This is a presentation on the IBM Rational Insight enterprise reporting solution.

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Marc Nehme
Rational Reporting Engineer
Master Certified IT Specialist
IBM Rational Software
IBM Rational Insight

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Agenda
 Challenges in Enterprise Reporting
 Rational Insight
 Key Benefits
 Architecture
 The Power of Enterprise Reporting
 Q&A

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Organizational Reporting Challenges
 Organizational process
 Different departments, different processes, not unified
 Roll-up of data doesn't compare well
 Lack of visibility into organization metrics
 Various disparate data sources
 Individual product reporting
 Lack of functionality/customization
 Training & Resources
 $$$
 Manual process
 High Level of effort / Time consuming
 $$$
 Inaccurate / unreliable data
 Outdated metrics

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Rational Insight
 IBM Rational’s Performance Measurement Offering
 An Enterprise Reporting solution that gets consistent metrics from across an
organization to objectively measure status and progress
 Measure program, project, and team-level progress against pre-defined business
objectives through multiple views
Identify high-priority items and Become notified of high-severity items
Report & Dashboard elements viewable via
 Web browser
 iPads
 Mobile phones
 MS Office, PDF
 Any tool that is JSR168 compliant

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Key Benefits
 Automation
 Increased Reliability
 Versatile Integration support
 Cross-product reporting
 Traceability
 Trending & historical data (DW model)
 Real-time data (Live model)
 Web-based tool
 Custom/Interactive dashboards (Business Insight)
 OOTB Collateral
 XML data mappings
 ETL fact builds, dimension builds, jobs
 Framework Manager projects
 Data Warehouse structure
 Reports and Dashboards

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Integration with IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management
 OOTB integration with CLM tools: Team Concert, Quality Manager, Requirements
Composer
 Leverages CLM’s Reportable REST Architecture
 Ability to get up and running quickly
 Cross-project reporting
 Report across several project areas
 Integration with multiple Jazz Team Servers and applications
 Supports multiple Jazz namespaces
 Customizable ETLs
 Report on data coming from CLM, other IBM tools and Third Party tools

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Architecture
 Based on Cognos 10 BI platform, industry proven technology
 Leverages web architecture
 Integration Options
 REST service (adapter)
 REST service (native)
 Direct DB access
 ODBC access
 Generic XML
 Very open architecture and wide-range compatibility

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Extract, Transform, Load
Reporting Server
Data Warehouse
M e t a d a t a
XML – ODBC Mapping | DB Access
Rational Insight Architecture
Project
Management
Build
Management
Architecture
ManagementRequirements
Management
Change
Management Configuration
Management
Portfolio
Management
Quality
Management
CxO Process Lead
Self Service
Report Authoring
REST API - native REST API – adapter
XML DB
Project Manager
Open Data Architecture
Enterprise Data Warehouse
Industry Proven BI Platform
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Enterprise Reporting
In
Rational Insight

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The Power of Enterprise Reporting in Insight
Executive Dashboard Views

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The Power of Enterprise Reporting in Insight
Traceability

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The Power of Enterprise Reporting in Insight
Trending

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The Power of Enterprise Reporting in Insight
Drill-throughs for Lower Level Detail Visual Alerts
Test Execution Summary

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The Power of Enterprise Reporting in Insight
Versatile & Customizable Solution
Custom Attributes & Categories
 Customize Insight to report on your custom fields
 Operational data
 Data Marts (trending)

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The Power of Enterprise Reporting in Insight
Other OOTB Executive Dashboard Views

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The Power of Enterprise Reporting in Insight
Other OOTB Trend reports

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Leveraging the Cognos platform to extend the reach of Insight
View dashboards and reports
online…
View reports on
mobile devices…
Embed charts and reports in
spreadsheets / presentations…
Search for reports using
standard paradigms…
Easily create and customize
graphical dashboards…

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Rational Insight - Summary and Benefits
 Reduce time spent manually collecting, correlating,
and analyzing data
 Out-Of-The-Box integrations to Rational and 3rd party tools
using an open REST based integration layer optimized for LAN
and WAN performance
 Enhance visibility into disparate teams and
applications
 Pre-build library of SDLC KPIs and measurements provide
transparency into a distributed and heterogeneous software
development environment
 Improve analysis for required for strategic and
operational decisions
 Measurement frameworks such as CMMI, Six Sigma, and the
OOTB Rational MCIF content provide correlation between
development activities and business level objectives
 Measure current process efficiency and process
improvement effectiveness
 Leverage OOTB KPIs and dashboards to determine the
effectiveness of process improvements
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