"I like the user interface with regard to creating links between requirements and tracing links to requirements."
"It is a mature product that is stable."
"When you install DOORS locally, you have the flexibility to do what you want with the solution. You can add functionality and do many things that you can't do with other tools or do well enough to satisfy your users' requirements."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the management verification and login."
"Very customizable and can be as powerful as you want it to be."
"Makes good work of prioritizing and planning product delivery."
"This product can help improve how your organization proceeds through solution development."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly interface."
"It is good at requirements management and test management."
"The interface needs an area to be able to type your query and actually be able to find them."
"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 web application DOORS Web Access doesn't have the same functionality as the standard client, so it's not a real substitute. For example, web Access only provides writing requirements, but you can't do much more with it."
"It would be nice if it could be scaled-down so that it could be installed and implemented without much learning or training."
"There needs to be quicker access to tech support. When I have a two minute question that takes two minutes to answer, it shouldn't take me 45 minutes and/or a few days of callbacks to get to the right technical support person. It's unnecessary and frustrating for the user."
"One of the things that many people complain about is it's hard to manage attributes. For example, tables or figures. This is something that can be improved."
"There are problems with communicating between DOORS and Microsoft Office."
"The performance could be improved. It doesn't run as smoothly as it could."
"I have inquired about pricing for this solution but have not yet heard anything, so their response time in this regard is something that should be improved."
"The initial setup could be better, it's complicated."
IBM Rational DOORS is ranked 2nd in Application Requirements Management with 15 reviews while Jama Connect is ranked 7th in Application Requirements Management with 2 reviews. IBM Rational DOORS is rated 7.8, while Jama Connect is rated 6.6. The top reviewer of IBM Rational DOORS writes "Has given us a means for improving the way we proceed through solution development". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Jama Connect writes "Reasonably priced, stable, user-friendly, and has good support ". IBM Rational DOORS is most compared with Jira, Polarion Requirements, IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation, PTC Integrity Requirements Connector and 3SL Cradle, whereas Jama Connect is most compared with Jira, Polarion Requirements, IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation, Polarion ALM and Microsoft Azure DevOps. See our IBM Rational DOORS vs. Jama Connect report.
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