IBM Doors Next

An efficient web-based project requirements management tool for complex systems providing a scalable solution to optimize communication, collaboration and verification of requirements.

Overview

The IBM DOORS Next is an efficient requirements management tool for complex systems.  It provides a scalable solution to optimize communication, collaboration and verification of requirements. DOORS Next enables you to capture, trace, analyze and manage changes to requirements while maintaining compliance to regulations and standards. DOORS Next is a fully web-based solution including visual requirements definition, planning, work item management and test integration. Built on a commercial database with shared user administration, licensed capabilities and streamlined user interface conventions.

DOORS Next is designed to manage small to large requirement documents. It provides an ideal environment for defining and managing the requirements for complex, embedded systems such as those used in aerospace, defense, medical and consumer electronics. It is designed to increase customer satisfaction by understanding the needs and respond effectively to changes collaboratively as they occur. The tool captures and manages traceability to tests and other engineering artifacts, including software, throughout the product development lifecycle.

Doors Next helps your team improve performance and reduce development costs by up to 57 percent, accelerate time to market by up to 20 percent and lower cost of quality by up to 69 percent. By improving engineering efficiency, DOORS Next evaluates and provides recommendations based on the INCOSE requirements standard reducing time to create quality requirements. Doors Next leverages on Cloud, with no hardware, provisioning or installation needed, your team can focus on your business goals and technological innovation instead of maintenance. Doors Next support all domains for requirement management including systems engineering, agile/lean/SAFe®, continuous engineering and DevOps.

Features

  • Ideal cloud-based tool for effective requirements management
  • Enables transparency, minimizes rework and increases reusability
  • Provides built-in task management
  • Improves project agility through concurrent editing
  • Increases traceability and visibility of changes
  • Strengthens collaboration among multi-disciplinary teams
  • AI-enabled to improve your requirements with RQA
  • Provides shared platform and services with change and configuration management, quality and design management applications
  • Integrates with third party development lifecycle tools through OSLC
  • Supports commercial databases