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Top Answer: Integration with the other professional tools is a very strong advantage, so that we can have a traceability between the requirements and defects in Rational Team Concert. That's the most important… more » Top Answer: Clients often ask about monthly licensing fees, however, I'm not sure about how IBM actually charges. For example, I'm unsure as to if it's a yearly or a monthly fee. It's unclear from my end how the… more » Top Answer: I think it's fine from a performance perspective but usability is something that needs improvement. It might be because of the complexity. They introduce some entities before people learn how these… more » | Ask a question Earn 20 points |
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| Rational Quality Manager | Borland Silk Central, Micro Focus Silk Central |
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| IBM Rational Quality Manager is a collaborative hub for business-driven software and systems quality across virtually any platform and type of testing. This software helps teams share information seamlessly, use automation to accelerate project schedules and report on metrics for informed release decisions. Rational Quality Manager helps quality assurance teams collaborate by sharing project information and status updates seamlessly so team members can synchronize teamwork throughout the lifecycle. It helps them automate by reducing labor-intensive activities to accelerate project schedules. In addition, it helps them govern by understanding and reporting on project metrics enabling accurate, reliable and timely release decisions. | Silk Central is an open test management solution which unifies all test assets into one easy-to-use planning, tracking, reporting and execution hub. Silk Central enables you to gain control, collaboration and traceability across all areas of your software testing, whether your methodology is Agile, Traditional or hybrid. Silk Central provides integration of requirements, manual and automated tests, defect tools and your test execution, giving full traceability of the quality of your software testing regardless of role. |
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| Ehrhardt, Cisco Systems, Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik, CareCore National, ItaÒ BBA, Barr | AmBank Group, Krung Thai Computer Services, Deakin University |
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Computer Software Company31% Comms Service Provider19% Manufacturing Company10% Government6% | Computer Software Company25% Financial Services Firm25% Transportation Company25% Manufacturing Company13% Computer Software Company31% Financial Services Firm25% Comms Service Provider11% Government8% |
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Small Business13% Midsize Enterprise38% Large Enterprise50% | Midsize Enterprise30% Large Enterprise70% |
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IBM Rational Quality Manager is ranked 14th in Test Management Tools with 3 reviews while Silk Central is ranked 10th in Test Management Tools with 1 review. IBM Rational Quality Manager is rated 7.6, while Silk Central is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Rational Quality Manager writes "Has good integration with the other professional tools but usability needs improvement ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Silk Central writes "A powerful platform and strong technical support help us to make the right decisions". IBM Rational Quality Manager is most compared with Micro Focus ALM Quality Center, TestRail by Gurock, Tricentis qTest, Zephyr Enterprise and TFS, whereas Silk Central is most compared with Micro Focus ALM Quality Center, Adaptavist Test Management for Jira, Zephyr Enterprise, Tricentis qTest and TFS.
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