Summary

In this chapter, you have seen how the advancements in modern software development lead to new challenges of integrated systems and collaboration among team members. As the software complexity and customer expectations increases, the project management is looking "to do more in less time with high quality". You have seen how the best practices made the Eclipse platform robust, extensible, high in quality, and ensure on-time deliveries.

Next, you have seen that Jazz has collaboration, team productivity, and transparency at the forefront in its Vision. The Jazz platform architecture allows several tool vendors to plug in their functionality by writing server and client adapter components. In this way an organization can still use the tools of its choice yet take the advantage of the Jazz platform.

You have seen that Rational Team Concert is built on the Jazz platform and takes the complete advantage of the Jazz capabilities such as team awareness and process awareness. Finally, you saw an overview of the other Jazz-based product offerings.