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AI for Requirements & ALM & IBM ELM

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Automate requirement analysis, detect duplicates and conflicts, and ensure compliance — directly within your ALM ecosystem.

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AI for Requirements Engineering and ELM

Increase productivity during requirements gathering and, in particular, support engineers to generate requirements documents with higher quality, shorten the time required for the generation of requirements documents.

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Adjust AI capabilities to your IBM ELM environment with our services and flexible deployment options.

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Unlock endless possibilities across IBM ELM, requirements engineering, MBSE, testing, reporting, and project management with AI-driven capabilities that adapt and scale to your needs.

Why AI for Requirements Engineering

Modern engineering projects demand more than manual discipline can deliver. The gap between what teams need and what traditional tooling provides is widening — and it shows in project outcomes.

The challenges every requirements team faces:

▸No guidance at the point of writing — requirements vary in quality across authors, with no real-time feedback or standardized checks.

▸Inconsistent templates and criteria — teams reinvent the wheel on every project, with no shared baseline for what a 'good' requirement looks like.

▸Hidden interdependencies — without clear process visualization, overlooked relationships between requirements lead to costly rework.

▸No single source of truth — knowledge is scattered across meetings, emails, documents, and disconnected tools.

▸High consolidation effort — pulling requirements together from multiple sources is manual, slow, and error-prone.

AI closes these gaps by bringing consistency, speed, and intelligence to every stage of the requirements lifecycle — from authoring and review to impact analysis and test generation.

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Requirements Quality Analysis

Analyze requirements against industry standards to generate quality scores with detailed feedback, with recommendations for wording enhancements that raise requirement quality scores.

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Requirements quality

The Requirements Quality Assistant evaluates requirements against standards (e.g., INCOSE, GtWR), identifying ambiguity, weak wording, and inconsistencies. It provides instant feedback to improve clarity, completeness, and overall quality.

  • Improve clarity and precision of requirements
  • Accelerate review and sign-off
  • Minimize downstream risks and iterate faster
  • Support continuous improvement in writing quality

Well-written requirements are critical to successful engineering projects. Poor requirements lead to delays, cost overruns, and misalignment.

The tool enables early issue detection, highlights ambiguous phrasing, and suggests improvements. Engineers can see how changes affect quality scores, reducing effort in authoring, reviewing, and updates—while allowing senior engineers to focus on higher-value work.

Requirements conformity

AI-driven analysis ensures traceability of safety-critical requirements, identifies gaps, and supports compliance with relevant standards.

  • Verify adherence to safety standards
  • Detect traceability gaps and inconsistencies
  • Generate project-wide summaries for reporting

This improves quality assurance, reduces risk, and supports better decision-making.

Incoming requirements can be automatically structured and distributed across teams. The AI Agent also analyzes historical data to identify patterns and predict risks, enabling proactive issue resolution and smoother project execution.

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Requirements Assistant

Use a natural language interface for requirements, enabling conversational queries, topic-based searches, summaries, and translations.

AI enabled search

Search across multiple connected sources—including IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM), vector stores, knowledge graphs, databases, and documentation—to quickly find relevant information. The system delivers context-aware results, enabling engineers to access the right data without switching between tools.

Ask questions

Ask questions in natural language and get precise, context-aware answers instantly. The AI understands your project data and retrieves relevant insights from connected systems to support faster, more informed decision-making. Provide requirement tips and considerations based on issue detection.

AI Assisted Translation

Easily understand the content written in a foreign language.

Rewrite requirements into a local/foreign language while keeping guidelines for writing good requirements

Summarize Content

Reduce misinterpretation of large volumes of requirements

  • Improve team collaboration across global projects
  • Better alignment and shared understanding of requirements
  • Summarize project, module, or other data
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Agentic AI, MCP, RAG, Vector Store and Knowledge Graph

AI agents are used for tasks that enable automated processing or deployment, such as uncovering inconsistencies, such as when a requirement contradicts a standard or norm in the knowledge graph, or the generation of requirements and test cases based on text specifications.

Analyze dependencies

AI-based dependency analysis automatically identifies and visualizes relationships between requirements, enabling faster impact assessment and more informed decision-making when changes occur. The AI Agent can analyze the requirement:

  • Checking for similarities in the vector store (duplicate and similarity detection; semantic search).
  • Checking in the knowledge graph for an impact analysis (consistency and compliance checks).
  • Rapidly identifying similarities, duplicates, or conflicts within extensive sets of requirements.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

AI agents combine Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector search, and knowledge graphs to analyze, generate, and validate requirements at scale.

Key capabilities:

Detect duplicates, conflicts, and inconsistencies

Perform automated impact and dependency analysis

Generate requirements and test cases from specifications

Ensure compliance and traceability (incl. safety-critical requirements)

DOORS Next Engineering Assistant

Requirements Generation

Transformation of the entered requirement based on the selected sentence template. AI reduces document creation time and helps developers formulate high-quality requirements more quickly.

PDF & Data Extraction

Extraction from data sources like PDFs and documents. Databases, etc. Involve regulatory sources, attachments, and other relevant data. Extract, classify, and convert relevant requirements.

Duplicates & Similarity

Find duplicates easily even if they are written differently. This helps ensure your data stays clean and consistent across all records.

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The purpose of a feature box is to provide concise and relevant information, such as key points, quick facts, or important details, in a way that stands out. This helps users easily identify and focus on the most important aspects of the content.

AI for Rhapsody & Rhapsody SE

MBSE use case discovery

Create your own database objects and display them exactly the way your business needs. Whether you manage customers, technical assets, requirements, risks, products, or any other structured information, you define the data model, fields, and relationships. 

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Accelerate the analysis of requirements

Move faster into the RFLP (requirements, functional, logical, physical) framework.

Improve traceability by auto-linking requirements to generated model elements.

Reduce the effort spent on manual tasks to get started

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Work Item Synopsis

Generate concise synopses of complex, long-running tasks, defects, features, and other work items, highlighting context, key details, status, working notes, and risks.

By avoiding the need to scan lengthy descriptions, comments, etc., engineers and managers can:

Work Item Synopsis is an agent designed to handle the complexity of long-running tasks, defects, and features.

In large projects, work items often span weeks or months, accumulating dozens or even hundreds of comments, updates, and status changes.

The agent generates concise, readable summaries that highlight key context and objectives, current status and progress, risks and blockers, and important notes and decisions.

This helps to:

  • Improve team productivity and communication across teams, reducing the need for status meetings and manual updates
  • Accelerate workflow through smoother handoffs, making engineering processes more fluid and transparent
  • Reduce ramp-up time when switching tasks or joining new initiatives
  • Provide managers with clearer visibility into ongoing work, enabling faster and more informed decisions

Ultimately, it improves team efficiency by saving time, surfacing patterns, and identifying risks or dependencies early.

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AI based Test Case Generation

AI-based Test Case Automation accelerates the creation and maintenance of test cases by generating them directly from requirements and system specifications. It ensures better coverage and consistency while reducing manual effort in test design. By continuously aligning tests with evolving requirements, it helps teams improve quality and speed up validation cycles.

  • Automatically generate test cases from requirements and changes
  • Improve coverage and traceability between requirements and tests
  • Reduce manual effort and accelerate testing cycles

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Softacus AI Engineering Services

Softacus AI Engineering Services is a set of AI tools and services that help automate repetitive, time-consuming engineering tasks, freeing engineers to focus more on creative works, solving problems, and delivering complex, mission-critical, secure systems and software faster.

Supporting Platforms

To fully leverage AI in engineering environments, a strong foundation is required — both in terms of structured knowledge and flexible workflows.

  • ELM Wiki provides a structured knowledge layer, enabling teams to manage engineering documentation in context and create a reliable basis for AI-driven insights.
  • Elwis App enables the creation of custom applications and workflows, allowing organizations to operationalize processes and integrate AI capabilities directly into their daily work.

Together, these platforms support a more connected, scalable, and efficient engineering environment.

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    Our wiki lets teams create structured, secure, and fully customizable knowledge bases hosted locally.
    With Atlassian moving to cloud-only, customers who need on-premise control find our platform a compelling alternative.

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    Doku & Requirements

    Hosted on secure servers located in Germany with managed infrastructure and automated updates. 

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    Jira Work & Ticketing

    Deployed via containerised installation within your on-premise or isolated environment.

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    Testing & Planning

    Environment can be deployed in any country on typical Cloud providers. It can be managed by our team or yours.


    Various AI Models & technologies

    Leverage switchable AI models that can be dynamically selected or combined based on the task or agent, ensuring optimal performance, flexibility, and control. This allows you to adapt processing strategies on demand.

    Examples: 
    gemma4 gemma4moe Granite llama Qwen Chatgpt120 Mistral
    Flexible technology:
    pinedb, n8n, qdrant, postgre, MongoDB, redis litellm, sprak dgx, nvidia4090, vectorDB, VectorStores Neo4J FalcoDB 
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    Engineering Workflow Management (EWM)

    Connect work items, tasks, issues, and development activities directly with documentation and structured artefacts inside ELM Wiki

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    Engineering Test Management (ETM)

    Link documentation with test artefacts to support traceability between requirements, validation activities, and quality processes

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    DOORS Next Generation (DNG)

    Link documentations, notes, design decisions, and blogs with requirements artifacts in DNG. Wiki flexibility is empowered with configuration management  of ELM

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    Rhapsody &
    Rhapsody SE

    Native Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) support enables standardised, bi-directional linking between engineering artefacts across tools and platforms.

    Cloud & Onsite deployment

    Select the deployment model that best fits your security and compliance needs.

    Deploy anywhere Saas, Amazon, Microsoft, or your local site (Docker).

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    SaaS

    Some of mentioned use cases can be run as IBM SaaS environment. 

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    Local

    Deployed via containerised installation within your on-premise or isolated environment.

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    Custom

    Environment can be deployed in any country on typical Cloud providers. It can be managed by our team or yours.

    Pricing

    The use cases mentioned are done in a tailored way for a client. The IBM use cases require an IBM AI Hub License. Some of the use cases are performed as service engagement. Please contact us with your use case in order to get more informations.

    Get In Touch

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    jan.jancar@softacus.com
    info@softacus.com

    Löwenstrasse 20 8001 Zürich Switzerland

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