The IBM Continuous Engineering and Collaborative Lifecycle Management solutions have a rich heritage in helping teams around the world to develop products and applications faster, in a more dependable way, and at a higher quality. Over time we have come to see that the biggest challenges — and where we can offer the most help […]

Atlassian recently introduced a number of changes to their products and APIs in order to improve user privacy in accordance with GDPR. These changes will require all RLIA customers integrating Jira Cloud or Zephyr Cloud to upgrade their version of RLIA. Most RLIA customers who integrate with Jira use an On-Premise Jira deployment and are […]

Monitoring the increasing footprint of IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) project areas can help customers develop accurate sizing and forecasts for future enterprise upgrades, in particular for customers who have been using RTC for some time. Moreover, the varying level of activity of individual projects provides valuable information which can drive the enterprise decision to […]

To help with your IBM Continuous Engineering (CE) and Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) planning, here are some release updates. Feel free to ask questions in the comments section below this post, or follow up with your IBM Support team to discuss any questions or implications. Extended Maintenance Release Version 6.0.6 is an Extended Maintenance Release (EMR), which […]

The benefits of “lean” are taking shape. More organizations than ever before have shifted from simply pursuing an interest to actually doing something about it. And in this world of growing systems and software complexity, the need to effectively and efficiently coordinate the delivery of value across distributed teams is no longer a choice… it’s […]

Version 6.0.6 of the IBM Rational Publishing Engine (RPE) is now available! This release focused on improving usability to develop RPE templates, enterprise security and parity support with the RPE Document Builder. The following list provides a summary of the RPE 6.0.6 features: 1) Improved Usability with Document Preview view Rational Publishing Engine continues to improve the template creation […]

We’ve put a lot of effort into Jazz Reporting Service (JRS) 6.0.6 enhancements. This release focused on improving usability, scheduling report export, and delivering a re-architected Lifecycle Query Engine (LQE) technology preview. Here are some highlights of JRS 6.0.6: Grouping reports into folders We heard from users that organizing reports via tags is not ideal. Therefore, in this […]

IBM Rational Quality Manager (RQM) v6.0.6 brings a large set of user experience enhancements in various areas such as test execution, manual test scripts, configuration management or Excel importer. To learn more about those enhancements, I invite you to read the New & Noteworthy details. The team has also started to work on a new […]

We’ve been busy making IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) even better for teams who are doing complex, regulated development.  We’ve focused on the following main areas in this release: Usability: Making the simple things easier to do My favorite feature in this release is a one-click Create Child Work Item option in the work item editor.  […]

Reporting is critical in helping organizations lead lean enterprise transformations, and we’re listening and responding… In the latest drop of the Enterprise Scaled Agile reports for your IBM Continuous Engineering (CE) and IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) environments, we’ve included some of the most important industry-standard reports — like Cumulative Flow, Burn-Up and Burn-Down […]