Design, visualize, and manage complex systems and software with clarity to drive innovation
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Proven modeling solution
IBM Engineering Rhapsody (Rational Rhapsody) and its family of products offers a proven solution for modeling and systems design activities that allows you to manage the complexity many organizations face with product and systems development.
Get continuous validation through rapid simulation, prototyping and execution to address errors earlier when they are less costly to fix.
Share, collaborate and review your engineering lifecycle artifacts created with Engineering Rhapsody or other design tools.
An intuitive interface enables users to tailor the tool to their specific needs, facilitating easier model visualization.
Support industry standards like ISO 26262, ensuring your systems meet critical safety and regulatory requirements efficiently.
Discover IBM Rhapsody Systems Engineering (Rhapsody SE)
A cloud-native, web-based solution, helping systems engineering teams turn complexity into a competitive advantage.
Features
AI that identifies use cases and actors in natural language requirements to create corresponding model elements and use case diagrams - helping accelerate requirements analysis, reduce manual effort, and improve consistency across specifications. It also enhances traceability by linking requirements directly to generated model elements, helping MBSE practitioners boost productivity and simplify modeling.
IBM Rhapsody provides a rigorous SysML and HarmonyMBE–based systems engineering environment that connects stakeholder needs to architecture, behavior, and implementation. This helps clients control complexity, reduce requirement gaps, and make early design decisions with clear traceability across the entire lifecycle.
With rich UML support, IBM Rhapsody lets software teams design, analyze, and implement complex applications in a single, consistent model. This accelerates understanding across teams, reduces defects introduced in code, and keeps architecture and implementation aligned as the system evolves.
Accelerate delivery with integrated industry-specific profiles and frameworks including AUTOSAR, UAF/DoDAF, and FMI/FMU co-simulation. Benefit from TÜV-certified safety kits and standards alignment for ISO 26262, DO-178C, IEC 61508 and more, ensuring compliance and consistency across complex, regulated engineering domains.
Rhapsody Developer offers embedded and real-time agile software engineering environment with full application generation of production-ready code for C, C++, Java, and Ada. Build systems with executable models, advanced simulation, and behavior analysis. Integrate with RTOS frameworks, and validate system behavior early with animated statecharts and live debugging.
With real‑time simulation and model‑based testing, Rhapsody allows clients to validate requirements and behaviors early, before hardware or full software is available. This uncovers issues when they are least expensive to fix and provides objective evidence for quality, safety, and certification activities.
Ensuring engineering integrity with end-to-end traceability by linking requirements, architecture, implementation, and verification. Collaborate efficiently through shared models, governed reviews, suspect link tracking, and automated documentation, supported by deep integration across the IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management products.
AI that identifies use cases and actors in natural language requirements to create corresponding model elements and use case diagrams - helping accelerate requirements analysis, reduce manual effort, and improve consistency across specifications. It also enhances traceability by linking requirements directly to generated model elements, helping MBSE practitioners boost productivity and simplify modeling.
IBM Rhapsody provides a rigorous SysML and HarmonyMBE–based systems engineering environment that connects stakeholder needs to architecture, behavior, and implementation. This helps clients control complexity, reduce requirement gaps, and make early design decisions with clear traceability across the entire lifecycle.
With rich UML support, IBM Rhapsody lets software teams design, analyze, and implement complex applications in a single, consistent model. This accelerates understanding across teams, reduces defects introduced in code, and keeps architecture and implementation aligned as the system evolves.
Accelerate delivery with integrated industry-specific profiles and frameworks including AUTOSAR, UAF/DoDAF, and FMI/FMU co-simulation. Benefit from TÜV-certified safety kits and standards alignment for ISO 26262, DO-178C, IEC 61508 and more, ensuring compliance and consistency across complex, regulated engineering domains.
Rhapsody Developer offers embedded and real-time agile software engineering environment with full application generation of production-ready code for C, C++, Java, and Ada. Build systems with executable models, advanced simulation, and behavior analysis. Integrate with RTOS frameworks, and validate system behavior early with animated statecharts and live debugging.
With real‑time simulation and model‑based testing, Rhapsody allows clients to validate requirements and behaviors early, before hardware or full software is available. This uncovers issues when they are least expensive to fix and provides objective evidence for quality, safety, and certification activities.
Ensuring engineering integrity with end-to-end traceability by linking requirements, architecture, implementation, and verification. Collaborate efficiently through shared models, governed reviews, suspect link tracking, and automated documentation, supported by deep integration across the IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management products.
Product versions
| Category | Name | Description | Link |
| Software design | Rhapsody Developer | An embedded and real-time agile software engineering environment with full application generation for C++, C, Java and Ada (including MISRA-C and MISRA-C++). | See details of Rhaspsody Developer → |
| IBM Engineering Rhapsody Model Manager | IBM Engineering Rhapsody Model Manager enables collaborative development by providing version control, change tracking, and configuration management for Rhapsody models. It ensures model traceability and alignment across systems and software engineering teams. | See details of IBM Engineering Rhapsody Model Manager → | |
| Rhapsody Architect for Software | A low-cost integrated software engineering environment to graphically architect C++, C or Java™ applications using UML. | See details of Rhapsody Architect for Software → | |
| Systems design | Rhapsody Architect for Systems Engineers | A low-cost systems engineering environment that lets you analyze and elaborate requirements, make architecture trade-offs and document designs. | See details of Rhapsody Architect for Systems Engineers → |
| Rhapsody Designer | All the capabilities of Architect for Systems Engineers, plus allows you to prototype, simulate and execute designs for early validation. | See details of Rhapsody Designer → | |
| Rhapsody Systems Engineering | A cloud native, web based solution built on SysML V2 for systems engineering teams. | See details of Rhapsody Systems Engineering → |
Case study
Ushering in Industry 4.0 with an agile approach to systems engineering
