The Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management is built on Jazz, an extensible technology platform that helps teams integrate tasks across the software life cycle. CLM provides integrations across Jazz-based applications, such as Requirements Management, to connect the work of analysts with development and test teams. An application is the smallest unit of install, deployment, and update. Rational Requirements Composer, Rational Team Concert, and Rational Quality Manager products are groups of applications. Different license and role combinations enable varying levels of access to the capabilities within the applications. A capability, such as Change Management, is the smallest unit of function that can be enabled through licensing.
Products, applications, and capabilities
Rational Requirements Composer, Rational Team Concert and Rational Quality Manager are delivered as a set of shared applications together with a Jazz Team Server, with each application delivering capabilities for one or more products. The four applications available to be installed on a Jazz Team Server are Requirements Management, Change and Configuration Management, Quality Management, and Design Management. DOORS Next Generation primarily makes use of the Requirements Management application and Rational Design Manager makes use of Design Management application. Rational Team Concert makes use of the Change and Configuration Management application and Rational Quality Manager makes use of all four applications. Each of the applications provides one or more capabilities. The Change and Configuration Management application delivers capabilities for Change Management, Planning, Software Configuration Management, IBM Enterprise Platforms Development, and Automation/Build. The Requirements Management application delivers capabilities for capturing, managing, and tracing requirements throughout the development lifecycle. The Quality Management application delivers capabilities for test management including test planning, creation, and execution. The role-based license that an individual user holds determines the availability of capabilities and features within those capabilities to that particular user. For example, a user with a Rational Team Concert developer license can create and modify work items and plans, but can only read test plans, assuming someone else in the organization has created them by using a Rational Quality Manager license. The Jazz Reporting Service is the default reporting solution to report on data in your Jazz products. It contains a web interface for creating reports based on application lifecycle data. The Jazz Reporting Service contains several ready-to-use and ready-to-copy reports. These reports can be used to track progress of planned work across development teams with traceability across the CLM lifecycle.
