Rational Team Concert Enterprise Edition
| Feature | Details | Benefit |
|---|---|---|
|
Process Awareness & Customizability (link resides outside of ibm.com) |
Rational Team Concert allows each team to teach the tool its best practices. Rational Team Concert uses this knowledge to automatically detect violations of your team's process the moment they happen. | Improves the productivity of your teams and quality of the work they produce |
|
Team Awareness (link resides outside of ibm.com) |
Rational Team Concert knows your project teams, their internal organization, and the artifacts they are working on. To mention only one example, in order to subscribe to a feed with all events specific to a team, just select the team in the user interface and select 'Subscribe to Team Events' from the context menu. | Greatly simplifies access to team-related information and performing team-related operations |
|
Work Item Tracking (link resides outside of ibm.com) |
Work items are the fundamental mechanism to track and coordinate development tasks and workflows, all governed by your team's associated process. In addition work items are the hub for linkage between many artifacts (e.g. builds, work items, and change sets), as well as providing support for integration with other products. Work Item customization can be used to create new work item types or modify existing types in order to support the development process that your team follows. | Improves productivity of a wide range of IT stakeholders and improves IT process integrity with automated traceability across a broad range of development tasks. |
|
Source Control (link resides outside of ibm.com) |
The Source Control component is a component-based version control system. Its focus is on supporting geographically distributed teams and has strong support for parallel and agile development. It's built from the ground up to support a highly integrated collaborative development environment, integration with defect tracking, integration with builds, and process-centric automation. | Improves productivity of your developers and quality of their work with in context collaboration and seamless integrations with other development processes |
|
Agile Planning (link resides outside of ibm.com) |
The Agile Planning component provides tools to assist with the planning and execution of development iterations. It provides tools to create iteration plans for teams, to create individual plans for developers, and to track the progress during an iteration and to balance the work load of developers. Plans are accessible to everyone on the team, and can change dynamically over the course of the iteration to reflect the team's position and direction. | Easily allows teams to adopt agile development practices |
|
Continuous Builds (link resides outside of ibm.com) |
The Team Build component integrates the team's build system, providing build awareness, control, and traceability to the team. Team members can track build progress, view build alerts and results, request builds, and trace builds to other artifacts like change sets and work items. | Improves development quality by inherent traceability with other development processes |
|
Transparency/Project Health (link resides outside of ibm.com) |
The Team Reports and Web Dashboards components help you to keep tabs on the health of your project. Dashboards provide an at-a-glance view of work item queries, event feeds, reports, and other items that are critical to understanding your progress. Reports provide both real-time views and historical trends of builds, streams, work items, and other artifacts that your team works with. | Helps managers and team leads to easily monitor projects and address problems and bottlenecks before they endanger delivery schedules |
|
Integrations (link resides outside of ibm.com) |
Rational Team Concert also integrates with other products, such as Rational Quality Manager, Rational ClearQuest and Rational ClearCase, Subversion, and Git. The integration with Rational Quality Manager and Rational ClearQuest is part of the Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management (C/ALM) effort which will also include Rational Requirements Composer. | Lowers implementation costs by promoting adoption with existing tools and infrastructure and improves IT efficiencies by enabling a broader end to end application lifecycle management practices. |
|
Broad client support (link resides outside of ibm.com) |
The Eclipse client and client for Visual Studio provide developers with rich, integrated development environments for building and delivering software. The Web 2.0 based interface allows users to access project areas, browse repository information, update tasks, or read about recent events, and is well suited for server and project administration. | Provides a rich experience for developers via the proven Eclipse and Visual Studio frameworks and for other stakeholders via a flexible and robust web client. Common licenses can be used with any client. Common vendor support is provided across environments. |
| Broad platform support | Support for a wide range of servers, including Windows. Linux, AIX, IBM i on Power, and z/OS on System z. | Lower Total Cost of Ownership and improved developer collaboration for multi platform organizations |
|
Document Collaboration (Licensed separately) (link resides outside of ibm.com) |
Connecting Rational Team Concert with either Microsoft SharePoint or Lotus Quickr document libraries simplifies document collaboration and document management with direct links to your project, team, and personal document libraries. It also improves the transparency of the software delivery process and extends project governance by including business and IT stakeholders in document reviews and approvals. Rational Team Concert integration with Microsoft SharePoint and Lotus Quickr document libraries is delivered via Document Collaboration for Rational Jazz. |
Simplifies collaboration between development and non-development organizations, further increasing IT efficiency. |