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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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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.
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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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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.
codebeamer Demo - Risk Management
Build safe and reliable products, and comply with relevant regulations.
codebeamer Demo - Testing
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.
codebeamer Demo - Workflows
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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139 codebeamer Reviews
4.3 out of 5
139 codebeamer Reviews
4.3 out of 5

codebeamer Pros and Cons

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Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Complete Regulatory Compliance QMS System"
What do you like best about codebeamer?

The best part about codeBeamer is how flexible the configuration is. We use the medical device template as a base, but we have to customize just about every aspect of the workflow to align with our company goals while maintaining regulatory expectations. We can customize every tracker field, user permission, and workflow to our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

For the 9.X version of codeBeamer, there are issues with the branching feature that prevents our organization from using the feature. Intland has informed us that a newer version has fixed this issue, but our organization has not yet had the opportunity to upgrade our server due to the regulatory requirement that any new server must be completely re-validated and re-verified as fit for use. This V&V activity is extensive and requires time and resources, which we have not yet committed to the project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace
EA
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"codebeamer is the best ROI of any software tool MIS has purchased"
What do you like best about codebeamer?

ALM, Change Management and Requirements Management are simply the best. We rely upon it heavily for Bug Tracking, Continuous Testing Platform, DevOps and Development and even activity tracking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

There is nothing we dislike, it continues to evolve faster than we do. I was the sponsor, still a user, and once an admin Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JS
Software Validation Manager
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Codebeamer is a comprehensive solution for requirements management, testing and traceability"
What do you like best about codebeamer?

Codebeamer is powerful and flexible. We can customize and configure our projects to capture exactly the data we need and align with our existing processes and workflows. Codebeamer lets us easily show traceability between requirement specifications, test runs, risk items, and releases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

Codebeamer has a broad range of capabilities and is highly configurable. Some users might find that codebeamer can have a steep learning curve as compared to simpler software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Industrial Automation
AI
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"CB review"
What do you like best about codebeamer?

So far we still have very limited knowledge with Code Beamer. The tool is efficient to support various processes. The template modification is easy. The training and support from Intland are very quick and professional. Very much appreciated here! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

We would appreciate that the default template is more tailored to support basic development processes. The biggest challenge/surprise for us is to actually define everything from scratch, while we believed that using CB would ensure us the compliance to the standard processes (like proposed by Matlab/Simulink). Well, this can also be a misunderstanding from our side from the very beginning... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Defense & Space
AD
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Codebeamer has been a great alternative to other, more rigid Lifecycle Management tools"
What do you like best about codebeamer?

The flexabitliy in being able to tailor processes based upon our needs without having to rely on additinal consultants or level 3 or 4 vendor support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

Some additional feature sets or widgets would be helpful (Gantt Charts etc). Codebeamer is great from an Agile / Product Owner perspective, but we have reverted to using other systems for traditional Project Management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OD
Research Scientist and OMSLab Director
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"codebeamer @ Colorado State University"
What do you like best about codebeamer?

One-stop-shop solution for software lifecycle management; no patchworking of individual tools; homogenous VCS management and integration; Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

tracker config (layout) and permission management sometimes tideous; user management concerning users, roles, and groups is too multi-layered; control of anonymous access non-intuitive and limited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Medical Devices
CM
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great tool for regulatory ALM with just a few quirks"
What do you like best about codebeamer?

This solution offers a lot in a single package. All the expected functionality is present in requirement management, manual test management, agile project management, and document management. Some areas go well beyond the usual and offer exceptionally rich functionality or ease of use. Such areas are e.g. reviews and the import features, which include excellent ReqIF support.

The system has been designed form ground up to fullfill the needs of regulated industries, with emphasis to issues like traceability, electronic signatures, audit log etc. Industry-specific templates are available and they can expedite on-boarding.

The user interface has a clear and fresh look. Even system administration is fairly straightforward, although in many cases, one has to revert to JSON editing. Everything can still be managed through the web interface.

The hosted environment has been very dependable with no performance issues, and support from Intland helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

Exporting decent documents is not as easy as it could. Getting the Word templates correct takes a lot of trial and error, and options for conditional formatting and content are limited. This tool would benefit significantly from a good integrated reporting engine.

Some terminology choices are unfamiliar to casual users; not many have heard of "trackers" before.

The system relies very heavily on various templates, meaning also that there are very few options for global data configuration. You have to have our company-specific templates ready before creating new projects, or you end up duplicating configuration changes to several projects.

My client is using codebeamer X, and it shares its foundation with the more mature codebeamer. The user's guide of codebeamer X is written on a high-level only, and with many technical issues one has to revert back to the codebeamer user's guide. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Timothy P.
TP
Systems Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"User friendly and powerful tool"
What do you like best about codebeamer?

During the selection process for codebeamerX it was clear it had the best UI out of all of the candidate software. We worked with a few companies to conduct user trials and out of all of them our engineers commented that it felt like the easiest software to use with minimal training. As the lead engineer in selecting codebeamerX the staff we very helpful, showed how codebeamerX could be tailored for our requirements and overall felt like they wanted to help us, not just sell us a software tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

Some of the views could be more customizable, but this is a small problem fixed by an easy workaround. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RA
Product
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Best ALM solution for PLM/ALM integration"
What do you like best about codebeamer?

With minimal effort, codebeamer integrates with most PLM solutions to enable end-to-end traceability and provides OOTB templates to meet functional safety guidelines for various industries. I managed ALM/PLM integrations and saw firsthand how codebeamer supported most use cases with minimal effort for Customers in different industries (Automotive/Hi-tech/Heavy Equipment). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

I didn't see anything that this product was missing. I do think more on-demand training videos would help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Automotive
UA
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"codebeamer"
What do you like best about codebeamer?

For the first instance, I had in house training. The training material, trainer expertise, and overall training workflow was best and easy to understood.

Now I am using CB for most of the project work which includes all the aspects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

I can not find dislike but long term feedback from the Users would be a good idea and implement the required change to meet the trend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing Insights

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

4 months

Return on Investment

21 months

Average Discount

16%

Perceived Cost

$$$$$
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