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- Industry: Research
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Powerful and Extendible, but needs configuration
Reviewed on 2018/12/03
We're using codebeamer to support the requirement management, risk management, and software...
We're using codebeamer to support the requirement management, risk management, and software development processes for medical device development. We also run Scrum in codebemaer.
Pros
Codebeamer is very powerful, because it's very flexible.
Cons
With great flexibility come a great many settings. Some of those (such as role permissions) are very tedious (and error-prone) to set up. A few buttons with macros, or a text-based interface would have been nice.
Also, automation across trackers (say, tasks in user stories) can be tricky/not satisfactory.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
codeBeamer ALM a powerful tool
Reviewed on 2019/10/30
Basically, unites the whole process of software development, from conception of the idea to...
Basically, unites the whole process of software development, from conception of the idea to realization, to QA, to release, to bug fixing, etc.
Pros
codeBeamer ALM is extremely customisable; it covers all aspects of ALM; requirements, software architecture, computer programming, software testing, software maintenance, changes, continuous integration, project management, and release management; allows multiple teams, geographically dislocated, to seemingly work on the same project; tracks every single activity in the process; has a good potential for writing good Wiki pages; has placeholder for technical documentation; practically every tracker type item has comments, attachment, description, etc.; well established links between trackers, downstream references; customisable automation, say you can generate downstream task when system requirements change to a state; completely configurable state diagrams, etc.; excellent testing framework, test cases, test sets, test runs, etc.
Cons
As with every system, the value of it depends on how much you put into it; but IMHO codeBeamer ALM has a very high potential to give you exactly what you need from an ALM tool; say there is integration with SVN, etc.; there is a danger of overcomplicating, but that is the price of very flexible customisation; if you design your process well, you should be OK, etc.
- Industry: Utilities
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10
CodeBeamer is the worst software tool ever created.
Reviewed on 2024/01/23
Flat out terrible. Worst software tool I have ever experienced. JUNK!!!!
Flat out terrible. Worst software tool I have ever experienced. JUNK!!!!
Pros
Absolutely Nothing.
Cons
The instructional videos look nothing like the actual tool. The instructional videos and the help feature for CodeBeamer are worthless. Just garbage. I can't follow any of the instructions.
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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We invested significant effort to configure codeBeamer and realized significant benefit in...
Reviewed on 2017/08/01
Pros
Very flexible and powerful platform that can be adapted in a variety of ways to align to your process and practices for managing your application lifecycle. Expect to invest time and effort to configure the platform to meet your needs and expect significant return on your investment.
Over a 6 month window we rolled out codeBeamer capabilities for:
1) Requirements Management
2) Risk Management
3) Architecture and Design Management
4) Test Management
5) Defect Management
6) Scrum Team Rituals (Sprints, Stories, Tasks, ...)
codeBeamer is now our single digital system of record for the full Application Lifecycle.
Cons
It can be challenging to debug why a user is unable to execute a task given the intersection of
1) license constraints
2) project permissions
3) tracker permissions
4) field permissions
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
codeBeamer keeps one's promise other ALM's don't even dare to give
Reviewed on 2018/12/06
Before I joined the codeBeamer world, I worked with other ALM tools. It was really a hard time,...
Before I joined the codeBeamer world, I worked with other ALM tools. It was really a hard time, lots of things didn't come together or were poor in performance. I remember my first steps in codeBeamer. It was like an epiphany - suddenly everything makes sense and it's really that easy to accomplish. Actually the tool supports you in collaboration and structured workflow.
Pros
Simply: it works!
Seriously. I worked with other ALM tools. Either the tools didn't cover (understand) the ALM universe, or the tools were glued together resulting in diminished functionality or even failure.
Supected links. Traceability browser. Test coverage. Those tools work perfectly in codeBeamer.
Cons
Sometimes it's difficult to handle WYSIWYG. Implementation is done with a third party tool (Froala) and codeBeamer is bound to its limitations and drawbacks.
Usually I get my ideas realized within the HTML editor, but sometimes you have to struggle a little.
- Industry: Research
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Great ALM solution for managing large number of projects
Reviewed on 2017/05/02
Pros
Good agile development features including Kanban board and Scrum process artefacts
Easy management of integrated SCM repositories (Git, SVN)
Good handling of project templates to specify and provide organisation specific development process templates
REST API for a flexible integration of CodeBeamer with other tools
Improved dashboard functionalities for project and user dashboards
Cons
It would be great to get more out-of-the-box integrations with other popular parts of a development toolchain like: Slack, IntelliJ
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
codeBeamer is very good to use it for handling/tracking requirments and to create specification...
Reviewed on 2018/03/14
Pros
Tracking the requirements
Tracability between requirements
Create and use the libraries
Baslining of the specifications
Ajust the workflows of each Tracker/department
Release management
SW-test reuse
Change management for the requirements/test
Cons
There are tree ways to create the authorization/user-management and this is sometimes difficult because of the roles for each project. If in our template project is create a new role we have to make the input in each prject manually.
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Well working Application Lifecycle Management Tool
Reviewed on 2019/04/12
Pros
+ Everything in one tool
+ interfaces to other tools
+ flexibility to adopt to own needs
Cons
user experience. one example is 3 different spots for "Save" buttons. The GUI can be confusing...
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Great tool
Reviewed on 2019/05/14
Pros
- Easy to use
- Great UI and easy to learn
- Rest API
Cons
- User Management with rights and roles.
- Import Export of ReqIf files.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Good management system for software development tickets.
Reviewed on 2018/06/14
Pros
I appreciate the ability to link entries. We have FRS, development, and testing tickets all linked for product releases and it does a great job of helping organize that information.
Cons
I find it cumbersome to assign certain attributes. The pick lists can be difficult to search and sometimes it is hard to determine the correct choice based on those lists. It can be frustrating.
- Industry: Insurance
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Very good ALM tool with best features of many other tools.
Reviewed on 2017/05/05
Pros
* adaptability
* large scale of functionality (from requirements to implementation, to testing, releasemanagement and Support)
* very good documentation about codebeamer
* webinars from intlant
* full-text search
Cons
* too many posibilities for filtering or reporting of issues with too different features (the one you use allways needs a feature of another search functionality)
* too less posibilities for dashboards (maybe changes with 8.1)
* project management (ok its not the focus of this tool, but it would be nice)
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Good for the whole software development lifecycle with documentation
Reviewed on 2020/10/08
Overall I liked the product very much and it did grow very good in regards to modern UI over the...
Overall I liked the product very much and it did grow very good in regards to modern UI over the time I used it. In regards of feature richness it had been very mature already when I started using it.
Pros
Highliy flexible and customizable. You can define your own processes and lifecycles and have a huge Roles & Permissions system where you can configure anything you can think of (even better than in Jira).
Also you can document everything in the integrated
Cons
At least back in 2006-2012 (when I used it) the prices were made for bigger companies only (100+ employees) as the cheapest price was still very high.
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Good usedfull tool to manage a complete product development.
Reviewed on 2018/03/14
Pros
This software offers a lot of functions which we use for product development.
I use it for development of automotive products. Due to the huge amount of options it is easy to customize the software for your needs.
Cons
Sometimes it is not easy to find all options in the software. The menu can be interleaved so you need some time to find the option.
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Using of codeBeamer ALM
Reviewed on 2019/03/14
We are working with codeBeamer to fullfill the requirements from Automotive Spice and for this...
We are working with codeBeamer to fullfill the requirements from Automotive Spice and for this usecase the tool is very good for. Also we are working for medical products and with codeBeamer it is very simple to change the workflows from automotive projects to medical projects.
Pros
The easy way to create a traceability from the requirements to the tests.
Cons
The user management is not so easy to handle with
- Industry: Real Estate
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
A Tool for all your needs. From document exchange to requirements engineering.
Reviewed on 2018/03/20
All Informations and almost all processes needed for business in one software.
All Informations and almost all processes needed for business in one software.
Pros
Multiple features along ALM and customizeability of the product. The integration of the multiple features in one product.
Cons
Features leave the product and information about that is missing. Qualtity of the .0-releases could be better.
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Very powerful tool, very stable, not so easy to use for non-IT persons
Reviewed on 2018/03/16
Complete documentation of all artefacts along the software development process, flexible workflows,...
Complete documentation of all artefacts along the software development process, flexible workflows, full traceability, all stakeholders in the process working in the same integrated environment
Pros
very powerful, with a multitude of functionality, not only to tracker the artefacts along the software development process, but also to collect all other types of documents, manage teams, great reporting, basically any object can be described and traced in this tool.
Cons
In some parts the usability is difficult, especially for non-IT people, who are coming from a document-oriented way of working.
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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The codeBeamer is a great ALM tool, which difficulty lies in the first steps, a proper project...
Reviewed on 2018/03/23
Pros
It's a browser based tool and for almost every funktion a GUI or WYSIWYG is available. It includes all necessary parts for complex development project; therefore you can avoid a tool break between a classic requirement management tool such as DOORS and a test management tool. This is one advantage use codeBeamer compared to other tools on the market.
Cons
The complexity you're faced with during the first setup of a complex project. The user interface itself is easy to handle, but the working process behind the UI is not self explained. Dashboards, Reports and Trackers are loaded every time they are opened. For elements with big data this lasts quite some time.
Therefore it is not helpful for newcomers to codeBeamer that the customer support only works with a ticket system. It would be appreciated also to provide a german speaking customer support.
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
codeBeamer Review
Reviewed on 2018/12/06
Complete coverage of our software development process with full traceability in a strongly...
Complete coverage of our software development process with full traceability in a strongly regulated medical environment
Pros
The generic approach which more or less allows to define any object or artefact needed along the software development lifecycle in the tool
Cons
It is a very good tool for IT minded users, but other users may struggle with the usability and the complexity
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
I use it to document generation and life-cycle management(documents>review>release).
Reviewed on 2018/05/01
Can used to work on a real -time project even a free trial
Can used to work on a real -time project even a free trial
Pros
Simple core design
Easily generate documents based on trackers
Integration with wiki and managing bugs
Cons
UI needs some improvement(performance)
Does not support inline documents for live docs
Ajax unable to handle large datasets
- Industry: Pharmaceuticals
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Codebeamer offers a creative and thorough environment for us to creat and manage projects and...
Reviewed on 2017/06/09
The ability to collaborate with my team and others, working towards the completion of tasks and...
The ability to collaborate with my team and others, working towards the completion of tasks and projects of all sizes.
Pros
I very much appreciate the flexibility of the Codebeamer structure. The option to group items by project or by type figures greatly into our staff's needs. The ability to sort by type of item (and task) allows our team to save time and increase productivity.
Cons
I have utilized Codebeamer for several years and have yet to stumble on a hurdle or work-staller. I think it works great - as designed.
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Useful tool with week spots
Reviewed on 2020/03/04
Pros
Good for requirement management. Integration with OFFICE, DOORS and JIRA helps a lot. Integration with GIT. Great review hub functionality. Very flexible and configurable. Stable with new featuers comming fast.
Good support from Intland. Documentation available and helpful.
Cons
User interface far from good - partially confusing, partially just ugly.
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
lots of possibilities need to be configured first, which is almost not feasible for a new user
Reviewed on 2018/03/22
Pros
a: CodeBeamer is browser based, that is very convinient
b: a GUI or WYSIWYG is available for almost every function
Cons
a: unfortunately there is no german speaking customer support I can explain my problems
b: dashboards, reports and trackers are loaded every time after opening - this lasts very long for elements with big data
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Very powerful, a bit complicated
Reviewed on 2017/05/31
Pros
I like this for our requirements management that mates with test cases for a full requirements to test result traceability.
Cons
At times the interface seems a bit "clunky" and not as intuitive as desired. There are arrows in some spots and pull-downs in other spots. Once you figure out the interface things go smoothly
- Industry: Medical Devices
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Easy to Use and customizeable Tool
Reviewed on 2018/11/30
Pros
- Ease of Use
- Service and Support available
- Customizeable Tool
- Variety of Functionalities
- Reporting possible
- Versioning System and Audit Trail
Cons
- Not possible to adapt Codebeamer to some special company's processes
- Few Useability Bugs
- Industry: Medical Devices
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Smooth install with Validation.
Reviewed on 2017/08/05
Control and documentation of our development process
Control and documentation of our development process
Pros
The configurability of this software is outstanding. For each item, you can vary the content, the workflow and the access by status, user and role to the content. We have been able to make the tools conform to our process rather than conform our process to the tool.
Cons
The various licenses control a bewildering number of grants and denials of capabilities. Some things are a great surprise.