In this post, we discuss Apex.AI’s selection of Jama Connect to shorten development time and increase efficiency.
Award Winning Automotive Software Developer Selects Jama Connect® to Shorten Development Time, Increase Efficiency, and Sail Through Audit Preparation.
Apex.AI, founded in 2017 in Palo Alto, California, is a mobility software company, and makers of the ISO 26262 ASIL-D safety-certified software framework Apex.OS. As a pioneer in modern C++ software development for safety, they are the first organization to certify a modern C++ open-source product to ASIL-D. Their client list is extensive and prestigious, and they are backed by some of the leading venture capital firms in the world, including Lightspeed Ventures, Toyota AI Ventures, Volvo Ventures, and Airbus Ventures.
More about Apex.AI:
- Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA in the heart of Silicon Valley with offices in Munich, Berlin, and Stuttgart, Germany and with employees worldwide.
- Founded in 2017 in Palo Alto, CA
- Expertise: Building robust, reliable, safe, secure, and certified software for mobility systems
- Recent Awards for Apex.OS, the safety-certified automotive OS:
- Apex.OS wins two awards from the German Design Council (June 2021): “Best of the Best” award and “Innovation of the Year” award
- Apex.OS honored with the CES Innovation Award (Jan 2021)
With a mission to enable automotive developers to implement complex AI software, and enable AI developers to implement safety-critical applications, Apex.AI is an innovator in the automotive industry.
Comprised of alumni from top automotive, robotics, and software companies around the world, the Apex.AI team knew that development success starts with requirements management. That’s why they set out to evaluate the top requirements management solutions from the very beginning. The team had clear objectives and knew that their requirements management solution needed to:
- Allow the team to create a centralized repository of requirements
- Help them demonstrate compliance with stringent automotive standards like ISO 26262
- Enable collaboration across a globally distributed team
- Be a modern, cloud-based solution that all team members could use
- Have industry acceptance and expertise
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The team did not take the selection process lightly; they knew there was too much at stake. Apex.AI did an analysis of the full requirements management tools and software market and decided to evaluate Siemens Polarion and YAKINDU more in-depth.
After an in-depth analysis of these requirements management (RM) tools – including interviewing current users of these products – Jama Connect was selected as the solution of choice for the team for the following qualities:
- End-to-end traceability from requirements all the way through to tests
- Powerful, flexible solution that all team members can easily use
- Industry-specific templates and expertise in automotive development
- An easier path to compliance
“Why would an innovative automotive company consider Jama Connect? From my perspective, Jama Connect is the best of breed requirements analysis and requirements engineering tool… I would highly recommend it and I would use it again without any hesitation on any subsequent project. ”
Neil Langmead – Senior Functional Safety Engineer, Apex.AI
Jama Connect was also the only solution that had Living Requirements™ management, which allows teams to move away from static requirements trapped in disparate documents and creates a digital thread through upstream and downstream activities.
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“Jama Connect doesn’t require much in the way of support and overhead. Once we installed the cloud-based solution it ‘just works’ – and that’s the highest validation for any complex piece of software.”
Neil Langmead – Senior Functional Safety Engineer, Apex.AI
To learn more about Apex.AI’s outcome and future with Jama Connect, read the full story here.