IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation Valuable Features

Roger Trackwell - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineering Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

One of the most valuable features is how you can tailor the modules.
Basically, you can generate any view you need, all in one stop. Polarion, for example, is web-based, so you have to open up a thousand models to try to get the information you want and then stitch it together yourself. Whereas in DOORS, you can create that view and see everything.

Also, I believe DOORS is the industry-leading tool to demonstrate traceability between requirements.

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Kapil Raikar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager – Development, PD, Data Virtulization at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

There are many good features with DOORS. The solution has a concept of streams and baselines, as well as a concept of components. A component is a subproject inside a project.

IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation has the capability to extend or add extensions to the data model.

Another valuable feature would be the ease to add custom attributes and new objects with DOORS.

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DB
Senior Technical Product Manager at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it is quite scalable so that it can handle a large number of artifacts without any problems in its performance, and it also offers traceability with the other IBM tools, like IBM Engineering Workflow Management and IBM Engineering Test Management, meaning such links are already integrated into the solution.

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IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation
March 2024
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JT
Project System Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

The ability to make updates to requirements is probably a nice feature to have. It still takes some training to do. If I'm away from it for a while, since we'll do maybe one update or whatnot, or I may review them once in a while, I'll have to re-remember things. Sometimes it can be a little cumbersome since I don't use it frequently, and I have to retrain myself.

As far as maintaining our requirements so that we can have copies of them, it's good. I can print it out if necessary.

We have another person here, an engineer here, that's kind of the manager of the whole Rational tool. She probably has more experience than I do. I just use it just to be able to reference back to those documents so whenever we have updates, we can go back to those docs.

The solution is stable. 

The product can handle quite sizable documents.

It offers an improved search experience. 

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AK
CIO at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

The most valuable features are the versioning of requirements and the possibility to reuse them. There is also a good chain when the high-level requirement goes into deep technical requirements. The ability to use different diagrams and graphical presentation is very useful.

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HZ
Technical Sales Specialist at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation is easier to expand to build a backend with several servers, so you can also use it to scale up to several hundreds of users without major problems.

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MB
CEO at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I'm impressed by the tool because the tool comes from DOS, and DOS was the legacy tool. The legacy tool had some problems and actually this version resolves a lot of those. 

It's web-based, so you don't have anything to install. 

One of the most advanced aspects of the tool is its integration capabilities.

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it_user268761 - PeerSpot reviewer
Requirements Engineer at Visteon Corporation

As a web tool, DNG can be difficult to use if the server is loaded or your network connection to it is saturated. Therefore, the export/import feature is important, so you can make changes offline.

The "Link by Attribute" feature is useful for making links without needing to use the web interface manually.

The reporting tool (Jazz Reporting Service) can be very powerful for producing reports and charts, but it must be admined carefully to be useful.

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it_user264618 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Support for text, rich text and graphical requirement documentation. Extensive traceability and analysis through artifact linking across requirements and other artifacts within the Jazz CLM solutions.

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HL
Software Engineering Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable features are the baselines and links.

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it_user321231 - PeerSpot reviewer
Marketing and Sales at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

It provides us with integration throughout the complete product development process.

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Buyer's Guide
IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
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