IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management solutions

Manage complex systems engineering at scale with a powerful solution where compliance meets traceability.

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What is IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management?

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) is a suite of tools and solutions designed to help organizations developing complex products manage the complete lifecycle of systems and software development. It supports the planning, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of complex systems, providing visibility and collaboration across teams and disciplines.

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Requirements Management

Capture, trace, analyze, and manage requirements and changes to requirements while maintaining compliance with regulations and standards and meeting customers' expectations.

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Systems Modeling

Analyze and elaborate requirements through prototypes and simulations. Create and validate system design and architecture, and verify compliance with requirements while facilitating improved productivity and quality.

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Software Engineering

Integrate requirements management, agile project management, version control, continuous integration, testing, collaboration, and compliance tools to manage complex software projects.

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Change and Configuration Management

Manage multiple configurations and baselines, code branches and environments, track changes, manage dependencies, and maintain control over software artifacts throughout development.

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Test Management

Collaboratively manage end-to-end test planning and testing of assets. Automate test execution, record test results, and view real-time test status.

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Workflow Management

Create and manage work plans, sprints, and tasks across multiple development projects by leveraging agile, SAFe, or custom processes, enabling faster release cycles.

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Risk Management and Impact Analysis

Enable detailed impact analysis by allowing teams to identify, assess, and mitigate risks throughout the software lifecycle.

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Reporting and insights

Automated document generation solution that generates documents from IBM Engineering products as well as other vendors that use XML and REST interfaces.

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Compliance and Auditability

Built to support compliance with industry standards and regulations, IBM ELM provides audit trails, traceability, and reporting to facilitate regulatory audits and ensure software quality.

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Integrations

Extend IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management to 3rd-party tools such as Atlassian Jira Software, Confluence, and more.

End-to-End Traceability for Regulatory Compliance

IBM ELM ensures full traceability from requirements to deployment, allowing organizations to meet regulatory standards (such as ISO 26262 in automotive or DO-178C in aerospace). Providing traceability capabilities helps industries manage audits, maintain certification, and ensure compliance with safety-critical standards.

Efficient Management of Complexity

IBM ELM solutions enable teams to manage the complexity of large-scale systems and software projects by integrating requirements, design, testing, and deployment information. This helps manage the interconnected nature of engineering processes, ensuring that all components align with overall system objectives.

Improved Collaboration Across Distributed Teams

In highly regulated industries such as aerospace, automotive, and railway, IBM ELM supports seamless collaboration among distributed teams by providing shared access to real-time engineering data. This fosters better communication across multiple stakeholders and disciplines, helping streamline decision-making and reduce delays.

Risk Management and Impact Analysis

With advanced impact analysis and risk management capabilities, IBM ELM allows teams to understand the potential effects of design changes across the entire system. This is particularly vital in safety-critical sectors like medical devices and railways, where identifying and mitigating risks early can prevent costly errors.

Improved Collaboration Across Distributed Teams

IBM ELM supports seamless collaboration among distributed teams by providing shared access to real-time engineering data. The use of notation and interface standards enables collaboration with suppliers and customers in highly regulated industries such as aerospace, automotive, and railway.  This fosters better communication across multiple stakeholders and disciplines, helping streamline decision-making and reduce delays.

Improved Product Quality Through Integrated Testing

IBM ELM offers integrated testing and validation tools that ensure quality throughout the development lifecycle. This is crucial for sectors such as medical devices and railways, where the alignment between testing, requirements, and design is critical to meet performance, safety, and reliability standards.

End-to-End Traceability for Regulatory Compliance

IBM ELM ensures full traceability from requirements to deployment, allowing organizations to meet regulatory standards (such as ISO 26262 in automotive or DO-178C in aerospace). Providing traceability capabilities helps industries manage audits, maintain certification, and ensure compliance with safety-critical standards.

Efficient Management of Complexity

IBM ELM solutions enable teams to manage the complexity of large-scale systems and software projects by integrating requirements, design, testing, and deployment information. This helps manage the interconnected nature of engineering processes, ensuring that all components align with overall system objectives.

Improved Collaboration Across Distributed Teams

In highly regulated industries such as aerospace, automotive, and railway, IBM ELM supports seamless collaboration among distributed teams by providing shared access to real-time engineering data. This fosters better communication across multiple stakeholders and disciplines, helping streamline decision-making and reduce delays.

Risk Management and Impact Analysis

With advanced impact analysis and risk management capabilities, IBM ELM allows teams to understand the potential effects of design changes across the entire system. This is particularly vital in safety-critical sectors like medical devices and railways, where identifying and mitigating risks early can prevent costly errors.

Improved Collaboration Across Distributed Teams

IBM ELM supports seamless collaboration among distributed teams by providing shared access to real-time engineering data. The use of notation and interface standards enables collaboration with suppliers and customers in highly regulated industries such as aerospace, automotive, and railway.  This fosters better communication across multiple stakeholders and disciplines, helping streamline decision-making and reduce delays.

Improved Product Quality Through Integrated Testing

IBM ELM offers integrated testing and validation tools that ensure quality throughout the development lifecycle. This is crucial for sectors such as medical devices and railways, where the alignment between testing, requirements, and design is critical to meet performance, safety, and reliability standards.

All-in-one Engineering Lifecycle Platform

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) enhances traditional ALM tools by offering a comprehensive environment that seamlessly integrates specialized domain tools, avoiding the risk of gaps along the lifecycle while at the same time providing engineering domain specialists with the tools providing the support they need. IBM ELM ensures complete transparency and traceability across all engineering data. Spanning from requirements to testing and deployment, IBM ELM fosters seamless collaboration and communication among stakeholders, leading to better decision-making, increased productivity, and higher product quality. The IBM ELM suite includes:

IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS

IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS is a market-leading requirements management technology that has been successfully applied in challenging and complex projects for decades. IBM DOORS provides you with a comprehensive range of functions for capturing, tracking, analyzing, and managing requirements.

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IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next

IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next is a requirements management tool that helps teams capture, trace, analyze, and manage requirements as well as changes to requirements. It ensures that the final product meets business objectives by maintaining traceability and enabling impact analysis of changes.

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IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody

Use IBM Rhapsody to create complex systems and software more efficiently and with higher quality through model-based development. IBM Rhapsody supports many standardized and individual profiles, such as UML, SysML, UAF, or AUTOSAR, and helps to comply with safety standards such as DO-178, DO-178B/C, or ISO 26262.

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IBM Engineering Test Management

IBM Engineering Test Management (ETM) is an end-to-end solution for collaborative test management from requirements to delivery. Create and manage test plans, monitor test resources, and seamlessly share information across tool boundaries to ensure high-quality software or system delivery. Leverage IBM ETM for specific manual testing.

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IBM Engineering Workflow Management

IBM Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) facilitates the critical development tasks and workflows in your teams. IBM EWM serves as a strong base for team collaboration, accessible both on-premises and in the cloud. Its features encompass source control, task tracking, continuous integration, and team collaboration.

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IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Publishing

Create documents for formal reviews, contractual obligations, regulatory oversight, or ad hoc use with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization (IBM ELO) - Publishing. Data is automatically extracted from your Jazz tools and third-party tools and aggregated into meaningful documents in PDF, HTML, Word, or Excel format.

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IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody TestConductor

Close the productivity gap between model-based development and subsequent software testing with the TestConductor plug-in for IBM Rhapsody. TestConductor automates the creation of test architectures and helps specify test sequences. Tests are executed automatically and test reports are generated.

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IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody Model Manager

Improve modeling collaboration across your organization by using Rhapsody Model Manager to configuration manage models, view models on the web, and link them to requirements, work items, and tests.

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SodiusWillert support services for successful IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management implementation

As a Platinum partner, SodiusWillert brings extensive experience in implementing IBM ELM across highly regulated and complex sectors, ensuring that companies not only meet industry compliance standards but also optimize their development processes. Our tailored solutions enable seamless integration of ELM with existing systems, accelerating time to value. We also provide ongoing support and training, helping organizations fully leverage the capabilities of IBM ELM to enhance collaboration, manage complexity, and ensure traceability across the entire product lifecycle. This ensures better decision-making, improved product quality, and reduced risks in safety-critical industries.

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Coaching and workshops

We provide expert guidance to help you implement IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) solutions successfully within your organization. Accompanied by one of our IBM ELM experts, our coaching and workshop services include: 

  • Actual state analysis,
  • Evaluation and selection of tools
  • Deployment into your environment,
  • Customization of your IBM ELM project,
  • Ongoing support.

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IT services

Our team helps you identify the IT capacities that are required to create the appropriate foundation for your project. Depending on the number of users, the number of requirements, the size of the databases, etc., we assist you in scaling your IT equipment to ensure adequate performance. Our IT services include:

  • Tool evaluation using our own hosted evaluation environment,
  • Evaluation of your storage needs for your Jazz platform,
  • Installation, configuration, and deployment of Jazz into your environment.

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Licensing

We assist in purchasing and acquiring IBM ELM licenses and solutions that are tailored to your specific organization’s needs. Our licensing services include:

  • Technical demonstration and Proof of Concept
  • Flexible licensing options
  • Procurement and renewals
  • License deployment

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Customization

We have extensive knowledge of IBM ELM tools. We know where the gaps are and have developed powerful addons and plugins that help integrate, automate, and accelerate your use of IBM ELM in your daily workflow. Our customization services include:

  • Tailoring of your IBM ELM environment,
  • Advanced automation helpers for IBM DOORS and IBM Rhapsody to reduce manual inputs,
  • Integration solutions with 3rd-party tools (e.g. Atlassian Jira, PTC Windchill, Cameo, etc)
  • Customization services based on your specific needs.

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Training courses

We offer coaching, workshops, and training courses for beginners and advanced learners looking to learn or expand their knowledge of IBM DOORS and IBM Rhapsody. Our training courses offering contains:

  • Instructor-led training courses,
  • Training conducted in English or German,
  • On request or scheduled training,
  • Online training courses,
  • Suitable for beginners and advanced levels.

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Managed services

Rest assured that our team will stay by your side during installation and operation. You can rely on us to ensure that you are equipped with a Jazz environment that works as planned, and we will take care of any updates that may come up. Our managed services include: 

  • Platform management,
  • Updates management,
  • Software maintenance,
  • Help desk support.

FAQs

Answers to our most frequently asked questions about IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management and how we are different.

How can I customize my ELM experience?
Customization often involves creating or adjusting widgets, automation, and scripts. SodiusWillert provides an extensive range of solutions for IBM ELM, including widgets, DXL scripts for DOORS Classic, and automation scripts for installations. Explore all our solutions here. If you have specific customization requirements, contact us here.
Can Confluence be used with ELM?

Yes, we support this integration with OSLC Connect for Confluence. Visit this page to learn more about connecting IBM ELM to Confluence.

Can Jira Software be used with ELM?

Yes, we support this integration with OSLC Connect for Jira. Visit this page to learn more about connecting IBM ELM to Jira Software.

What are Dashboards in ELM, and why should I use them?
Dashboards are one of the most underappreciated features in ELM applications. Each application provides at least one project dashboard with commonly used widgets, and the platform includes numerous pre-built widgets for immediate use.
What is Report Builder, and how can it benefit me?
IBM Report Builder is a powerful tool that allows complex queries across the data repository. Learning to use it can yield significant insights. You can create reports that track items such as test case validations or work item statuses and visualize these in tables or charts.
Report Builder does not deliver data

If Report Builder provides no data or incorrect data, even though the query parameters are correct, it is usually due to a faulty index file.

As a Jazz Admin, you can resolve the issue using the following links:

Ready to take the next step?

Get in touch with one of our ELM experts for a product tour or book a meeting to see how your organization can benefit from IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management.

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