Whether you are an automotive manufacturer and OEM, whether you are a Tier-1 or Tier-2 supplier or whether you are a system integrator from the extended automotive eco-system offering telematics services or alike, Rational software helps you to address today's major challenges in automotive product and system engineering. Rational software helps you address:
High engineering costs within complex distributed E/E engineering supply chains
Risk of quality issues combined with reduced time to market
Achieving compliance with ISO 26262 for safety related E/E 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 back-end systems.
- Brochure: Automotive electric and electronic engineering life-cycle management (PDF, 377KB)
- Solution Brief: Managing AUTOSAR development with IBM Rational software (PDF, 242KB)
- Solution Brief: Model-driven solutions for timing analysis and validation (PDF, 315KB)
- Podcast: ISO 26262 - How to manage functional safety in automotive E/E development? (MP3, 14.1MB)
Visit our special offering for the small and medium businesses automotive suppliers and our new INCHRON-based solutions for timing- and performance analysis.
Where Rational products help you
IBM Rational Focal Point for product portfolio management
IBM Rational DOORS for requirements engineering supporting RIF for OEM-supplier requirements exchange
IBM Rational Rhapsody for model driven systems engineering and embedded software development including AUTOSAR support
IBM Rational Team Concert for collaboration, workflow, and configuration management
IBM Rational Asset Manager for asset-based E/E engineering data management
IBM Rational Quality Manager for test planning, execution, and tracking
IBM Rational Method Composer for E/E process definition and management including ISO 26262 process templates
IBM Rational Publishing Engine for automated document generation
Webcast
Dr. Dobb's Webcast: Improving the collaboration within automotive E/E engineering projects
Master performance
Master the timing and performance of your system Model-based Development of Automotive Realtime Embedded Systems
Customer success stories
Delphi unites global teams for more cost-effective component reuse with Rational DOORS
Volkswagen IT divisions accelerate process improvement
Highlights
The Chevrolet Volt: IBM Rational software helps GM deliver smarter products
