IBM Engineering Requirements Management
Manage requirements efficiently to reduce your development costs and accelerate time to market
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Improve requirements management with a scalable solution

The IBM® Engineering Requirements Management DOORS®
family offerings include the original DOORS product and DOORS
Next, designed to enhance your requirements management
process.

Our solutions use AI to improve the quality of engineering requirements as they are written, while also optimizing communication and collaboration among teams and stakeholders. This maximizes productivity and quality across your projects. With these tools, you can efficiently capture, trace, analyze and manage changes to requirements, all while supporting compliance with regulations and standards. IBM Requirements solutions empower you to better manage project scope and costs throughout your organization and supply chain.

 Improve engineering efficiency
Gain transparency, minimize rework and increase reusability.
Ditch the documents

Better products through better requirements management

Benefits

Improve product quality

Capture, trace and analyze requirements for complex products and systems. Take control of your project costs with change and configuration management built directly into the requirements tool.

Manage compliance

Manage traceability from requirements through testing, including engineering artifacts and software, across the entire product development lifecycle.

Reduce cost

Minimize risk and improve performance to help your teams reduce development costs, accelerate time to market and lower the cost of quality.

Reduce time to market with reuse

Reuse valuable engineering work by effectively managing product versions and variants. Create a baseline that enables consistent evolution of data evolution across engineering disciplines and use the baseline across variants and programs to maximize productivity and quality.

Improve project agility with concurrent editing

Increase collaboration and project agility through concurrent editing, automated versioning and effective prioritization. Access requirements databases in real time across multiple users without conflict or disruption.

Support requirements development

Drive software and systems engineering through the management of requirements in all forms of engineering domains, including systems engineering, agile, lean, SAFe®, continuous engineering and DevOps.

Features

Define and organize data Specify a data model, organize your data with structured folders, modules and hierarchy, and use advanced filtering, views and tags for efficient management.
Textual and graphical tools Use rich text, glossary of terms and graphical sketching for clear documentation and visual representation of requirements.
Traceability Link artifacts for alignment and use a graphical explorer to visualize project relationships.
Collaboration, quality and review Boost collaboration with comments, review and approval capabilities, and task management. Use AI to improve requirements. Rapidly onboard teams
Configuration and variant management Manage global configurations, reuse components, track changes and handle multiple development streams.
Reporting and dashboard Track status and progress, using customizable live dashboard, access real-time metrics and achieve compliance with audits.
Which option is right for you?
DOORS Next

A scalable, web-based solution designed to optimize communication and collaboration among teams and stakeholders, maximizing productivity and quality. It enables you to capture, trace, analyze and manage changes to requirements while maintaining compliance with regulations and standards. With DOORS Next, you can enhance the management of project scope and cost across your organization and supply chain.
DOORS

DOORS is a proven requirements management solution that has been successfully used by teams in complex, high-compliance systems engineering programs across all industrial sectors for several decades. It offers mature capabilities, including structured requirements specification modules, round-trip data import and export, electronic signatures, baselines and customizable requirements views with multi-level traceability.

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