IBM Rational Quality Manager vs Silk Central

IBM Rational Quality Manager is ranked 14th in Test Management Tools with 4 reviews vs Silk Central which is ranked 19th in Test Management Tools with 3 reviews. The top reviewer of IBM Rational Quality Manager writes "Global Configuration allows the user to maintain different versions of the same artifact. It does not provide inbuilt capabilities for managing the tasks related to testing". The top reviewer of Silk Central writes "We have many possibilities to customize the utilization and we can also work easily at database level for custom reporting and to manage additional information and integration". IBM Rational Quality Manager is most compared with Quality Center, SmartBear TestComplete and Visual Studio Test Professional. Silk Central is most compared with Micro Focus ALM, Quality Center and Zephyr Enterprise. See our IBM Rational Quality Manager vs Silk Central report.

IBM Rational Quality Manager

Silk Central

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IBM Rational Quality Manager

Based on 4 reviews.

29779

Silk Central

Based on 3 reviews.

Most Helpful Review

Setembrino Lusa

Engenheiro de Software - DevOps - Agile - Application Lifecycle Management Practice Specialist at a tech services company

It allows users to assign each other tasks and view the status of the assigned tasks

The software lets users register their role and create task or test-specific teams, and it allows users to assign each other tasks and view the... Read more »

Cagin Uludamar

Test Automation Architect at a financial services firm

With the ease of use it provides, our teams have a smooth learning curve in test automation

We are in the process of wide spreading test automation skills to the teams of our organization. With the ease of use that Silk Central provides,... Read more »

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Ranking
RANKING	14th out of 31 In Test Management Tools Views 2,477 Comparisons 1,761 Reviews 4 Followers 523 Avg. Rating 7.3	19th out of 31 In Test Management Tools Views 1,459 Comparisons 523 Reviews 3 Followers 278 Avg. Rating 7.3
Top Comparisons
Top Comparisons	Quality Center vs. IBM Rational Quality Manager Compared 66% of the time. SmartBear TestComplete vs. IBM Rational Quality Manager Compared 4% of the time. Visual Studio Test Professional vs. IBM Rational Quality Manager Compared 3% of the time. See more IBM Rational Quality Manager competitors »	Micro Focus ALM vs. Silk Central Compared 21% of the time. Quality Center vs. Silk Central Compared 17% of the time. Zephyr Enterprise vs. Silk Central Compared 9% of the time. See more Silk Central competitors »

Also Known As
Also Known As	Rational Quality Manager	Borland Silk Central, Micro Focus Silk Central
Website/Video
Website/Video	IBM	Micro Focus
Overview
Overview	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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Sample Customers
Sample Customers	Ehrhardt, Cisco Systems, Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik, CareCore National, ItaÒ BBA, Barr	AmBank Group, Krung Thai Computer Services, Deakin University

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