Delivering efficiencies in design, development and deployment

Product line engineering (PLE) helps you design, develop, deliver, and evolve a portfolio of similar products, with variations in features and functions, through each stage of the systems and software development lifecycle from requirements to design, development and testing.

Product line engineering can help you:

• Align engineering resources with business objectives to ensure efforts are focused on the most profitable features and functions
• Manage increased product diversity without a corresponding increase in resources
• Improve productivity and efficiency and reduce per-product development cost, resulting in higher profit margins
• Reduce time to market for new and updated products, while increasing agility to help you react to new opportunities and changing market conditions
• Increase product quality and improve risk management

IBM Rational and BigLever Software™ have teamed to provide a comprehensive product line engineering solution. Built upon the IBM solution for systems and software engineering and the BigLever (link resides outside of ibm.com) Gears software product line lifecycle framework, the solution combines industry leading technology, processes and best practices.

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  IBM Rational solution for systems and software engineering

  A systems lifecycle management solution comprising IBM development tools, proven best practices, and flexible deployment services to help you optimize complex and embedded systems and software delivery.

All products - Real-time and embedded software development

• High Level Assembler and Toolkit Feature
• IBM Real-Time Asset Locator for Healthcare
• Mathematical Acceleration Subsystem
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  • for AIX | Trials and Demos (US)
  • for Blue Gene | Trials and Demos (US)
• Mathematical Acceleration Subsystem family - Overview
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  • Mathematical Acceleration Subsystem for Blue Gene | Trials and Demos (US)
• Rational Ada Developer family
• Rational DOORS family - Overview
  • DOORS | Trials and Demos (US)
  • Next Generation
  • Web Access | Trials and Demos (US)
• Rational Quality Manager  | Trials and Demos (US)
• Rational Rhapsody family - Overview
  • Architect for Software | Trials and Demos (US)
  • Rational Rhapsody Design Manager
• Rational Rose family
  • Developer for Java
  • Modeler
  • Technical Developer
• Rational SDL Suite
• Rational Statemate
• Rational Systems Tester
• Rational Tau
• Rational Test RealTime
• Rational TTCN Suite
• XML Toolkit for z/OS

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  Rational Team Concert

  Integrate planning and execution, automate workflows, and manage change across diverse engineering disciplines and development teams

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  Rational DOORS

  Solicit, engineer, document and trace requirements throughout the product lifecycle

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  Rational Rhapsody

  Validate requirements, develop architectures and design real-time and embedded software using visual modeling

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  Rational Quality Manager

  Optimize quality through collaborative planning, automated testing, and defect management.

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  Rational ClearCase

  Comprehensive software configuration management for any size project.

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  Rational Synergy

  Task-based configuration management for flexibility and control of release content.

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  Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager

  Visualize, analyze and organize engineering data for better decision making