IBM ELM Plugins for Smarter Workflows & Seamless Automation

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Overview

Extend the Power of IBM ELM with Our Plugins

Transform your engineering lifecycle management experience with our powerful plugin ecosystem. From automated ID generation and license optimization to intelligent workflow validations, our solutions are designed to eliminate manual effort, enforce compliance, and accelerate your engineering processes. 

IBM ELM (EWM, ERM, ETM) provides a robust foundation. Our suite of custom plugins extends and enhances its native capabilities to address specialized enterprise needs – ensuring secure external access, data consistency, and process automation across your engineering teams.

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Key Advantages of Our Plugins

Our objective is to unlock the full potential of IBM ELM by automating repetitive tasks, ensuring data consistency, and enabling secure external access while fully leveraging the platform’s capabilities.  

What you gain

Time savings

Automate ID generation, child work item creation, and due date synchronization. 

Accuracy & consistency

Eliminate manual errors in requirements, test cases, and work item hierarchies.

Secure external collaboration

Enable OEMs, suppliers, and external partners to interact with ELM data through a controlled portal, without requiring them to have direct ELM access. 

Process enforcement

Validate links, comments, and child states before allowing state transitions.

Configurable, customizable & reusable

Every plugin is built to adapt to your specific project needs, can be tailored to client requirements, and reused across teams. 

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Our IBM ELM Plugins

EWM Service Desk

Category: Automation

Description
Key Benefits
  • A web application (Spring Boot + React) that acts as a secure front-end for EWM.
  • OEMs and external users submit work items via a simplified form without accessing EWM directly.
  • Work items are queued in a database and pushed to EWM at a defined time interval.
IBM ELM Plugins for Smarter Workflows & Seamless Automation
  • Keeps EWM secure—no direct access required for suppliers or partners.
  • Provides a controlled, branded portal for external collaborators.
  • Enables seamless submission of work items without exposing internal ELM infrastructure.
IBM ELM Plugins for Smarter Workflows & Seamless Automation

Requirement ID Generator

Category: Automation

Description
Key Benefits
  • IDs are created by concatenating category, chapter name, heading, and sequence number (e.g., UCR_HARA_001).
  • Honors baselines: existing IDs are not overwritten; numbering resumes from baselined artifacts.
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  • Eliminates manual ID assignment and crossreferencing with baselines.
  • Ensures consistent, hierarchical naming across modules.
  • Reduces errors and saves significant time during requirements authoring.
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Data Modular

Category: Automation

Description
Key Benefits
  • A widget that automates variable/constant value propagation across multiple streams.
  • Maintains a central “Variable Data” component containing all constants used in requirements.
  • When triggered, it fetches the correct values for the selected stream and updates requirements automatically.
IBM ELM Plugins for Smarter Workflows & Seamless Automation
  • Eliminates manual updates across multiple streams.
  • Prevents mismatches and inconsistencies in constant values.
  • Ensures all streams reflect accurate, stream-specific data.
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Automated Test Case ID Update

Category: Automation

Description
Key Benefits
  • A custom widget for ETM that generates meaningful test case IDs based on test plan attributes.
  • One-click generation updates all test cases across all test plans within a project.
  • Baseline data remains unchanged during the process.
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  • Adds contextual, meaningful identifiers in a dedicated attribute—aligned with your naming conventions.
  • Enhances user experience by making test case identification intuitive and process compliant.
  • Eliminates repetitive manual ID assignment across test plans.
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Team Capacity Planning

Category: Reporting

Description
Key Benefits
  • A custom widget for EWM that generates absence reports for team members.
  • Filter by date range, iteration, team, and project.
  • Export reports to Excel for offline analysis and planning.
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  • Provides detailed visibility into team availability, complementing native CCM reporting.
  • Enables accurate resource planning and workload distribution.
  • Simplifies absence tracking with downloadable reports.
IBM ELM Plugins for Smarter Workflows & Seamless Automation

Link / Comment / Attachment Validation

Category: Automation

Description
Key Benefits
  • A precondition that validates mandatory links, comments, and attachments before work item state transitions.
  • Prevents incomplete updates by enforcing completeness rules at workflow checkpoints.
IBM ELM Plugins for Smarter Workflows & Seamless Automation
  • Ensures data completeness and compliance before state changes.
  • Reduces rework caused by missing information.
  • Configurable per work item type and transition.
IBM ELM Plugins for Smarter Workflows & Seamless Automation

Auto Child Creation

Category: Automation

Description
Key Benefits
  • A postcondition that automatically creates a predefined number of child work items when a parent is created.
  • Reads defined configuration (child type, count, inherited attributes) and creates child work items accordingly.
  • Propagates selected attributes from parent to children automatically.
IBM ELM Plugins for Smarter Workflows & Seamless Automation
  • Eliminates manual child work item creation.
  • Ensures consistent work item hierarchies.
  • Prevents omission of required child items.
IBM ELM Plugins for Smarter Workflows & Seamless Automation

Workflow Validation

Category: Automation

Description
Key Benefits
  • A precondition that restricts parent work item state transitions based on child work item states.
  • Validates that all child items are in the required state before allowing the parent to move forward.
IBM ELM Plugins for Smarter Workflows & Seamless Automation
  • Enforces process compliance across hierarchical work items.
  • Prevents premature closure of parent items.
  • Configurable per work item type and transition.
IBM ELM Plugins for Smarter Workflows & Seamless Automation

Due Date Automation

Category: Automation

Description
Key Benefits
  • A postcondition that automatically synchronizes parent work item due dates with child work item due dates.
  • Ensures parent dates reflect the latest or most appropriate child due dates.
IBM ELM Plugins for Smarter Workflows & Seamless Automation
  • Maintains data consistency across work item hierarchies.
  • Eliminates manual date synchronization.
  • Prevents discrepancies when closing parent items.
IBM ELM Plugins for Smarter Workflows & Seamless Automation

Our Codebeamer Plugins

Our objective is to bridge the gaps in native Codebeamer functionality—automating tedious tasks, providing deep visibility, and enabling seamless integration with enterprise systems like Windchill. 

Capacity Planning Dashboard

Category: Reporting 

Description
Key Benefits

A dynamic widget for Wiki Dashboards that visualizes team availability.

Provides a consolidated weekly view of allocations, absences, and utilization.

Allows managers to adjust allocation percentages and mark unavailability directly within the dashboard.

Capacity Planning Dashboard
  • Solves the lack of resource availability reports in the standard Codebeamer.
  • Enables accurate work allocation before projects start.
  • Empowers Project Managers and Team Leads with real-time utilization data.
Key Benefits

Codebeamer - Windchill Integration

Category: Integration 

Description
Key Benefits

Automated bi-directional synchronization between Codebeamer and Windchill.

Triggered by state transitions, the Groovy script automates document creation in Windchill using hex files from Codebeamer.

Automatically links created documents to the correct Part Number using the "Described By" relationship.

Capacity Planning Dashboard
  • Eliminates the manual effort of creating documents and linking them in Windchill.
  • Ensures 100% traceability between software artifacts and mechanical/electrical parts.
  • Reduces risk of errors and improves compliance.
Key Benefits

Advanced Gantt Chart

Category: Extension

Description
Key Benefits

A custom JavaScript extension that provides a superior Gantt view for validation.

Displays a complete hierarchy: Releases → Sprints → Associated Items.

Flags items estimated outside their sprint/release timeline for quick corrective action.

Capacity Planning Dashboard
  • Overcomes the limitations of native Gantt views.
  • Provides stakeholders a single view to validate project health and timelines.
  • Clear visual indicators differentiate between open and completed items.
Key Benefits

Auto-Field Updater

Category: Automation

Description
Key Benefits

Automates data propagation between parent and child items using Groovy scripts.

On state transition, pulls attribute data from the parent into a child’s table.

On a separate transition, pushes updated values from the child back to the parent.

IBM ELM Plugins for Smarter Workflows & Seamless Automation
  • Eliminates manual copying and pasting of data across items.
  • Ensures data consistency across the project hierarchy.
  • Saves significant time during change management processes.
Key Benefits

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Unlock the Full Potential of IBM ELM

Stop struggling with manual processes and compliance gaps. Let our plugin ecosystem streamline your engineering workflows today. Let’s discuss which plugins are right for your team.

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IBM ELM Plugins for Smarter Workflows & Seamless Automation

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