Areas of Focus | Key capability description to compare | Jama Connect | codebeamer |
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Flexibility & Ease of Use | Author and manage requirements across users and versions. | Jama Connect has a more systems-centric approach for requirements management than a software-centric one that cleanly maps generic architectural elements. Jama Connect allows flexibility in setting up the project structures to reflect the teams’ needs and to achieve better tool adoption. | Because codebeamer was originally designed for software teams to manage their work, the requirements management capability was not the central focus. Project structure in codebeamer cannot be flexibly configured. codebeamer still considered mostly by software teams and not for holistic system development. |
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Measured Process Improvement | Measure and improve development success with Traceability Scores™ and benchmarking. | With Jama Connect’s Live Traceability and Traceability Score™, organizations can measure and optimize their development processes, improve product quality, and accelerate time to market. Jama Software® is the only solution that provides engineering performance benchmarks — the first large scale, empirical research to confirm that higher levels of traceability correlate to cycle time and quality improvement. | Does not exist. |
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Requirements Reviews | Capture and manage user comments through a review sequence, in real-time. | Jama Connect provides far superior review capabilities with granular control for reviews within the tool, capturing feedback inline from all stakeholders. | codebeamer has a review setup wizard and single review cycle, but a non-intuitive approach and limited capabilities for initiating, managing, delegating, and including/excluding items for reviews. |
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Traceability Model | Allow the user to view a traceability matrix which defines the relationships between the various elements within the project. | Jama Connect’s Traceability Model with the relationship diagram is paramount to implementing Live Traceability and measuring the effectiveness of systems development.
In Jama Connect, it’s easy to configure traceability. Relationship rules can be defined in a lean, centralized, and consistent way that is visible and centrally manageable. | The configuration of the traceability in codebeamer is a complex journey that requires a very good tool knowledge and a complex set of permissions across the different areas to be included in the traceability. There is no centralized approach to managing the traceability configuration in a central spot and applying it to the relevant projects. |
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Requirements Baseline | Enable the user to baseline the requirements set in the event of a key milestone (i.e., a product has been released to a particular customer). | Jama Connect provides a baseline in an easy tree view that is accessible for system engineers.
The selection of baseline content is very flexible and any combination of items or sets of items can be baselined
| Baseline scope possibilities are limited and are restricted to the predefined logical containers. |
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Requirements Authoring | Enable efficient requirements authoring. | With Jama Connect’s Docview, teams can author, read, and edit items in-line in a single view while maintaining an item-based structure within project hierarchies. | Limited document view functionality allows editing of only some items. |
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Requirements Quality | Reduce requirements authoring errors and improve the accuracy and consistency of requirements quality. | Jama Connect® Advisor uses Natural Language Processing to analyze requirement quality and compare to EARS and INCOSE rules while actively authoring and editing requirements. | Does not exist. |
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In-House Professional Services | Leverage in-house expertise and support to help align your people, processes, and data and maximize the success of your product development process. | The Jama Software Success Programs —powered by in-house industry experts— helps our customers achieve faster implementation time and therefore, quicker time to value. Our Success program focuses on customer’s desired outcomes and process improvement. | Outsourced professional services with the only focus of deploying the software and then moving on. |
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Cloud Deployments | Secure, scalable multi-tenant cloud deployment offerings. | Jama Software’s multi-tenant cloud deployment offers a scalable, highly available, secured environment to meet today’s complex development challenges and rigorous security standards and has the following benefits:
-Reduces overall costs
-Speeds implementation
-Enables easier updates with upgrades handled by cloud provider
-Simplifies backups and restoration by cloud provider
-Scales and expands as needed with unlimited computing power
| codebeamer only offers a single-tenant cloud deployment which requires more IT resources as upgrades, updates, and disaster recovery are the customer’s responsibility. Increasing capacity and scaling are both difficult and costly. |
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