Planview OpenSuite for IBM Rational ClearQuest

Balance innovation and maintenance work

In application development organizations, management often uses a portfolio management system to assign developers and track work. The application developer, on the other hand, often uses Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools to keep up with project-level tasks, bugs, changes, and the like, that impact the project work he or she has been assigned.

Both systems provide a view into the demand pipeline -- but if they remain separate, that view is incomplete, and cannot be used by management to balance maintenance work with innnovation, which is a key goal for most application development organizations.

Get a Complete Picture

Validated Ready for IBM Rational, Planview OpenSuite for IBM Rational ClearQuest integrates approved innovation and maintenance projects from Planview Enterprise portfolio management with project-level tasks, bugs, and issues in IBM Rational ClearQuest to help your organization:

• Boost productivity
• Prioritize work
• Make development more predictable
• Ease reporting
• Shorten development cycles

It provides a consolidated view for the organization to better understand and manage all types of projects within an organization. This delivers benefits for developers and leadership of product organizations.

• Developers get one centralized access point to all projects and work to which they are assigned, eliminating misprioritized effort and wasted time
• Management can more accurately plan for time spent on maintenance versus innovation work

A unified view of project information from Planview Enterprise and bugs and issues from IBM Rational ClearQuest are available to all application devleopment team members and leadership.

The First Out-of-the-Box Integration with IBM Rational ClearQuest

This offering is the only off-the-shelf portfolio management integration into this market-leading application developer environment to help and:

• Ensures that team members are working on approved, strategically aligned projects
• Enables you to consolidate information under approved projects for comprehensive reporting
• Provides additional support for ALM best practices for ClearQuest customers

Integrated Demand and Resource Management

Planview OpenSuite for IBM Rational ClearQuest integrates demand and resource management, providing:

• One place the individual developer can access to know what they need to work on and when
• Consolidated view and reports for management on projects -- innovation and maintenance -- and resources
• Centralized administration and flexible scheduling of data exports
• Flexible mapping of Planview Enterprise data fields to export to IBM Rational ClearQuest, allowing you to export just the data you want