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5725-I05 IBM Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters V1.0

5725-I05 IBM Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters V1.0

IBM Asia Pacific Sales Manual
Revised:  February 26, 2013.

Table of contents
TOC Link Product Life Cycle Dates TOC Link Operating Environment
TOC Link Program Number TOC Link Planning Information
TOC Link Abstract TOC Link Publications
TOC Link Highlights TOC Link Security, Auditability, and Control
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Product Life Cycle Dates
Program NumberVRM Announced Available Marketing Withdrawn Service Discontinued
5725-I051.00.02012/10/092012/10/12 - -

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Abstract

Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters Standard Edition supports customers who practice Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) in a heterogeneous, lifecycle tools environment. These adapters allow customers to continue using their existing lifecycle tools and still gain benefit from the capabilities found in the Rational ALM products. The offering includes adapters for HP ALM, Atlassian JIRA, and open source Git.

Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters Tasktop Edition extends Rational ALM with additional integrations to third-party tools. The Tasktop Edition provides adapters that integrate Rational Team Concert with HP ALM, HP Quality Center, Atlassian JIRA, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, and open source Bugzilla. The HP ALM and JIRA adapters found in the Tasktop Edition supplement those included in the Standard Edition to support additional use cases and alternative, customer workflow environments.
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Highlights

Today's software delivery challenges require a more concerted approach to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). The IBM Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) is the IBM implementation for ALM, based on the Rational Jazz platform.

The IBM native CLM solution integrates Rational Team Concert, Rational Requirements Composer, and Rational Quality Manager to create a seamless and highly collaborative solution for software delivery. delivery. However, many IBM customers have existing tools that stem from a variety of sources that also need such integration to gain visibility across a diverse toolset.

The Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters extend the Rational CLM solution with integrations to select third-party tools. These adapters also provide integrations for Rational ClearQuest. The Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters enable customers to gain greater value from these Rational products when practicing ALM in a heterogeneous lifecycle tools environment. The first release of this offering includes adapters for integrating with HP ALM, Atlassian JIRA, and open source Git.
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Description

The core CLM solution integrates a corresponding set of products -- Rational Team Concert, Rational Requirements Composer, and Rational Quality Manager -- to create a seamless and highly collaborative solution for software delivery. This solution can also be integrated with Rational Software Architect to extend the value of CLM to design management. IBM also maintains integrations between a number of its other ALM products, such as Rational ClearQuest.

The experience gained from driving integration across these products helps to identify the challenges in applying traditional integration technologies. It spurred IBM to look toward more strategic solutions, including involvement in the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) and W3C Linked Data Platform. OSLC provides a set of interfaces organized into a number of functional areas (domains) that allow lifecycle tools that stem from many sources to link and trace data being managed by those tools. OSLC is now the Rational standard for integration implementation.

The Rational product family is expanding its implementation of OSLC integrations beyond the Rational products. Many of our customers operate in a highly diverse and heterogeneous lifecycle environment. There are a variety of reasons why tools already established in their environments are critical to their business. These tools often cannot simply be removed and replaced with new ones. Therefore, IBM takes its experience with integrations across Rational products and applies it to select third-party tools as well.

By listening to customers, IBM assessed which tools are most needed for integrating with Rational products. IBM created an Integrations Directory on jazz.net (jazz.net/extend) that lists all of the integrations currently available with Rational tools. This directory also includes a facility for requesting integrations that do not yet exist. It encourages customers to share their integration needs to continuously help IBM identify the highest priority tools for its Rational customers.

As strong drivers in the OSLC community, IBM champions an open approach to linked data specifications that can be adopted by vendor, business partner, and community members directly. The results of this approach can now be seen in an offering called the Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters. These adapters allow customers to continue using their existing lifecycle tools and still gain benefit from many capabilities found in the Rational ALM products. The first release of this offering includes adapters for integrating with HP ALM, Atlassian JIRA, and open source Git.

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Operating Environment

Hardware Requirements

Software Requirements

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Planning Information

Customer Responsibilities

The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features, administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication facilities.
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Publications

No publications are shipped with this product.

The IBM Publications Center portal is located at

http://www.ibm.com/shop/publications/order

The Publications Center is a worldwide central repository for IBM product publications and marketing material with a catalog of 70,000 items. Extensive search facilities are provided. Payment options for orders are via credit card (in the U.S.) or customer number for 20 countries. A large number of publications are available online in various file formats, and they can all be downloaded by all countries.
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Security, Auditability, and Control

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** Company, product, or service name may be a trademark or service mark of others.

Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
 © IBM Corporation 2013.
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