rival Telelogic in April raised questions about the future of the portfolio and whether IBM would slowly move Telelogic customers onto IBM Rational tools

Why Developers Should Demand Effective IT Governance (Yet Have Little Hope of Getting It)

Scott Ambler — Friday, 31 Oct 2008 12:00:00 EST

IT governance, also referred to as systems engineering governance, establishes chains of responsibility, authority, and communication in support of the overall enterprise goals and strategy

IBM expands portfolio of midmarket offerings

IBM — Friday, 31 Oct 2008 12:00:00 EST

IBM has unveiled the new Express Advantage offerings, which include hardware, software, and services specifically developed for midsized businesses.

New IBM Solutions Help Midsize Companies Maximize Business Performance and Efficiency

IBM — Wednesday, 29 Oct 2008 12:00:00 EST

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled the newest Express Advantage offerings, which include hardware, software, and services specifically developed for midsized businesses. The portfolio of offerings provides IBM's extensive business partner ecosystem with a broad range of applications to deliver simple, affordable, customized solutions for their customers

Erich Gamma Discusses Jazz, Eclipse, JUnit and Design Patterns

Ryan Slobojan — Tuesday, 20 Oct 2008 12:00:00 EST

Distinguished Engineer at IBM Rational Software's Zurich lab. He is one of the leaders of the Jazz project. He was the original lead of the Eclipse Java development environment and is on the Project Management Committee for the Eclipse project.

Jazz in Concert - Jazz Platform and Rational Team Concert Make Sweet Music for Development Teams

Rick Cook — Friday, 17 Oct 2008 12:00:00 EST

Collaboration in software development isn't a luxury, it's a necessity that software teams have to figure out how to do better. With the right tools such as IBM's Rational Team Concert built on the Jazz technology, any size software development team can stay in sync in real time, regardless of location.

Rational RSDC - Jazz and Second Life

David Norfolk — Tuesday, 30 Sep 2008 12:00:00 EST

A chance to talk with Danny Sabbah, General Manager, Rational Software, at the London Rational Software Developers Conference (RSDC) is not to be missed.

IBM Rational: The quality enhancer

Genevieve Khongwir — Friday, 26 Sep 2008 12:00:00 EST

With software development companies in a hurry to deliver products, project life cycles are decreasing and testing is becoming a critical factor in the success of the project as a whole. Today, development organisations face several significant challenges, which include release cycles, assurance of quality of code, and managing the costs and risks, with ever-shortening projects.

RSDC UK 2008 Review

Mike MacDonagh — Thursday, 25 Sep 2008 12:00:00 EST

So RSDC UK is over and I'm finally getting a chance to blog about it. I think it was the best UK Rational event for a long time, and there were some great speakers...

Video: What is Rational Team Concert?

IBM Rational Jazz Team — Tuesday, 23 Sep 2008 12:00:00 EST

What is Rational Team Concert? Here is a short video to introduce you to some of the capabilities and benefits of IBM Rational Team Concert.

IBM Launches New Software for Developing Mainframe Apps and Enterprise Mashups

Arvind Arora — Friday, 19 Sep 2008 12:00:00 EST

IBM has launched a new software line designed to help businesses take advantage of the surge in mainframe applications and the growing momentum behind enterprise mashups.

Expanding the Value of IBM Rational Team Concert Software with IBM Business Partners

IBM — Wednesday, 17 Sep 2008 12:00:00 EST

The evolution of software development is all about globalization, open environments, seamless collaboration, and agile methods. This white paper discusses challenges to adopting such techniques, and how Jazz technology, Rational Team Concert and IBM Business Partner Plug-ins can help drive software innovation through collaboration.

IBM tries to 'jazz' up software delivery

Ashley Clark — Tuesday, 16 Sep 2008 14:26:00 EST

With its new technology platform, Jazz, IBM hopes to provide a more cohesive and streamlined approach to software development and delivery.

A Rational Approach to Collaboration

Mark Kobayashi-Hillary — Friday, 06 Sep 2008 17:00:00 EST

I had a chat earlier today with Tony Grout from IBM. Tony is the business value leader for Rational Software - a bit of a mouthful, but essentially he is the guru for all things Rational.

IBM Delivers Resources to Help Educators Prepare Students for IT Jobs

CNN Money.com — Wednesday, 03 Sep 2008 22:00:00 EST

IBM announces today it is making its courseware and technical skill-building tools accessible free of charge to university faculty. These new resources will help them prepare for Fall semester IT and business courses as they expose students to in-demand IT job skills such as software development, enterprise systems management and business process modeling.

IBM to focus on products for SMEs

The Hindu — Friday, 29 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST

IBM's Vice-President, Worldwide Sales, Steve Robinson, said here on Thursday that the focus was now on products for SMEs (small and medium enterprises), a fast growing segment. Earlier, he released products built on its 'Jazz' technology, improving collaboration among teams within one organisation. IBM said some were designed for the practice of global software delivery.

New software to transform how people will collaborate

The Financial Express — Thursday, 28 Aug 2008 16:05:00 IST

IBM on Thursday announced new software that it said would "transform how people will collaborate, thereby driving greater value and performance" from their globally distributed software investments. IBM announced 20 products that "break down the walls that inhibit organisations from truly collaborating" with partners, suppliers customers and their employees, according to a company statement.

IBM announces new software to transform how people will collaborate

Business Standard — Thursday, 28 Aug 2008 16:28:00 IST

IBM today announced new software that it said would "transform how people will collaborate, thereby driving greater value and performance" from their globally distributed software investments.

IBM Products to Unite Distributed Teams

CXOtoday Staff — Thursday, 28 Aug 2008 14:40:00 IST

By the end of 2008, IBM and its business partners expect to release 20 products harnessing the collaborative capabilities of Jazz. The Jazz collaborative technology to help geographically distributed software delivery teams work together in real-time.

IBM announces new rational products

CyberMedia News — Thursday, 28 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST

BANGALORE, INDIA: Global IT services provider IBM today announced the launch of new software, which it claimed would transform the aspect people's collaboration, thereby driving greater value and performance to the globally distributed software investments.

New software to transform how people will collaborate

Info-Tech — Thursday, 28 Aug 2008 17:30:00 IST

IBM on Thursday announced new software that it said would "transform how people will collaborate, thereby driving greater value and performance" from their globally distributed software investments.

IBM Announces New Software to Transform the Way People Collaborate

IT News Online Staff — Thursday, 28 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST

IBM, at the IBM Rational Software Development Conference, has announced new software that will transform how people will collaborate, thereby driving greater value and performance from their globally distributed software investments. The company announced 20 products that break down the walls that inhibit organizations from truly collaborating with partners, suppliers, customers and their employees.

IBM software to help companies transform the way people work

India Infoline News Service — Thursday, 28 Aug 2008 17:41:00 IST

IBM announced the launch of a new software that will transform how people will collaborate, thereby driving greater value and performance from their globally distributed software investments. In front of more than 5000 customers, business partners and developers attending the IBM Rational Software Development Conference, IBM announced 20 products that break down the walls that inhibit organizations from truly collaborating with partners, suppliers, customers and their employees.

IBM, Jazz to Improve Software Delivery System

ChannelTimes Staff — Friday, 29 Aug 2008 13:45:00 IST

While re-defining the method of software delivery in varied environments, IBM has announced new software based on Jazz collaborative technology. The company announced 20 such products to help geographically distributed software delivery teams work together in an open manner to offer effective software solutions.

Big Blue Offers Jazz to Software Developers

Chong Jinn Xiung — Wednesday, 26 Aug 2008 15:30:00 EST

IBM Malaysia has unveiled its Jazz collaborative technology and said the product helps geographically dispersed teams work together in an open, transparent software environment in real time.

Surgient to Enable More Efficient Application Development with IBM Jazz Technology

Surgient — Wednesday, 25 Aug 2008 09:00:00 EST

Surgient, a market leader in self-service virtualization automation and lab management, today announced it will offer integrated solutions with products built using IBM Jazz collaborative technologies.

Island Training Offers a Free Test Drive of the New IBM Rational Team Concert

PR Web Press Release — Wednesday, 21 Aug 2008 15:30:00 EST

Island Training is offering a free test drive of IBM Rational Team Concert to let software developers around the globe see for themselves the team development capabilities of IBM Jazz.

The IBM Rational Jazz Strategy for Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management

Liz Barnett, EZ Insight, Inc. — Thursday, 14 Aug 2008 14:00:00 EST

Industry analyst Liz Barnett authors a paper discussing the broad vision for the Jazz project, the Jazz technology and associated products from Rational and its partners, and the community that will participate in all of these initiatives. It includes experiences shared by early users of Rational Jazz tools as well as those of partners building complementary Jazz-based products.

IBM readies Requirements Composer for Jazz

Jason Stamper — Thursday, 7 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EST

IBM is gearing up to launch a Rational Requirements Composer for its 'open commercial' Jazz collaborative application development platform, CBR has learned.

When can you get the Jazz based Rational Tools?

Mike MacDonagh, Ivar Jacobson International — Thursday, 12 June 2008 12:00:00 EST

I've seen some comments about the fact that at the RSDC2008 Rational announced 22 products. I think many bloggers and article writers may have got a little confused by all the hype. Rational certainly made some very important product announcements and the Rational Labs in the exhibition centre were fantastic in terms of showing us some previews of what's coming in the future.

IBM Rational Takes 'Jazz' Collaboration Suite on a Roll

Integration Developer News — Monday, 9 June 2008 9:00:00 EST

One of the highlights among the almost two dozen Jazz-related offerings is IBM's Rational Team Concert, a tool designed to help software teams collaborate in real-time in the context of specific roles and processes, through social networking technologies like instant messaging.

IBM seeks consensus on ALM architecture

Paul Krill, InfoWorld — Thursday, 5 June 2008 9:00:00 EST

IBM is pressing forward with an initiative intended to simplify collaboration in application lifecycle management projects that use products from multiple vendors. Called Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration, the effort announced this week purports to enable collaboration based on a common architecture leveraging HTML, REST, and XML data formats and protocols used by the company's Jazz ALM platform.

IBM Gets Jazzy with Web 2.0

Darryl Taft, eWeek — Monday, 2 June 2008 9:30:00 EST

At its Rational Software Development Conference here, IBM plans to officially launch more than 20 products based on and connected to its Jazz-collaborative development environment.

IBM Rational's Big-Band Jazz Release

John Waters, Application Development Trends — Monday, 2 June 2008 9:00:00 EST

IBM's Rational Software division today unveiled 20 new commercial products including Rational Team Concert and Jazz-based products from business partners including Black Duck Software, CAST Software, CM-Logic, iRise, Mainsoft, QSM, Ravenflow, Source IQ, Surgient and VMLogix, and WebLayers.

IBM Reveals Jazz Product Launch Wave

Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service — Sunday, 1 June 2008 9:00:00 EST

Team Concert 1.0, the first commercial product derived from IBM's Jazz platform for collaborative development, will be available on June 30, with nearly 20 related offerings from IBM and partners set to ship by the end of 2008, the company announced Monday.

IBM Adds Social Networking To Rational Team Development

Information Week — Saturday, 31 May 2008 12:00:00 EST

IBM is about to give its Rational software development platform a social networking injection. The company's new hub for collaborative development, Rational Team Concert, is due by the end of this month.

Comment Jazz m'aide à piloter mon stage

Sebastien Etter — Sunday, 25 May 2008 16:04:00 EST

Cet article est un retour d'expérience sur ce que nous apporte Jazz dans la conduite de mon stage. Avant de commencer, petite introduction: je m'appelle Sébastien Etter, je suis en dernière année d'école d'ingénieur en Informatique (ENSISA) et j'effectue depuis février 2008 un stage de fin d'études à Alcatel-Lucent avec comme passionnant sujet, l'étude de la plate-forme de développement collaboratif Jazz.

IBM Rational Team Concert for i and IBM Rational Team Concert for System z Future Beta Programs

IBM Rational — Thursday, 29 May 2008 12:00:00 EST

The Beta Programs will feature two new offerings: Rational Team Concert for System z and Rational Team Concert for i. These offerings build on core Rational Team Concert by providing a Team Server that runs on z/OS and IBM i (formerly known as i5/OS), respectively, and a specific set of functionality for z/OS, IBM i, and cross-platform application development.

My first Jazz (Team Concert) Demo

Mike MacDonagh — Thursday, 8 May 2008 12:00:00 EST

The best thing about demoing or even just playing with Jazz is how easy it is to setup and play with. The guys in the Jazz development team have done a great job in making it accessible and consumable. You can literally just download the server and client, unzip, run the server through a batch file then start accessing the clients.

Team Concert Beta 3 Out

From the Editor of Methods and Tools — Wednesday, 13 May 2008 09:10:00 EST

From what I have seen from a demo that shows Rational Team Concert features accessed through an Eclipse client, the product targets more medium to large teams (even if currently there is a limitation of 250 users by server) that operate in a geographically distributed environments. Some "template" processes will be available with the tool for approaches like OpenUP or Scrum. Even if the product tries to get an "agile" label, the way it enforces structure and project reporting seems to make it more suited for projects that need (or want) strong auditing features.

Transparency in Software Development

Ferran Rodenas — Wednesday, 7 May 2008 12:25:00 EST

As I have been involved since last year as a beta customer in one of the projects where [Open Commercial Development] is being applied, the Rational Jazz Project, I want to discuss with all of you some thoughts and opinions about this software development style.

IBMs Team Collaboration Plattform Jazz im Praxistest (German)

Markus Kopf and Johannes Tysiak — Monday, 14 April 2008 12:00:00 EST

Fuer ihre Arbeit in Softwareprojekten benoetigen Entwickler zahlreiche Werkzeuge. Der haeufige Wechsel zwischen diesen Werkzeugen senkt dabei die Produktivitaet und erschwert die Traceability, mit der zusammengehoerige Artefakte in den unterschiedlichen Tools verknuepft werden koennen. Die Jazz Technology Platform von IBM integriert Werkzeuge unter dem Dach der Eclipse-IDE und ermoeglicht es Beteiligten in Softwareprojekten, alltaegliche Aufgaben effizienter und konsistenter durchzufuehren.

Blog: Why should you Jazz?

sureshkrishna — Friday, 4 April 2008 02:30:00 EST

Jazz is a technology platform from IBM. Its based on the client-server technology and manages the source management, build tools and promotes the team collaboration.

IBM issues faculty grants

Amanda Wilczynski — Monday, 24 Mar 2008 13:00:00 EST

IBM just made a big financial investment, not in the stock market but with Carnegie Mellon students.

IBM Preps Team Concert, A Collaborative Development Tool

Charles Babcock — Friday, 21 Mar 2008 09:30:00 EST

Rational Team Concert is based on Jazz, a technology platform for tools that will give them collaborative properties, such as sharing a common source code.

Blog: EclipseCon 2008 - I loved it

sureshkrishna — Friday, 21 Mar 2008 02:30:00 EST

EclipseCon needs no introduction. Its been happening from past 4 years and each year it has a lot of interesting news and updates.

IBM Helps Universities Prepare Future Software Leaders for Globalization

IBM Press — Monday, 17 Mar 2008 09:00:00 EST

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it is helping leading universities prepare students for how the software industry is evolving due to globalization.

Blog: Is Jazz a trojan horse for IBM Rational tools?

Dana Blankenhorn — Thursday, 07 Feb 2008 13:00:00 EST

CollabNet CTO Jack Repenning called in yesterday, all a-dither about Jazz being a "trojan horse" on behalf of IBM's Rational software tools.

EclipseCon 2008 Attracts Eleven Industry-Leading Companies as Gold Sponsors

Eclipse Foundation — Tuesday, 22 Jan 2008 16:00:00 EST

AMD Announced as Hardware sponsor; BlackBerry Developer Day and Jazz Developer Day added to conference program

Podcast: Swinging with Jazz and Rational Team Concert

Scott Laningham — Tuesday, 22 Jan 2008 13:00:00 EST

A chat with Rational leaders on the open beta of Rational Team Concert Express
IBM Rational leaders Lee Nackman, Mike O'Rourke, and John Wiegand riff on Jazz and the Rational Team Concert beta release in this developerWorks podcast.

The Grass is Blue on the Other Side

CXOtoday Staff — Wednesday, 16 Jan 2008 13:00:00 EST

The challenges of globalization are forcing companies to become more nimble, using an increasingly geographically dispersed and virtual workforce to remain competitive. In the world of software development, this means 24x7 collaboration with specialized teams around the globe to pick up where another left off. IBM is also examining how virtual worlds can help software development teams break down the barriers caused by globalization.

IBM Opens Jazz.net to All Developers

Jennifer LeClaire — Tuesday, 15 Jan 2008 13:00:00 EST

IBM is betting its vision for Jazz.net will expand the global open-source community's impact on the development of software. IBM wants to use an open Jazz.net to create a vehicle for feedback after products have been developed and to make the global community part of IBM's Jazz.net development process from start to finish.

All That Jazz From IBM

Andy Patrizio — Monday, 14 Jan 2008 19:00:00 EST

IBM today formally unveiled its Jazz open development community and its first tools, the culmination of an effort designed to accommodate new collaboration technologies in the development process.

IBM expanding Jazz ALM access

Paul Krill — Monday, 14 Jan 2008 09:00:00 EST

IBM is opening up the Jazz.net community to everyone and is touting its Bluegrass project -- a Second Life-style virtual world for developers

IBM Innovations to Help Companies Overcome the Challenges of Globalization

Monday, 14 Jan 2008 08:00:00 EST

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled new software and research innovations aimed at improving the way employees across an organization collaborate in a globally integrated enterprise.

Reality Check Blog: IBM and all that Jazz

Ephraim Schwartz — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:20:00 EST

..This brings me to the latest fascinating bit of news out of Big Blue. They call it Jazz.

Podcast: Interview Erich Gamma

Markus Voelter — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:20:00 EST

This episode is a conversation with Erich Gamma. We covered the four things he is known for in chronological order. We started with design patterns and the Gang-of-Four book of which he is the lead author.

Webcast: IBM Rational Now, part 1 - Recent Changes for Rational, and Agile Software Development

James Governor — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:20:00 EST

While at the IBM Software Group Connection Summit 2007, James Governor talks with Martin Nally, CTO of Rational, and Dave Tropeano, who works in the office of the CTO.

IBM Rational head: We're transforming

Chris Kanaracus — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:20:00 EST

When Danny Sabbah became general manager of IBM's Rational division in 2005, he set out to make changes in the organization. Sabbah said Friday that this transformation is well under way. "I think you will see a lot more reality to that vision in the second half of 2008," he said. "By 2009, you won't recognize Rational."

A key Rational project is Jazz.

Jazz and the Eclipse Way of Collaboration

Randall Frost — Fri, 2 Nov 2007 21:20:00 EST

IBM's Jazz project sets out to define a vision for the way products can integrate to support collaborative work, and to create a technology platform on which to build products to deliver on this vision.
Includes: An Interview with Erich Gamma

Jazz Working in Concert With Rational

Jeff Feinman — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:20:00 EST

IBM's Jazz collaboration environment is getting closer to product form.
John Kellerman, IBM Rational's product manager for Jazz and Eclipse strategy, said that the second beta of Rational Team Concert, the first Jazz-based commercial product, should drop in early December and become generally available in mid-2008. Team Concert is a agile-oriented, real-time collaboration portal for software development teams.

Podcast: Erich Gamma on IBM Rational Jazz, OOPSLA '07, RedMonk Radio #43

Michael Cote — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:20:00 EST

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of talking with Erich Gamma about his current work on Rational's Jazz project.