What IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management Can Do for You

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management Extended helps teams keep on top of the complexity of developing smart, connected products. Running in the cloud or on premises, it helps systems engineers and software developers to deliver against requirements, respond efficiently to change and create high-quality designs faster—while controlling development costs and meeting compliance needs. Its tightly integrated tools cover the systems and software development lifecycle, including requirements management, modeling and simulation, quality management, configuration management and collaborative workflow planning and management.
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management

Satisfy customer needs

Analyze and manage requirements and maintain traceability throughout the product development lifecycle to manage cost, quality and risk.

Manage scale and complexity

Support teams with process-driven planning, workflow and change management and create product lines with global configuration management.

Deliver with quality and speed

Adopt agile methods and integrate architecture and design modeling, simulation, and test and quality management. Reuse components to improve the efficiency of product line engineering.

Accelerate time to value

Utilize the cloud to get up and running faster and focus on technological innovation. Use the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) so you can achieve faster time to value and delivery.

Streamline compliance

Capture, trace, analyze and manage requirements accurately. Understand the impact of changes and maintain the information required for compliance to regulations and standards.

Improve process management

Improve accuracy, efficiency and predictability of engineering processes, and improve collaboration between practitioners with integrated, customizable process enactment.

Key features

  • An integrated solution to build smart, connected products
  • Define, manage and analyze requirements
  • Visually model, simulate and test architectures and designs
  • Help ensure quality in your test plan
  • Plan, track work and manage source code
  • Visualize, analyze and gain insight from lifecycle data
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Security and privacy in the cloud

When using IBM Cloud offerings, your company can scale and adapt quickly to changing business needs without compromising security, privacy or risk levels. Learn more about IBM Cloud security

This offering meets the following industry and global compliance standards, depending on the edition you choose.

  • EU-US Privacy Shield and Swiss-US Privacy Shield Framework

To learn about the compliance and certifications for a specific offering edition, consult the Cloud Services data security and privacy data sheets.

“As we continue to work with IBM and deploy effective lifecycle management capabilities, we have accelerated our time to market and reduced our build and deployment time by 55 percent, freeing our developers to be more creative and innovate so we can better compete in our market.”

Gabriel Lima

Methodology Manager

Itaú BBA

“All engineers are working from a single point-of-truth and all are fully current on their project status.”

Bernadette Saysette

Engineering Tools Team Supervisor

Crane Aerospace & Electronics

Which option is right for you?

  • Try the Free Trial

    See how you can reduce complexity and increase the speed of developing connected IoT products with a free trial. No commitment or credit card required.

  • Enterprise Software as a Service

    IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management Extended SaaS in a single-tenant virtual private cloud with IPsec VPN Tunnel.

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