(This is part of a series of blog posts where we describe enhancements and changes planned for the upcoming release of our Collaborative Lifecycle Management solution, comprising: Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, and Rational Requirements Composer.*) One of the major focus areas for our upcoming CLM solution is reporting. We’re working on a solution […]

In our upcoming release of Rational Team Concert (as part of our Collaborative Lifecycle Management solution planned for 2Q 2011), we are expanding the permissions available in source control.* Way back in RTC 2.0, we added support for SCM read permissions that centered on process areas. In this next release, we’re improving read access for […]

(This is the first in a series of blog posts where we will talk about enhancements and changes planned for the upcoming release of our Collaborative Lifecycle Management solution, comprising: Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, and Rational Requirements Composer.*) Linking artifacts to express relationships and to establish traceability is at the heart of lifecycle […]

The next release of Rational Quality Manager is coming soon. And by now you have seen the latest Beta and milestones posted for download, the updated release plans, a lot of progress on work items, and even the updated documentation. However, you probably haven’t seen much information about Rational Test Lab Manager (RTLM) being included […]

We recently made available for download Milestone 1 of our next release of Rational Asset Manager, currently planned for 3Q2011. I think you’ll be impressed by the progress made so far by our agile development team. This milestone is fully functional and really shows off some of the great strides we’ve taken toward the release […]

I’m very pleased to announce the release of IBM Rational Activity Tracking 0.5, the first Rational Insight incubator and the first Insight project developed in collaboration with IBM Research. But just what is IBM Rational Activity Tracking? To illustrate, let’s look at an example. With today’s globally integrated work force, it is common for software developers […]

I’m thrilled to announce the addition of the Design Management project here on Jazz.net. We’re excited to join the community, and we look forward to engaging with you and getting your early feedback! What is design management? For the last several years, we’ve talked with customers about the notion of “collaborative architecture management” and how […]

This week we’ve released a Beta 3 for our three Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) products: Rational Team Concert – Beta 3, New & Noteworthy Rational Quality Manager – Beta 3, New & Noteworthy Rational Requirements Composer – Beta 3, New & Noteworthy As a team we practice continuous betas. Each milestone we produce is expected […]

The Rational Asset Manager 7.5.0.2 fix pack is now available for download. This second fix pack to version 7.5 includes new and noteworthy enhancements and a number of bug fixes. You can also watch this video to see a quick overview of what’s new in 7.5.0.2: The Rational Asset Manager development team has eagerly begun […]

I often get asked about the best ways to get support and answers to common questions about our Jazz-based products. I also hear some people mention that they prefer open source solutions because they think that the support is better. I have worked with quite a few open source tools, as well as Jazz-based tools, over […]