IBM Rational Team Concert Developer for Workgroups 3.0 launched

Provides integrated source control, work item tracking, build management, planning and project tracking capabilities.

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IBM Rational Team Concert in Visual Studio.

Rational Team Concert Developer for Workgroups is a collaborative lifecycle management solution designed for small and medium-sized teams of up to 50 developers. With built-in support for agile, waterfall or custom processes, developers using Eclipse or Visual Studio get all the integrated capabilities they need to consistently deliver software at lower cost, faster and with better collaboration across distributed teams.

IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) Developer for Workgroups has a powerful web UI, which brings planning, automated dashboard status reporting and work item updating to a wider audience. RTC has its own fully integrated source control, work item tracking, build management, planning and project tracking capabilities, but also works with open source tools like Subversion and Git. Importers are also included for Bugzilla, CSV files, Subversion and CVS. Rational Team Concert Developer for Workgroups can help you reduce infrastructure costs by sharing a single server for both Visual Studio (.NET) and Eclipse (Java) development teams.

Features and Benefits

• Collaboration and integration platform
  Improves the productivity of teams and the quality of the work they produce. Simplifies access to team-related information. Supports any process and platform. Reduces the total cost of ownership and administration
• Transparency with multi-level dashboards and reports
  Helps you monitor, scorecard, and collaborate on projects and address problems and bottlenecks before they endanger a project
• Work items
  Improves productivity of a wide range of stakeholders. Improves process integrity with automated traceability across a broad range of development tasks
• Planning: Agile, formal, and hybrid
  Allows teams to adopt good development practices
• Continuous integration – builds
  Improves quality and predictability of development iterations
• Advanced source control
  Improves productivity of developers and quality of their work with in-context collaboration and seamless integrations with other development processes

About IBM Rational Software

IBM strives to lead in the invention, development and manufacture of the industry's most advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, storage systems and microelectronics. The company translates these advanced technologies into value for its customers through professional solutions, services and consulting businesses worldwide.