IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management Base SaaS
Leading solution for managing product and software development
Features
- Iteration Planning and Project Transparency
- Work Item, Source Code and Build Management
- Traceability between requirements and other lifecycle artifacts
- Built on Jazz technology allowing integration with other lifecycle tools
- Manage Test Plans, Cases, Scripts, Environments, and Results
- Powerful self-service reporting
- Built-in manual test capability, execute both online and offline
- Integration with IBM, open-source and competitive automated test tools
- Record, structure, manage and analyze requirements and traceability
- A flexible, up-to-date, easy-to-use requirements traceability matrix
Why ELM?
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) is the leading platform for today’s complex product and software development. ELM extends the functionality of standard ALM tools, providing an integrated, end-to-end solution that offers full transparency and traceability across all engineering data. From requirements through testing and deployment, ELM optimizes collaboration and communication across all stakeholders, improving decision- making, productivity and overall product quality.
Features
- Manage Test Plans, Cases, Scripts, Environments, and Results
- Built-in manual test capability, execute both online and offline
- Integration with IBM, open-source and competitive automated test tools
- Record, structure, manage and analyze requirements and traceability
- A flexible, up-to-date, easy-to-use requirements traceability matrix
- Iteration Planning and Project Transparency
- Work Item, Source Code and Build Management
- Powerful self-service reporting
- Built on Jazz technology allowing integration with other lifecycle tools
- Traceability between requirements and other lifecycle artifacts
Benefits
- Easily demonstrate compliance
- Open and vibrant Jazz user community
- Execution of agile or formal projects
- Facilitates planning
- Helps improve productivity with advanced source control
- Quickly identify gaps in test coverage
- Provides high visibility into project activities and team progress
- Improve collaboration across Systems and software engineering teams
- Increase traceability and visibility of changes across the product lifecycle
- Enhances team collaboration with integrated features
- Faster impact assessment of proposed requirements changes and better quality
Key benefits from deploying in the Cloud
Speed
Solution Expertise
Scalability
Lower cost
Improved responsiveness
Optimized resources
Better use of development skills
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*The Quality Professional license allows you to create requirements and requirement collections, but the following operations require an Analyst license:
- Creating custom requirement types in the Requirements Management application
- Creating and editing project and artifact templates for requirements
- Creating and editing most graphical requirements artifacts such as screen flows, user interface sketches, and use case diagrams
- Modifying project types
- Creating project snapshots
- Migrating Rational RequisitePro projects to the Requirements Management application
- Creating link types
** IBM Enterprise Tier functionalities are necessary to work in Global Configuration Management. The Cloud is delivered in 2 Tiers, the Professional Tier, and the Enterprise Tier. For Professional Tier you need to have at least 5-100 Unique/Authorized Users or 5-40 Concurrent Users. For the Enterprise Tier, you need to have over 100 Unique/Authorized Users or over 40 Concurrent Users.
***Design Management provides storage of the models, however, you need to purchase a Rhapsody license additionally.
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