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Imagine you are part of a global team of developers with offices in multiple countries spanning several time zones. Or you are part of a small, local team divided by differing work schedules or department affiliations. In either case, you collaborate with analysts, architects, developers, testers and other subject matter experts separated by time, distance or organisation. What type of infrastructure would help you do your best work, both individually and as a team?
The Jazz technology platform is designed to answer these needs.
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Uniquely attuned to distributed teams, the Jazz platform is designed to transform how people work together to build software—making software delivery more collaborative, productive and transparent. The Jazz platform combines people-, project- and process-awareness with automation to make team-based development more productive and enjoyable.
Jazz is innovation, team, community, vision, and an open, real-time, pluggable collaboration framework for the next generation of distributed software delivery tools for teams small to large. Jazz takes software delivery from "desktop integration" to "lifecycle integration," from "function first" to "team first," from "manual" to "process-aware and transparent."
Rational Team Concert (RTC) is the first IBM product based on the Jazz technology platform. RTC includes an enhanced Eclipse development environment and a Web 2.0 web portal, both of which provide collaboration, process enforcement and increased transparency into software delivery efforts.
RTC includes integrated work item, source control and build management support. It will give agile teams the experience of a highly collaborative development environment, optimised for small and medium-sized teams. RTC will make it easy to exchange information directly in the context of the work you are doing. | 
