Jazz 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.
Jazz Foundation
The foundation of the Collaborative Lifecycle Management solution
The foundation of lifecycle management
Looking for lifecycle management?
For your software lifecycle: Use Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Requirements Composer, and
Rational Software Architect.
For systems engineering and embedded software: Use Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, Rational DOORS Next, and
Rational Rhapsody.
What's new in 4.0.5
See New & Noteworthy in the Downloads section for the latest on new features and enhancements.
Features and capabilities
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.
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.
- 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