Solution Description

• Perform impact analysis across the entire lifecycle, regardless of where the information is stored and managed
• Interact with impact analysis results to filter and hide irrelevant information and organize displayed results to focus on information most important and relevant to the task at hand

Symptoms

The following symptoms indicate a need for improvement in impact evaluation:

• Need to log in to multiple tools/repositories to perform impact analysis across multiple levels/tools/domains
• Inconsistent impact analysis capabilities provided in each tool
• Static reports are the only mechanism that can be used to visualize traceability and impact across multiple levels and don’t provide the interactive capabilities necessary to organize and filter the results on demand
• Reports are slow to generate (against live data sources), or have a higher than acceptable latency (against a data warehouse)

Tools

• IBM® Rational® Engineering Lifecycle Management

With support from:

• IBM® Rational® Team Concert®
• IBM® Rational® DOORS
• IBM® Rational® Rhapsody
• IBM® Rational® Quality Manager®  

Solution Benefits by business objective     

• The primary focus is to improve Quality and increase Value by:
  • Enable reaction to change with confidence in a timely manner
  • Increase time spent on analysis of information and other productive engineering tasks