Mainsoft to Preview Social Networking Software Integration with Rational Team Concert

Mainsoft^® Corporation, a leading provider of Java^™ EE-Microsoft^® SharePoint^® integration software, will preview seamless integration between Office^® SharePoint Server's Social Networking capabilities and IBM^® Rational^® Team Concert.^™

Launched in Q1, 2009 and licensed by IBM Rational, Mainsoft Document Collaboration for Rational Jazz software connects IBM Rational Team Concert with enterprise collaboration environments based either on IBM Lotus^® Quickr^® or Microsoft SharePoint. It extends developers' collaboration capabilities with direct, per-project links to document libraries from an Eclipse^™ document view, and it integrates IBM Rational Team Concert with document workflows, improving the transparency of software deliveries as well as automating and enforcing project governance.

Available Q4, 2009, Mainsoft's 2.0 software release will introduce features that connect software delivery teams to enterprise social networks, enabling developers to:

• Access SharePoint "My Sites" from the team artifacts view, driving users to maintain a full personal profile in their enterprise social network.
• Incorporate SharePoint Personal Profiles into Jazz user profiles. Within development teams, users can quickly access information such as people's skills, interests, memberships in informal networks and work groups, organizational hierarchy, and so on, by hovering over users' names.
• Use SharePoint People Search from the IDE's Search menu, making it easy to locate and engage technical and business experts throughout the organization. Clicking on the search results page leads to users' My Site personal sites.
• Open team wikis and blogs from within the IDE, for direct access to the team collaboration tools they already use everyday.

Integrated access to My sites, wikis, blogs and documents from the Team Artifacts view.

People Search integrated in the IDE's Search menu, and two-way access to document libraries.

According to Michael Loria, vice president of business development, IBM Rational Software, "Mainsoft is working with IBM to tap into the tremendous potential of social networking, boosting collaboration and agility in the software delivery process by enabling developers to exchange experiences, thoughts, and ideas with technical and business experts."

Bernie Coyne, marketing manager, Rational Team Concert and Yaacov Cohen, CEO of Mainsoft, will preview the 2.0 release during session CRM26, "Driving Business Value Using IBM Rational Team Concert with Microsoft SharePoint and Lotus Quickr."

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