IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management

Accelerate innovation while maintaining compliance throughout the development lifecycle
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Simplifying the deployment and administration of the IBM ELM, Tue, Jun 3, 2025 11:00 AM EDT

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Connect engineering data, tools and teams

IBM® Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) is an end-to-end engineering solution with powerful systems and software modeling, that improves collaboration and guides you from requirements to delivery of complex products and systems.

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Insights and reporting

Generate documents from IBM Engineering products and other vendors that use XML and REST interfaces with an automated document generation solution.

 Integration hub

Extend application lifecycle management with integrations to third-party tools.

 Process governance

Extending the capabilities of IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management to further enhance and optimize your systems and software development environment.

 Requirements management

Capture, trace, analyze and manage changes to requirements with a scalable solution that optimizes communication across your development team and stakeholders.

 Systems and software modeling

Analyze and elaborate requirements through prototypes, simulations and verification of validated designs while facilitating improved productivity and quality.

 SysML V2 systems modeling

Turn complexity into a competitive advantage with next-generation system modeling.

 Test management

Collaboratively manage end-to-end test planning and testing of assets. Automate test execution, record test results and view realtime test status.

 Workflow management

Create and manage work plans, sprints and tasks across multiple development projects by using agile, SAFe or custom processes to enable faster release cycles.

Features

Simplify with digital thread

The IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management products harness a digital foundation (digital thread) to establish traceability across the development environment that not only provides a single view of all data, but also leverages an industry-standard, open exchange format of Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC).

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Shorten time to market This feature enables reuse of requirements, design data and processes, supporting the delivery of multiple product versions. It helps teams build more sophisticated, software-intensive systems and systems of systems.
Enhance decision making Use your Digital Thread relationships among requirements, designs, tests, etc. to understand the implications of potential changes. Lower your costs and improve your confidence when doing change management. Use interactive analysis tools, visualizations of your engineering knowledge graph, and create reports on the web and in documents using common formats.
Streamline compliance ELM tools integrate industry standards and regulatory requirements into development process, streamlining change management from requirements to testing. This approach helps ensure compliance and allows thorough impact assessment of changes. This streamlines the entire change management process, encompassing everything from requirements to testing and ensures compliance is achieved and maintained, while also allowing for a thorough assessment of the impact of any changes
Improve team efficiency ELM supports collaborative development, connecting all functions and geographically dispersed teams. It helps ensure seamless coordination, effective communication and efficient project tracking, regardless of location or size.
Accelerate delivery with agile systems engineering ELM empowers agility at scale, supporting SAFe for streamlined planning, faster time-to-market and accelerated workflow across both systems and software. It provides visual data for actionable insights, leading to more predictable delivery outcomes. Read the solution brief
Simplify with digital thread

The IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management products harness a digital foundation (digital thread) to establish traceability across the development environment that not only provides a single view of all data, but also leverages an industry-standard, open exchange format of Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC).

 Watch the demo (2:22)
Shorten time to market This feature enables reuse of requirements, design data and processes, supporting the delivery of multiple product versions. It helps teams build more sophisticated, software-intensive systems and systems of systems.
Enhance decision making Use your Digital Thread relationships among requirements, designs, tests, etc. to understand the implications of potential changes. Lower your costs and improve your confidence when doing change management. Use interactive analysis tools, visualizations of your engineering knowledge graph, and create reports on the web and in documents using common formats.
Streamline compliance ELM tools integrate industry standards and regulatory requirements into development process, streamlining change management from requirements to testing. This approach helps ensure compliance and allows thorough impact assessment of changes. This streamlines the entire change management process, encompassing everything from requirements to testing and ensures compliance is achieved and maintained, while also allowing for a thorough assessment of the impact of any changes
Improve team efficiency ELM supports collaborative development, connecting all functions and geographically dispersed teams. It helps ensure seamless coordination, effective communication and efficient project tracking, regardless of location or size.
Accelerate delivery with agile systems engineering ELM empowers agility at scale, supporting SAFe for streamlined planning, faster time-to-market and accelerated workflow across both systems and software. It provides visual data for actionable insights, leading to more predictable delivery outcomes. Read the solution brief

A solution for your industry

From aerospace and defense to finance, automotive and public infrastructure. Engineering lifecycle management empowers users across industries to coordinate maintenance and management for a broad range of asset classes.
Air Force Institute of Technology

Collecting real-time strategic intelligence about these and other fast-moving situations has always been a priority and a challenge for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
BURY

The global automotive market is pivoting rapidly to the design, development, and manufacture of electric vehicles to satisfy consumer demand for sustainable transportation – and, of course, to meet increasingly stringent emission controls.
Danske Bank

The application and systems landscape at Danske Bank is highly dynamic, as the competitive market drives a need to continually launch new services.

Rail Projects Victoria

The Metro Tunnel Project will transform Melbourne’s rail network. How can RPV manage the thousands of requirements of this AUD 11 billion initiative and deliver it on time and on budget?
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