Companies Choose Jama Connect Over Codebeamer

Jama Connect was designed to complement Jira and Azure DevOps to make agile traceable. Codebeamer overlaps and conflicts with Jira and ADO.

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There is No Direct Upgrade from Integrity/RV&S to Codebeamer. Migrate to the Right Solution, Jama Connect.

Faced with the end of support and considering options, PTC Integrity/RV&S users need to know that a migration process is always necessary regardless of which tools are involved. There is no special advantage in moving to codebeamer from PTC Integrity/RV&S because these tools were designed with different technical approaches to systems engineering and data storage. Accepting the unavoidable need for data migration, it’s more important to focus on selecting the right tool. Jama Connect® is a modern requirements management alternative to PTC Integrity/RV&S. Our expert in-house staff uses a proven repeatable migration methodology to work directly with customers to adapt Jama Connect to fit their product, systems, and software development process, identify and migrate required data, and train teams to rapidly adopt Jama Connect.

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Codebeamer Conflicts with Jira, Jama Connect Complements it.

Codebeamer has overlapping and conflicting functionality to Jira and Azure DevOps with a wiki, kanban board, version control, IDE commits, pull requests, etc. These conflicts make an integrated solution a challenge for engineers. Jama Connect was designed to work with Jira and Azure DevOps to deliver Traceable Agile™.

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Dassault Systèmes’ CATIA No Magic and Sparx Systems’ EA Offer Direct Integrations to Jama Connect, but not to Codebeamer.

Integrations to model-based systems engineering (MBSE) tools are critical to establishing Live Traceability™ across the development process. Dassault CATIA No Magic through Cameo DataHub and Sparx Enterprise Architect have both developed the most advanced productized integrations to Jama Connect and do not offer any direct integrations to Codebeamer.

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Key Reasons to Choose Jama Connect Over Codebeamer

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 and exceptional customer support

Highest Adoptability

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

• Lowest learning curve, with minimal training required

• Actionable visibility into status, progress, and risks

• Role-based permissions access for your entire organization

Maximum Communication & Collaboration

• Designed for connecting remote / distributed development teams and disciplines

• Real-time communication captured in context to improve productivity

• Secure access for internal and external stakeholders

• Delivers end-to-end Live Traceability™

• Review Center streamlines review cycles across stakeholders

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 Development Tech Stack

• Jama Connect is the industry leader for requirements management and traceability activities

• Integrate with market-leading tools through Jama Connect’s open REST API

• Teams can work in preferred tools with complete traceability

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Supercharge Development, Drive Live Traceability™, Enhance Collaboration, Manage Complexity, and Accelerate Speed to Market

If you’re comparing Jama Connect vs. Codebeamer, one thing is clear — Jama Connect is the only purpose-built requirements management platform that delivers Live Traceability and accelerates your product, systems, and software development by managing user needs and product information across the end-to-end systems development lifecycle.

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Jama Connect vs. Codebeamer Feature Comparison

Areas of Focus	Key capability description to compare	Jama Connect	Codebeamer
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.
Measured Process Improvement	Measure and improve development success with the Trace Score™ and benchmarking.	With Live Traceability and the Trace Score™ in Jama Connect, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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“The learning curve with codebeamer was too steep. We couldn’t afford to wait for our teams to get up and going with a complex platform… with Jama Connect, we have the confidence that we can easily show regulators the linkages between each individual item, with full traceability from top to bottom. I can easily click through the whole storyline of how requirements fit into the V-model and what actions we took.”

Rene WenmekersDirector of Quality and Regulatory

“Jama Connect was the most intuitive and easy to use of the platforms we tested. Jama Software’s support team is always quick to answer our questions and help us get the most out of the platform. When I talk with them, they are always trying to truly understand what we are trying to do, and they work with us to make it happen. They also worked closely with us in the beginning to customize the platform to our workflow and to set up goals and metrics in Jama Connect.”

Jana F.VP Technology

“You can’t beat [Jama Connect]. It’s too easy. Using the out-of-box configurations, I can just click and view the trace matrix. That was phenomenal. The fact that I can simply export a PDF for audit preparation saves me three weeks of time. Regulatory bodies don’t need to know that Jama Software exists because it’s exporting the same report that I had to do manually in the past, just instantly. So that was a major benefit.”

Craig WoodmanseeElectrical Systems Engineer

Only Jama Connect Integrates with the Best-of-Breed Ecosystem. Codebeamer Does Not.

Systems engineers and product developers can take advantage of our integration solutions with market-leading tools for design and simulation, task management, lifecycle management, quality assurance, and testing to improve productivity. 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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Only Jama Connect Delivers Live Traceability™. Codebeamer Does Not.

What is Live Traceability and Why is it important?
Live requirements traceability is the ability for any engineer at any time to see the most up to date and complete upstream and downstream information for any requirement—no matter the stage of systems development or how many siloed tools and teams it spans. Jama Connect is uniquely positioned over Codebeamer to create live requirements traceability through siloed development, test, and risk activities to provide end-to-end compliance, risk mitigation, and process improvement.

Requirements Traceability Benchmark

In this groundbreaking Requirements Traceability Benchmark report, we examine how traceability is measured, the benefits of Live Traceability™, and the best practices that separate top quartile performers from the rest.

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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).

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

Ensures strong privacy management practices

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

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