EZ-Insight: The IBM Rational Jazz Strategy for Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management. - Author, analyst and Agile luminary Liz Barnett evaluates the Rational Jazz strategy in this objective 27-page report. Based on research incorporating over a dozen interviews with IBM distinguished engineers, technology evangelists and customers, this report explores the Rational Jazz strategy and the first wave of Jazz-based products. »

Get started quickly with Rational Team Concert, by viewing these videos that help you install, setup a project, join a team, explore work items, use iteration planning, check out team work, save and share code, use the web interface, and examine a developer build. »

In this webcast we will examine offshore software development projects and why they typically have a high failure rate. We will discuss the feasibility of using agile processes to improve the projects delivered by an offshore team. We will take a closer look at the IBM Rational Team Concert product - a new collaborative development solution ideal for distributed development teams, and mobile workers, who want the simplicity of centralized control and easy on-boarding of team members. Team Concert features multiple built-in agile process templates, iteration planning and continuous integration. The collaboration, project dashboards and reporting capabilities, make managing time zone differences and communicating status for offshore projects, practical and efficient. »

Download a free trial version of IBM Rational Team Concert, a member of the Rational Team Concert family of products built on the Jazz Technology Platform. Jazz is a scalable, extensible team collaboration platform for seamlessly integrating tasks across the software lifecycle. Rational Team Concert provides a complete Change & Release Management solution in a collaborative software delivery environment that enables software teams to deliver innovation through collaboration. The Standard edition has all the capabilities for large, corporate teams, while the Express edition is designed for departmental and mid-sized teams. »

Download a free trial version of IBM Rational Team Concert, a member of the Rational Team Concert family of products built on the Jazz Technology Platform. Jazz is a scalable, extensible team collaboration platform for seamlessly integrating tasks across the software lifecycle. Rational Team Concert provides a complete Change & Release Management solution in a collaborative software delivery environment that enables software teams to deliver innovation through collaboration. The Standard edition has all the capabilities for large, corporate teams, while the Express edition is designed for departmental and mid-sized teams. »

This article gives you an overview of JPA, shows how it operates in a Web application environment, and explains how you can use Rational Application Developer Version 7.5 to build JPA Web applications by using JavaServer Faces (JSF). »

Reduce IT complexity with free architecture tools, technologies, and information from IBM. Explore the Software Architect eKit and find out how to use IBM's tools, designed to unify all aspects of software design and development. »

Testing Web 2.0 packaged applications is complicated and challenging. The dynamic nature of Web 2.0 necessitates that any change regardless of size, requires extensive testing to ensure that it not only achieved the desired effect, but that it did not trigger any unexpected consequences. With ever evolving software, the only way for a QA team to keep pace with the demands of the business is to automate regression testing. »

Featuring our newest offering Rational Requirements Composer, and RequistePro 7.1: Try these newest offerings, which provide comprehensive abilities to visually define, collaboratively validate and effectively manage your requirements for improved application lifecycle management, enhanced communication among stakeholders and project teams, faster project execution, and lower cost of delivery. »

IBM Rational Team Concert for i and IBM Rational Team Concert for System z Future Beta Programs.Pre-register now! »

Featuring IBM Rational Quality Manager v8.0, a centralized test management hub for business-driven software quality with automated test plan management to help distributed teams achieve life cycle integration, business linkage to manage risk, role-based contextual insight, an open test platform, and automated test lab planning, provisioning and execution of virtual and physical test assets. »