In this blog, we preview a section of our recent customer story. To download the entire story, visit “Onera Health Chooses Jama Connect® to Provide Flexibility and Consistency for Sleep Diagnostic System Development Customer Story”

Onera Health Chooses Jama Connect to Provide Flexibility and Consistency for Sleep Diagnostic System Development Customer Story

About Onera

Onera Health develops clinical-grade remote diagnostics and monitoring solutions, making home polysomnography broadly accessible and user-friendly for anyone who needs it, wherever they are.

Customer Story Overview

Onera Health has developed a sleep diagnostic system utilizing four patch-based sensors that patients could apply at home. Initially, the Onera STS 1 product development team conducted pilot studies and relied on Microsoft Excel and Word to manage requirements and create the necessary documentation for successful Medical Device Directive (MDD) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) submissions.

With the development of the company’s second-generation commercial product, the Onera STS 2, and its integration into Onera’s enhanced end-to-end solution, Onera Health took an active approach in recognizing and acknowledging the increased complexity of its second product. The company began seeking a more structured procedure for managing requirements, tests, and risks.

The new solution needed to provide better access, efficiency, and collaboration for teams working in different disciplines so they could accelerate development with confidence. Onera Health chose Jama Connect because it enabled faster iterations, greater consistency of requirements after changes are made, and visibility into risks and related mitigations.

RELATED: Buyer’s Guide: Selecting a Requirements Management and Traceability Solution for Medical Device & Life Sciences

With Jama Connect, Users Experience:

• Faster iterations on requirements due to less time spent in alignment, review, and audit meetings
• Consistency of requirements, terminology, configurations, and documents for all teams affected by design changes
• Visibility into risk identifications and mitigations for internal and regulators’ teams

“We needed a more structured approach due to the complexity involved in maintaining consistency across our entire documentation set. With our first generation, tracking the impact of a design change or updates impacting multiple disciplines was time-consuming and came with its own challenges.” – PIETER ERMERS, FOUNDER AND VP QUALITY & REGULATORY, ONERA HEALTH

Challenges

Complexity of product design, regulations, and document strategy lacking efficiency, scalability, consistency, and accessibility.

Managing requirements and tests, while maintaining document consistency, was generally challenging due to product and regulatory complexity, as well as the limitations of an on-premises document database. Additionally, accessing the database required a VPN which can slow work or interrupt progress when the connection was down.

“We chose Jama Connect because of its intuitive user experience, cloud-based availability, and flexible output that our global team needed. Jama Software Consultants were very supportive in helping us understand how to set up Jama Connect to achieve our goals.” – PIETER ERMERS, FOUNDER AND VP, QUALITY AND REGULATORY, ONERA HEALTH

RELATED: Jama Connect for Medical Device & Life Sciences Development Datasheet

Evaluation

One cloud-based system, accessible and user-friendly, with integrated collaboration and reviews, automated test input, and flexible reporting.

The evaluation demonstrated that Jama Connect could easily be accessed and used to manage requirements, tests, and risk based on its intuitive user interface, authoring, collaboration, reviews, and verification. Automated input of test results and flexible output in generating reports provide a tailor-fit to the company’s needs.

“When making changes in a requirement used in multiple sensors, we must maintain consistency of requirements, tests, and documents across teams and disciplines. Jama Connect’s structured approach for automatically checking that everything is covered is very beneficial for us.” – PIETER ERMERS, FOUNDER AND VP, QUALITY AND REGULATORY, ONERA HEALTH

Outcomes

With Jama Connect, the Onera team has experienced the following benefits:

• Faster iteration on requirements due to less time spent in alignment, review, and audit meetings
• Consistency of requirements, terminology, configurations, and documents for all teams affected by design changes
• Visibility into risk identifications and mitigations for internal and regulators’ teams

Learn how Jama Connect helps medical device companies succeed with higher quality and faster time to market.

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Onera Health Chooses Jama Connect to Provide Flexibility and Consistency for Sleep Diagnostic System Development

To read the entire Press Release, visit “Jama Software Launches Jama Connect Availability in AWS Marketplace”

Jama Software Launches Jama Connect^® Availability in AWS Marketplace

Jama Software, the industry-leading requirements management and traceability solution provider, announced today that Jama Connect, and its add-ons, Jama Connect Interchange™, and Jama Connect Advisor™ are now available in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Jama Connect, designed for teams prioritizing precision and collaboration, streamlines requirements gathering, management, and validation with unmatched efficiency. Now available in AWS Marketplace, customers can easily access Jama Connect, along with Jama Connect Interchange and Jama Connect Advisor—simplifying purchase, management, and integration while enhancing traceability, reducing risks, and accelerating time to market.

“Jama Software’s partnership with AWS highlights our commitment to cloud native and scalable cloud technology. Our collaboration with AWS allows us to work hand in hand with their consultancy services to deliver best of breed cloud native and scalable cloud solutions to our clients. AWS is committed to providing leading edge AI technologies in a ubiquitous manner to their client base. Jama Software leverages this to deliver secure, ethical, and reliable AI technology at the speed of market. Our recent public listing on the AWS marketplace furthers our commitment to this partnership and the success of our clients.” – Jim Davidson, Chief Technology Officer at Jama Software

Jama Connect and its add-ons, Jama Connect Interchange and Jama Connect Advisor are now generally available in AWS Marketplace. For more information on Jama Software and its offerings, please visit https://www.jamasoftware.com/.

To read the complete press release, click here.

About Jama Software

Jama Software is focused on maximizing innovation success in multidisciplinary engineering organizations. Numerous firsts for humanity in fields such as fuel cells, electrification, space, software-defined vehicles, surgical robotics, and more all rely on Jama Connect requirements management software to minimize the risk of defects, rework, cost overruns, and recalls. Using Jama Connect, engineering organizations can now intelligently manage the development process by leveraging Live Traceability™ across best-of-breed tools to measurably improve outcomes. Our rapidly growing customer base spans the automotive, medical device, life sciences, semiconductor, aerospace & defense, industrial manufacturing, consumer electronics, financial services, and insurance industries.

For more information about Jama Connect services, please visit jamasoftware.com

Data-Driven Reports Show Jama Connect^® Outperforms Key Competitors Polarion and Codebeamer

Finding the right requirements management software can make or break your product development process. With countless options flooding the market, how do you separate genuine value from marketing hype? Two new comprehensive reports from SoftwareReviews provide the answer with data-driven insights that cut through the noise.

These head-to-head comparisons pit Jama Connect against two major competitors: Polarion ALM and Codebeamer. Based on verified user feedback from the July 2025 Data Quadrant Award, the results paint a clear picture of industry leadership that might surprise you.

The Data Behind the Decisions

SoftwareReviews, a division of Info-Tech Research Group with over two decades of research experience, doesn’t rely on vendor claims or marketing materials. Their methodology digs deep into real user experiences, collecting over 130 data points on each product across the entire software lifecycle.

Every review undergoes rigorous quality assurance to ensure authenticity. Only verified users with legitimate credentials can participate, creating a trustworthy foundation for decision-making. This approach reveals insights you won’t find in traditional product comparisons or vendor demonstrations.

The reports examine both quantitative metrics and qualitative feedback, measuring everything from technical capabilities to emotional satisfaction. This comprehensive view helps you understand not just what the software can do, but how it feels to work with it daily.

RELATED: The Benefits of Jama Connect: Supercharge Your Systems Development and Engineering Process

Five Critical Areas That Define Success

Strategy and Innovation

Your requirements management platform needs to evolve with your business. The reports evaluate how well each vendor demonstrates forward-thinking innovation and supports customer growth initiatives. Jama Connect shows particularly strong performance in helping customers innovate and continually improving their platform.

Users consistently report that Jama Connect inspires innovation within their organizations, while competitors struggle to maintain the same level of strategic vision. This matters because today’s software purchase becomes tomorrow’s competitive advantage — or disadvantage.

Service Experience

Technical support can make or break your software experience. When critical projects hang in the balance, you need responsive, effective support that treats your business with respect. The data reveals significant differences in how vendors handle customer relationships.

Jama Connect users report notably higher satisfaction with service quality, describing interactions as respectful, efficient, and time-saving. This translates to faster problem resolution and less downtime for your team.

Product Experience

Features matter, but user experience determines adoption success. The reports examine how well each platform enhances performance, maintains reliability, and protects organizational data. These factors directly impact productivity and user satisfaction across your entire team.

The comparison reveals substantial gaps in product experience metrics, with Jama Connect consistently outperforming competitors in reliability and productivity enhancement. Users describe the platform as performance-enhancing rather than burdensome.

Negotiation and Contract

Software procurement involves complex negotiations that set the tone for your entire vendor relationship. The reports evaluate how vendors handle contract discussions, pricing transparency, and initial relationship building.

Data shows marked differences in negotiation approaches, with some vendors prioritizing client interests while others focus primarily on their own objectives. These patterns often predict long-term satisfaction levels.

Conflict Resolution

Disputes and disagreements inevitably arise during software relationships. How vendors handle these situations reveals their true character and commitment to customer success. The reports examine trustworthiness, fairness, and integrity under pressure.

Results show significant variation in conflict resolution approaches, with some vendors maintaining professionalism while others become adversarial. Understanding these tendencies helps you choose partners who will support your success even when challenges arise.

RELATED: IBM Customers Choose Jama Connect the Most

Beyond Surface-Level Comparisons

Traditional software evaluations focus on feature checklists and pricing tables. These reports dig deeper into the human elements that determine real-world success. They examine emotional footprints, measuring user sentiment across multiple dimensions of vendor relationships.

The Net Emotional Footprint Score captures user feelings about vendor trustworthiness, respect, and fairness. These emotional responses predict long-term satisfaction better than technical specifications alone. The data reveals substantial differences between vendors in building positive user relationships.

Users don’t just evaluate software — they evaluate the entire experience of working with a vendor. This includes everything from initial sales interactions through ongoing support relationships. The reports capture these nuanced experiences that traditional product reviews miss.

RELATED: Companies Choose Jama Connect Over Codebeamer

Comprehensive Feature Analysis

The reports examine 11 core product features specific to requirements management, including:

• Agile Work Management: Sprint planning, backlog management, and artifact hierarchy
• ALM Integration: Cross-phase artifact integration through APIs and internal systems
• Analytics and Reporting: Real-time dashboards and data extraction capabilities
• Artifact Management: Creation, reuse, and audit capabilities for project artifacts
• Collaboration: Real-time work sharing and communication features

Each feature receives detailed evaluation based on actual user experiences rather than vendor specifications. This reveals gaps between promised functionality and delivered value.

The analysis shows consistent patterns of performance across feature sets, helping you identify vendors who excel broadly rather than in isolated areas. This comprehensive view prevents costly surprises after implementation.

Vendor Capability Deep Dive

Beyond product features, the reports evaluate 11 essential vendor capabilities that determine long-term partnership success:

• Business Value Creation: Ability to generate organizational value
• Vendor Support: Quality and timeliness of customer assistance
• Usability and Intuitiveness: Learning curves and adoption barriers
• Implementation Ease: Deployment complexity and timeline predictability
• Data Integration: Compatibility with existing systems

These capabilities often matter more than individual features because they affect every aspect of your software experience. Vendor support quality, for instance, impacts how quickly you resolve issues and implement new functionality.

The data reveals significant performance variations across these capabilities, with some vendors excelling consistently while others show uneven performance. This information helps you avoid vendors who might excel in sales presentations but struggle with execution.

RELATED: Discover Why Polarion Users Are Switching to Jama Connect

Making Data-Driven Decisions

Requirements management software represents a significant investment in both financial and organizational terms. The wrong choice creates cascading problems that affect project timelines, team productivity, and business outcomes. These reports provide the evidence needed to make confident decisions.

User feedback reveals real-world performance under actual business conditions. You’ll learn how software performs during high-stress periods, how vendors respond to urgent support requests, and how well platforms scale with growing requirements.

The comparative format lets you evaluate trade-offs between different approaches. Some vendors prioritize feature breadth while others focus on user experience. Understanding these strategic differences helps you align vendor strengths with your organizational priorities.

Your Next Steps

Don’t let requirements management software decisions rest on vendor demonstrations and marketing materials alone. These comprehensive reports provide verified user insights that reveal true performance patterns and vendor capabilities.

The data shows clear performance leaders across multiple evaluation categories, but your specific needs might prioritize different factors. Download both reports to understand the complete competitive landscape and identify the best fit for your organization.

Each report includes detailed breakdowns of user satisfaction metrics, feature comparisons, and vendor capability assessments. You’ll gain access to insights from verified users who’ve implemented these platforms in real business environments.

Requirements management affects every aspect of product development. Choose your platform based on comprehensive data rather than surface-level impressions. These reports provide the evidence you need to make decisions that drive long-term success.

Download the comprehensive head-to-head comparison reports against Polarion, Codebeamer, and IBM^® DOORS Next^® today and discover why users consistently choose Jama Connect for their requirements management needs.

Note: This article was drafted with the aid of AI. Additional content, edits for accuracy, and industry expertise by Mario Maldari, Makenna Imholte, McKenzie Jonsson, and Decoteau Wilkerson.

In this blog, we share exciting upcoming Jama Software Community Events!

From AI to Roadmaps: Your Guide to Jama Software’s Upcoming Community Events

Are you ready to connect, learn, and grow with a community of like-minded professionals?

Jama Software Community Events are here to empower our customers with insights, strategies, and tools to maximize your success with Jama Connect^®.

Whether you’re tackling challenges in requirements traceability, regulatory compliance, or product and systems development, these events are your gateway to meaningful conversations and actionable solutions.

Please note: These events are for existing customers only. If you are not currently a customer and would like to start a free 30-day trial, click here!

Here’s a sneak peek at the exciting lineup of upcoming events:

1. Explore Customer Success Journeys

Date: August 27, 2025 | Time: 8:00 a.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. CEST
Discover how tailored support solutions can align with your business goals. Learn about Premium, Strategic, and Essentials Support Plans, and gain practical strategies to enhance efficiency and ROI. Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your experience with Jama Software.

Register Now!

2. Ask Me Anything (AMA) with our VP of Solutions & Support

Date: September 24, 2025 | Time: 8:00 a.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. CEST
Get exclusive insights from Jama Software’s VP of Solutions & Support, Preston Mitchell. Learn time-saving strategies, actionable tips, and answers to your burning questions in this interactive session.

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3. The Future of Requirements Management with AI

Date: October 15, 2025 | Time: 8:00 a.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. CEST
Join Senior Product Manager Katie Huckett to explore how AI is revolutionizing requirements management and product development. Gain insights into AI-driven tools that enhance clarity, precision, and collaboration.

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RELATED: Buyer’s Guide: Selecting a Requirements Management and Traceability Solution

4. Product Roadmap Session

Date: November 5, 2025 | Time: 8:00 a.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. CEST
Be the first to learn about Jama Software’s upcoming features and enhancements. This session offers a glimpse into the future of innovation and how it can empower your workflows.

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5. Reflect on Jama Connect’s Top Features of 2025

Date: December 3, 2025 | Time: 8:00 a.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. CEST
Take a look back at the standout features of Jama Connect in 2025. Learn how these innovations have driven efficiency and collaboration and discover how to maximize their impact in your organization.

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6. Lean Coffee with Jama Software

Date: January 22, 2026 | Time: 8:00 a.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. CEST
Kick off 2026 with an interactive Lean Coffee session. Collaborate with experts and peers to tackle challenges in product, systems, and software development.

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7. Fireside Chat with Jama Software

Date: February 10, 2026 | Time: 8:00 a.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. CEST
Engage in a conversation with a leading Jama Software executive. Get firsthand insights into the latest updates, upcoming developments, and strategies to drive impactful results.

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RELATED: Jama Connect Continues to Dominate as the #1 Leader in Requirements Management Software

Why Attend?

• Learn from Experts: Gain actionable insights from industry leaders and Jama Software experts.
• Collaborate with Peers: Exchange ideas and strategies with power users.
• Stay Ahead: Discover the latest innovations and trends shaping the future of product development.

Don’t miss these opportunities to connect, learn, and grow. Reserve your spot today and take the first step toward transforming your potential into action.

CLICK HERE: Explore All Events and Register Now!

Jama Connect^® Features in Five: Jama Connect Advisor™

Learn how you can supercharge your systems development process! In this blog series, we’re pulling back the curtains to give you a look at a few of Jama Connect’s powerful features… in under five minutes.

In this Features in Five video, Katie Huckett, Senior Product Manager at Jama Software, will introduce viewers to Jama Connect Advisor™, Jama Connect’s natural language processing (NLP) tool, designed to improve requirement quality.

In this video, learn how Jama Connect Advisor enhances your product management by:

• • Reducing authoring errors
  • Increasing clarity
  • Optimizing foundational product needs and requirements managed in Jama Connect Cloud

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

Katie Huckett: Hi. I’m Katie Huckett, Senior Product Manager at Jama Software. In this video, I’ll introduce you to Jama Connect Advisor, an add-on to Jama Connect Cloud that uses engineering-based natural language processing to optimize requirements authoring. It helps you write effective, well-organized requirements with speed and accuracy.

We’ll explore how Jama Connect Advisor can enhance your product development by reducing errors, increasing clarity, and optimizing the foundational requirements managed within Jama Connect Cloud. Jama Connect Advisor is designed to help teams author complex requirements quickly and accurately using AI and engineering-focused natural language processing. It minimizes disruption to engineering workflows while improving quality. How does it work?

Jama Connect Advisor applies the globally recognized INCOSE requirements rules and EARS syntax patterns. Even experienced engineers find it challenging to follow all forty INCOSE rules and six EARS patterns while writing even a single requirement.

That’s where Jama Connect Advisor steps in to streamline the process and enhance productivity. Now I’d like to show you a demonstration of how Jama Connect Advisor enables teams to intelligently improve requirements quality and usability, minimize requirement ambiguity and contradictions, which are the source of seventy to eighty-five percent of rework, and save time authoring, reviewing, analyzing, and updating requirement statements.

RELATED: Jama Connect Advisor™ Datasheet

Huckett: There are a few different ways that you can use Jama Connect Advisor within the Jama Connect Cloud application.

Let’s start by adding a new requirement. Once you’ve added your requirement into the description field, you’ll notice the highlighted text to analyze the prompt underneath the description field. Once you’re ready, go ahead and select the text that you’d like to analyze and select analyze selection.

Underneath the description field, you’ll see a quick summary of your INCOSE score as well as any errors found, if any. You can move on at this point and save your item, or you can go ahead and view the details if you’d like to make changes at this point. So I can see on the slide over panel, the text that’s been analyzed, what my INCOSE score is, eighty-seven percent, and then the different identifiers that I’ve flagged it for the INCOSE rules. Underneath, you’ll see the EARS errors, if any were found. You’ll also see some information about the EARS notation pattern that your requirement might align with. I’m gonna go ahead and save this item, and I’ll wait to make my changes in a moment.

Now that I’ve saved that, let’s say I want to analyze a whole group of existing requirements. I’m going to go ahead and analyze all items within my set on the side here. So I’ll select all items and you’ll notice the batch analyze button, appears in the top right-hand corner. Once you select that, you’ll be given a summary view of what will be analyzed. So you can see I’ve got seventeen items selected here. All seventeen of those items happen to have a Jama Connect Advisor-enabled field on it, and then we have thirty-four fields per, these items. So it appears we have two Jama Connect Advisor enabled fields, per each item within this group.

Once you select analyze, the slide of our panel will pop up on the right-hand side. You’ll notice your group of requirements. Each item is listed at the top within this drop-down. You can navigate with the drop-down or the directional arrows. And then underneath, we also have a field drop-down. So as I mentioned, we have two fields per item type on this particular example. So I can swap between those as well either using the drop down or the directional arrows to move through.

So now that I’ve come in here and I see the, recommendations, I’d like to go in and edit my item to make some changes. So here, I want to remove some of the items that were flagged. I’m gonna remove this and just update this to say, you know, users can create a login using we don’t wanna use pronouns, per that flag. So I’m gonna change this to using an Apple ID, email.

RELATED: The Essential Guide to Requirements Management and Traceability

Huckett: I’m gonna update this to be an actual logical condition with or social media. And then I’m gonna remove the example of LinkedIn because I don’t necessarily need that, and I’ll just update that to end the sentence there. Once I’ve made my changes, I can select the text again in the edit quick edit mode, analyze the selection, and I can see here my INCOSE rule score is now a hundred percent. I still have to deal with my ears errors, but so far so good on INCOSE.

I can view my details again in the slide-over panel and update here. I can also close that back out, and I can return to my batch analysis results by selecting the latest analysis link at the top, and that will take me right back in where I was before I made those changes. Now I can go ahead and save my item and complete those changes going forward. If I want to work through these requirements across multiple sessions or maybe I just wanna have a benchmark of what my score was before I started making my edits, you can then generate a report within the slide-over panel.

That will open up in your reports history page where you can download the report into Excel.

Once you open the report that was generated, we have a few different tabs you can work through in the worksheet. The first one just gives you some general information. What’s the average score of your requirements, the minimum, and maximum score, your total number of valid requirements, and then if you did have any invalid requirements as well. The file analysis reports, tab will give you a complete breakdown of all the requirements that were analyzed, their score, and then any corresponding INCOSE flags that may have popped up within the analysis.

We also have an explanation of each INCOSE flag as long as with their associated description. And then if your, report did happen to include any invalid requirements for any reason, those will be included in their separate sheet as well. Thank you for watching this demonstration of Jama Connect Advisor. If you would like to learn more about how Jamala Connect can optimize your product development process, please visit our website at jamasoftware.com

If you are already a Jama Connect customer and would like more information about Jama Connect Advisor, please contact your Customer Success Manager or Jama Software Consultant.

To view more Jama Connect Features in Five topics, visit:
Jama Connect Features in Five Video Series

Jama Connect^® Continues to Dominate as the #1 Leader in Requirements Management Software

We’re proud to share that Jama Connect has once again proven its excellence, securing the #1 spot in G2’s Summer 2025 Grid^® Report for Requirements Management Software! This marks the sixth consecutive quarter that we’ve been named the overall leader, solidifying our position as the go-to solution for teams managing complex product and software development lifecycles.

This recognition, driven by the feedback and trust of our users, continues to place Jama Connect ahead of competitors like Polarion, IBM^® DOORS^®, and Codebeamer. It’s a testament to our commitment to innovation and customer satisfaction.

Click here to explore the full G2 Summer 2025 Grid Report for Requirements Management Software!

Why G2 Recognition Matters

G2’s Grid Reports rank software solutions based on real user reviews, data from online sources, and analysis via G2’s proprietary algorithm. With this rigorous evaluation, the Summer 2025 report highlights the industry’s top performers, and Jama Connect leads the pack yet again.

For this quarter, Jama Connect achieved a customer satisfaction score of 97, accompanied by over 150 unique reviews praising our ease of use, unmatched collaboration features, and ability to streamline traceability across projects.

RELATED: The Essential Guide to Requirements Management and Traceability

Excelling Across All Categories

This quarter, Jama Connect didn’t just hold onto its top spot — we earned recognition across a wide array of categories. Here’s a breakdown of the accolades we garnered in the G2 Summer 2025 report:

• • Overall Leader
  • Momentum Leader
  • Small-Business Leader
  • Mid-Market Leader
  • Enterprise Leader
  • EMEA Leader
  • Europe Leader

These achievements underscore the versatility and scalability of Jama Connect, making it an ideal choice for teams of any size, across multiple industries and regions.

What Our Users Are Saying

We owe this success to the valuable insights shared by our customers, whose feedback drives us forward. Here are just a few highlights from recent G2 reviews:

“Jama Connect provides the end-to-end traceability that is expected in the Healthcare industry” – Harold M, R&D Engineering Manager

“Jama Connect is extremely intuitive. Team members are able to use it immediately without any prior training. We do have a training program that is recommended for the entire team but that serves to show everyone how to take the best out of the tool.” – Alexandre, Systems Engineer, Mid-Market

RELATED: Buyer’s Guide: Selecting a Requirements Management and Traceability Solution

Modernizing Requirements Management

This recognition bolsters our mission to help organizations transition from outdated document-based processes to a modern requirements management platform. With Jama Connect, teams can achieve:

• Enhanced clarity and accountability through real-time collaboration
• Seamless traceability to manage requirements, risks, and test cases
• Compliance with industry-specific regulations and standards

Our continued focus on innovation ensures that we meet the evolving needs of organizations navigating increasing product complexity and regulatory demand.

A Heartfelt Thank You

This milestone is not just our achievement but a shared success with our users. Your trust and feedback inspire us to deliver outstanding solutions that simplify your workflows and enhance your product lifecycle management.

Thank you for being part of this incredible journey. Rest assured, we’re committed to pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with requirements management.

Learn More

To see how Jama Connect stacks up, explore the full G2 Summer 2025 Grid Report for Requirements Management Software.

Thank you for choosing Jama Connect as your partner in solving complex challenges! Here’s to continuing this legacy of excellence together!

In this blog, we preview a section of our recent customer story, “Ultra Maritime UK Enlists Jama Connect for Naval Systems Requirements Management” – Click HERE to read it in its entirety.

Ultra Maritime UK Enlists Jama Connect for Naval Systems Requirements Management

UK operation chooses Jama Connect for its ease-of-use and administration.

About Ultra Maritime UK

• Founded in 1944 and acquired in 2021 by Advent International
• Over 2,300 employees across fifteen locations worldwide
• Premier provider of undersea warfare systems, products, and solutions to US, UK, Canada, Australia, and allied navies worldwide.

CUSTOMER STORY OVERVIEW

This customer story is about Ultra Maritime UK, a division of Ultra Maritime, which develops equipment for surface, subsurface, and unmanned platforms, including acoustic and sonar systems and torpedo defense and radar sensor solutions. Customers include the Royal Navy of the UK, the U.S. Navy, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Royal Australian Navy, and the Indian Navy.

Since the Ultra Group’s acquisition by U.S. private equity firm Advent International in 2021, Ultra Maritime has operated as an integrated company with lines of business headquartered in the USA, UK, Canada, and Australia, responsible for developing both worldwide and localized solutions.

Ultra Maritime UK’s products and solutions must adhere to the highest quality, security, and safety standard,s including ISO 9001-2015, ISO 14001:2015, ISO/IEC 27001:2013, and ISO 45001:2018. In addition, the products must satisfy customer requirements and regional naval standards, including U.S. DoD/MIL-STD and UK MOD DStan.

Challenges

• Enabling collaborative remote working on requirements
• Managing both project and product requirements effectively
• Becoming more product-focused to balance global and local requirements

Evaluation Criteria

• Intuitive user interface for quick adoption
• Low administrative overhead
• Support for reuse of requirements and test evidence

Outcomes

• Consistency across projects
• Business mandatory requirements tool for all new projects
• Quick user adoption with minimal training
• Easy tracking of progress with dashboards and standardization
• Reduced risk with pre-built standardized project structures
• Easy management of large numbers of objects and changes
• Easy initiation and completion of reviews to action items sooner in development

RELATED: IBM Customers Choose Jama Connect the Most

CHALLENGES

• After years of managing project requirements with IBM^® DOORS^® Classic, these challenges drove Ultra Maritime UK to find a user-friendly collaborative tool that would enable them to increase their requirements management effectiveness and deliver projects faster.
• Enabling collaborative remote working on requirements
• Managing both project and product requirements effectively
• Becoming more product-focused to balance global and local requirements

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Ultra Maritime UK identified several requirements management tools as potential replacements for DOORS Classic, including Jama Connect, which a member of the engineering team suggested. They then established criteria to be used for the evaluation.

• Intuitive user interface for quick adoption
• Low administrative overhead
• Integrable with development and test software tools
• Support for reuse of requirements and test evidence

First, a top priority was for the new solution to have a modern, intuitive user experience for teams to get up and running quickly with their new projects. They needed software that people would want to work in. Otherwise, people might opt out of using the tool and work in disparate documents, which would introduce risk, impede productivity, and hamper efficiency. Second, it would need to have low administrative overhead that did not require team members to become full-time administrators. Third, it would need to be integrable with development and test software tools from different vendors. Fourth, it would need to support the reuse of requirements and test evidence from past development programs when starting new products or projects.

During the evaluation process, Jama Connect stood out from the competition as the solution that would best meet the company’s needs. “Looking at all the features, the user’s ease of use, and the low level of administrative time required, Jama Connect came out on top compared to the other tools reviewed,” says the Senior Systems Engineer.

In its search for a modern solution that would be quickly adopted, Ultra Maritime UK found that Jama Connect’s intuitive user experience made adoption extremely easy for engineers to get started managing requirements and test evidence more efficiently and intelligently. Tracking and finding information quickly and easily was achievable with Jama Connect’s powerful filtering and the ability to add hyperlinks to any architectural elements, requirements, test items or other objects. In addition, the ability to create a Definitions database and Glossary in Jama Connect was particularly useful for getting everyone informed and up-to-speed about projects. “Jama Connect has a highly intuitive user interface and allows for engineers to quickly and easily become accustomed to using it,” says the Senior Systems Engineer.

Having a simple and quick way for systems engineers to initiate reviews and for stakeholders to complete their reviews in a timely manner was a key area where Jama Connect’s Review Center led the way. The fact that reviewers were not required to be licensed as full-time users made Jama Connect more attractive. “Jama Connect certainly makes it much easier to initiate and manage reviews and be aware of progress through them,” says the System Design Authority and Functional Lead.

“Jama Connect proved to be extremely useful for making sure that we’ve got complete coverage and traceability of a given set of artifacts to see which ones have or haven’t reached the approved step. This helps ensure we haven’t missed any anomalies such as system requirements missing verification cases to avoid rework,” says the System Design Authority and Functional Lead.

Support for multiple IDs for the same object in Jama Connect made it easy to identify opportunities for reuse of older product requirements and test evidence for new products to efficiently manage shared elements of core and variant products. “The ability to identify, distinguish, and reuse global requirements across products and projects to reduce development time and cost is a strength of Jama Connect,” says the System Design Authority and Functional Lead.

In addition to product capabilities, team expertise, and training resources provided during the evaluation demonstrated that Jama Software would be a good fit as a partner for Ultra Maritime UK. “We were impressed by Jama Software’s responsiveness to our questions and the online training, forums, and support available to our team,” says the System Design Authority and Functional Lead.

RELATED: Jama Connect for Air, Land, Sea, and Space Datasheet

OUTCOMES

With Jama Connect, Ultra Maritime UK has benefited from:

• Greater consistency across projects
• One mandatory requirements management tool for all new projects
• Quicker user adoption with minimal training
• Easier tracking of progress with dashboards and standardization
• Reduced risk with pre-built standardized project structures
• Easier management of large numbers of objects and changes
• Easier initiation and completion of reviews

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Ultra Maritime UK Enlists Jama Connect for Naval Systems Requirements Management

Jama Software is always looking for news that would benefit and inform our industry partners. As such, we’ve curated a series of customer and industry spotlight articles that we found insightful. In this blog post, we share an article from VDA, titled “Automotive Industry Signs Memorandum of Understanding”, written by Lena Anzenhofer and published on June 23, 2025.

Automotive Industry Signs Memorandum of Understanding

Automotive industry signs Memorandum of Understanding for joint software development based on open source

Collaboration for more speed, efficiency, and security in software development and the basis for an open and collaborative ecosystem
With the support of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA), 11 companies in the automotive industry have agreed on pre-competitive cooperation in open source software development.

A corresponding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed today at the 29th International Automotive Electronics Congress (AEK).

With the increasing importance and complexity of vehicle software, it is becoming critical for the industry to increase speed and efficiency in development while ensuring high quality and safety.

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A significant portion of the vehicle software is not directly accessible to the user and therefore not differentiating. This fact allows the corresponding software modules to be developed jointly in an open and collaborative ecosystem.

In order to achieve the necessary functional safety for automotive series software, a groundbreaking development process for open source was developed in preparation for certification according to the relevant standards.

In addition, by providing executable software modules instead of detailed specifications, standardization and increased development speed are achieved through the so-called code-first approach.
The software development takes place in a transparent and vendor-independent environment of the Eclipse Foundation as part of the S-CORE project.

This ecosystem is open, both through software interoperability with relevant industry standards and for contributions and collaboration from other European and international companies.

The initiative’s timeline envisages that the software scope for series development of a platform for autonomous driving will be available in 2026.

The modular software scope can be adapted or expanded and then made available to the industry as a customized distribution for series development. This allows manufacturers and suppliers to focus on differentiating features while maintaining core components together. This creates a strong foundation for innovation – and the freedom to focus on what makes the difference for the customer.

“Together we are building a future-proof and powerful software ecosystem – open, transparent and secure,” VDA Managing Director Dr. Marcus Bollig said.

You Can Download the Memorandum of Understanding Here

Further quotes from the companies:

BMW Group
Dr. Christoph Grote, SVP Electronics and Software
“The BMW Group believes that integrated ecosystems with open-source platforms and tools are a key driver for the development of mobility solutions. A shared code-first approach will be the foundation for functional innovations in our future products. We are committed to ECLIPSE S-CORE as a promising open-source approach for our upcoming projects.”

Continental AG
Karsten Michels, Head of Product line “High Performance Computer”, BA “Architecture and Network Solutions”
“By uniting open-source and virtualization with safety certification and standardization, Continental’s contribution to an open and safe HPC Middleware Stack accelerates the transition to Software Defined Vehicles and significantly reduces time-to-market.”

ECLIPSE Foundation
Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director
“Collaboration in the development of secure and open-source automotive platforms is a critical factor for the automotive industry. The Eclipse Foundation’s governance model enables open collaboration between OEMs, tiers, and tech players within the Eclipse SDV Working Group. We recognize the trust placed in us as the stewards of such a strategic initiative and embrace the challenge of making it a success.”

ETAS GmbH
Dr. Thomas Irawan, CEO
“Building on our role as a pioneer in automotive platform software, we are driving industry-wide innovation through an open source ecosystem, accelerating time to market, and delivering safe and sustainable solutions for the mobility of tomorrow.”

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HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA
Dr. Dietmar Stapel, Vice President Product Segment Radar
“We are pleased to support the Automotive Grade Open Source Ecosystem. Open, common standards are essential for secure integration and form the foundation for delivering innovative, value-added automotive features.”

Mercedes-Benz AG
Magnus Östberg, Chief Software Officer
“As the creators of the automotive open source ecosystem, we are actively driving the future of automotive software with our code-first strategy. This is our clear commitment to open standards as the foundation for innovation.”

Qorix
Markus Schupfner, CEO
“Qorix is committed to a powerful, open software ecosystem that combines functional safety and the speed of innovation – from architecture to production deployment.”

Robert Bosch GmbH
Dr. Mathias Pilin, CTO Mobility
“We promote software solutions that integrate seamlessly across vehicle platforms, systems, and supplier technologies – for a software-defined mobility of the future.”

Valeo Brain Division
Joachim Mathes, CTO
“Valeo has decided to join S-CORE and contribute key elements of its vOS to the stack. We are confident that a greater level of standardization and reuse will benefit the entire industry.”

Vector Informatik GmbH
Dr. Matthias Traub, Managing Director
“With our joint initiative for an open software ecosystem for automotive ECUs, we are adding a powerful tool to the industry’s HPC full-stack toolbox.”

Volkswagen AG
Dr. Oliver Seifert, Vice President R&D Infotainment and Connect at Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG
“Through this open source ecosystem in automotive development, we shorten the time to market, reduce application development effort, and drive innovation.”

ZF Friedrichshafen
Torsten Gollewski, Executive Vice President Corporate R&D Innovation & Technology
“Software development based on open source is the key to greater efficiency and speed. This is necessary to remain internationally competitive. The VDA initiative is a good example of the benefits that collaboration can bring.”

Jama Connect^® Attains Level 2 TISAX Certification from TÜV SÜD

Jama Software, the industry’s leading requirements management and traceability solution provider, announced that it has achieved Level 2 Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange (TISAX) certification from TÜV SÜD. TISAX is a security standard created by the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA).

Jama Connect is now the only requirements management application that is both TISAX and SOC 2 certified

This achievement underscores Jama Software’s unwavering commitment to information security and data protection. TISAX certification is a critical benchmark for meeting the stringent security requirements of German OEMs and their global supply chains, ensuring that sensitive customer and product data is handled with the highest standards of confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

For our customers, this certification unequivocally demonstrates that Jama Software’s solutions and processes embody the highest standards of information security. It empowers organizations to meet stringent compliance requirements, simplifies and accelerates procurement processes, and fortifies trust in an era of increasingly complex regulatory demands and cyber threats. With this certification, customers gain not just confidence but a decisive edge in addressing their most critical security challenges.

“Jama Software is committed to enabling the highest levels of security for our customers. In support of our rapid growth in the automotive sector, we have added TISAX certification to complement our market leading SOC 2 certified application,” said Neil Stroud, General Manager Automotive & Semiconductor, Jama Software.

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About Jama Software

Jama Software is focused on maximizing innovation success in multidisciplinary engineering organizations. Numerous firsts for humanity in fields such as fuel cells, electrification, space, software-defined vehicles, surgical robotics, and more all rely on Jama Connect requirements management software to minimize the risk of defects, rework, cost overruns, and recalls. Using Jama Connect, engineering organizations can now intelligently manage the development process by leveraging Live Traceability™ across best-of-breed tools to measurably improve outcomes. Our rapidly growing customer base spans the automotive, medical device, life sciences, semiconductor, aerospace & defense, industrial manufacturing, consumer electronics, financial services, and insurance industries.

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Jama Connect Named as the 2025 TrustRadius Top Rated Winner in Requirements Management

We are thrilled to announce that Jama Connect has been honored as a 2025 TrustRadius Top Rated Award winner in the “Requirements Management” category! This recognition underscores our commitment to delivering industry-leading tools that empower teams to efficiently manage requirements and associated processes. But what makes this achievement particularly meaningful is that this award is based entirely on the candid feedback of those who use Jama Connect in real-world scenarios.

Why the TrustRadius Top Rated Award Matters

The TrustRadius Top Rated Awards are among the most trusted accolades in the B2B technology space. Unlike analyst-driven awards, these honors are determined exclusively by verified customer reviews. To win, products must meet strict criteria, including a high volume of positive reviews, consistent high ratings, and a strong trScore, which evaluates reviews for quality, recency, and depth.

Earning this recognition signifies that Jama Connect excels in meeting the needs of our users, as acknowledged by the very people who rely on our solution to deliver remarkable outcomes.

Reflecting on the Value of Jama Connect

Jama Connect is a trusted partner for teams navigating complex development projects across industries. Whether it’s supporting product innovation in aerospace, ensuring compliance in highly regulated medical fields, or improving efficiency in agile software development, Jama Connect provides the tools necessary for collaboration, traceability, and success.

Here’s what some of our customers have to say about their experience:

“Jama Connect has the best UI compared to DOORS, Codebeamer, and [PTC Integrity]. It’s the clearest to use with the best usability. For example, making traces between requirements is as straightforward as clicking a button. The trace matrix view is highly configurable to show anything you need.” (Verified User, Medical Device Company)

“We are using Jama Connect to be more than just a requirements management tool – we are using Jama Connect as the single source of truth to contain not just the requirements, but also the why and how the system is the way it is. It helps us engage stakeholders, both junior and senior, due to its user-friendly interface.” (Chris Armstrong, Lead Systems Engineer, JFD)

“We use Jama [Connect] for centralized requirements administration of sector-wide projects and development. The intuitive review module and quick-marking features make managing requirements seamless.” (Verified Professional, Oil & Energy Company)

These testimonials illustrate Jama Connect’s powerful impact on our users’ workflows and show why teams across the globe trust us as their go-to solution for requirements management.

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Customer Feedback Drives Our Innovation

At Jama Software, we consider user feedback to be a critical component of our development process. We consistently listen to customers and translate their insights into actionable improvements. One reviewer highlighted this commitment, stating:

“We pretty much use it (Jama Connect) for the entire software development lifecycle and utilize its review/approval and baselining system for our controlled documents.”

Our agility and dedication to continuous improvement help ensure that Jama Connect remains a market leader to support evolving customer needs.

Why Organizations Choose Jama Connect

What differentiates Jama Connect is not just its robust features but the way it revolutionizes how teams manage the product lifecycle. By bringing stakeholders together and enabling clear, traceable processes, we make it easy for organizations to focus on outcomes, even in the most challenging and regulated environments. Key benefits include:

1. Live Traceability™: A hallmark of Jama Connect, this feature enables teams to maintain real-time visibility into the interconnections between requirements, decisions, and test cases, ensuring that everyone is working with up-to-date information.
2. Streamlined Regulatory Compliance: Simplify alignment with frameworks like ISO 26262 and FDA 21 CFR Part 11 using Jama Connect’s built-in templates and automated tracking.
3. Collaboration at Scale: Empower distributed teams with tools like stakeholder commenting, intuitive workflows, and export functionality to foster engagement and decision-making.

These features have been widely acknowledged by our customers, including one who shared:

“The export tools to PDF and Word for our regulatory needs have saved us a ton of time. We use Jama Connect for risk management, validation, and planning. It’s well organized and helps streamline collaboration across teams.”

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What’s Next for Jama Connect?

Winning the 2025 TrustRadius Top Rated Award inspires us to continue innovating and elevating the Jama Connect experience. We are actively working on updates that incorporate more automation, deeper analytics, and enhanced user experiences, helping customers tackle emerging challenges with efficiency and confidence.

We’re always listening to your feedback and using it to make Jama Connect even better. Our goal is to keep evolving alongside your needs and ensure it stays the go-to tool for requirements management.

Experience the Future of Requirements Management

This recognition solidifies why thousands of professionals trust Jama Connect to guide their projects to success. If you haven’t yet discovered what sets our platform apart, now is the time.

Whether you’re seeking to improve compliance, streamline product development, or simplify communication across teams, Jama Connect has the solution you need.

A Heartfelt Thank You

To our incredible community of users, thank you for making this milestone possible. Your trust and feedback inspire us to push boundaries and continue delivering tools that help your teams thrive. This achievement is as much yours as it is ours, and we look forward to supporting you for years to come.

Here’s to more innovation, collaboration, and success together.
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