Full Visibility. Rapid Innovation. Real Time Insights.

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) is a comprehensive end-to-end engineering solution that stands at the forefront of the market, seamlessly guiding you from requirements to systems design, workflow, and test management, extending the functionality of ALM tools for better complex-systems development.

• By adopting an end-to-end view across the entire product lifecycle and enabling a digital foundation for data traceability, you can more easily track changes to minimize risk and reduce costs.
• Conquer complexity from design to execution, unite teams through digital thread, and leverage modeling and reuse.
• Harness insights from automated reporting and confidently operate at scale, laying the foundation for innovation.
• Leverage a set of seamlessly integrated tools that work together as one.

Features

• **Accelerate delivery with agile systems engineering: **ELM empowers agility at scale, supporting SAFe for streamlined planning, faster time-to-market, and accelerated work flow throughout the entire value stream. This transformative approach extends across both systems and software delivery, enabling agility at all levels within the enterprise. Furthermore, our solution provides visualized data that translates into actionable insights, leading to more predictable delivery outcomes.
• **Shorten time to market: **This feature supports reuse of requirements, design data and processes to support delivery of multiple product versions and variants enabling teams build more sophisticated, more software-intensive, smarter systems and systems-of-systems.
• **Speed up decision making: **Our approach utilizes SysML to harness the power of visual modeling, simulation, and testing for architectures and designs. This empowers organizations to optimize their designs early in the development process. Additionally, our solution offers customizable reporting and dashboards, providing tailored insights. By leveraging data analysis capabilities, it facilitates more informed decision-making.
• **Streamline compliance: **Our tools seamlessly integrate industry standards and regulatory requirements into the development process. It not only supports but also streamlines the entire change management process, encompassing everything from requirements to testing. This comprehensive approach ensures that compliance is achieved and maintained while also allowing for a thorough assessment of the impact of any changes made along the way.
• **Improve team efficiency: **ELM facilitates collaborative team development, bridging the gap across all development functions and even geographically dispersed teams. This robust capability ensures seamless coordination, fosters effective communication, and enables efficient tracking of project progress, regardless of team location or size.
• **Developer tooling: **Get the tools you need for modeling, developing, and testing APIs — and then publishing them to IBM API Connect.