SharePoint & Lotus

Some months back, I posted our plans to add enterprise social features to the software delivery process. Today, I am showing you a screencast of our progress on integrating IBM Lotus Connections with IBM Rational Jazz.

The video below shows you how Jazz users have direct access to forums, wikis, blogs, file sharing, and bookmark sharing, from within the Rational Team Concert web interface.

Enterprise social networking features will be added to the Rational Team Concert (RTC) development environment in our next release of Document Collaboration for Rational Jazz, as mentioned on SPTechBlog. With the announced version 2.0 of Document Collaboration, the RTC client will be capable of:

As Nicholas Hoover describes in his recent InformationWeek article, Mainsoft Enables Collaboration via SharePoint, Lotus Quickr:
"Technologies for collaborative software development are nothing new, as IBM Rational Team Concert and Microsoft Visual Studio Team System can attest. Those technologies, however, leave a gap between developers and business employees and managers, often causing software development to proceed slower than desired or results that don't meet business demands."