Engineering Lifecycle Management has always been about connecting engineering work: requirements to tests, changes to configurations, and engineering decisions to the artifacts and processes that follow. IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management Suite – AI Edition helps make these connections and engineering artifacts available for AI-assisted engineering. It enables a foundation for AI to work with engineering […]

As organizations move from experimenting with AI to operationalizing it across engineering teams, the focus increasingly shifts from individual AI features to the platform capabilities that make AI trusted, secure, and scalable. With IBM Engineering AI Hub 1.3, generally available from June 18, 2026, we continue building that enterprise foundation. This release expands the platform […]

I am super excited to share a new blog post by Daniel Moul that walks you through our focus for the first wave of AI-powered automation for the ELM products. The blog introduces the Requirements Intelligence Assistant that is intended to help answer questions about your module in DOORS Next. The Assistant sits next to […]

This announcement is for teams with Enterprise deployments of IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) on Cloud that have not yet upgraded to ELM 7.0.3.  Currently, we are operating on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 under an extended support contract that will expire before 2H 2025. To ensure continued service and maintain secure deployments, we […]

I am happy to share with you that some of the most frequently requested enhancements have made their way into the new IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next v7.1 release. And certainly, the most requested feature by far is the ability to create more complex filters on modules using Boolean operators, such as AND and […]

As mentioned by Daniel Moul in his “Coming soon: IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management V7.0.3” blog post, we have focused our enhancements across ELM in five categories. For this upcoming DOORS Next V7.0.3 release, we have specifically concentrated our efforts on mainly two of those categories: user productivity and operating at scale. First, I am very […]

IBM Rational Quality Assistant (RQA) 3.1.x is the most recent version of IBM’s tool for improving the quality of your organization’s requirements. RQA integrates with IBM DOORS Next and IBM DOORS 9 to score your requirements based on criteria consistent with the INCOSE Guide for Writing Requirements. RQA pre-trained IBM Watson AI to detect 10 […]

DOORS Next 7.0.2 brings together two themes, Usability & Consistency over ELM and reporting over requirements versions. Usability & Consistency over Engineering Lifecycle Management: Making use of traceability for change impact analysis and reporting Simplified linking: drag-drop or copy-paste links within and between requirements, tests, and work items Consistent selection of Users with an updated […]

We are proud and excited to announce the general availability of the IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) 7.0.2 solution on Jazz.net! Keep your eyes peeled for upcoming blog posts highlighting the latest features included in ELM 7.0.2, including both cross-cutting and product-specific features.  To get a small taste of the changes, take a look at […]

In today’s ‘new normal’, organizations are being forced to innovate their engineering processes — how they operate and deliver. Organizations understand that this transformation requires a truly agile enterprise that efficiently and effectively adopts Agile@Scale. By now most organizations that have tried to scale agile across the enterprise know that having agile development teams or […]