IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody - Model Manager

With IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody Model Manager, you can store and access designs from a central location and use up-to-date content with linked lifecycle data — with no data refreshing needed. You can search, view and analyze designs on the server from IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody or a web client and do impact analysis and discovery of related design elements through Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) links.

Teams worldwide can access designs, review them and do trace analysis using web browsers. With IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody - Model Manager, team members can determine how their tasks relate to designs with traceable links to work items, requirements and test cases.

IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody - Model Manager can be used with work items from Engineering Workflow Manager to administer reviews, allowing you to specify the design and stakeholder review team. You can associate comment-worthy review work items (that have customizable review lifecycles and approvals) with model elements and diagrams. Improve the quality of your teams’ work by ensuring the extended team has direct input into updates and corrections.

Generate documents using templates, access design information through open interfaces for document generation and create custom templates using IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing. Use OSLC links to understand the impact of design changes on requirements.