IBM Rational Publishing Engine

For September 5, 2017 Rational Publishing Engine is technology automation of the publication of documents.

IBM Rational Publishing Engine automates creation of documents in the products Rational and a number of third-party technologies. Rational Publishing Engine can be used for automation of creation of documents for incidental application, formal reviewing, accomplishment of contractual commitments or observance of regulatory requirements. The built-in opportunities allow to take data from a number of sources that reduces the volume of the work performed manually and risk of errors.

Key properties

• Documents and reports — creation of high-quality documents with flexible opportunities of formatting and also reports on the basis of data from several sources.
• Output data — support of a set of formats of the output data and a possibility of creation of documents in several formats on the basis of a uniform template.
• Templates are ready templates and a graphical environment of editing templates for creation of own reports.
• Data sources — a possibility of extraction of data from one or several sources.

Documents and reports

• the application helps to create documents on the basis of data from several sources.
• process of creation of documents can be started manually or in batch mode without user intervention.
• the software allows to spend less time for creation of documents manually and accomplishment of the tasks connected with maintenance of documents in current status and to focus on the main business processes.

Output data

• Rational Publishing Engine allows to create documents on the basis of data from several sources in Microsoft the Word formats PDF, HTML and XSL-FO. Styles of documents are configured.
• the documents created using Rational Publishing Engine support possibilities of expanded formatting of the text, the table of contents, binding and object embedding (OLE), the user styles.
• the program supports hyperlinks for navigation on elements of documents and return to the initial application.

Templates

• ready templates include recommendations for quick start of work.
• it is possible to set contents of documents and to format them using a full-function set of tools and editing templates.
• means of work with templates are intuitive and support such opportunities as drag and drop of elements and print preview.

Data sources

• Software helps to take data from IBM Rational DOORS, IBM Rational Tau, IBM Rational RequisitePro, IBM Rational ClearCase, IBM Rational ClearQuest, IBM Rational Quality Manager and IBM Rational TestManager.
• the program can be connected to third-party applications through XML data sources.
• Reports can be created in supported applications and directly in Rational Publishing Engine.