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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

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Verified User in Medical Devices
AM
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"A comprehensive Requirements, Risk and V&V Lifecycle Management Tool"
What do you like best about codebeamer?

Its richness of features, configurability, and input/export capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

Traceability browser is quite cumbersome to use and lacks a visualisation of the items and the links between them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Medical Devices
UM
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"CodeBeamer Power user and Admin"
What do you like best about codebeamer?

One tool for all Development related activities such as Requirements Management, Testing, Risk, but also Project Management (well suited for agile PM methods), Knowledge sharing (Wiki).

Easy to learn and be productive quickly - especially thanks to provided Project Templates, many Video Tutorials and good documentation.

Well suited for collaboration with external partners, thanks to granular Groups and Roles settings.

Good configurability (flexible enough, but not overcomplicated), Video Tutorials also for advanced topics such as Word export Templates.

Good support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

I'd appreciate a better integration with other tools such as Enterprise Architect or PLM Systems. There is some potential for improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Medical Devices
AM
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Powerful configuration options"
What do you like best about codebeamer?

That we can configure a lot (even though we cause issues with "messed up configuration" - but that's our fault), browser-based access (even for external partners) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

Loading time of certain pages. No chance of configuring basic functionality. For example, we still desire to have an option to activate the function to open/collapse below the tracker tree below the clicked item again (This feature was removed due to performance issues with some customers, but for us it was very helpful!)

No chance so far to configure the traceability that it shows only the latest test run of test cases and only the test runs of the test case itself instead of test sets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SS
Systems Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Codebeamer is very powerful software application Lifecyle management tool"
What do you like best about codebeamer?

It supports different project management methodologies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

Difficult UI to use, it has reached a tipping point that discourages users to continue to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Medical Devices
AM
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Intland is hearing to a customer and is delivering robust and flexible ALM solution."
What do you like best about codebeamer?

(experience from 2015-2017)

codeBemaer supports full ALM scope.

End-to-end traceability and configuration capability are impressive.

Many small details save you a lot of time, e.g., test parametrization, re-use of test cases, test steps.

The reporting feature helps you not to miss the project progress and support your management with night letters.

If you are missing something, no problem to write your widget or connect codeBeamer via rest API with your system.

You can do almost everything you need; you can adapt the configuration in every process directly in the codeBemaer GUI.

This tool is really flexible.

The best at the end is that intland is hearing to customer voice. The support team is aloways trying to underrstand your needs.

Many of our ideas has been accepted and implement in new release very quicly.

Beffore implementation of new features, the support team is seeking for a solution and workarround how to support the customer needs.

(by today)

I am still following the ALM market and Intland is really growing and improving the ALM solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

(experience from 2015-2017)

The advantage of flexibility and configuration complexity can also be a disadvantage. You need to define the project configuration very thoroughly.

I am missing some integrated features for project planning, including Gantt charts or collaborative/interactive planning.

Also, the support of Google suite will be appreciated.

Our team has been facing an issue of export templates' backward compatibility in the past. CodeBemear solved it by introducing new release management.

We could not assign a floating license to a dedicated project team, but an enterprise contract agreement solved our issue. In the meantime, we wrote a plugin showing which team is using how many floating licenses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stefan R.
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Functional Safety Engineer - Volkswagen AG
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Codebeamer Review"
What do you like best about codebeamer?

Currently, I'm using CodeBeamer as a developer, and me and my team, we are trying to create a framework that we could use for designing, implementing and handling projects relevant to ISO26262 and SOTIF, but I've seen that Codebeamer could be used for many other purposes as a requirements handler tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

Nothing so far! Maybe we didn't test the full depth of this software application yet, but yes, so far, so good! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Pharmaceuticals
AP
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Codebeamer flexibility is a gift and a burden"
What do you like best about codebeamer?

Support all kinds of processes, and CB is very configurable to serve all project needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

Lacking user-friendly documentation and unintuitive UI leading to slow adoption rates.

Missing key functionalities for Planning and Reporting (e.g. historical data).

Unresponsive and limited support with an intransparent organization making it unclear how to collaborate.

It does not seem like Intland is aware of how to manage a product and willing to listen to customer needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dawn Mason M.
DM
Staff Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Easy Learning Curve"
What do you like best about codebeamer?

I found CodeBeamer easy to learn and use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

As far as using Codebeamer, I don't remember anything I didn't like about the product. My observation is that it may not be as well known as a competitor so the pool of people to hire or work with using CodeBeamer may not be as large. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Automotive
UA
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Full ALM solution for Automotive Software development and Requirements Management"
What do you like best about codebeamer?

I introduced and used codeBeamer already in the second automotive startup company. codeBeamer provides a full ASPICE process capability out of the box. It supports the dynamic growth of your team while keeping you able to fulfill the automotive process requirements without too many manual tasks. It also saves you from the hassles that bigger, and older companies have with their complex mix of self-developed and commercial toolboxes to resemble a comparable ALM solution. And if there is a need for integration with external tools (e.g. customer ticket systems, CI/CD, SWQ tools) the REST API makes it easy to do.

An aspect often overlooked is the integration of SW code repositories. So full traceability from requirements, tasks, user stories to source code lines is there from the start without manual work and external scripting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

A first-time user is easily overwhelmed by the number of features included in codeBeamer. While I have no idea how to solve that, maybe a beginner/expert view mode would help in the onboarding process of new users by hiding the complex functions at first. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Great Project Management and Requirements Management system in a very responsive user interface.

Its open architecture provides 3rd party integration to Software Configuration Management systems, to other Requirements Management systems, to Test Automation (Jenkins) and Management systems.

Simple Microsoft Excel roundtrip (import/export), super helpful in discussions with local teams and small customer/supplier collaboration.

Fulfills ASPICE, provides out-of-the-box templates (e.g., Automotive, Functional Safety), and most of the features are customizable! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about codebeamer?

Filters and initial setup could feel overwhelming - luckily, the templates, help, and support make it easier.

It could be perceived as an overkill, from the perspective of a small team or a department just introduced to Application Lifecycle Management. 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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