Rational ClearQuest MultiSite

Collaboration across distributed teams

• Helps ensure all team members, local and remote, have access to the most current change management data through automatic replication and synchronization of Rational ClearQuest repositories.
• Allows access to change management processes, data and files through the desktop client or a web browser.
• Scales to fit any size team from small workgroups to distributed enterprise teams.

Software quality assurance

• Helps eliminate software errors with a change and defect tracking system.
• Reduces manual processing mistakes and miscommunications, which can increase the risk of errors, with quality controlled processes.
• Provides built-in best practices with the ALM schema. This helps improve efficiency and predictability with automated and customizable workflows.

Real-time reporting

• Real-time reporting and metrics can improve project management and decision making. The ability to manage and run reports from a web browser delivers data when you need it.
• Comprehensive support for querying, charting and reporting allows you to drill down into the data you need.
• The flexible reporting component allows you to access and visualize complex data with a variety of reporting engines such as Crystal Reports, SAP, and Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT).

Simplified compliance management

• Access compliance management tools, such as electronic signatures, audit trails, and repeatable processes, to help simplify compliance management.
• Easily track the origin and details of project changes and defects through final resolution. Closed-loop change management helps ensure project control.
• Verify identities and help ensure changes are made only by authorized individuals.

Enhanced integrations

• Supports Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) for ALM traceability with IBM Rational DOORS®, IBM Rational Requirements Composer, IBM Rational Quality Manager, IBM Rational Team Concert™, IBM Rational Change and Bugzilla.
• Integrates with IBM software applications such as IBM Rational ClearCase® for software configuration management, IBM Rational RequisitePro® for requirements management, IBM Rational Asset Manager, and IBM Rational Build Forge® for software assembly and build management.
• Works with IBM Rational ClearCase MultiSite for integrated software configuration management and software change management across multiple locations and time zones.
• Integrates with the IBM Jazz™ platform to offer integrated dashboards that include Rational ClearQuest data visualization.