The tool is designed to help teams make effective and timely engineering decisions, improve reuse of engineering data, and assist teams with their compliance with standards obligations. This functionality employs a linked lifecycle data approach to cross-tool and cross-domain relationships. A near real-time index of the Linked Lifecycle Data is built from source tools including Rational DOORS®, Rational Rhapsody® Design Manager, Rational Team Concert™ and Rational Quality Manager. The result is the delivery of cross-domain views, impact analysis, and the ability to group the data into product and system structures.
The open architecture means that additional data sources, such as electronic engineering data, can be integrated by partners.