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 - Product line engineering

• Rational ClearCase  | Trials and Demos (US)
• Rational ClearCase Change Management Solution
• Rational ClearCase Change Management Solution Enterprise Edition
• Rational ClearCase MultiSite
• Rational ClearQuest MultiSite  | Trials and Demos (US)

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  Rational Focal Point

  Evaluate investment scenarios to align product, project, and application portfolio decisions with the overall business value.

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  Rational Team Concert

  Provides agile and formal planning, source code management, work item management, build management, and project health.

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  Rational DOORS

  Requirements management and definition using a collaborative approach, that enables stakeholders and IT teams anywhere in the world to provide input, gain clarity, better achieve consensus, and adapt to changes more quickly.

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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.