Communicating project information can be time consuming and difficult. Project lifecycle documentation and reports are often produced haphazardly, or are neglected altogether because of the effort and time involved in creating and maintaining them. IBM Rational® SoDA® software overcomes these issues by automating the creation and maintenance of comprehensive project documentation and reports. Unlike manual methods, SoDA generates complete documentation more easily and with greater consistency by automatically extracting data from various project tool databases.

Rational SoDA is tightly integrated with Rational's market leading development tools, giving users a single interface for reporting on requirements, design, test, and defect status. And SoDA provides robust support for cross-functional team members and is therefore part of each IBM Rational Suite® as a key component in the IBM Rational® Team Unifying Platform.

This tool provides support for the activities of the following team members: Process Engineer and Project Manager.

To gain the full benefits from this tool, users need to have the following skills:-

• Project Management

IBM Rational SoDA:-

• Tightly integrated with industry-leading tools provides you with a single interface for all of your reporting needs
• Automatically captures change so you always have accurate, up-to-date reports
• Easy-to-use, flexible report writer enables all team members to create custom reports in a familiar environment
• Uniform retrieval of data from various repositories enables you to quickly publish information from multiple tool sources using a consistent interface
• Permanently integrates supplemental information with project data allowing you to elaborate on extracted data without fear of losing changes when that data is refreshed