3SL Cradle vs IBM DOORS comparison

"3SL Cradle's most valuable feature is its flexibility in managing all your needs immediately."

"Rational DOORS' most valuable feature is that you can write any kind of requirement you want."

"I like being able to sort and categorize the requirements and the exporting functions."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is traceability. We can track every requirement, including what the stakeholder must do and component-level requirements."

"Compared to other tools that I have used over the past 20 years, DOORS is the best of the best."

"It has the features of: traceability, configuration management, and user access."

"I really enjoyed the API."

"It is very customizable and easy to scale."

"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."

"3SL Cradle could be improved with better support for SysML functionalities."

"Overall, the user experience should be enhanced."

"Not all Rational Team Concert operations are available from the web client. Certain operations, like creating streams or components, still require using the desktop application. They're not accessible through the web interface. And in my opinion, this limitation should be removed."

"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."

"Complexity, performance, openness are the three areas that can be improved. The IBM architecture and specifically Jazz looks more complex. There are a lot of servers. It's quite complicated. The search capabilities lack in IBM Rational DOORS Classic for customers who have a database with a requirement of more than 25,000 records. For example, you can search easily for a module, but it's really difficult to look for keywords through the whole database because all the modules are separated into small components, which makes the search quite complex. This is something that's really annoying because when we want to make an impact analysis, we would like to analyze the product globally. It's quite difficult to manage. The fact that you can interact externally with data makes it complex. The approach is complex and doesn't work as expected. For example, when I tried to experiment with exporting some records, the tool crashed, but I couldn't find out the root cause, that is, whether it happened because of Rational Windows or lack of memory. It was just crashing. Logs weren't very clear. IBM can try to use more recent technology for different aspects and make it easy. They can also provide free integration from DOORS Classic to DOORS. Currently, all the customization in Excel is lost, which makes it very complex. It would be a feature to make new versions compatible with features in the past versions."

"The kind of dashboard is not very convenient."

"It would have been ok ten years ago, but we are used to having better tools now."

"It would be helpful if Microsoft provided a more user-friendly interface for updating and querying updates. Additionally, if there was a way for users to notify developers of any changes in requirements, it would allow for faster and more efficient updates to the solution's architecture. This could be in the form of a notification system that alerts developers of any changes that need to be made. Additionally, the solution is document-driven and it should be more digital."

"It's difficult to set the code on the solution."

"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, with one being very affordable and ten being quite expensive."

"The licensing cost is too high."

"We have to pay for a license. I think it's a one-time payment as my company hasn't notified me about more charges. I don't think it's expensive for large corporations, but it will be costly for an average person."

"I am not sure why it is so expensive, but one license will cost approximately $15,000 in US dollars."

"Licensing fees are billed annually and there is no support included with what I pay."

"IBM DOORS is available at a reasonable price"

"It's expensive."

"IBM Rational DOORS is highly expensive."