DOORS Next Generation
Manage requirements efficiently to reduce your development costs and speed time to market with IBM Engineering Requirements DOORS Next.
Improve requirements management with this world's best scalable solution. IBM® DOORS® Next Generation
Capabilities of DOORS NG is Softacus Edition described below contains several enhancements brought to you by Softacus experience from projects.
Improve requirements management with this world's best scalable solution.
IBM® DOORS® Next Generation
Single Source
A fully web-based application helps you to get the right version of your requirements artifacts like stakeholder, system, subsystem, and software requirements. You can create and manage your own use cases, NFRs, Rules as well as attachments.
Changes under Control
Understand the impact of a change by very natural drag&drop linking. You can track your requirements from customers through the system, software up to test cases, and test execution records. If needed you can even trace to the source codes if software is involved.
Traceability
Your requirement objects change constantly—but you can still stay in control. Monitor changes at a granular level and get visual alerts when linked items change, helping ensure your documentation stays accurate and up to date.
Safety & Risk Control
Manage Gap Analysis, FMEA, and Risk Analysis directly in your browser. Assign attributes like Probability, Severity, and Occurrence, calculate Risk Priority Numbers before and after mitigation, identify risks faster, and validate mitigation instantly.
Extendability
Extend the functionality via Javascript or use the Softacus library of home grown or collected enhancements.
Collaboration & Project Awareness
Understand the impact of a change by very natural drag&drop linking. You can track your requirements from customers through the system, software up to test cases, and test execution records. If needed you can even trace to the source codes if software is involved.
Granularity
Your requirement objects change constantly—but you can still stay in control. Monitor changes at a granular level and get visual alerts when linked items change, helping ensure your documentation stays accurate and up to date.
Impact Analysis
Understand the impact of requirement changes before they happen. Instantly identify affected artifacts, links, and downstream dependencies to reduce risk and keep your project aligned.
Simplification of Review Process
Speed up the review process. You can send the whole specification or only specific content for review. Choose what you should review and approve. Is your process more complex and with several rounds? IBM DOORS Next Generation can help you.
- Change Management and control
- Lock artifacts and Models
- Lock whole component and allow only changes which are approved
- Protect artifacts from change with workflows
- Get notified via "Supsect Linking" or "Link Validity" about change of linked artifact ... upstream, downstream, test, regulation and similar
Version and Variant control
Reuse DNG
Decrease time to market by reusing the most components of your projects or products specifications. You have unbelievable options... reembeded, copy, copy & link as well as comprehensive branching & merging functionalities. You can also save time and ensure consistency by reusing requirements, specification and even projects.
- Reuse the project objects in several ways.
- Reuse artifact throgh modules
- Support for Branching, Merging and Change Sets
- Artifact and Module templates
- Project templates
- Copy artifact within and from outside of the project
- Copy and Link from Project
- Reuse artifacts from other projects with same ID
- and many more.
Industry Standards Compliance and Automation
- Link requirements to regulation paragraphs, documents, and other objects
- Easily demonstrate compliance to regulators
- Use electronic signatures and database functions to verify compliance
Exchange with external partners
- Word and Excel import/export
- Full support for ReqIF format
- Secure collaboration with partners in a closed project area on your server
Reporting and Publishing
- Access your data warehouse and report on current and historical data
- Team, personal, and project dashboards
- 800+ out-of-the-box reports or build unlimited custom reports
- Customizable tables, KPI and pie charts
- Export to PDF, Word, Excel, HTML, or XML with advanced calculations and formatting
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