Collaborating with the entire team.

Contour's web 2.0 interface was designed from the ground up for team collaboration. Unlike legacy requirements tools used by just a few team members, Contour provides the entire team with access to requirements and other artifacts.

Discussion threads.

Each requirement and artifact in Contour has a discussion thread where the team can add comments and collaborate on individual items.

Tags.

Tags provide a flexible way to categorize project artifacts. Tags may be used to group items in ways that the hierarchal structure doesn't allow. Each project artifact contains a tags component where tags may be viewed and selected.

Push & Pull notifications.

There is nothing more frustrating that finding out development was just completed on an outdated requirement but keeping the team up to date can be an administrative hassle. Contour eliminates the need to send out email after email with the latest requirements document attached. The entire team, regardless of location gains immediate access to the latest information and receives notification when things change

When changes are made, contour captures the change and can notify the team. Notification groups keep updates targeted to those who need to know, cutting down on need to "over email".

Reporting.

Contour includes a rich reporting platform that provides the ability to summarize and model data in many ways. Reports can be generated in PDF, RTF (Word), Excel, HTML and other formats. Contour also provides a template engine or creating document style reports that include images, tables and rich text for requirements specifications, change requests etc.  Report templates are standard HTML documents that use cascading style sheets for formatting. These can be created from within Contour or any HTML editing tool.

Collaborator licenses.

Jama provides read-only reviewer licenses with the purchase of the Contour Base Package.  Not only does this provide significant cost savings, but it opens the door to immediate global information sharing with other departments and stakeholders.  Read only users are created by an administrator, and log in like other users for security purposes, but can't change data stored in the system.