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IBM Rational's Big-Band Jazz Release
6/3/2008
- Black Duck Software is working on an integration of its Governing IP Compliance solution with Team Concert.
- CAST Software is integrating its Automated Application Intelligence solution with the product.
- CM-Logic is working on a connector that will link its Change Management solutions to Team Concert work items.
- iRise is developing a way to integrate its Application Simulation solution with Requirements Composer.
- QSM is integrating its Estimation and Project Control solution with Team Concert.
- Ravenflow is working on an integration of its Requirements and Diagram solution with Requirements Composer.
- Source IQ is integrating its Management Metrics for ALM Governance solution with the platform.
- Surgient and VMLogix are integrating their Virtual Test Lab management support solutions to Quality Manager.
- WebLayers is integrating its Automated Design Time Governance product with Team Concert.
IBM Rational made the announcement today at its annual user conference in Orlando, Florida. One of the partners set to preview its Jazz-based offering at that show is Mainsoft. The Milpitas, Calif.-based company plans to provide attendees with a look at its upcoming integration of Team Concert with IBM Lotus Quickr and Microsoft SharePoint document libraries. The integration, the company said, will allow developers to have direct access to the Quickr and SharePoint document libraries from a documents browser in the Eclipse and Visual Studio IDEs.
Comparisons of this multiple-product release with the Eclipse community's Callisto and Europa coordinated multi-project releases of the past two years are unavoidable. Locke offers another comparison: Jazz, he says, is the server-side counterpart of Eclipse. "Eclipse consolidates the desktop," he says. "It provided a common infrastructure for desktop tools to work together. Jazz is doing that for the collaboration piece, the server side of the equation. We think it transform how the industry collaborates on software delivery."
Locke called the commercial release of the Jazz-based technologies "the most important, internally transformational launch since Rational was acquired by IBM… Behind the scenes, all this data comes to life because it has much more semantic richness, which gives us so much more insight into how the project is moving. It's great for our customers, great for the industry, and it's changing how we think about software development."
The IBM Rational development team is using Team Concert internally to develop Team Concert, he said. "We have development centers in Canada, North Carolina, Massachusetts, California, India, France; we are the epitome of a large distributed team. And we're using this stuff, and it works."
This year's Rational Users' Conference is the largest so far, Locke said, with 25 percent growth over last year. Organizers are expecting 3500 users and assorted business partners to attend.
John K. Waters is a freelance journalist and author based in Palo Alto, CA.
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