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    codeBeamer ALM

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AIntland Software's codeBeamer ALM is a scalable Agile Application Lifecycle Management platform that focuses on traceability and compliance. codeBeamer ALM supports both Agile and Waterfall, and offers a scalable solution for both small and large organisations to develop better products faster. The vendor says their customers think about the benefits of codeBeamer ALM in terms of higher efficiency and effectiveness along the lifecycle, with the goal of cutting development time and…N/A

    Jama Connect

    Score9.4 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Jama Connect® is a Requirements Management software and Requirements Traceability solution. Jama Software enables teams to manage product requirements and enable Live Traceability™ across the development process, in order to reduce cycle times and improve product quality.N/A
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    codeBeamer ALMJama Connect
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    codeBeamer ALMJama Connect
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPerpetual and rented licenses available. Named users & floating license types can be combined.
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    codeBeamer ALMJama Connect
    Considered Both Products
    Intland Software
    No answer on this topic
    Jama Software
    Chose Jama Connect
    It’s easier to use, easier to trace requirements and verification and has a better UI

    These other tools feel more like glorified excel sheets whereas Jama actually feels intentional with being an ALM tool.
    Incentivized
    Chose Jama Connect
    Focused on Requirements Engineering.
    Intuitive
    User Interface
    Incentivized
    Chose Jama Connect
    - Ease of use
    - Straightforward set of features
    - Cost-effective (due to the fact that we've been customers of Jama Connect for nearly 15 years)
    Incentivized
    Chose Jama Connect
    Jama Connect was the perfect balance between cost, usability and scalability that our company desired. Helix was definitely cheaper but didn't offer the usability or scalability perks. Codebeamer missed the mark on cost and was designed more for a software centric requirement …
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    97%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    39 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    32 Answers
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    Polarion ALM
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    Medium-sized Companies
    PTC Windchill RV&S
    Score7.7 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    Polarion ALM
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    IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management
    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    codeBeamer ALMJama Connect
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (75 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    8.1
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    6.4
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    7.3
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    Availability
    -
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    8.2
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    Performance
    -
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    7.3
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    Support Rating
    9.1
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    9.1
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    Online Training
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    8.2
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    Implementation Rating
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    Configurability
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    9.1
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    Ease of integration
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    6.4
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    Product Scalability
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    8.2
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    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    codeBeamer ALMJama Connect
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Intland Software
    In my opinion codeBeamer is well suited for any activity where detailed tracking is needed with teams involved. It can be less suited for small projects which do not last long, or are not continuous, etc
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    Jama Software
    For the past year, I had taken on the Jama Administrator role for
    my client and was able to quick learn how to configure the system to
    meet requirements and expectations of ASPICE, Functional Safety, and
    Automotive Cybersecurity as well as ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 standards
    focused on quality. Jama Connect is one of the
    most powerful engineering tools I've ever had a chance to use. It not
    only does exactly what's advertised and the customer service and
    technical support are Best-in-Class. For those who are searching for a
    Requirements Management Tool, I highly recommend you give Jama a try.
    They've got everything down to a science from the moment you start
    interacting with a Jama representative, to the training and the
    on-boarding. The learning curve was very quick for me, in large part
    due to the amazing technical support that I was able to receive from
    Jama's subject matter experts. Every person whom I spoke with about the
    tool and its capabilities was absolutely top-notch. If you really want to level-up your game, try Jama Connect Advisor. Get yourself a free demo. You won't find any better tool for Requirements Management!
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    Pros
    Intland Software
    • Tracing of requirements.
    • Tracking of development.
    • Tracking of QA.
    • Tracking of bugs.
    • Tracking of releases.
    • Wiki.
    • Users and teams.
    • Works for teams scattered across the globe.
    • Testing and coverage for releases.
    • Integration with SVN.
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    Jama Software
    • Requirements Management in general
    • Focus in the content without loosing the track of the evolution of the items by maintaining the exchange of information between the users inside the Tool.
    • The possibilities to integrate this tool within our IT-landcape and with our other engineering tools is for us a leverage to success.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Intland Software
    • Search.
    • Metric calculation.
    • Would be nice that cB is a source of truth, i.e., that say SVN commit is done only from cB; know this is difficult to achieve.
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    Jama Software
    • The 'filtering' capabilities in Jama are not as good as they could be. In particular, the ability to "nest" filters is quite limited. I have certain seen much better capabilities in other tools. ('Cradle' is an example of a tool with excellent "nested filters" capabilities.)
    • From an administrative point of view, the 'License' admin view is pretty disappointing. The particular thing that I'd like to be able to find out from it is the peak number of 'Float Creator' licenses in concurrent use on each day. If there's a way to get to that information, I haven't found it yet.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Intland Software
    No answers on this topic
    Jama Software
    Jama is really easy to use and operate compared to other tools. This allows a process owner to get easier buy-in from the organization to see value early. My experience with this tool was very positive and we were able to see value early in its introduction
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Intland Software
    Sometimes info in codeBeamer can be lost, in principle, if not well organized by the user, info can never be found, or can be forgotten about, etc
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    Jama Software
    The requirements and baseline parts are easy to use. The review centre is very useable and understandable, once you understand/set up the moderation. (This last part could use some refinement.) Integration/connectability (the Connect part of Jama) is quite possible, but the useability could use some love as well.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Intland Software
    No answers on this topic
    Jama Software
    It has always been available, except for preventative maintenance which is announced beforehand. Nonetheless, we experienced one day shortage over a miscommunication about payment.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Intland Software
    No answers on this topic
    Jama Software
    With performance compared to JIRA, I do recommend Jama in this case. Jama provides very good performance, it loads immediately for any of the items and searches any item immediately. Performance is really good in all of the operations including creating stories, epics, item types or other support operations or report generation.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Intland Software
    Excellent support professionally. Also, thanks for giving me for free access to SaaS cB for my hobbyist project.
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    Jama Software
    They typically answer within minutes of posting a ticket, and then you have a clear expectation of what the issue is, how to diagnose it, how long will it take to get resolved, and in which version a given problem is resolved, or if there is a patch for hosted services. They have a number of support people, and all of them are top-notch.
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    In-Person Training
    Intland Software
    No answers on this topic
    Jama Software
    Helpful and exhaustive and tailorable for our needs. Instructor was well versed and engaged. Material was a good reference and was up to date with tool. Overall, in person training was valuable for tool introduction. Trainer was an active user of the tool and worked closely with other clients. So, very knowledgeable.
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    Online Training
    Intland Software
    No answers on this topic
    Jama Software
    Easy to reference and understand. Updated routinely to include new topics. Online training evolves to include more advanced topics and how to guides. Online training includes videos and reference guides that make it easy to perform more complex tasks. Online training is free and can be accessed from any computer.
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    Implementation Rating
    Intland Software
    No answers on this topic
    Jama Software
    Jama 2015.5 implementation is very smooth and no need for much manual work. Jama 8 has many challenges and we can not install it as smoothly as Jama 2015.5. Initially, Jama didn't provide the Jama 8's installer files or zip files and they were just providing docker files to everyone (which was really strange). It is the worst that they don't provide all the files at a time. Why should they tell us where we should deploy, and why only a dockerfile? I am not very satisfied with Jama implementation.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Intland Software
    codeBeamer is by far better.
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    Jama Software
    It’s easier to use, easier to trace requirements and verification and has a better UI These other tools feel more like glorified excel sheets whereas Jama actually feels intentional with being an ALM tool.
    As stated before tracing is much faster, creating the tracing matrix/workflow is easy like using a Miro workflow.
    It’s just easier to read everything.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Intland Software
    No answers on this topic
    Jama Software
    There is no horizontal scalability available in Jama, we have only one choice to scale it vertically. But vertical scalable applications always have limitations to grow. In this case, Jama doesn't support horizontal scalability functions like multi-node architectures with a shared drive for the home directory.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Intland Software
    • Customer tracking.
    • Process tracking.
    • Workflow framework.
    • Can be overhead.
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    Jama Software
    • One experience that converted an engineer to using Jama Connect was an electronics engineer that was writing test plans. I showed them about how to write "unit" or very discrete tests and then showed them an automatic export to get the document. Thus the authoring of the document effort was taken away, they could focus on defining the test
    • Unfortunately I have very much struggled to embed systems engineering, requirements management and Jama Connect as part of the 'ways of working' outside the systems and electronics teams.
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    ScreenShots

    codeBeamer ALM Screenshots

    Screenshot of Baselined tracker management with suspected linksScreenshot of Versioned test management for automated and manual testing (with parametrized test cases)Screenshot of Easily exportable & automated dashboards and reports for management and audit supportScreenshot of Gapless traceability throughout the development lifecycle

    Jama Connect Screenshots

    Screenshot of Jama Connect - Live TraceabilityScreenshot of Jama Connect - Project Dashboard ViewScreenshot of Jama Connect - Requirements ManagementScreenshot of SOC 2 Type II Compliant