Overview

The Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) is IBM Rational® DOORS® Next Generation, IBM Rational Team Concert™, and IBM Rational Quality Manager delivered as a set of applications with Jazz™ Team Server. You can optionally install Design Management.

Overview of the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management
The Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) is IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation, IBM Rational Team Concert, and IBM Rational Quality Manager delivered as a set of applications with Jazz Team Server. You can optionally install Design Management.
Rational DOORS Next Generation
IBM® Rational DOORS Next Generation is a requirements management tool that leverages a web client and IBM Rational Jazz platform. Rational DOORS Next Generation equips teams with requirements definition and management capabilities, a work item system for task management and planning, and a reporting system that is supported by a data warehouse.
Rational Team Concert
IBM Rational Team Concert is a team collaboration tool that is built on a scalable, extensible platform. Rational Team Concert uses the Change and Configuration Management (CCM) application to provide features that integrate development project tasks including iteration planning, process definition, change management, defect tracking, source control, build automation, and reporting.
Rational Quality Manager
IBM Rational Quality Manager is a collaborative, web-based tool that offers comprehensive test planning, test construction, and test artifact management features throughout the software development lifecycle.
Overview of Design Management
Design Management is a collaborative web-based tool that enables a broad set of stakeholders to contribute to and influence the design of products, software, and systems. By using the Design Management products, you can integrate design into the overall application and systems engineering lifecycles and collaborate on models and designs.
Rational Reporting
IBM Rational Insight is a comprehensive performance measurement solution for automatically and objectively reporting program and project progress. It gathers metrics from the tools you use across your organization and presents the data in a consistent way so that you can objectively measure status and progress. Rational Insight implements standard measurements, reports, and dashboard to provide an accurate acuity about your systems and software delivery. It helps your organization follow a systematic approach to incrementally improving your business by helping you identify high priority business objectives, refining your software delivery practices to address those objectives, and measuring practices adoption and business results.
Overview of Global Configuration Management
Global Configuration Management (GCM) is an application that assembles configurations for itself and other contributing applications so teams can gain an overall view of the physical and logical parts of their product offering.
Collaborative lifecycle management overview
The Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) provides integrations across the Change and Configuration Management, Requirements Management, and Quality Management Jazz applications, to connect the work of analysts with development and test teams. You can use the Rational solution for CLM to link artifacts for traceability and web-like navigation, create reports, and create dashboards across CLM applications. CLM integrations build on the Jazz Foundation to provide a common approach to artifact linking, dashboards, security, and user interface frameworks.
What's new in this release
These products in the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management have been enhanced with many new features, which make the products more flexible and easier to integrate.
Learning resources for the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM)
Many resources about effectively using the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) are available. You can choose which learning resources to use depending on your role, skill level, interests, and the time you have.
Getting started with the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management
The way to get started with the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) depends on the installed applications and capabilities and your roles. These links bring you information about initial steps for you to take.
Getting started with configuration management
Introduction to the Rational solution for systems and software engineering
The Rational solution for systems and software engineering provides products, services, and best practices for systems engineering and software development activities across requirements, design, development, and testing efforts.
Introduction to the Rational Deployment wiki
The Deployment wiki provides deployment-specific information and guidance for Rational products that extends beyond the basic product and support documentation.
Security considerations for the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management
You can take actions to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls. You can also ensure that you know about any security limitations that you might encounter with this application.

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