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Jama Connect

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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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8 out of 10
February 16, 2024
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We use Jama Connect to create, review, and manage relationships among needs, requirements, use conditions, design V&V test docs, and risks …
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10 out of 10
March 27, 2023
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Jama is used for Requirements Management and Test Plan Management across a few different Business Units in the company I work for. While …
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Thanks Jama!

7 out of 10
March 24, 2023
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We use Jama to manage our system architecture. This includes all levels of requirements and those trace down to our testing protocols. …
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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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Product Details

What is Jama Connect?

Jama Software® is focused on maximizing innovation success in multidisciplinary engineering organizations. Jama Connect® requirements management software is used to minimize the risk of defects, rework, cost overruns, and recalls in fields such as fuel cells, electrification, space, software-defined vehicles, and surgical robotics. Jama Connect enables engineering organizations to manage their development processes by leveraging Live Traceability™ across tools to measurably improve outcomes. The company states its customer base spans the automotive, medical device, life sciences, semiconductor, aerospace & defense, industrial manufacturing, consumer electronics, financial services, and insurance industries.

The #1 problem managing the product development process is identifying risk early across siloed teams and tools.

Jama Connect® is designed to improve product requirement quality, auto-detects product development risk, and measurably increases performance across multi-disciplinary teams developing products, systems, and software — while still allowing the use of their tools of choice. With Jama Connect, teams can identify in real time:
Poorly written requirements with recommended improvements
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:
  1. Intelligently improve requirements
  2. Bring all collaboration and reviews online
  3. Unify test case management
  4. Auto-detect development risk
  5. Maintain product state across tools
  6. Manage product complexity and scale

Jama Connect Screenshots

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Jama Connect Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Polarion ALM, codeBeamer ALM, and Digital.ai TeamForge are common alternatives for Jama Connect.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.2.

The most common users of Jama Connect are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

Jama Connect Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)0%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)30%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)70%
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March 27, 2024

Perfect for our needs

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Jama Connect is more straightforward than these systems but not quite as versatile or comprehensive. I would choose those other systems if I were at a very large company working on very complex systems (which I am not).
Stephen Czerniej P.Eng, PMP® | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Jama suited our need for collaboration and communication plus a difficult stakeholder's approval roadblock. Jama provides a very easy to use interface and communication system that brought in the buy-in from all stakeholders based on the communication problems we needed to solve. Visure, Doors, TTA didn't quite perform as well in the communication/collaboration department where we really needed a boost.

One considerable difference I find is the review engine that Jama has. It truly is one of the most important things to be able to bring in many different parties from many different organizations into a review process and combine those reviews in an easy to read and manageable process. I think Jama really prioritizes and excels with his feature.
March 27, 2023

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Ian Webb | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I really liked Cradle as it seemed to be very full-featured. BUT, my liking for it was predicated on my being a daily user of the tool; it took me a while to get familiar with the tool. What was certainly true of Cradle in my experience was that it was VERY challenging to get 'occasional users' anywhere close to being comfortable with using it. Jama is certainly a lot less daunting for new / occasional users.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Polarion did not have the outside sales support that Jama Connect has. Polarion seems better suited for an Agile development lifecycle rather than an evergreen repository of requirements, design features, and verifications.

Excel is the low-cost/low-feature requirements management solution. It's limitation to being a flat repository is also it's greatest strength, as the contents can be incorporated into other deliverables quite easily.

DOORS is... DOORS.
March 07, 2023

Jama Connect2All

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The major sellingpoints of Jama were the review-system for internal and external reviewers and the inclusion of (Use Case) modelling tools, while keeping the core requirements-centric. Ability to synchronise with currently in use test-tooling and the low learning curve were additional selling points. Availablity of support in our local language was much appreciated as well.
Leandro S. Pereira | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
JAMA can navigate between them, as far as it generates reports accessible through MS Project, Word, and Excel. Moreover, very likely it can be embedded into Confluence as well however, we have not yet implemented this feature.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
From a technical point of view, DOORS is much more customizable than Jama Connect, and this is more useful when talking about SW related requirements; when talking about system related requirements, Jama Connect is well suited with respect to DOORS, in the sense that collaboration is much easier in Jama Connect.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Jama brings requirements engineering to the 21st century and sets up the bar to measure other tools. DOORS and DNG never managed to make this jump and stayed in the past.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We originally looked at Connect (Contour) and Doors as we wanted to move away from Word documents. Contour was much easier to use and had a better collaboration environment. The was many years ago; I haven't done any comparison in the last 5+ years.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)
Jama Connect, being a tool that is specifically designed for requirements management and design traceability, provides many benefits over a non-specialized productivity tool such as Microsoft 365. The revision history, collaboration functions, and tool features are much more applicable to the specific needs of requirements management and design traceability than the generic Microsoft 365 package.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We did use Procore for a bit but it has the same issue that Jama had, too big for a company our size. Procore has now made a smaller, stripped-down version for smaller companies, like us, that isn't as pricey but has enough for us to be able to take advantage of. We did not go back to Procore when they released this option. The collaboration on Jama [Connect] was superb when compared to Procore.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I haven't used the other tools in some time, but I know I prefer Jama over Jira and MS Project. Again, this is skewed based on the fact that I haven't used the other 2 tools in years. Jama is used more by clients whom I work with so it seems to be more of a market leader than other products, but that could also be the case because of the businesses we work with.
May 01, 2021

Jama is the best!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Alternatives to Jama for us is Google Sheets. I have spent significant amount of time getting the team away from sheets as a source of truth. The added features of Jama has helped the team transition to Jama for the source of truth for requirements.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am also familiar with ReqIF Studio, and the NoMagic DataHub for requirement management. Jama requires no installation, and the use of floating licenses is quite useful. As long as your workflow can be kept in Jama, everything works OK. However, interoperability is the weak link, and DOORS has better interoperability. ReqIF Studio's support of the ReqIF standard is another good point, but collaboration requires a merging workflow that is cumbersome.
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