IBM Rational solutions for automotive

Deliver new capabilities while managing complexity

Whether you are an automotive manufacturer and OEM, Tier-1 or Tier-2 supplier, or system integrator from the extended automotive eco-system offering telematics services, Rational software helps you to address today's major challenges in automotive product and system engineering.

IBM Rational software helps you address:

• High engineering costs within complex distributed electric and electronic engineering supply chains
• Risk of quality issues combined with reduced time to market
• Achieving compliance with ISO 26262 for safety-related electric and electronic systems
• Pressure to migrate to standard platforms like AUTOSAR or Genivi
• Demonstrating system and software engineering maturity through Automotive SPICE and CMMI

Streamline product and system engineering

Focusing on electric and electronic (E/E) engineering data and process management, Rational software enables you to effectively manage the entire engineering and product lifecycle with an open, scalable, and extensible platform based on Jazz and OSLC. Rational enables embedded in-vehicle software development for the various electronic control units (ECUs), as well as the management of the increasing car-environment connectivity, including IT-based backend systems.

• Brochure: Automotive electric and electronic engineering life-cycle management (PDF, 377KB)
• Podcast: ISO 26262 - How to manage functional safety in automotive E/E development? (MP3, 00:15:23, 14.1MB), podcast transcript (PDF, 25KB)
• Executive Brief: Automotive engineering lifecycle management solution
• Whitepaper: Evolution of automotive system requirements

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