IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager enhances the Rational solution for systems and software engineering by enabling you to visualize, analyze, and organize systems product engineering data coming from many tools. Engineering teams can get a better understanding of the relationships in that data to help make more effective and timely engineering decisions.

Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager uses Rational Jazz integration services to increase the visibility and value of engineering data.

It can help you do the following:

• Get faster, more complete answers to key engineering questions across the lifecycle. You can search and report on data across engineering disciplines, regardless of data source and location.
• Visualize and analyze engineering data and relationships in the context of user roles, product structure, development process, and project.
• Use views to navigate to specific engineering artifacts needed for a particular task, and open the artifacts in the tool that created the artifact.
• Analyze the impact of changes using visual and report-based representations of engineering artifacts and their relationships.
• Improve reuse of engineering artifacts and the components they represent.

Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager indexes engineering data and makes the data available through custom role, product, process, and project views while honoring the security access settings on the data that it indexes.

Compared to alternative integration techniques, this federated, indexed approach has the potential to simplify deployment time and effort as well as reduce the runtime impact on engineering tools and the teams using them.

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