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IBM Engineering AI Hub

Put AI agents to work on requirements, work items, tests and models, inside the permissions and audit trail your programme already relies on.

Overview

What is IBM Engineering AI Hub?

IBM Engineering AI Hub is the AI platform for IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM). It brings AI into the tools where engineering work already happens, with the controls you need to use it across teams and programmes.

Specialist AI agents help engineers write better requirements, catch up on long work items, draft test cases and start system models. Each agent works with live project data in IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next, IBM Engineering Workflow Management, IBM Engineering Test Management and IBM Engineering Rhapsody, not with copies pasted into a chat window.

Governed MCP tools let your own AI assistants and IDEs search, analyse and update ELM data under the same role-based permissions your teams use today.

Engineers review what AI produces before it changes an artifact, and every AI interaction is recorded. You decide where it runs, in the cloud, on premises or air-gapped, and which model provider it uses.

Administrators choose the agents, MCP tools and endpoints on offer. Usage reports show adoption by period and unique users, and rate limits keep use fair as it grows. Agent activity and tool calls stay on record too, and changes trace back to the artifacts they touched.

Your starting point

Where is your team starting from?

Find the line closest to your team. Each one shows what changes with Engineering AI Hub.

AI tried team by team

  • Until now: Requirements pasted into public chatbots
    With Engineering AI Hub: AI that works on ELM data, under your access rules
  • Until now: Every team builds its own AI connection
    With Engineering AI Hub: One governed set of MCP tools, reused by every assistant
  • Until now: No record of what AI suggested or changed
    With Engineering AI Hub: Interactions, tool calls and changes kept as evidence

Reviews and handoffs slow the programme

  • Until now: Wording problems found late, in formal reviews
    With Engineering AI Hub: Each requirement scored and improved before review
  • Until now: Long work item histories read line by line
    With Engineering AI Hub: A short synopsis of status, notes and risks
  • Until now: Test cases written by hand for every requirement
    With Engineering AI Hub: Test cases and scripts drafted from the requirements in a test plan

Strict data and security rules

  • Until now: Cloud AI ruled out by data residency rules
    With Engineering AI Hub: Run it on premises, in the cloud or air-gapped
  • Until now: Model choice dictated by a tool vendor
    With Engineering AI Hub: Your approved provider: watsonx.ai, Amazon Bedrock or Azure AI

Already on IBM ELM

  • Until now: A new budget line for every new tool
    With Engineering AI Hub: Licensed with tokens from your existing ELM pool

Capabilities

What your team can do with Engineering AI Hub

Requirement quality analysis

Each requirement is scored against industry standards. The agent names the problems, such as ambiguity or missing conditions, and proposes clearer wording for the author to accept or reject.

IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next

Ask your specifications

The Engineering Assistant answers questions, summarises, searches topics and translates, from your project data.

IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next

Catch up on any work item

A short synopsis of a long task, defect or feature, and new work items drafted from a few words.

IBM Engineering Workflow Management

Draft tests from requirements

Test cases and scripts drafted from the requirements in a test plan, with pre- and post-conditions.

IBM Engineering Test Management

Start models from requirements

Use cases and actors found in requirements become model elements and diagrams, linked back.

IBM Engineering Rhapsody Systems Engineering

Bring your own AI assistant

Governed MCP tools give IDEs and assistants access to ELM data, under existing permissions.

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management

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Product tour

See Engineering AI Hub before your first demo

Engineering Assistant panel next to a requirements module

01Engineering Assistant

Ask about a specification in plain language and get answers drawn from your project data.

Work item synopsis in IBM Engineering Workflow Management

02Work item synopsis

Context, key details, status, working notes and risks of a long-running work item.

Work item compose draft with acceptance criteria

03Work item compose

A few words become a draft epic, feature or story with acceptance criteria.

Test cases generated from requirements in a test plan

04Test generation

Test cases with pre- and post-conditions and detailed scripts, new in 1.4.

Use cases and actors discovered from requirements

05MBSE use case discovery

Use cases and actors found in requirements, then created in the model.

Usage report in the Engineering AI Hub console

06Usage reports

Usage by period, unique users, agents and MCP tools, exported to PDF.

Governance

AI your quality team and assessor can follow

Engineering AI Hub is the control plane for AI in IBM ELM: four sets of controls, managed in one place.

Govern access

Identity and roles
  • Who can use AI?

    Access managed centrally, with your existing ELM sign-in and roles
  • What data can AI see?

    Only the engineering context the user is allowed to see

Control capabilities

Agents, tools and models
  • What can AI do?

    You choose the agents, MCP tools, endpoints and models on offer
  • Who approves a change?

    An engineer reviews AI output before it is applied

Manage operations

Usage and limits
  • How much is AI used?

    Adoption and usage reports by period and unique users
  • Will it stay stable as use grows?

    Rate limits and resource controls for fair use

Maintain evidence

Audit trail
  • What did AI do?

    Interactions, agent activity and tool calls kept as records
  • What changed because of AI?

    Changes traced to the artifacts they touched
Where it fits

One AI layer across the engineering lifecycle

Integrations

AI assistants and IDEs

IBM Bob, Copilot and other MCP clients work with ELM data.

Orchestration platforms

watsonx Orchestrate and others call IBM agents through A2A.

Model providers

IBM watsonx.ai, Amazon Bedrock or Azure AI.

IBM Common Licensing

Tokens shared with your other ELM applications.

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 an Engineering AI Hub project

How is Engineering AI Hub licensed?

With IBM tokens, from the same token pool as your other ELM applications. The model provider is licensed separately: watsonx.ai, for example, as a cloud subscription with usage, or on premises with your own GPU hardware. We size both from the agents and teams you plan to start with.

Where can it run, and what does it need?

In the cloud, on premises or air-gapped, on Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes. It needs IBM ELM 7.1 or later with Jazz Authorization Server, an IBM Common Licensing server with AI Hub licences, a PostgreSQL database, Redis and a model runtime.

Does our engineering data stay under our control?

Agents and MCP tools use your existing ELM sign-in and role-based permissions, so AI sees only what the user may see. Requests go to the model runtime you choose, which can run in your own data centre or in an air-gapped network.

Who is accountable for what AI produces?

Your engineers. AI creates and people evaluate, or people create and AI evaluates. AI-generated changes can require human review before they are applied, and every interaction is recorded.

Can we use our own AI assistant or IDE?

Yes. The governed MCP tools give MCP clients such as IBM Bob or Copilot access to requirements, work items, tests, models and source control. Administrators decide which tools and endpoints are switched on.

How do we get started?

Start with one team and one agent. We set up the environment with you, connect it to your ELM sign-in and token pool, and track usage with the built-in reports before you roll it out further.

What can the MCP tools do?

They discover, analyse, act and trace across the lifecycle. For requirements: search and browse, analyse the impact of change, assess coverage and gaps, create and link. For work items and source control: search, compare changes, track iteration status, create, comment and link. For tests: search, analyse coverage and results, assess release readiness, comment and link. For models: search, explore structures, navigate branches and versions, analyse dependencies. IBM Documentation lists all MCP tools in Engineering AI Hub 1.4.

What happens when someone sends a request?

A request starts from an ELM application, an AI assistant or IDE, or an orchestrated workflow. The Supervisor agent intercepts it and delegates the task to the appropriate endpoint. The agent or tool invokes a Large Language Model on watsonx.ai, Amazon Bedrock or Azure AI, and returns the response in its interface.

What can Engineering AI Hub help teams do?

Discover: find engineering artifacts and uncover trusted context. Analyse: generate insights from engineering data and relationships. Act: create and update artifacts and links through AI-assisted actions. Automate: build AI agents and skills that orchestrate multi-step workflows.

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