You can integrate Rational® Focal Point™ with other Rational products such as Rational Change, Rational DOORS®, Rational ClearQuest®, Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management,
and with other reporting tools. You can also use the SOAP Web Services
API and RESTful API of Rational Focal Point to integrate its features and data with other applications.
The advantages of integrating
Rational Focal Point with the supported Rational projects are:
- Generate traceability reports about the elements, requirements,
test artifacts, and defects of projects in the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle
Management (CLM).
- Generate reports that are based on IBM® Rational Publishing
Engine templates.
- Generate reports in external report tools by using an authenticated
XML export mechanism.
- Prioritize the user requirements before they are broken down as
system requirements, specifications, designs and so on using a Rational DOORS module.
- Automatically update the attributes of a Rational Focal Point element that is part of the synchronization setup by linking
it to a change request in Rational Change.
- Track defects in Rational Focal Point projects by using it with Rational ClearQuest.
- Prioritize the change requests and enhancement requests from Rational ClearQuest.
- Plan, implement, detail, and deliver solutions with Open Services
Lifecycle Collaboration - Change Management (OSLC-CM) providers such
as the Change and Configuration Management (CCM) and Requirements
Management (RM) applications in the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management.