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codebeamer Overview

What is codebeamer?

Codebeamer is a complete Application Lifecycle Management solution to simplify complex product and software engineering at scale. The open platform extends ALM functionalities with product line configuration capabilities and provides unique configurability for complex processes. Codebeamer offers all-in-one requirements, risk, and test management functionality, unique digital workflows, and integrability with your development toolchain. Equip your teams with a purpose-built tool for collaborative development, efficiency in product line engineering, and regulatory compliance. Connect all development tools with Codebeamer to provide your teams with a central development hub!

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Product Description

codebeamer is an affordable and complete Application Lifecycle Management solution that covers all phases of the development process including requirements, test, and risk management as well as demand management, development management, and DevOps. In addition, it offers a comprehensive wiki and advanced document management functionality.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Codebeamer is an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform for advanced product and software development. The open platform extends ALM functionalities with product line configuration capabilities, and provides unique configurability for complex processes.

Codebeamer is a complete lifecycle management solution with all-in-one requirements, risk, and test management capabilities. It offers unique digital workflows for collaborative development, efficiency in product line engineering, and regulatory compliance. Connect all development tools to provide your teams with a central development hub. Easily adapt the solution to special engineering needs, and automate process control for regulatory requirements.

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PTC

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PTC enables manufacturers to achieve product and service advantage in the age of the Internet of Things. The company's technology solutions transform the way smart, connected products are created, operated and serviced.

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codebeamer Demo - Requirements Management

Define, manage, change, and review requirements with full traceability across the development lifecycle. Collaborate with stakeholders throughout development with requirements sharing, comparing, reviewing, and approval.

Build safe and reliable products, and comply with relevant regulations.

Define, plan, manage, automate, and track testing while providing full traceability. Track requirements’ test coverage and monitor tests-requirements consistency.

codebeamer Demo - Agile Project Management

Plan, track and manage Agile development. Use the Planner, Kanban, Carboard, Dashboard, Backlog and Release system to stay organized. Maintain transparency, full traceability and automatically logged audit trails.

Automate daily tasks with rules and triggered actions. Choose from preconfigured workflows, or design your own.

codebeamer Demo - Preconfigured templates

Templates enable you to implement our solutions fast, and can dramatically reduce the costs of regulatory compliance.Our templates come with predefined artifacts, workflows, and baked-in domain knowledge out of the box.

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Brochure: Pre-configured template for ISO 26262 & ASPICE compliance

Brochure: Pre-configured template for Medical Software Engineering

Guide: 10 Success Factors of Future-Proof Requirements Management

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Tõnn A.

Team lead

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/18/2022

"Review based on initial testing"

4/5

What do you like best about codebeamer?

Good and professional support. Easy linking between requirements, library function, templates. Configuration diagram view. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

Excel import is rigid, you can't do specific mapping to Excel content during import. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Design

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/7/2022

"Codebeamer Review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about codebeamer?

The overall flexibility of the tool has been critical to deploying our existing policies and procedures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

All the options available can be a bit overwhelming. However, this is the flip-side of the flexibility and the flexibility has been more important. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chris D.

Engineering Manager BU CT

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/10/2021

"Great tool for managing requirements"

3.5/5

What do you like best about codebeamer?

First and foremost, the tool is useable by our engineers with minimal training, a stark contrast to our previous tool that was perceived too difficult. The UI is pretty easy to use and the concepts of workspaces and trackers allow structuring projects nicely. There is good traceability, even across different workspaces. The predefined configuration templates make sense and are nice to kick-start initial configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

The licensing model lacks floating/shared licenses. In general, usage of tools like this fluctuates over the life of a project, and with multiple projects running, shared licenses would be helpful to get the right cost/value balance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Medical Devices

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/7/2022

"Very configurable tools to meet most of our needs. Customer support is usely very fast."

4/5

What do you like best about codebeamer?

The configurability of the tool. The traceability between modules. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

The user interface could use some improvements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Medical Devices

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/7/2022

"Does exactly what it says on the tin"

5/5

What do you like best about codebeamer?

Traceability between the individual work items is a complex but necessary part of product development, which is managed efficiently within the codebeamer platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

Data entry through the platform could be improved, although I have yet to test the round-trip export functionality with Microsoft word. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sasan A.

Quality Assurance Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/22/2021

"Good but could be better"

3.5/5

What do you like best about codebeamer?

DashBoard and colors and the options in the workspace tab Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

Complicated to figure out changes and user interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maximilian P.

Product Manager (of codeBeamer and the legacy ALM solution)

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/29/2021

"codeBeamer is the best-in-class ALM & Agile Management tool for medical device development"

5/5

What do you like best about codebeamer?

Flexibility: Ability to build any data model, including connections between data objects (References)

Configurability: Ability to configure workflows, rules, permissions ,etc freely and on many different detail levels.

Extendability: Ability to add custom workflow actions and Plugins that do not interfere with the system negatively, but extend its functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

- The UI/UX needs an update - They are working on it with codeBeamerX

- With its many features, it might be overwhelming at first. Good training is neccessary to make the tool successfull. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering codebeamer:

As stated, this tool is fantastic and powerful, but you need to know what you are doing to make it effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is codebeamer solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are able to implement a data model and ruleset including electronic signatures to build a system that creates the formal Design History File while the products get developed. This is not possible in any other tool on the market and the benefits are tremendous. We are making the signing of 10k - 70k pages of documents per project obsolete and integrate the signatures on the content directly into the tool while the work is being done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Medical Devices

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/12/2022

"The tool of choice for stringent software development"

3.5/5

What do you like best about codebeamer?

The structure and support of overall V-model software development from requirements to test runs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

The user experience could be improved, and the performance (lags) could be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Max M.

Director, Global Software Engineering

Industrial Automation

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/23/2021

"Astonishing All in One solution"

5/5

What do you like best about codebeamer?

codeBeamer is one of the best all-in-one solutions on the market. It is undoubtedly one of the most potent ALM systems, but at the same time, it has a good user experience and is very easy to configure. Along with task tracking, planning, requirements, risk management, version control & testing, it also comes with a workflow engine, document management & a wiki. All of this is a rare find. Additionally, with most other tools, you have to work hard for the tool, but this software works for you.

It has more useful features than any of the many competitor systems I came in contact with over the last decade.

This tool is not only useful for SW teams, but also for mechanical and systems engineering teams, which can all work in a more connected collaborative way.

codeBeamer works with a single database, which is a key reason it needs minimal administration efforts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

I wish the rather intuitive web-based GUI would get another improvement in the future to not require a double click to open trackers. You get used to it, but first time users don't expect this from SW in a browser.

Another thing is because of the many features, new users can be overwhelmed at first, but you can get them started in less than 30 minutes. Days of training like with some of the competing tools are not necessary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is codebeamer solving and how is that benefiting you?

You can easily integrate codeBeamer with many other tools in order to get a one-stop shop, which contains or links to all of your SW development artifacts, including Office and PDF files, Project Management and Sprint planning. It also gives you bidirectional traceability between each artifact. This is not only useful for regulated environments. If anything is changing, you know which other parts might be affected too. codeBeamer is certainly one of the best solutions for Requirements Management, the fact that it is part of an ALM makes it even better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/6/2016

"Best all in one tool I have used to manage most aspects of the ALM process"

5/5

What do you like best about codebeamer?

I have now transitioned two major healthcare software development organizations to developing state of the art mobile and cloud based software platforms.

On both occasions we evaluated tools for ALM and decided to use CodeBeamer. CodeBeamer supports the necessary processes to develop medical system software in an agile manner.

In today’s economy, it is not only important to build and deploy secure and scalable software at great speeds. You must do so while maintaining compliance with industry specific regulations.

Processes and tools that enable us to accelerate delivery and maintain compliance, are key to delivering products in regulated markets.

I have used several ALM, requirements management and agile project management tools throughout my career. I have used JIRA, VersionOne, Rally, ScrumWorks, PTC Integrity, SharePoint/Project Portfolio Manger, IBM Rational Product, Team Foundation Server, QuickTest Pro, Quality Center, etc.

I have also evaluated several other ALM products prior to using code beamer. In my opinion, CodeBeamer is the best all-in-one tool that I have found for developing software in a process centric way.

Deploying the tool was really easy. Creating workflows and Kanbans with CodeBeamer are very intuitive. Creating complex associations between different type of objects is very easy to achieve and visualize. We were able to implement an entire SAFe compliant requirements stack and get up and running in a few weeks. The tractability functionality is great and a must-have if you are in a regulated environment (62304/82304/etc)

I love the document view for all trackers. I can export Word documents that follow the corporate style-guide from within CodeBeamer.

I like the ability to create custom plug-ins and widgets . It's a great approach to creating purpose built reports and view that are pertinent.

Importing data from other processes was also a breeze through the use of REST Apis.

Every time I show auditors what we can achieve with CodeBeamer's traceability features, their jaws drop. They immediately want to learn more.

All in all, CodeBeamer ALM is phenomenal product, and Intland is a great company to partner with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

Their reporting is very flexible. I would like Intland would work on reports that agregate burndowns across multiple trackers out of the box. Need to get burndown view across multiple teams and across multiple requirements levels to give an appropriate view of how much work is left across teams.

Work on integration with IDE tools (Visual Studio Code, etc) . Developers like to be able to manager their deliverables from within IDEs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering codebeamer:

I would recommend this product to anyone who needs the flexibility to develop a modern development environment. The product is fast and web based, and it is easy to integrate into a full DevOps environment.

As compared to other ALM tools, this product is Light Weight, and engineers seem to be able to adapt to it with ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.