Rational electronics industry solutions

Executives and managers at market-driven product organizations require a comprehensive product portfolio planning solution that focuses on making collaborative and objective investment decisions, while maintaining the ability to react rapidly to market changes; and deliver the highest possible business value. By utilizing unique road mapping and planning capabilities organizations can ensure than plans are innovative, valuable and achievable.

IBM® Rational® Focal Point™ provides a comprehensive decision support system for innovation and product portfolio management, helping executives and teams make the right decisions in order to deliver business, customer and market value.

IBM requirements engineering solutions help you manage your customer, marketplace, and system requirements and understand how they flow down to software, mechanical, and electrical sub-systems.

IBM Rational DOORS® is a family of requirements definition and requirements management solutions that improves quality by optimizing communication and collaboration and by promoting compliance and verification.

Model-driven systems development can help you manage complexity, lower costs, and reduce time to market. Models help teams communicate more effectively and can help you integrate and test your products much earlier in the development lifecycle.

IBM Rational Rhapsody® is a family of UML-based and SysML-based, model-driven development solutions for real-time or embedded systems.

Change can originate from a variety of sources throughout the product development lifecycle. With IBM integrated product change management solutions, you can manage changes no matter where they come from—software, electronics, mechanical, or elsewhere—and enable communication, collaboration, impact analysis, and tracking capabilities wherever and whenever necessary.

These anytime, anywhere change management capabilities reduce the time needed to propagate change information throughout the design team and facilitate a better understanding of how requirements and product changes can impact schedules.

Ensuring and managing quality throughout a product’s lifecycle—from concept to launch to retirement—is a multilayered problem that involves all engineering disciplines, manufacturing, and service-after-sales.

Increasingly, product developers are faced with quality issues arising from the growing amount of electronics. IBM Rational quality management solutions enable you to lower these costs by making quality management an integrated element in all development phases.

IBM Rational Quality Manager is a role-based, business-driven environment for test planning, workflow control, and metrics reporting.

IBM Rational systems development solutions enable you to coordinate distributed teams to define, build, manage, test, and deliver innovative products and systems more quickly and effectively.

Rational software provides comprehensive, integrated support across the systems development and delivery lifecycle.