Sound the trumpets, ring the bells, wake the children, and shut the front door!  The day you have all been waiting for is here and we are certain you will agree, it was well worth the wait. We are very pleased and proud to announce the general availability ...read more

Many of you have shared the challenges you face working in a diverse environment consisting of tools from numerous vendors.  In particular, we are aware of the need for reliable integrations between our Rational products and other tools. Over the past ...read more

I believe Geoffrey Chaucer is credited with originating the English proverb, “All good things must come to an end.” Well Mr. Chaucer, you’ve captured my sentiments perfectly as we come to the end of the inaugural Jazz Plan Jam. As I ...read more

Hello RUC Members, We had another great week in the Rational User Community. Alex Ivanov, a Senior Software Engineer II with Honors at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems presented a webcast titled, "The Power of the Attribute Template Extended to Drive Metrics Collection". If you missed...

We are pleased to announce that the Rational Connector for SAP Solution Manager 4.0.0 is now available as a free download on jazz.net . With this solution, businesses can now integrate between the ALM features of SAP Solution Manager and the Rational ...read more

Happy Friday RUC members, I wanted to let everyone know about 2 must-attend July webcasts that we are hosting in the community! July 19th, 12 p.m. EDT "How to do proof of concept, of Collaboration Lifecycle Management in the Cloud" Click here to learn more and reserve your Webcast...

The results are in and the team has crunched through the data. In my previous post titled, Now that’s how we jam, I gave a breakdown the roles, ideas and votes cast. In this blog, I’ll focus on the popular content items, by vote. With over 400 ideas expressed (see final tag cloud in image...

“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” –Mark Twain. When we interact with software, we require it does what we want it to and that it responds to our wishes quickly. The domain of software performance is all about understanding where the time goes...

Happy Friday! We had another great week in the RUC. Peter Hack – Architect on IBM Rational ClearCase and Mike Nellis – Software Developer on IBM Rational ClearCase shared their expertise with the RUC. If you missed their webcast titled, “ Clearcase / Cadence Virtuoso - Chip design...

I’ve been working as a developer on Jazz.net since the very beginning, but I’ve never blogged on the Jazz Team Blog!!  Can you believe it? Well today that changes. I just got back from an amazing trip to IBM Innovate Australia events in Melbourne and Sydney, and I want to share what I learned...

We are very pleased to announce the new IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery (SCCD) project on Jazz.net. With the SCCD initiative, we plan to develop capabilities that help organizations reduce cycle times and deliver changes that are operationally-ready. What does this mean? In a nutshell we are providing...

So things have been a little quiet here on jazz.net for the CLM team since Innovate. We took some time to recover from shipping CLM 2012 and Innovate, but we’ve also been busy working on plans for our next CLM release, digesting the input from our Product Managers and also your input from the Plan...

I have been working with a number of customers recently, and most of my work seems to be focused on customers that are looking to rapidly expand their Jazz deployments.  They have realized some dramatic improvements in their software development teams that use the Jazz tools, and now they want to expand...

I am excited to announce that today the Design Manager 4.0 support for Rational Software Architect (RSA) is generally available and that the support for Rational Rhapsody will be coming on September 21st. This is a very big release for Design Manager; in my opinion even more significant than the initial...

One of the great things about working in a huge organization like IBM Rational is that while you’re heads-down on future work, there’s still an army of people out there making your last release more interesting. As the development teams for CLM are working towards another release, there are...

Let’s face it. Working in a business environment where tools from multiple vendors are deployed can be challenging. And given the pace at which things move, managing data between different parts of the business can become downright unwieldy. Many of you have shared this challenge with us, and a...

In October, I had the opportunity to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland.  The conference brings together women from all areas of computing for a time of networking, mentoring, professional development, and technical learning and discussions.  With over...

If you work for a company building mobile applications, I suspect you're targeting multiple device platforms, and you have an agile team of people working together to do so. Therein lies two fundamental challenges: how to enable a team of people working closely together, and how do they collaboratively...

We’re excited to share some big news! Starting with the Rational Team Concert 4.0.1 M4 milestone, Rational Team Concert works with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012. Over the last couple of months especially, we’ve put in a lot of testing  to make sure that this integration is ready for you to...

Even though this was a pretty quick development cycle, the CLM 4.0.1 release has something new for everyone on the team.  We’ve been busy improving all of the tools, and are happy to announce the general availability of the 4.0.1 release of Rational’s Solution for Collaborative Lifecycle...

We all know how frustrating it can be to encounter an error message and not know what to do to fix it.  Now, you can find troubleshooting information and collaborate with others to improve error messages in the new Error Message Information Center for the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle...

The ALM Community is planning the following ALM Office Hour events for March and April:　 Is it better to deploy IBM Rational Team Concert incrementally or all at once? Event Date/Time: March 8, 2013 from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Eastern Time) Are you gearing to adopt or you have already successfully adopted...

This release marks the first release in a new quarterly release rhythm for CLM. Some of you might be thinking “Does this mean I need to upgrade every quarter?!” The answer is “No, we don’t expect you to do that.” We understand that upgrades involve significant planning and...

You may recall that back in October 2012, I was thrilled and yet humbled, to announce in my blog that Forrester Research Inc ranked IBM as achieving the highest scores in both current offering and strategy for our Application Lifecycle Management solution among all vendors. Well I am pleased to tell...

We are constantly striving to reduce the time it takes for you to gain value from our products and solutions. The sooner you can effectively deploy a Rational development environment, the faster you can start using it and gaining value! We are pleased to announce a number of initiatives around improving...