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What is IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM)?

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) is a comprehensive end-to-end engineering solution that stands at the forefront of the market, seamlessly guiding you from Requirements to Systems Design, Workflow, and Test Management. Conquer complexity from design to execution, unite teams through Digital Thread, harness insights from automated Reporting, and confidently operate at scale laying the foundation for innovation.

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IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) is a comprehensive end-to-end engineering solution that stands at the forefront of the market, seamlessly guiding you from Requirements to Systems Design, Workflow, and Test Management. Conquer complexity from design to execution, unite teams through Digital Thread, harness insights from automated Reporting, and confidently operate at scale laying the foundation for innovation.


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6 months

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34 months

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13%

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What do you like best about IBM Engineering Workflow Management?

BM Engineering Workflow Management (formerly RTC) offers powerful end-to-end lifecycle management. It shines in large-scale, regulated environments where traceability, process enforcement, and integration with systems like DOORS and Rhapsody are crucial. The process templates and role-based access controls are highly customizable, and the Jazz platform enables strong collaboration between devs, testers, and analysts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Engineering Workflow Management?

The UI feels outdated compared to modern Agile tools like Jira. Performance can lag when handling large repositories, especially on web clients. Setup and onboarding require expertise, and there's a steep learning curve for teams not familiar with Jazz architecture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Engineering Workflow Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

We're using EWM to manage development across multiple teams in a highly regulated industry. It helps ensure compliance through enforced workflows, audit trails, and tight integration with requirements and test management tools. This has significantly improved traceability and reduced audit risk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Engineering Workflow Management?

Lot of options

Synchronization with multiple softwares like Microsoft outlook, Gerrit and Microsoft SharePoint

Very lite tool

Query option to filter

Dashboard to analyse and track multiple bugs, story and tasks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Engineering Workflow Management?

Very worst UI

Need a lot of learning to expertise all the features

Difficult to understand

Cannot edit or correct the comments once added Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Engineering Workflow Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

Handle all project stories, tasks, impediment and bugs in one place.

Dashboard to avoid untracking or missing of any bugs or features.

Set priorities to all the bugs and tasks to complete important issues first. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

DOORS Next provides a very flexible publishing capabilit that allows us to store and link our data and then transform the data into customer deliverable documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

The inability to create views with multi level tracing. Being forced to go to the RS to create these views is cumbersome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is giving us strong tracability and document publishing capability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alessandra Andrade of IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next

It's great to hear that DOORS Next is providing strong traceability and document publishing capabilities for your needs. We're committed to continuously improving our product to better serve you.

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What do you like best about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

It has been of great help to our organisation some key aspects of ot are -

Gives overall view of SDLC

Highly Scalable

Moderate Cost Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

Implementation can be a challenge if you dont have the experts.

Can take some time for the team to adapt Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is helping the team in collaboration and cordernation of work. Everything is well captured in the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alessandra Andrade of IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next
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It's great to hear that IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next is helping your organization. We are continuously working to make the implementation better.

Darsh J.
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What do you like best about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next allowed me to coordinate better with my team and improve the Turn Around Time by avoiding miscommunications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

The learning curve as well as awareness is a tad bit low Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a blockchain engineer, the complexities while developing has always been high and with the increased number of users, the problem only ever got worse. The product solved by helping me maintain changes and track them efficiently along with its wide range of tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alessandra Andrade of IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next

Thank you for sharing your positive experience with IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next. We appreciate your feedback about the learning curve and awareness, and we will take this into consideration for future improvements.

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What do you like best about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

DOORS is commonly used in industries such as aerospace, automotive, defense, and other domains where compliance with standards and regulations is essential. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

cost and limited collaborative features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next solving and how is that benefiting you?

IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS offers powerful capabilities for requirements management in complex engineering projects, organizations should carefully evaluate its suitability for their specific needs and consider potential challenges and limitations before adoption. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alessandra Andrade of IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next
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It's great to hear that IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS is solving problems in complex projects.

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What do you like best about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

I like so many things about ELM; as an employee at a large government agency, CLM has brought order to chaos, allowing leadership to get an overall picture of the SDLC. It provides traceability that is imperative to have in a regulate environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

It has a steep learning curve and can do so much which can be overwhelming for users who have never worked with an ELM tool before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next solving and how is that benefiting you?

Traceability which is key in a government agency that depends upon grant money, audits, and being able to get an overall picture of what is being accomplished. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alessandra Andrade of IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next

We appreciate your feedback on the benefits of IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next for your government agency. We recognize the importance of traceability in a regulated environment and are dedicated to enhancing the user experience to make the tool more accessible for all users.

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What do you like best about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

IBM ERM is a tool that allows for managing the traceability of requirements from various technical specifications. Its integration within the ELM provides complete traceability with all the information related to the V-cycle of complex systems. Moreover, thanks to its web interface, collaboration among team members is improved and facilitated. This ensures that the latest project information is available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

IBM ERM is still a young tool that requires some adjustments to be "perfect." Nevertheless, the roadmap is clear and the IBM development teams are taking feedback into account to enhance the tool's capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next solving and how is that benefiting you?

IBM ERM allows solving the digital continuity issues that exist between specification, design, implementation, and testing data. Moreover, it facilitates the drafting of requirements within a connected platform available via the web, which eases its deployment within a company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alessandra Andrade of IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next

Thank you for sharing your opinion. We are always trying to improve our tools. I hope you will enjoy the new versions.

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What do you like best about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

This provides us the capability to expand and customize according to our requirements for testing. They also have great customer support to help with issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

Latency is an issue that we have faced many times and plus its a little on expensive side if you need all add ons. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next solving and how is that benefiting you?

It provide one single platform to for everyone to get to better decisions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alessandra Andrade of IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next

It's great to hear that our tools have been effective and helpful for managing, conveying, and tracking requirements. We're glad to be a part of your daily operations.

You can always contact our support team to help with any kind of problem.

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What do you like best about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

Customizable, configuration management, integration with other engineering artifacts, openness Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next?

Admin functions (permissions management, copy of views, etc.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next solving and how is that benefiting you?

Collaborative engineering, configuration management, KPIs, requirements flowdown Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alessandra Andrade of IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next

We're glad to hear that you appreciate the customizable and configuration management features of IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next. We will pass this feedback along to our development team for consideration.