IBM® Rational® Publishing Engine automates document generation from Rational solutions and select third-party tools. You can use Rational Publishing Engine to automate the generation of documents for ad hoc use, formal reviews, contractual obligations or regulatory compliance. Built-in capabilities extract data from a range of data sources to help reduce manual work and risk of errors. Rational Publishing Engine provides: Documents and reports—generate high-quality documents with flexible formatting as well as composite reports containing data from multiple sources. Outputs—support multiple output formats and concurrent document generation to multiple target formats from a single template. Templates—include predefined templates and provide a graphical template editing environment for custom report design. Data sources—extract data from a single source or combine data from multiple sources.