We performed a comparison between Helix ALM and IBM Rational DOORS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Requirements Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of Helix ALM are traceability and flexibility."
"The tool offers high stability."
"Helix ALM enables users to build, make efficient and effective decisions, and use least-cost methods for maximum benefit, as fast as possible. They allow you to see and visualize your configuration."
"The next-generation features are good."
"It is a mature product that is stable."
"I really like the customization that can be done using the DOORS Extension Language (DXL)."
"The most valuable feature for me is the ability to enter data into one table, or context, and link it across modules."
"I like the way we can simply link requirements with one another and with test descriptions and then automatically produce reports that are required to show compliance to our customers. It is a combination of requirements management and reporting that I like, but I really have very little to do with the reporting part of it. I don't know how easy or hard it is to create those reports."
"It has the features of: traceability, configuration management, and user access."
"The traceability matrix in DOORS improved our project outcomes. It helps ensure coverage of requirements at different levels, from user requirements to software requirements to test requirements."
"Very customizable and can be as powerful as you want it to be."
"It would be great to see Perforce's strategy is for implementing intelligence into the process via AI or ML. It's not clearly defined, at least not to my knowledge."
"Helix ALM should be able to integrate with other systems better. Helix ALM should also have an easier user interface, and the solution needs to have drag-and-drop tools included in it."
"The accountability and the equivalent to using, acting, editing, working with Word, and also importing and exporting from Word needs improvement."
"The web application DOORS Web Access doesn't have the same functionality as the standard client, so it's not a real substitute. For example, web Access only provides writing requirements, but you can't do much more with it."
"I think there is probably room to improve by offering free training."
"The interface is not very user-friendly and has not evolved in a long time."
"The kind of dashboard is not very convenient."
"The problem is that because the GUI is so bad, you either have to spend a lot of money customizing the interface yourself, or a lot of money on training."
"They need to provide users with information on what options would be best for their setup."
"The low performance of the solution is probably because it is quite an old tool."
"It would have been ok ten years ago, but we are used to having better tools now."
Helix ALM is ranked 7th in Application Requirements Management with 7 reviews while IBM Rational DOORS is ranked 1st in Application Requirements Management with 51 reviews. Helix ALM is rated 6.4, while IBM Rational DOORS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Helix ALM writes "Helix ALM is insanely configurable, with great traceability, and flexibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Rational DOORS writes " Offers ability to automate tasks and to track changes within documents and compare different versions of requirements but modeling capabilities could benefit from a web-based tool ". Helix ALM is most compared with Jira, IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation, Polarion Requirements, Tricentis qTest and Jama Connect, whereas IBM Rational DOORS is most compared with Polarion Requirements, Jira, Jama Connect, IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation and PTC Integrity Requirements Connector. See our Helix ALM vs. IBM Rational DOORS report.
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