Choose Jama Connect® Over Microsoft Word and Excel Documents for Requirements Management and Traceability

Using documents to manage requirements isn’t scalable, reliable, or efficient for larger, more complex products, software, and systems development.

Jama Connect® is the ONLY platform that enables Live Traceability™ across best-of-breed tools throughout the end-to-end development lifecycle — ensuring that everyone is always working from the most up-to-date version. Benefits of this shared, real-time connectivity include faster time to market, less rework, lower risk, and improved quality.

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Key Benefits of Jama Connect Over Disparate Documents

Automated Processes

• Eliminate the hassle of an outdated, manual, time-consuming, error prone document-based requirements management

• Modern, efficient, collaborative, item-based requirements management

• Single source of truth provides up-to-date version for all stakeholders

Live Traceability

• Automatically track every new and changed requirement, in real time

• Trace requirements, tests, reviews, and approvals across the development lifecycle

• Detect issues early in the development lifecycle to reduce risk

Accelerated Compliance

• Customizable item types, relationships, and report templates based on expert industry knowledge, regulatory standards, and best practices

• Flexibility and customizability to fit business requirements

• Pre-built frameworks aligned to industry standards

Powerful Collaboration

• Designed for connecting remote/distributed development teams and disciplines

• Real-time communication captured in context

• Role-based, permissions-controlled access for internal and external stakeholders

Best-of-Breed Tool Integrations

• Automatically synchronize requirements, tests, and other data

• Allow teams to continue working in their own preferred tools

• Excel Functions module allows for the full power of Excel without leaving Jama Connect

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Read Why Teams are Choosing Jama Connect to Replace Word and Excel

“The problem was that if we wanted to make a change, it was a very manual process when using Word and Excel to make sure there were no errors in documents covering any references downstream from the changed requirement or upstream in the top-level requirements.”

Dan HendersonGlobal Standards Manager

“With our previous process, a requirements document, which could include 30 to 50 individual requirements, could take two weeks to process, requiring the manual gathering of comments, exporting them, and then copying and pasting updates. With Jama Connect, we reduced requirements approvals down to minutes and collaboration is much smoother. We can knock out easy requirements first and then focus on the more difficult ones, streamlining the entire approval process.”

Eric ZaremskiLead Program Manager

“In our previous, paper-based system, as you add requirements the complexity increases, and the difficulty increases exponentially. The pile of documents grows and the links between those documents grow, and at a certain point you just lose track. Now that we’ve gotten rid of our documents-based system and moved to Jama Connect, we finally have a clear change management driver. This is going to increase our time to market immensely.”

Rene WenmekersDirector of Quality and Regulatory

“A document-centric approach often requires a gatekeeper and really limits collaboration – that creates a bottleneck. With Jama Connect, all our development teams can work together from anywhere with a shared collaboration hub.”

David CubbageDirect, LEO Satellite Engineering and Production

“We’re looking to bring our partners and customers directly into Jama Connect so we can collaborate with them in real time. Instead of sending around Word documents and having long email chains, this will make everything more effective and efficient and will allow us to have traceability right from the get-go.”

Jana F.VP Technology

Reduce Risk Across the Development Cycle

Trying to manage your product’s requirements solely in documents carries a lot of risk and will gradually eat away at your company’s bottom line.

Aligning teams across engineering disciplines is crucial during hardware and software integration, particularly when it concerns safety and regulatory standards. Relying solely on documents falls short in today’s complex product development. For precision, context, and accountability in requirements, a modern, purpose-built approach is essential for success. Download this free eBook to learn how to supercharge your development process.

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Never Worry or Waste Time and Money on Servers, Upgrades, or Application Security Again

Jama Connect is the only multi-tenant requirements management software platform. It includes automatic updates, SOC 2 Type2 compliance on the platform and environment, proven scalability up to 10 million items per project, global user P75 performance of sub three seconds — and there’s no additional charge for any of it.

Suitably validated by TÜV SÜD for safety-related development

Jama Software® complies with all EU Privacy Shield Framework program requirements

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

Ensures strong privacy management practices

Data transferred is secured and encrypted

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