IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager enables engineers to:

• Unlock engineering knowledge distributed across multiple tools to gain collective insight into the lifecycle data being managed.
• Collaborate across functional and tool boundaries, thereby breaking down traditional silos that inhibit product delivery efficiency.
• Experience an open, lightweight, incremental, and practical approach to integrating engineering information that stems from a variety of tools and vendors.

Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager key features include:

• Advanced visualization. Shows how engineering artifacts related to each other.
• Change impact analysis. Determines the work that must be done for this change request.
• Situational awareness. Determines the point as a particular task, activity or project is completed.
• Validity checking: Determines if the engineering information complete and related correctly.

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