IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management – new names!

Last week, IBM announced new names for the IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) and Continuous Engineering (CE) offerings and the products they encompass.

For reference, here are the new names and acronyms, and the product names/acronyms they replace:

  • IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) – formerly CLM and CE, spelled out above
  • IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Family (DOORS) – formerly Rational DOORS
  • IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next (DOORS Next) – formerly Rational DOORS Next Generation (DNG)
  • IBM Engineering Requirements Quality Assistant (RQA) – formerly IBM Requirements Quality Assistant (RQA)
  • IBM Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) – formerly Rational Team Concert (RTC)
  • IBM Engineering Test Management (ETM) – formerly Rational Quality Manager (RQM)
  • IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody (Rhapsody) – formerly Rational Rhapsody
  • IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody – Design Manager (RDM) – formerly Rational Design Manager (RDM)
  • IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody – Model Manager (RMM) – formerly Rational Model Manager (RMM)
  • IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization (ELO) – new umbrella name for offerings that surround and extend ELM
  • IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Engineering Insights (ENI) – formerly Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager (RELM)
  • IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Publishing (PUB) – formerly Rational Publishing Engine (RPE)
  • IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Method Composer (MEC) – formerly Rational Method Composer (RMC)
  • IBM Engineering Lifeycle Optimization – Integration Adapters (IA-product) – formerly Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters (RLIA for product)

You’ll start see these names in marketing information and other collateral; the product user interfaces will reflect the new names in releases after 6.0.6.1. There is no change to the names of the applications within ELM (like Report Builder, Global Configuration Management, Quality Management, and so on).

Some of the names are a trifle long. Usually in articles and blog posts, we introduce products by their full names first, and then their short names. To improve readability in my future posts, I plan to refer back to this one for full names and acronyms.