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.

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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

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Key benefits from deploying in the Cloud

Speed

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Solution Expertise

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Scalability

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Lower cost

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Improved responsiveness

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Optimized resources

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Better use of development skills

Feature	DNG Analyst	DNG Contributor	EWM Developer	EWM Plan & Track	ETM Professional	ETM Contributor	ELM Practitioner	ELM Practitioner Extended
Feature Description Requirements Artifacts	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-eye	fas fa-eye	fas fa-eye	*	fas fa-eye	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle
Feature Description Test Artifacts	fas fa-eye	fas fa-eye	fas fa-eye	fas fa-eye	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-eye	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle
Feature Description Work Item Management	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle
Feature Description Planning: agile, formal, SAFe	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle
Feature Description Source Code Management	fas fa-eye	fas fa-eye	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-eye	fas fa-eye	fas fa-eye	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle
Feature Description Build Management	fas fa-eye	fas fa-eye	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-eye	fas fa-eye	fas fa-eye	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle
Feature Description Reviews and approvals	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle
Feature Description Design Management***	fas fa-eye	fas fa-eye	fas fa-eye	fas fa-eye	fas fa-eye	fas fa-eye	fas fa-eye	fas fa-check-circle
Feature Description Comment	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle
Feature Description View artifacts across ELM Platform	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle
Feature Description Dashboards, Reporting & KPIs	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle
Feature Description Global Configuration Management**	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle	fas fa-check-circle
Feature Description Engeneering Insights	fas fa-eye	fas fa-eye	fas fa-eye	fas fa-eye	fas fa-eye	fas fa-eye	fas fa-eye	fas fa-check-circle

*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.