IBM Engineering Requirements Management

AI-assisted requirements management for traceable and compliant product development

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Scalable Requirements Management

IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS® family of offerings, including DOORS® and DOORS® Next, help organizations manage requirements as the engineering foundation for modern product development.

Built for regulated and software-defined environments, it combines AI agentic automation, enterprise-level governance, and open integration to help teams manage complexity, strengthen compliance and move from requirement definition to delivery at scale, with greater control.

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Enhance collaboration and quality 

Boost collaboration with comments, review and approval capabilities, and task management. Use AI to improve requirements. Rapidly onboard teams.
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.
Track status and progress

Track status and progress, using customizable live dashboard, access real-time metrics and achieve compliance with audits.
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.

 
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.
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.

Key Features

AI automations

Analyze requirements against industry standards to generate quality scores with detailed feedback and recommendations for wording improvements. Use a natural language interface for conversational queries, topic-based searches, summaries, and translations.

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Textual and graphical tools

Use rich text, glossary of terms and graphical sketching for clear documentation and visual representation of requirements.

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Traceability

Link artifacts for alignment and use a graphical explorer to visualize project relationships.

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Data organization

Specify a data model, organize your data with structured folders, modules and hierarchy, and use advanced filtering, views and tags for efficient management.

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Configuration and variant management

Manage global configurations, reuse components, track changes and handle multiple development streams.

 

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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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Find out how you can start managing your requirements efficiently to reduce development costs.

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