Collaborative lifecycle management

An integrated solution for effective application lifcycle management.

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IBM Rational® offers an integrated solution for collaborative lifecycle management designed to help your software development team improve their productivity with integrated application lifecycle management (ALM) capabilities. This integrated solution enables the team to avoid the pitfalls of working in silos with broken communication, resulting in project delays, low quality and budget overruns.

ALM is a discipline which teams can apply to coordinate the people, process and information in an iterative cycle of activities throughout the software-delivery supply chain.

To encourage cross-functional teaming and collaboration, the IBM Rational solution for collaborative lifecycle management can:

Improve time to delivery with real-time planning.
Improve quality with lifecycle traceability.
Improve product value using in-context collaboration.
Improve predictability with development intelligence.
Reduce cost with continuous improvement.

IBM products provide the foundation for the collaborative lifecycle management solution including the latest versions of:

Rational Requirements Composer for requirements management
Rational Team Concert for planning, change, configuration and build management
Rational Quality Manager for quality management.

Now a single release for all platforms, simple role-based user licensing, no charge for the server software, and new flexible pricing models so you are free to mix and match deployments to suit your particular environment.

Feature	Benefit
Link plans among analysts, developers and testers, using shared work items that are directly integrated with the plan.	Improve time to delivery with real-time planning.
Link related artifacts, lifecycle traceability, views and reports.	Improve quality with lifecycle traceability.
Online reviews, approvals, threaded discussions directly on an artifact; link previews and feeds	Improve product value with in-context collaboration.
Dashboards, mashup dashboards, personal dashboards, dashboard mini, shared data warehouse, out of box and custom reports	Improve predictability with development intelligence.
Customize plans, dashboards, work items, work items templates, process specifications	Reduce cost with continuous improvement.
Simplified packaging, installation, setup and deployment	Get up and running quickly with role-based licensing, a single installation, unified setup wizard, and flexible deployment models.
Shared user and project administration	Reduce your total cost of ownership and administration. Users can be managed in one location, reducing the need for administration across three applications. Additional lifecycle project templates are provided to easily deploy a new project and involve the project team.
Sample project and integrated online help	Get up to speed quickly using an easy to deploy sample application that comes pre-configured with a rich set of linked lifecycle artifacts. The new online help provides an overview of this sample application and a tutorial for exploring the sample.