Find information about installing and deploying HCL Compass client and server software

To plan a HCL Compass upgrade, identify prerequisite requirements for hardware and software, choose an upgrade strategy, select HCL Compass features to install, understand how to upgrade HCL Compass server components, and prepare your environment.

Review the upgrade information and complete optional and required tasks for upgrading HCL Compass.

After upgrading HCL Compass and installing any new components, there are series of tasks to perform both to verify a successful upgrade, and to configure new or upgraded components.

Learn how to administer the HCL Compass.

This section discusses how to administer HCL Compass Web.

Administering HCL Compass Multisite

HCL Compass provides a flexible reporting solution to design and test reports with Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) that are configured with the Compass Reporting Driver. Users can share Compass reports with the Report Launcher for Compass Agile planning.

HCL Compass lets you customize your deployment to support data-pull reports with BIRT reporting tools.

You can develop or modify schemas with the HCL Compass Designer.

HCL Compass Web is a browser-based interface to HCL Compass that runs on Windows, the UNIX system, and Linux. You can track defects and change requests in HCL Compass Web through this interface. When a session times out, you can re-authenticate and continue where you left off because the state of the user interface is retained.

Use the HCL Compass Client to submit, modify, and track change requests and to analyze project progress.

The application lifecycle management (ALM) packages and ALM schema provide out-of-the-box solutions for ensuring ALM best practices in your new or existing HCL Compass change management system.

Collaborative Lifecycle Management integrations provide a common approach to artifact linking, dashboards, security, and user interface frameworks. Cross-product links support traceability, web-like navigation, commenting, and status tracking across project repositories.

You can integrate HCL Compass with other software by adding packages to existing schema.

Learn how to use Compass CM REST API that supports both, OSLC v1 and v2.