Main capabilities:

• Built on the Jazz Platform, Rational Rhapsody Design Manager enables teams to store, share and manage designs and models in a central location.
• Easily access information though a web client for extended stakeholders such as suppliers, customers, or contractors to facilitate team collaboration and an agile development process.
• Collaborate on designs with stakeholders from other teams for design correctness, alignment with requirements, feasibility, and compliance to organizational standards.
• Search across multiple designs to quickly locate key information for easier review, analysis and reuse of existing design.
• Develop in real time with text comments and graphically diagram mark ups view from desktop clients.
• Automate design reviews with stakeholders to facilitate communication of requirements.
• Create links to other designs and lifecycle data such as work items in Rational Team Concert via Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) to provide design traceability.
• Analyze impact and dependencies with relationship diagram to visually explore relationships to other designs, design elements, and lifecycle data.
• Keep informed with customizable dashboards providing live status of latest design activities
• Generate comprehensive documentation and reports using Rational Publishing Engine to automate documentation generation.
• Author and publish designs with the Rational Rhapsody family.