Jama Connect

It is great for engaging stakeholders, both junior and senior because it is a friendly and easy to user interface. Just like any tool, it does need people that are willing to even engage, if they do however they will find Jama Connect very easy to engage with compared to some tools like DOORS which are technically very good, but the interface is less friendly. I find that Jama Connect is not as good for data export e.g. to Word documents. It is probably very possible to use Velocity to get what you need, but that is a very complex and difficult system compared to say DOORS Word Export.

Jama Connect generally is a good, classical requirements management tool. Until now, it doesn't come with fancy features, such as those being supported with AI, automated workflows, time tracking etc.

Jama connect has the best UI compared to DOORS, Codebeamer, and PTC Integrity. It’s the clearest to use with the best usability. For example make traces between all requirements is as straightforward as clicking a button. The trace matrix view is highly configurable to get you to show anything you need. It has extensive filtering where every index in your requirement is indexed.

Same with their export features, you can use default templates or create custom templates to export to PDF for all your regulatory needs like submitting documentation to FDA. This has helped us a ton without requiring much edits and letting us create up to date reviewed documents.

Jama is well suited for just about all situations. Beside missing some minor functionalities (which are missing in just about all other requirements tools as well), there is nothing to complain about. Support is good and the company is still improving Jama every month.

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. At least, integration with Jira no longer requires a third-party product, but it is now offered through Jama Connect Interchange.