IBM DOORS’ Customers Switch to Jama Connect More than Any Other Tool, Including DOORS Next (DNG)

Organizations are choosing Jama Connect for its unrivaled usability, seamless integrations, migration expertise, and superior traceability. Discover why Jama Connect consistently outperforms IBM DOORS and DOORS Next in delivering modern requirements management, driving innovation, and ensuring efficient team collaboration across industries.

Hundreds of companies in the last few years have moved from IBM DOORS to Jama Connect including some of the largest and most complex, including dSpace, Rockwell Automation, and Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL).

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No Upgrade Possible from IBM DOORS to DNG

IBM DOORS customers are surprised to learn that DNG is a completely different product, database, architecture, and code base from DOORS — and no upgrade is possible. In fact, most companies find that trying to migrate from IBM DOORS to DNG is harder than migrating to Jama Connect.

Jama Connect Solves IBM Customer Frustration with Market-Leading Integrations to Jira, Cameo, and other Top Tools

Take advantage of our integration solutions with market-leading tools for design and simulation, task management, lifecycle management, quality assurance, and testing. Teams can work in their preferred tools while ensuring all requirements are verified and validated to achieve complete traceability. Learn More

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In addition to Jira and Cameo, Jama Connect enables Live Traceability across more best-of-breed tools than anyone else.

Migrate with Confidence to Jama Connect

We have more experience migrating IBM DOORS deployments than any other vendor. We follow a four-phase approach that ensures migrated data retains its integrity and traceable relationships. Many customers find that migration is a great time to establish consistent item type definitions, best practice templates, and traceability models.

Improve Collaboration with Partners

Unlike DOORS, Jama Connect enables you to invite partners to participate in reviews and provide comments at no additional cost. Co-development is also made easy by Jama Connect with container-level permissions, threaded conversations, and @mentioning. With ReqIF support, file-based exchanges with partners are now even easier.

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Why Are Teams Making the Switch from DOORS to Jama Connect?

Easy

Simple, intuitive user experience

Jama Connect requirements management software supports multiple development methodologies and engineering disciplines to drive cross-team collaboration and alignment. Achieve quick cross-departmental adoption with minimal training.

Flexible

Customizable, scalable, and secure deployment and licensing models that provide manageable total cost of ownership

Jama Software offers flexible license and deployment models with unlimited stakeholder access for better collaboration across product development teams. Deployed in the cloud or on-premises, the solution ensures flexible access for distributed teams anywhere.

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Accessible architecture to integrate with the tools teams want to use

Jama Connect enables integration with best-of-breed tools across the entire product development lifecycle. You’ll have access to a powerful network of options to get the right technology stack aligned to your unique business needs.

Changing Market Dynamics Require a New Approach to Accelerate Innovation

Jama Connect enables digital transformation with a more efficient and user-friendly approach to managing risk and compliance.

Download this whitepaper to find out why organizations are moving away from legacy requirements management tools, the benefits of making the switch, and how to successfully migrate to a modern solution.

Jama Connect is the Leader in Security, SLAs, High Availability, Touchless Upgrades, and Disaster Recovery

Jama Software is the only vendor in the space that offers the following: SOC 2 Type 2 certified application and data center (others data center only), SLAs above 99% (others at 95% or lower), touchless upgrades (others require your IT to manually update hosted app), high availability SLA (others don’t offer), disaster recovery SLA (others don’t offer).

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Suitably validated by TÜV SÜD for safety-related development

Jama Software® codes with OWASP best practices

Jama Connect is SOC2 Type 2 certified in both the server and application

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Ensures strong privacy management practices

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Transport Layer Security (TLS) ensures data transferred is secured and encrypted

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Learn More About Switching from IBM DOORS to Jama Connect

How can we help you make the switch from IBM DOORS? Our team of Jama Connect experts are here to answer any questions and learn how we can help enable your continued success.