1. Truly Integral Product Lifecycle Management:
- Incorporates all software development processes in a single, purpose-built, open and scalable product
- Provides a single source of truth accessible across all of development
- Delivers full lifecycle traceability across assets and activities
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- Dramatically lowers the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and provides significantly lower time to value than stitched together "best of breed" products focused on only one area or discipline
- Reduces overall development costs by improving team productivity and enabling real-time collaboration across disciplines
- Reduces time-to-market by eliminating data redundancy and duplication of effort
- Provides direct support for safety critical product engineering
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2. Optimized for Software Intensive Product Engineering:
- Engineered to manage the high velocity of change characteristic of software engineering
- Promotes collaboration across engineering disciplines
- Coordinates software development across the supply chain
- Delivers flexible solutions that comply with industry specific standards and regulations out of the box
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- Accelerates time-to-market by reducing cycle time for software intensive products
- Integrates and streamlines compliance with software relevant standards and regulations, including DO-178B, ISO 26262, ISO 14971
- Reduces overall development cost by eliminating redundancies and rework and reducing unproductive administrative work
- Improves product quality by simplifying and expediting change management and impact assessment across disciplines
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3. Complete Support for Variant Management and Software Product Lines (SPL):
- Provides true reuse of all lifecycle artifacts with traceability, greatly simplifying today's complex product line and product variant scenarios
- Supports high velocity change management across product variants
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- Empowers organizations to drive product diversification to penetrate new markets and increase market share
- Enables organizations to leverage the potential of SPL to reduce development costs and increase productivity
- Improves product quality and customer satisfaction by facilitating defect tracking across product variants
- Speeds product variants' time-to-market by eliminating time wasted tracking change and defects across product variants
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4. Real-Time Cross Discipline Visibility into Product Release Readiness:
- Provides dashboards and reports with real-time metrics gathered automatically from development activities
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- Improves customer and investor satisfaction by improving release predictability
- Drives product quality and improves time-to-market by providing the information needed to make key decisions and to correct issues before schedules, quality, or costs are impacted
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