IBM Customers Choose Jama Connect the Most

Explore how Jama Connect’s advanced features, exceptional user experience, and effortless integrations are delivering impressive ROI and higher customer satisfaction compared to IBM DOORS Next.

Hundreds of companies in the last few years have chosen Jama Connect over IBM DOORS Next (DNG) for new projects and migrations from IBM DOORS, 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 DOORS Next

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 DOORS customers find that it is easier to migrate to Jama Connect since DNG is based on a 16-year-old Jazz application server.

Jama Connect is at the Top in Customer Satisfaction, DOORS Next is Near the Bottom

Before you decide, learn from the user experiences of both Jama Connect and DOORS Next customers.

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

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

Key Reasons to Choose Jama Connect Over DOORS Next:

Fastest Time to Market/ ROI

• Deploy in weeks, not months with easy updates and high performance

• Pre-configured frameworks to satisfy industry regulations

• Intuitive user interface and workflows that drive efficiency

• Jama Software in-house industry-focused subject matter experts

Highest Adoptability

• Intuitive design with a better UX and ease of use that enables adoptability across teams and disciplines

• Lowest learning curve, minimal training required

• Actionable visibility into status, progress, and risks

• Permissions-controlled access for your entire organization

Maximum Collaboration

• Designed for connecting remote / distributed development teams and disciplines

• Real-time communication captured in context

• Secure access for internal and external stakeholders

• Delivers end-to-end Live Traceability™

• Improves productivity

Lowest Total Cost of Ownership

• Simple and straightforward administration

• No need for custom scripting or continuous updating

• Scales easily without big infrastructure investment

• Unlimited no-cost access for extended internal/external stakeholders

Built for the Modern Engineering Stack

• Jama Connect Traceable MBSE™ encourages and enables MBSE approach

• Integrates with market-leading tools with open REST API

• Teams can work in preferred tools with complete traceability visible in Jama Connect

Independent Software Reviews Rank Jama Connect Above IBM® DOORS® Next

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What Jama Software Customers Are Saying

“Jama suited our need for collaboration and communication. Jama provides a very easy-to-use interface and communication system that brought the buy-in from all stakeholders. Visure, IBM DOORS, TTA didn’t perform as well in the communication/collaboration department where we really needed a boost.”

Guillaume JulienProgram Manager, Össur

“By using Jama to manage our requirements -related information over the product development lifecycle, our R&D engineers increase their daily efficiency and simultaneously contribute to the current digital transformation. Jama Connect’s good usability won over our development teams.”

Pierre NuryTechnical Lead--Requirements Management Methodologies, Infineon

“We have achieved a significant ROI with Jama Connect in risk reduction and productivity gains: reuse is up 100%, rework is down 50%, requirements review cycle time is cut by 30% and audit preparation time is down 75%.”

Kurt ShulerVP Marketing, Arteris IP

“The whole migration of the documentation over to Jama Connect was an eye-opener, especially how it revealed the large number of duplicate documents we had that could be significantly reduced.”

Martin SandauProject Manager, 3shape

“Before we used Jama Connect, I rounded up people and collected everything in one place, it felt like everybody was pulling in their own direction, basically holding us in place. After we managed to collect everything in Jama, it felt like everyone was suddenly pulling in the same direction.”

Marco ŠustićProduct Manager, Rimac

Jama Connect is Consistently Ranked the Overall Leader for Requirements Management

Considering choosing Jama Connect over DOORS Next? Jama Connect consistently stands above DOORS Next (for requirements management tools) in the G2 Grid® for overall satisfaction, performance, user experience, collaboration, reviews and approvals, implementation, usability, user adoption, and overall ROI. See how they compare below.

Areas of FocusKey Buying Factors to Consider When Choosing a VendorJama ConnectDOORS Next
Total Cost of OwnershipMinimal up-front investment. Accelerated adoption through supported services. Availability to extended stakeholders without additional cost.
Open IntegrationsLive requirements traceability enabled through modern solutions integrations across the product development tool chain.
Simplifies ComplianceA solution that is scalable, reliable, easy to manage, and able to support compliance audits. Provides off-the-shelf industry frameworks to accelerate compliance.
Migration ExpertiseProfessional Services to develop and support a comprehensive adoption, migration, and implementation strategy, while minimizing business disruption.
User ExpertiseEasy to adopt, friendly, intuitive interface, applicable to both the casual and frequent user.
ReviewsAbility to have one single and consistent review mechanism designed for the whole team and external stakeholders, capturing decisions for audits.
CollaborationEase of collaboration between disciplines built into the foundation of the platform. All users can contribute as part of a team across the end-to-end development lifecycle.
AdministrationDesigned for Cloud from the outset supporting on-prem and Cloud deployments. Single user interface for administration functions over all projects and disciplines.
In-House ExpertiseVendor has in-house Professional Services to support adoption, migration, and implementation, as well as expertise in regulated markets such as Automotive, Aerospace-defense, and Medical Device.
Product UpdatesRegular product updates of Jama Connect for Cloud customers. Ensure the latest innovations are available for all users immediately. Upgrading needs to be seamless without any roadblocks.
Technical UpdatesSupporting projects for all complexities from simple to extensive Systems Engineering programs. Achieve optimum Performance and Scale for your organization

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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