IBM Rational Reporting supports two main capabilities: document generation and development intelligence. Both capabilities can publish content into many formats and correlate data from a wide variety of sources; however, their published content is distinct in nature and in use.
Document generation capabilities produce highly structured documents that can be delivered as artifacts. These physical documents are often used as the basis of formal communications between teams.
The reports are tools to capture detailed, point-in-time information. The reports are a means to communicate status, monitor progress, diagnose problems, and identify corrective actions.
Development intelligence capabilities provide stakeholders with data to support their day-to-day decision making. These reports tend to be viewed on a screen. The reports themselves are not typically the deliverables. Development intelligence reports are tools for communicating status, monitoring progress, diagnosing problems, and identifying corrective actions. They are a key decision support tool for managing projects and programs.
The reports are tools to define and support decisions made in managing development projects. The reports are a means to communicate status, monitor progress, diagnose problems, and identify corrective actions.
IBM Rational provides solutions to support both document generation and development intelligence capabilities. These capabilities are delivered as both commercial products and embedded technologies within other IBM Rational products.
Delivery | Document generation solution | Development intelligence solution |
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Embedded in Rational solutions and applications | IBM Rational Reporting for Document Generation | IBM Rational Reporting for Development Intelligence |
Commercial products | IBM Rational Publishing Engine | IBM Rational Insight |
A set of predefined, out-of-the-box, reports delivered with some Rational application to satisfy common reporting scenarios.
If your enterprise involves distributed teams using multiple JTS, Rational applications other than the CLM applications, or third party tools, you may need to customize the data that is loaded into the reporting data warehouse. IBM Rational Insight extends Rational Reporting for Development Intelligence (the CLM embedded development intelligence solution) with support for multiple JTS deployments, integration of data from CLM, other non-CLM Rational applications, and third party tools (such as RationalClearQuest®, RationalRequisitePro®, RationalDOORS, and Microsoft Project). Rational Insight helps you to customize how data are extracted from the applications and loaded into the data warehouse, the reporting data model, reports and metrics.
IBM Rational Publishing Engine extends Rational Reporting for Document Generation by helping you to create and view custom documents from CLM and non-CLM applications.