SAP and IBM continue to partner to help meet the needs of enterprises and IT professionals using IBM Rational products. Whether delivering static content such as customer statements or real-time alerts on inventory status, all business applications must provide information insight as a key end-user requirement. Information can also be critical to aligning IT resources with business priorities.

SAP BusinessObjects software remains the only third-party product built into the IBM Rational tool set. Embedding this software empowers you to easily integrate reporting and analytics into business solutions such as client-server or Web applications – and enables you to improve collaboration during the development life cycle.

Your software architects can use SAP BusinessObjects solutions to integrate complex data stores into their applications. And developers can use Crystal Reports within their Eclipse-based frameworks to design and embed dynamic reports from multiple data sources into their applications, directly from the IBM Rational integrated development environment.

Project teams and software life-cycle managers can also use SAP BusinessObjects XI solutions with the IBM Rational data store and products such as Rational ClearQuest. SAP BusinessObjects software provides dynamic IT dashboards and drilldown reports that track project details. By leveraging these powerful tools, Your IT managers can optimize the development process by tracking program costs, code quality, and work products.

New Utilities For Using Crystal Reports with IBM Rational ClearQuest 7.1

The most recent release of IBM Rational ClearQuest, version 7.1, includes a new, enhanced reporting interface to support SAP Crystal Reports. New utilities from SAP will help customers upgrading or installing ClearQuest 7.1 to ensure continuity when using Crystal Reports with this new reporting interface.
Learn more and download the utilities.