Rational Insight

Support for data-based decision making

• Rational Insight provides a single, web-based view of real-time project and process performance information including baselines, averages and goals.
• Data quality and timeliness is managed by automating the collection, measurement and analysis of real-time data from disparate sources. These sources include IBM Rational ClearQuest®, IBM Rational ClearCase®, IBM Rational Quality Manager; and third-party tools such as Microsoft® Project and XML data sources.
• Rational Insight provides flexible dashboards, which help synthesize information into graphical elements, and make it easy to see project status and understand issues.

Role-based information

• Get a single interface personalized to display the information that is most relevant to your needs.
• Assess project status by analyzing summary views and additional detail using built-in measures and metrics.
• Evaluate actual results against business or project goals and receive email alerts.
• Configure Rational Insight to deliver information to your mobile device.

Cross-boundary visibility

• Gain visibility into your data to monitor status and answer questions related to key aspects of your activities, such as requirements volatility, stability and defect density.
• Monitor status using real-time data from across all your projects in a single view.
• Create dashboards in several formats across disparate repositories and customize dashboards to fit your needs.
• Manage resources to increase team productivity and accurately predict project outcomes.

Best practices

• Rational Insight uses a library of best practices and management techniques with ready-to-use dashboards and metrics.
• You can evaluate historical data for lessons learned and take advantage of quality and performance metrics tailored to your needs.
• Rational Insight works with the IBM Rational Measured Capability Improvement Framework to help ensure you are capturing and measuring the right information for improvements.
• Rational Measured Capability Improvement Framework and Rational Insight help you measure, manage, and incrementally improve your software and systems delivery.