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IBM® Rational® Jazz® is a new generation of products for collaborative software delivery. Uniquely attuned to global and distributed teams, Jazz is designed to transform how people work together to build software, making software delivery more collaborative, productive, and enjoyable. Jazz as an extensible framework that dynamically integrates and synchronizes people, processes, and assets associated with software development projects.

Since the first Jazz product, Rational Team Concert, was released in 2008, we have seen many of our customers reaping the benefits of team collaboration offered by Jazz technology. The Jazz Million Seat March is an initiative designed to rapidly broaden the awareness of Jazz to the worldwide software development community through published reports, training and education and by providing FREE Jazz software for teams of up to 10 developers so they can quickly experience the benefits so many others are already getting today!

What's New in RTC? Find out more in the webcast below or the Jazz.net blog.

Webcast: What's New with RTC 3.0

Abstract: IBM Rational Team Concert v3.0 includes new support for distributed software configuration management across multiple repositories, advanced dependency-based build, promotion of build products, deployment to execution environments, advanced work item customizations, enhanced work item security, formal project management and planning, risk management, task dependencies, context aware searching, support for Open Social dashboard gadgets and new enhanced integrations to IBM Rational DOORS, ClearCase, ClearQuest, and Synergy environments. Previous editions, and versions of IBM Rational Team Concert for other platforms, have been integrated into Rational Team Concert v3.0 that fully supports systems and software development on a wide variety of platforms including Windows, Linux, AIX, Solaris, IBM i, Linux on Power, Linux for System z and z/OS. Please join us for this webcast to hear Rolf Nelson, IBM Rational Team Concert product manager, talk to us about What's New in Rational Team Concert version 3.

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Jazz.net Blog Posts

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CLM 4.0.3 is coming!

Posted 16 days ago

by Jazz.net

We are well on our way into the world of continuous delivery with CLM 4.0.3, our second quarterly release of Rational Collaborative Lifrecycle Management. One of the areas we are changing is how we support our customers. In the past, we’ve maintained...
JazzHub Beta 3 Now Available: Click. Code. Create.

Posted 17 days ago

by Jazz.net

Today, we’re thrilled to announce the new JazzHub is in beta and open for early access users. The new JazzHub is a place where you can seamlessly plan, track, and develop software in the cloud. And soon you’ll be able to deploy your application...
Welcome UrbanCode!

Posted 22 days ago

by Jazz.net

There is never a dull day in the world of DevOps! There is always something new to learn and apply; an increasing buzz, spawning the need for new capabilities. If you are not familiar with the concept of DevOps, here is one point-of-view. It is about...
Using forum advanced search and RSS to monitor questions

Posted 28 days ago

by Jazz.net

While the move to the new forum software last year brought new and more modern capabilities, we also lost some (like news reader compatibility). While you can get RSS feeds from the forum, unless you use the advanced searching capabilities, the feeds...
The Deployment wiki and community needs you!

Posted 1 month ago

by Jazz.net

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...
Oh, the places you’ll work (when you use RTC)!

Posted 1 month ago

by Jazz.net

With Yahoo’s latest change of policy that restricts employees to only working in the office, people have been buzzing about working from home and distributed teams. At IBM, it’s common for teams to be distributed across nations and even continents. ...
Designing Graphs and Tables (part 3)

Posted 1 month ago

by Jazz.net

This is the third part of a series of blog posts describing what we’ve learned about the visual display of quantitative information as it relates to CLM predefined reports (continued from part 1 and part 2). How to show data effectively in graphs...
Join us for an independent analyst webcast: Achieving innovation and faster time to market with effective ALM

Posted 2 months ago

by Jazz.net

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...
CLM 4.0.2 is here!

Posted 3 months ago

by Jazz.net

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...
Using the jazz.net forum more effectively

Posted 4 months ago

by Jazz.net

Last year we made a big move with our jazz.net forums, moving from an older, thread-based, hierarchical model to a question and answer tag-based one. People acclimated to the new approach pretty quickly — plenty of questions still got asked and...
Help, I’ve got an error message and don’t know what to do!

Posted 5 months ago

by Jazz.net

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...
Unit Testing in The Real World — This is how we do it.

Posted 6 months ago

by Jazz.net

This is one of our first posts to share practices we have adopted in our own development within CLM as part of Continuous Delivery. The presented techniques are used to control software evolution and to improve the quality of our code base. Since there...
How we save time with build engine participants and you can too!

Posted 6 months ago

by Jazz.net

Every day, a hard working release engineer was actively monitoring our Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) build. When the build completed, he would comment in our track build item with information about the build including the build’s status, a...
JazzHub goes on a roadtrip to Carleton University

Posted 6 months ago

by Jazz.net

Last week Adam Mooz, Rob Retchless and I visited Carleton University in Ottawa to talk about Rational Team Concert (RTC) and JazzHub. We managed to lure a good 35 students to join us with two of their favourite things: free t-shirts and pizza. However...
CLM 4.0.1 is here!

Posted 6 months ago

by Jazz.net

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...
Rational Team Concert introduces support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012

Posted 6 months ago

by Jazz.net

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...
An ALM solution for mobile development teams

Posted 7 months ago

by Jazz.net

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...
Lessons learned adopting the IBM Systems and Software Engineering Solution

Posted 7 months ago

by Jazz.net

I recently had the opportunity to work on site with customers from all around the world on the Systems and Software Engineering (SSE) Solution Beta. I lead the SSE Jumpstart team, whose responsibility is to understand Systems customers business needs...
Chained to your laptop? Put RTC in your pocket!

Posted 7 months ago

by Jazz.net

One of the coolest things about IBM is the network of thousands of IBM Business Partners. These Business Partners, or BPs as we often call them, are constantly innovating around IBM products and are often the face of IBM to many customers. Last week...
Independent research firm ranks us highest among all vendors in Current Offering for ALM Tools!

Posted 7 months ago

by Jazz.net

I’ve just found out that Forrester Research, Inc has ranked IBM as achieving the highest scores in both Current Offering and Strategy for Application Lifecycle Management tools among all vendors in the Forrester Wave™: Application Life-Cycle Management...
We’ve hit a major DevOps milestone!

Posted 7 months ago

by Jazz.net

I am very excited to announce that IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery (SCD) v2.0 is available today! SCD v2.0 marks a major milestone on our DevOps journey. Our existing Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) tools provide a top-notch agile development...
Designing Graphs and Tables (part 2)

Posted 7 months ago

by Jazz.net

This is the second part of a series of blog posts describing what the coauthors have learned about the visual display of quantitative information as it relates to the design of graphs and tables (continued from part 1). How to determine which type of...
Jazz CLM – Are We There Yet?

Posted 7 months ago

by Jazz.net

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...
Extending your Rational ALM solutions to third-party tools with the IBM Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters

Posted 7 months ago

by Jazz.net

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...
Reviewing code changes with Rational Team Concert

Posted 8 months ago

by Jazz.net

In the good old days, things were easy. You worked on a bug, modified a few lines of code and were done. No one was looking over your shoulder to check if your code was right. The best code comes late at night when you’re alone anyway. No tests...