Overview of Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager

Rational® Engineering Lifecycle Manager helps teams to tackle the rising complexity of product development and to improve project execution.

The products and systems that surround us and influence our lives are smarter: more intelligent, instrumented, and interconnected. These products are increasingly complex as software delivers larger portions of the value of these innovative products and systems. Product development organizations create and manage larger, more complex, and more interrelated sets of engineering data. Old tools and processes for managing product development are strained by the complexity.

Additional and deeper dependencies across engineering domains create challenges for hardware and software co-design and other kinds of multi-disciplinary collaboration. Project development cycles lengthen. Staff costs increase. Too many defects escape notice until customer acceptance or field deployment. Opportunities for reuse might be missed.

At the same time, many organizations face pressure to get products to market faster and drive cost out of the development process.

Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager enhances the Rational solution for systems and software engineering by providing the capability to visualize, analyze, and organize systems product engineering data coming from many tools. Engineering teams get a better understanding of the relationships in that data, so they can make more effective and timely engineering decisions.

Integration partners

Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager is a capability of the Rational solution for systems and software engineering. The tool indexes product engineering data created and managed in Rational DOORS® or DOORS Next Generation, Rational Rhapsody® Design Manager, Rational Quality Manager, and Rational Team Concert™. When MathWorks Simulink artifacts are used with the Rational Rhapsody Design Manager, Simulink artifacts can participate in the index as well.

Engineering data created by home-grown tools and other vendors have the potential to be indexed. Light-weight connectors are needed for this purpose. In the time frame of this initial release of Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager, it is recommended that customers engage professional services from IBM® or select IBM Business Partners to create these connectors.

A web-based system provides a portal into the indexed data, typically by using customized, predefined views to display the latest information from the index. These custom views can be role, product, process, or project perspectives. For example, automotive manufacturers could use the downloadable, sample ISO-26262 view to help them follow and prove compliance to this engineering process standard.

Rational Jazz integration services

Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager uses Rational Jazz™ integration services to increase the visibility and value of engineering data in the following ways:


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