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IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization: Publishing

Specifications, traceability matrices and compliance documents generated from ELM data with reusable templates.

Overview

What is IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Publishing?

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Publishing, formerly IBM Rational Publishing Engine (RPE), generates specifications, test reports and traceability matrices from engineering data.

You design a template once and generate Word, PDF, HTML or XSL‑FO output from it for every baseline. One document can combine data from IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS and DOORS Next, IBM Engineering Rhapsody, IBM Engineering Workflow Management and IBM Engineering Test Management.

Document Builder runs generation on the server, so anyone can produce a report from the browser on a schedule or on demand.

Templates import Word layouts, apply your style sheets and add scripts for logic, so each document looks the way a customer or regulator expects. XML and REST data sources bring in third-party applications too. Existing Rational Publishing Engine templates keep working after the upgrade, and DXL exports from DOORS 9 can move to Publishing templates.

Your starting point

Where is your team starting from?

Find the line closest to your team. Each one shows what changes with Publishing.

Common starting points

  • Until now: Specifications copied into Word by hand
    With Publishing: Documents generated from the source data
  • Until now: A day of formatting before every review
    With Publishing: Templates with your style applied every time
  • Until now: Traceability matrix built in Excel
    With Publishing: Traceability matrix generated across tools
  • Until now: Branding errors, wrong legal text and format inconsistencies in manual documents
    With Publishing: Templates with your style applied every time

As your programme grows

  • Until now: One export per tool, merged by hand
    With Publishing: One document from several sources
  • Until now: Reports produced by one expert
    With Publishing: Document Builder for everyone, in the browser
  • Until now: Outdated documents after each change
    With Publishing: Regenerated for every baseline

Already on Publishing

  • Until now: Servers to install and patch
    With Publishing: IBM SaaS or hosting by SmarterProcess
  • Until now: Licences bought years ago, never reviewed
    With Publishing: A licence mix sized from real usage

Capabilities

What your team can do with Publishing

Templates that meet any style requirement

Customers, regulators and partners impose formats. Publishing templates import Word layouts, apply your style sheets and add scripts for logic, so every document looks the way the reader expects.

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Publishing

Multi-source documents

Combine DOORS, DOORS Next, Rhapsody, EWM and ETM data in one report. Typical documents: specifications, compliance documents and traceability reports.

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Publishing

Many output formats

Word, PDF, HTML and XSL‑FO from one template.

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Publishing

Traceability matrix

Document relationships between requirements, tests and designs.

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Publishing

XML and REST data sources

Report on third-party applications too.

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Publishing

Document Builder

Schedule and run reports on the server, from the browser.

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Publishing

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See Publishing before your first demo

Welcome page

01Welcome

Starter templates for each tool.

Word template import

02Word template

Start from your Word layout.

Script expression

03Scripts

Logic and formatting in JavaScript.

Output formats

04Outputs

Word, PDF, HTML at once.

Generated document

05Document

A generated document with data from several tools.

Document Builder

06Document Builder

Templates, stylesheets and schedules managed in the browser.

Compliance

Evidence for the standard your assessor uses

What each standard asks for, and what Publishing gives you to show it.

Automotive

ISO 26262 · ASPICE
  • Evidence that the cybersecurity management system is applied

    Evidence documents generated from live IBM ELM dataUN R155

Aerospace & Defence

DO-178C · DO-254 · ARP4754B
  • Trace data for the certification package

    Traceability matrices generated from DOORS Next, Rhapsody and Test Management dataDO-178C 5.5, 11.21

Medical Devices

IEC 62304 · ISO 14971
  • Technical documentation for each safety and performance requirement

    Documents generated from a baseline, with requirements linked to evidenceEU MDR, Annexes I and II

Railway

EN 50716 · EN 50126
  • A structured safety case with evidence

    Safety case documents generated from hazards, requirements and test results in a frozen baselineEN 50129
Where it fits

Documents from the whole IBM ELM digital thread

Integrations

Microsoft Word, PDF, HTML, XSL‑FO

Output formats.

XML and REST

Third-party data.

Document Builder

Generation on the server.

Global configurations

Documents per baseline.

Trusted in regulated industries

Our CustomersCustomers and Partners

Our clients build products under strict standards and regular audits. We supply licences, implementation, hosting and training.

Our clients build products under strict standards and regular audits. We supply licences, implementation, hosting and training.

Our Partners

We are a partner and reseller of these technology providers.

FAQ

Questions we hear before a Publishing project

Who needs a Publishing licence?

Template designers and users who generate documents need licences; IBM tokens can cover them together with other ELM products. We size the mix from who designs and who only runs reports.

Is Publishing the same as Rational Publishing Engine?

Yes. IBM Rational Publishing Engine (RPE) was renamed IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Publishing. Existing RPE templates keep working after the upgrade.

Which tools can Publishing read from?

IBM DOORS, DOORS Next, Rhapsody, Rhapsody Model Manager, Workflow Management and Test Management, plus third-party data through XML and REST.

Can you build the templates for us?

Yes. Our report development service designs templates to your format, tests them on your data and maintains them after upgrades.

What is Document Builder?

The web part of Publishing. It stores templates on the server and lets anyone generate or schedule documents from the browser.

We generate documents with DXL in DOORS 9. What changes in DOORS Next?

DXL does not exist in DOORS Next, so DXL exports move to Publishing templates. For other DXL features we have SmarterWidgets 2.0, ready-made widgets for DOORS Next.

What is the difference between a report and a document?

Engineering intelligence answers questions about status and trends, through interactive web reports, charts and graphs. Document generation produces the work product itself: highly formatted documents that demonstrate compliance and communicate across contractual boundaries. Publishing does the second; Jazz Reporting Service does the first.

What is the difference between Engineering Document Generation and Publishing?

Engineering Document Generation is the reusable reporting component included with various IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management products. It gives you a subset of Publishing: out-of-the-box documents shipped with the product. Authoring your own custom documents requires Publishing.

What is new in Publishing 7.2?

Publishing 7.2: custom themes for Document Builder, with CSS, HTML and JavaScript that you upload, preview and activate. Images and tables from ELM applications placed as notes in Excel output, so tables stay in the right columns. Checkboxes and filterable drop-down lists for report variables. Optional validation of server certificates during generation.

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