Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer vs IBM DOORS comparison

Broadcom and IBM are both solutions in the Application Requirements Management category. Broadcom is ranked #11, while IBM is ranked #1 with an average rating of 7.4. Broadcom holds a 0.7% mindshare in ARM, compared to IBM’s 32.9% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of IBM users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 6, 2025

IBM DOORS and Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer are competing in the requirements management software space. Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer is often seen as the better option due to its comprehensive features and focus on agile processes.

Features: IBM DOORS is recognized for its strong traceability, its ability to integrate with complex systems engineering tools, and its DXL scripting capabilities which allow customization. Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer offers innovative model-based testing, automation functionality, and is optimized for agile processes, making it suitable for teams focused on agile and test automation.

Room for Improvement: IBM DOORS could improve its user interface for a modern look and feel, enhance cloud support for better remote accessibility, and simplify its pricing model. Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer might benefit from a more intuitive user interface, improved documentation for better user support, and more flexible integration options with a wider range of third-party tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM DOORS provides traditional deployment with strong customer support, making it suitable for large enterprises with complex projects. Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer offers a streamlined deployment process and emphasizes customer-centered agile solutions, easing implementation for businesses seeking agility.

Pricing and ROI: IBM DOORS involves higher initial setup costs but promises substantial ROI for complex requirements management due to its extensive features. Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer, despite incurring higher ongoing costs, justifies its pricing with advanced features that deliver quicker ROI in agile environments. Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer generally provides higher ROI for businesses prioritizing agile test automation.

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Categories and Ranking

Broadcom Agile Requirements...

Ranking in Application Requirements Management

11th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Test Management Tools (13th), Test Design Automation (3rd)

IBM DOORS

Ranking in Application Requirements Management

1st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Application Requirements Management category, the mindshare of Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer is 0.7%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM DOORS is 32.9%, down from 34.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Requirements Management

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Gireesh Subramonian

Assistant Director at Ernst & Young

Helps the development team to finish tasks within the required timeframe

The team I am working with was never into Agile before. We have a daily scrum-call and before that, we have to define all the tasks that we are going to work on for a number of sprints. For example, there is a Product Increment Planning meeting where we put all the user requirements into the product backlog. Then we put them back to the respective sprints. A product increment consists of about five iterations, or five sprints. And we pull each of these backlog items to these particular sprints or iterations, so that it is easy for the development team to pick up, based on the priority. The backlog is set, and it is pulled into particular sprints, based on business priority. So it helps the development team to take up and finish tasks within the required timeframe. It helps in productivity, traceability, and saves time.

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SHRINIVAS ALAGERI

Architect at itcinfotech

Offers a well-refined ASPICE template and satisfying requirement management features

IBM DOORS effectively synchronizes with Polarion. But suppose when Polarion is running on Linux and you want to integrate with IBM DOORS on Windows, that is when compatibility issues arise. For the aforementioned issue we often receive advise in our company to migrate Polarion to Windows before integration. IBM DOORS is a heavy-duty application compared to competitors such as PTC Integrity. Exporting an IBM DOORS module is highly time-consuming for its bulkiness. PTC Integrity is a lighter solution that allows the development of a gateway template. It's crucial to consider the use cases and the other vendors that need to be integrated before using IBM DOORS. Our company is a PTC competence center, so most of our customers are from PTC. The customer integrations our company deals with include modeling tools such as Simulink, MATLAB, and Integrity Modeler to synchronize documents. The digital threat maintenance between IOD and Windchill is also a crucial part of our organization's operations. The solution should be more compatible with thin clients, there should be focus on web-based clients who can be more effective in IBM DOORS. At our company, we don't want every customer to use the thick client format with the solution. I would like to witness the seamless integration of IBM DOORS with Windchill in the future version. The integrations in IBM DOORS should be web-based, I don't prefer to use multiple plug-ins. For example, I want to integrate IBM DOORS with MATLAB, Simulink and Jenkins effortlessly which is possible in Codebeamer. I want every feature of Codebeamer to be present in IBM DOORS in the future releases.

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Pros

"In terms of meeting business challenges, it helped to shorten the dev/testing cycle by identifying requirements gaps early in the process, by having models shared within the development team. It helped increase test coverage and reduce the number of issues experienced by clients/customers."

"Technical support is excellent. They provide solutions quickly for issues encountered."

"The optimization technique helps in giving us the minimum number of test cases with maximum coverage."

"It gives us an idea of creating the visual diagrams, which are quite easy to use. It is helpful in creating our business processes."

"CA ARD has some beautiful features which I haven't found anywhere else. For example, when designing or creating our test cases and doing scenarios, we are able to restrict our flows. If we take a data link between two processes, we can actually restrict it, so that, in production, if our functionality breaks down, we can restrict that and all the flows related to it will be removed from the test data set."

"The scale possibilities are endless, especially when combined with all the other products that CA has to offer."

"I like the way Broadcom ARD inserts test cases in execution mode. Also, ARD can be used apart from Broadcom TDM. It's an add-on through which you supply data through ARD test cases when there is a need for extra data."

"Measuring test coverage helps in one of the most challenging tasks. It has logic that can help to select the right set of scenarios and know what coverage it will provide."

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

"The solution is stable."

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

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

"We have different generations of all products. It lets us select and see unique attributes for each release or generation. You can use attributes to define a selection area to see which equipments are for the old versions and which ones are for the new versions. This inbuilt view is what I like in IBM Rational DOORS. So, for a database and a set of requirements, it will select and show unique attributes for a release or a generation."

"This product can help improve how your organization proceeds through solution development."

"It is a stable solution."

"I like the user interface with regard to creating links between requirements and tracing links to requirements."

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Cons

"Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer could improve the UI. Other solutions have a much better UI. The new UI should have a new modern framework."

"It would help if it would save different subsets of test cases, use cases, etc., of a given diagram, for different purposes and provide an easy way to name those subsets."

"CA ARD doesn't provide integration with Tosca. The possibility of creating a test case and exporting it into Tosca is not available. Integration with end-to-end automation tools, like Worksoft or Tosca, is not provided by CA ARD as of now."

"Data flexibility is something which I would like to see, along with more integration with App Test."

"Integration with Agile management tools can be improved, i.e., mainly test case maintenance and linking test cases to the automation script."

"I think it's already coming, but it needs more automation aspects. There is a tab for Automation, but I think it's not robust. I think that it's going to be a crucial element of the tool."

"At present, there is no option for test data parameters from ARD for virtual databases. We have to create them in TDM and push them as well. Virtual database connectivity needs to be improved. They need to come up with some areas where they can create synthetic data parameters easily from the test cases that have been designed."

"Needs improvement in aligning models so they look clear and readable without having to move boxes around."

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"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 images are not clear. We have to use them as OLE objects. And in the testing part, I'm not sure how to link it with it. This is my main concern."

"I would like to see them improve in agile management the Scrum/Kanban Board to work with overseas team members."

"One thing that I would like to see is a lower-cost version of it that we could use for smaller projects. Sometimes, we do projects for commercial customers who would benefit from something like DOORS, but it's just so expensive. It's just a monster, so a lower-cost version would be the thing that we'd like to see."

"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."

"The kind of dashboard is not very convenient."

"It used to be very clunky."

"The performance could be improved. It doesn't run as smoothly as it could."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is less costly when compared to other tools on the market."

"At present, Broadcom works through partners rather than dealing directly with the consumer. When there are discounts given, it's up to the partner as to whether they want to give that discount to the customer. Sometimes, the partners decide to take the discount themselves. Pricewise, I would give ARD's price a rating of three out of five."

"Recommendation is to go with concurrent licenses as oppose to seat license; this gives more flexibility."

"The cost of the tool was well worth the benefit that we saw on the back-end."

"The pricing model is based on how many people are using it. We have an annual license. There are not any additional costs."

"We were able to scale down some resources to basically self-fund our ability to purchase the tool."

"This tool reduces the cost associated with test cases, automation script generation, and maintenance costs."

"I think it's expensive because you have to pay for the licenses to IBM and all that and maintain them."

"The licensing costs for the product are quite high."

"It is expensive to onboard additional users."

"I don't personally know what the numbers are. I just know that one of the reasons we've limited it to three seats is a function of cost."

"IBM Rational DOORS is highly expensive."

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

"The licensing cost is too high."

"It's expensive."

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What do you like most about IBM Rational DOORS?

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.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Rational DOORS?

Over the years, the first version cost something around 5800 euros.

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What needs improvement with IBM Rational DOORS?

Compared to today, DOORS' competitors also excel in this discipline. Yet the price is too high. It's often not as generic as it used to be. IBM promised to find a way for a generic format that allo...

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Also Known As

Grid Tools Agile Designer, CA ARD, CA Agile Requirements Designer

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Overview

CA Agile Requirements Designer is an end-to-end requirements gathering, test automation and test case design tool which drastically reduces manual testing effort and enables organizations to deliver quality software to market earlier and at less cost. The optimal set of manual or automated tests can be derived automatically from requirements modeled as unambiguous flowcharts and are linked to the right data and expected results. These tests are updated automatically when the requirements change, allowing organizations to deliver quality software which reflects changing user needs.

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IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS (DOORS) is a Requirements Management (RM) software designed to help organizations manage engineering project requirements throughout the development lifecycle. It provides a central location for capturing, defining, and organizing project requirements, facilitating communication and collaboration among stakeholders like engineers, system designers, and customers. Key features include requirements traceability, version control, and impact analysis, ensuring effective implementation and testing. DOORS improves efficiency, enhances communication, reduces risks, and supports better decision-making through clear visibility into requirements. Compared to its newer, web-based counterpart DOORS Next, the mature DOORS 9 offers a wider range of features with a traditional user interface but lacks web-based functionality and modern integration with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) tools.

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