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What is Jama Connect?
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.
Jama Connect Does the Job and is an Invaluable Resource
Jama for small companies
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Really useful and supportive Tool for our requirements and related topics
Jama Connect - Excellent Tool for Regulated Products!!
A Top Pick For Requirements Management
JAMA Software within CarUX Technology Europe BV.
Jama Connect - Requirement Management Tool in Automotive Industry
Perfect for our needs
Jama - Communication and Data Views Positive Review
Great requirements management software.
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Perfect tool for small teams
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What is Jama Connect?
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.
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What is Jama Connect?
The #1 problem managing the product development process is identifying risk early across siloed teams and tools.
Missing, changed, or late requirements
Gaps in verification and validation test coverage
Changes made in one engineering discipline that impact others
Product, Systems, and Software Development Teams that Use Jama Connect Perform Better.
With Jama Software's proprietary Traceability Scores™, teams can measure traceability to improve quality and accelerate time to market.
Jama Connect enables these six critical things for development success:
- Intelligently improve requirements
- Bring all collaboration and reviews online
- Unify test case management
- Auto-detect development risk
- Maintain product state across tools
- Manage product complexity and scale
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Jama Connect Integrations
- Jira Software
- Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
- TestRail
- Rally Software
- Tricentis qTest
- OpenText ALM Octane
- Planview TaskTop Hub
- Digital.ai TeamForge
- Azure DevOps Server
- QAComplete
- Simulink
- VectorCAST
- Vector (CANoe
- vTESTstudio)
- ANSYS (SCADE Suite and Medini Analyze)
- CATIA No Magic (formerly Cameo/MagicDraw)
- BigLever: Product Line Engineering (PLE)
- Modern Requirements4TFS
- OpsHub Integration Manager
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Jama Connect Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Languages | English |
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Jama Connect Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 0% |
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Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 0% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 30% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 70% |
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(1-25 of 44)Jama Connect Does the Job and is an Invaluable Resource
- Traceability from user needs to system requirements, system requirements to system tests and module requirements, module requirements to module tests
- Ability to create and define items and relationships to enable custom workflows
- Versioning, keeping track of changes, and locking items
- Easy way to add comments for each change in the items
- Cross-project linkage and ability to share items between projects
- Easy way to create custom templates
JAMA Software within CarUX Technology Europe BV.
- Tracking of issues related to requirements is easy.
- Storing test results through the API into defined tests
- Ease of use and understanding for end-users
- Moving from Projects to Programs, were a program contains several projects. In the car industry you have a program which contains several projects (left/right side driving, with or without touch etc.) Still the same program.
- Login to simple no 2-factor authentication possible
- Login has no end-date so no warning of expiration-date on password.
Great requirements management software.
- Requirement management.
- Cloud deployment.
- Automated user provisioning.
- Faster response time from support.
- Integrations with Sharepoint.
Perfect tool for small teams
- Having List view and reading views
- Import from Excel and word document
- Powerful API to integrate JAMA with other tools
- Relatively stable system
- lots of good functionalities
- Export/Reports are not easy for the end users. the templates are too complicated
- In my opinion, JAMA does not cope well with large volume of data, e.g. only first 100 in user group are displayed
- defects reporting is complicated
- Report of new features can be done , but with different login info and not the same as reporting defects .
JAMA functions are not so great for very large system ( e.g. for more than 10-20k requirements)
Jama Connect Requirements Management Review
- Requirements Review
- Requirements import and export
- Managing Requirements
- sometimes response time is slow
- we got several white label issue during login
- System support ticket process is not very convenient
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- Getting Requirements "nailed down." The 'Review Center' is very popular with our users.
- 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.
Jama - satisfied
Test Management
Traceability
- Live traceability between requirement and test case
- Real time test execution status
- Review Center
- Export to Word needs extensive formatting. I hope Jama provide better export functionality
- Jama cloud has some security issues. We decided stay on-premises
- Jama cloud does not have a capability to stay on a particular release, and have a frequent releases within a year.
- It would be nice if floating creator license users can select to access as read only or read/write at login time.
Jama Connect2All
- Quick marking (and solving) question and issues through comments
- Intuitive Review module (peer as well as approval)
- Free Stakeholder licenses help showcase (Jama) Requirements management to involved stakeholders
- No build-in Company Dictionary/Glossary
- No easy-to-use visual traceability (e.g. tree-graph)
The Journey from Paper Documents to Jama Connect
- Easy to use and configure
- Super tech support
- Exporting is done well (templates)
- Supports complete product (me, hw, fw, sw, etc.). Not just an agile sw tool
- Upgrading and managing server has been problematic.
- Sharing requirements (or inheriting) is overly complicated for our use.
- Collaboration on requirement development.
- Establishing traceability between elements.
- Review and approval functions of individual elements.
- The user interface can be cumbersome and difficult to perform certain tasks efficiently. In particular, mass editing of items is not easy to do--items generally need to be handled on an individual basis.
- Although individual needs can vary widely, some basic expected functionality is hidden or altogether unavailable.
- Large projects become very difficult to manage.
Streamline Reviews!
- Document Traceability.
- Uploading Documents.
- Exporting Files.
- A search feature needs improvement.
- Creating Filters.
- Integration of other Applications.
Jama Connect an effective requirements and test management tool
- Requirements breakdown.
- Compliance assistance.
- Increase collabration.
- Online resources and guides.
- Web UI can be made intuitive.
A good experience so far using Jama Connect
- Requirements management
- Traceability
- Test management
- Custom reporting ability on the cloud instance
- Items getting out of synchronisation and needs manual re-indexation
I definitely recommend other organisations to use this tool.
- Re using process is easy
- Uploading the documents and files can be done.
- We can export our file's and TC's as well
- Adding new projects in jama along with the TC templates, can be done in minutes
- We can lock our Test cases and Results as well, which is a good one. So that our data is safe and secured
- Search results need be improve a lot. Once i tried to find a Test case. But it displayed more than 80k TC's from all the projects
- Creating filters are bit complicated. Try to make the process easy if possible
- While exporting the files, I've seen a common issue in all formats, where first 2 pages are blank. I don't know why, but it's waste of cloud storage. Even though it's "KB" it matters
- Some times I've seen one issue, in very rare conditions. I've authored the TC it took almost 5hrs to author. When i clicked on save & done button. It just kept on loading, i left it for hours. But sadly it didn't saved. 5 hrs of my work was wasted. This issue was faced by multiple people in my company
I definitely recommend other organisations to use this tool.
- Collaboration between users
- Review module helps to bring users together and give tools for them to collaborate and approve
- Having all resources in one place is great for having an easy-to-use and clean DHF
- Jama Connect is a database of information at it's core. It would be nice to be able to query it like such.
- It would be nice to be able to write queries to build our own custom reports
Jama is the best!
- I love that Jama components are individualized between engineering requirements, product requirements, Change Requests, Waivers (something we made), and so on. I like seeing all the different items in one project and not having to change windows or tabs.
- The Jama reviews are straightforward and easy to navigate. I like seeing the progress and the electronic signatures. This was an added bonus.
- I wish users could have read access for some projects and write access for others. This is a big struggle for us right now.
- The launch of the Project admin vs Org admin wasnt smooth and I find myself navigating it solo. I wish there was a webinar that goes over it.
- Baselining needs some serious improvement. Jama baselines items after every review, which is frustrating when items in my review are not approved. As a result, I had to create a locking in the item workflows for Baselines (which I created), but I think this makes things complicated. I really only want to baseline items that have unanimous approvals.
Great Requirements Management Tool!
- The versatile filters in Jama make it easy to look at the requirements you're particularly interested in.
- Bidirectional trace views make it easy to digest how items are traced and identify improperly linked items.
- Jama's search function is difficult to use. It typically finds results that are completely unrelated to what I was searching for.
- It would be nice if projects could have project-specific relationship rules. For instance, if you could base a new project's relationship rules off of a different one, but then customize it for that specific project without having to create a whole new set of relationship rules.
JAMA Connect Requirement Management Tool
- To create, modify and remove customized templates using MS Office.
- Customization of item types and item fields.
- Add more advance formatting options.
- Fix issue with date import. JAMA Connect changes the date to be one day ahead.
Jama Connect as a transformation facilitator to improve Requirement and Test management implementation
- In a system of systems way we appreciate a lot JAMA Connect capabilities for items reuse and synchronization.
- Jama Connect provides a high level of features for people collaboration that is key for ensuring a good level of project stakeholders approval and working as a team.
- Basic dashboard capabilities are missing to highlight RM and TM progress on a weekly basis.
- There is no existing JAMA connector with Tableau Software that will allow to access Jama Database and build the customized reports each project could be interesting in depending of their context.
Jama Connect First Impression
- Centralized location for coordinating requirements and test cases.
- Ability to capture various stakeholder comments and extract real time status.
- Ability to create relationships between various products to facilitate impact analysis.
- Real time interface with DOORS and Cameo EA.
- Ability to create custom metrics such as pie charts, bar graphs, etc.
Jama Review from a Jama Power User
- Traceability
- Documentation
- Dependencies
- System of Record
- Decision-Making
- Review Center
- General UX
- Report Configuration
- Feature Request turnaround
- Jama Documentation
- Jama provides flexibility to add customized types of items, e.g. functional requirements, components or projects. Jama is useful for adding any specific attribute in any type of item.
- Jama is useful to track approvals or get approvals for any specific requirement and proceed with it.
- Jama provides a complete history of activities related to any item.
- Jama doesn't provide any functionality or features to add any item type that has user validation in place. i.e. we added Jama_Authors item type and then used the same to create an attribute for the story. That attribute can't have the user validation, or we can not add it in Jama.
- ALM protocol doesn't support URL type attributes in Jama 8. That must be fixed.
- Jama doesn't provide an audit history of administrators on the UI to track the administrative activities.
- Jama says 25,000 active items per project is good to get better performance, but it is less.
Detailed and user-friendly
- Jama provides each member of our team with organized and detailed documentation. We can add all of the information we need in a very structured way that is user-friendly.
- Jama helps our teams know we are looking at the latest and greatest requirements. It is easy to know which document is the latest and easy to see what changes were made to each version.
- Jama allows us to store a mass of information. Previously our teams relied on excel documents to store our requirements. This was very limiting to what we could do and how much data we could store. Jama has helped us upload many detailed requirement documents without lagging.
- Jama could make it easier to toggle between different projects or search between multiple projects.
- One can access all its client projects with a single set of credentials.
- Advance search option is also available apart from regular search in a project which makes an easy job to filter for items.
- Compare option is available for the versions to compare the updates made on previous requirements.
- Recent activities and chats of other colleagues working on the same project can be seen.
- Most important is the HELP icon that enables you to understand the workflow in Jama Connect.
- Some additional tutorials can be added in the HELP icon that could make the user familiar with all of the functionality of Jama Connect.
- Many icons are too small to find in the first place. Need a visual tutorial to know about their functionality in detail.
- Easy to track change.
- Great way to obtain and store the client's digital approval.
- Great with version control.
- Table Properties: some we need to adjust the border or lines as that of Excel, I haven't located this feature.
- Spell Check: adding a feature next to the bold and italics buttons.