CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
5 May 2008
Product News
BigLever Software Delivers Fully Integrated Software Product Line and Requirements Engineering Solution
BigLever Software™ announced the release of the Telelogic DOORS®/BigLever Gears™ Bridge, an integrated solution aimed at helping product development organizations more efficiently manage requirements across an entire product line portfolio. The new DOORS/Gears Bridge solution enables companies to fully leverage the benefits of an end-to-end requirements engineering process within the product line development lifecycle, in harmony with other tools and assets across the lifecycle. With the integration of software product line and requirements engineering capabilities, customers can realize advancements in product line engineering for systems and software, including increased product line scalability, faster time-to-market for new products, greater productivity and optimized product quality.
“At Lockheed Martin, the timely and cost-effective delivery of the latest technological advances to our customers is mission critical. Our goal is to constantly ‘push the envelope’ with state-of-the-art product development tools and methods,” said Norman Malnak, VP of Technical Operations for Marine Systems and Sensors.
Requirements management for a product line portfolio can quickly become exponentially more complex than for a single product. The growth of SPL engineering practice in the industry has increased the number of organizations faced with this challenge. In response to growing customer demand, BigLever and Telelogic, an IBM company, co-developed the DOORS/Gears Bridge to provide a simple and innovative solution for engineering requirements across a product line portfolio.
“BigLever’s unified SPL framework provides the underlying product line capabilities needed to integrate and leverage tools and assets across the development lifecycle,” said Ingemar Ljungdahl, CTO and Executive VP of Requirements Management, Telelogic, an IBM company. “Through our technology relationship with BigLever – and the integration of DOORS and Gears – Telelogic is providing a whole new level of support for requirements engineering within a common, easily repeatable SPL implementation framework.”
“Based on the strong pull we have seen from the development community, the DOORS/Gears Bridge represents an innovative step forward in the system and software product line engineering field,” said Charles Krueger, BigLever Software CEO. “With the integration of DOORS into the SPL engineering framework – where traceability and processes flow cleanly through all stages in the lifecycle – our customers can now establish end-to-end SPL engineering approaches that far exceed the capabilities they previously envisioned. Telelogic continues to demonstrate industry leadership by contributing this significant advancement to the SPL framework.”
The DOORS/Gears Bridge offers a highly scalable, simplified alternative to current product-centric techniques. Development organizations can now utilize: 1) DOORS requirements sets as first-class reusable assets in the product line engineering lifecycle; 2) new capabilities to easily minimize the number of requirements created; 3) techniques to better leverage the requirements that drive the evolution of a product portfolio; 4) Gears SPL constructs to manage product requirement diversity based on product line features, all within the context of the unified SPL framework.
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