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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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9 out of 10
April 08, 2024
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Jama Connect is used in our company as a repository for requirements, product risks and test cases testing the requirements.<br>Jama helps …
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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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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?

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

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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

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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.

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Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.7.

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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September 10, 2021

Jama Connect is one of the best collaboration softwares on the market

Verified User
Employee in Other
Construction Company, 11-50 employees
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Jama [Connect] seems like it would be a better product to use in a larger business setting where there are multiple offices or even multiple locations. We have a single location and we don't feel like it's the best for what we need to use for project collaboration. It seems too "large scale".
September 10, 2021

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Verified User
Manager in Sales
Hospitality Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I am mainly in the Sales department, so using something like Jama Connect is probably not the best software suited for what I am trying to accomplish. If we were doing more things related to projects, I feel that we would be able to use Jama Connect to its full potential.
September 09, 2021

Jama Connect an effective requirements and test management tool

Sharique Khan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sharique Khan
DevOps Engineering Manager
Varian, A Siemens Healthineers Company (Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It's best suited for large distributed teams [that] are moving to an agile process. It enables large and complex system requirements management easier and efficient. Very much suited for SAFE - scaled agile framework implementation.
September 03, 2021

Jama Connect - By an MSP Engineer

Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development
Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Nothing is perfect, but Jama has done a good job of implementing features that are representative of current methodologies. It's easy to get started and not too complex, but it could always be better. I think making use cases available to understand ways to improve our use would be good. Amazon does this with some AWS things where it has use cases of clients who have used a service/product and it can help teams/companies to implement new features, plus do things they may not have thought of before. Basically just examples but with some good details.
May 12, 2021

One stop shop for all your requirement management needs

Verified User
Engineer in Quality Assurance
Industrial Automation Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Good to manage product requirement for software and hardware and good to manage design and process FMEAs.
Not suitable to manage cases like issues experienced in project development for which we use other tools like Jira.
May 01, 2021

A good experience so far using Jama Connect

Verified User
Professional in Engineering
Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
The fact that Jama Connect is a web-based application is very useful, especially in this new way of working remotely. It is well suited for large projects that are normally hard to manage without speciality tools. The user interface is very intuitive.
May 01, 2021

Jama, A tool which we cannot replace once we used to

Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Jama is being used as a test management tool in my company. Am using Jama since 3+ years, and i can tell you that this was one of the best Test management tools I've ever used. Everything is so easy to understand and the interface is user friendly. Easy to use and can learn this tool fastly. I use this for Test plan, Test cases authoring, Test execution and results review along with the close out documentation.

I definitely recommend other organisations to use this tool.
May 01, 2021

Great combination of legacy tools into one easy-to-use work environment

Ryan Youngblood | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ryan Youngblood
Project (Design) Manager
Varian Medical Systems (Medical Device, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Jama Connect is great at what it does, and so far, I have no real complaints about the ways that it has forced our teams to collaborate through the design inputs process and readdress good documentation practices.
May 01, 2021

Jama is the best!

Verified User
Account Manager in Engineering
Automotive Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
What an amazing product! We were able to centralize our requirements process around Jama item workflows, Jama reviews, and the baselining locking I created (see one of my cons). I love how friendly it is to navigate. The dashboards are super neat and I look forward to seeing even more improvement on the dashboards.
April 29, 2021

Good cloud-based requirement management and evolution solution, with room to improve processes

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Research Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is a good way of providing a full framework for requirements management which is customizable; however, interoperability functions are not its forte. Support for ReqIF or other formats is not provided out-of-the-box, and would be very welcome. Also, integration with Jira requires a third-party product, but it is an integration that might be worth keeping in-house.
February 19, 2020

Great Requirements Management Tool!

Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development
Medical Device Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Jama is well suited for any level of requirement management. It's particularly helpful when you have several layers of requirements and several subsystems that interact. For very simple projects, however, with a limited number of requirements, Jama would still be beneficial, albeit less than the more complex projects.
February 12, 2020

Great at requirements management and traceability - Not so great connecting to other industry tools

Verified User
Program Manager in Engineering
Warehousing Company, 51-200 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We really like Jama Reviews for teams and Baselines for requirements. Traceability is well-structured although it has no flexibility with the relationships between types. It is very easy to drag and drop to rearrange the product requirements. I don't like the export capability or reporting. There is a lot of work to do to get the metrics we need from Jama Connect in Excel.
February 12, 2020

JAMA Connect Requirement Management Tool

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Jama Connect is well suited as an internal product management tool. The review center is great to review requirements electronically instead of sitting in a meeting to review them. Version control creates a great audit trail. The data exports to MS Office products have format issues. Time is wasted on document format revisions to send over to customers.
February 12, 2020

Brilliant and Flexible Requirements Management Tool, Rigid and Limited for Other Uses

EB
Erik Bluemner
Lead Eng
NorthStar Medical RadioIsotopes (Medical Device, 201-500 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
For requirements management, JAMA is very effective. They've nailed that. Once you start moving into other areas, it starts dropping off in functionality. JAMA seems to have taken a more rigid approach to these other areas (test management, design reviews, traceability, risk management). If only they could design these other areas to be as wonderfully flexible as the core requirements management functionality.
December 13, 2019

Jama Connect as a transformation facilitator to improve Requirement and Test management implementation

Marc Bodocco | TrustRadius Reviewer
Marc Bodocco
System Engineering - Requirement and Configuration Manager Expert
Capgemini Application Services (Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
This tool is perfect to manage System of Systems until product level projects for TM, RM point of view. TM is also very easy to use and highly configurable to take into account most of our needs. Moreover through the RestAPI it bring lots of capabilities to interface with automated test tools. The ability of Jama Connect to manage libraries is also very appreciated to help the projects to focus mostly on the dedicated new requirements concerning their context, saving and securing time on what is reusable and already approved by experts. Review center and Baseline management are also great features provided by Jama Connect to secure the collaboration between teams and the configuration management.
July 31, 2019

Jama Connect First Impression

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Defense & Space Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Given our current process, Jama Connect presents some clear improvements. Obviously, it's ability to scale to large programs will be key. At the same time, having a centralized repository for documents, comments, etc., will allow for a rich integration of products and the ability to quickly perform an impact analysis. Most importantly, Jama Connect will need to pull from other tools that are currently in use to integrate itself into the process.
July 30, 2019

Jama Review from a Jama Power User

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Automotive Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Jama is good for most applications. It is highly configurable which allows for a lot of freedom but relies on the organization to outline their desired process and definition of completion. As a power user, Jama has much of the functionality that we need but is missing a lot of the UX elements that encourage users, particularly new users or users who do not use Jama often, to engage with the tool. Its existing integration platforms are also subpar. Generally speaking, I would encourage other orgs to use Jama but would give them some details as to what challenges or limitations to expect.
May 21, 2019

Only requirement gathering should be done using Jama Connect

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
In the case of Requirement Management and Test Plans, Jama Connect is well suited. But in the case of tracking the progress of each requirement, task, or defect, JIRA is better than Jama. Workflows and other features of JIRA are better when compared to Jama. Also, Jama's backup strategy and support are not that as good as JIRA's. That's why I would not recommend Jama if you want more from the application.
May 17, 2019

Detailed and user-friendly

Verified User
Employee in Other
Human Resources Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Jama is well suited for capturing requirements across the board for internal and external review. It is great for projects with multiple teams working together and going back and forth with clients for reviews. Easy to toggle between internal and external notes.
May 09, 2019

First Try Then Believe - Jama Connect - Make Your Project A Success

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Jama Connect makes ones work too easy if one can get handy with it. There are so many features to explore in it.

Just one thing is that a new user will need to explore Jama Connect very deeply by oneself as there are no tutorials for all of the icons present in Jama to explain their functionality.
May 06, 2019

Great and Effective Tool that Fosters Collaboration, Change Request

Verified User
Professional in Human Resources
Human Resources Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
A great tool for change control & change management. It's Cloud-based making it readily accessible by all. Great tool for team collaboration, report generation and progress tracking across the board. One can determine if a reviewer/approval has accessed and began a review. Provides a great progress report and due date reminder tracking.
May 06, 2019

Jama Jammer!

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Automotive Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We use it for system documentation, but it could easily be used for any structured data need. I give it a 9 out of 10 only because I'd like to see tighter integration with JIRA for tasking.
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