DOORS Next is a requirements management tool for storing, categorizing, linking, and sharing product requirements with stakeholders such as reviewers, designers, testers, and developers.

DOORS Next is a new generation requirements management solution built with a web client and IBM Jazz technology. It connects teams in different locations to the same formal modules, providing a single platform for more effective project management.

DOORS Next helps your teams reduce development costs by up to 57%, increase time to market by up to 20%, and reduce quality costs by up to 69%, all while managing your requirements.

DOORS Next is a collaboration tool that allows your teams to collaborate more effectively across disciplines, customers, and subcontractors.

Improved Quality: By managing requirements effectively, organizations can ensure that the final product meets all stakeholder needs and specifications.

Reduced Risk: Comprehensive traceability and change management reduce the risk of missing requirements or failing to address changes.

Enhanced Collaboration: Real-time collaboration features improve communication and coordination among team members.

Efficient Workflow: Integration with other tools streamlines processes and increases efficiency across the project lifecycle.

Cost effectiveness: By allowing teams to reuse existing requirements and components across projects, DOORS Next reduces development time, minimizes errors, and lowers rework costs. Automatic updates and traceability ensure efficient changes, further saving time and resources, resulting in significant cost savings and increased productivity.

Capture Requirements: Allows users to capture and manage requirements in a collaborative environment. Requirements can be text-based or include rich text, images, diagrams, and tables.

Traceability: Facilitates linking requirements to design, development, and testing artifacts, ensuring traceability throughout the project lifecycle.

Version Control: Supports versioning of requirements to keep track of changes over time and manage different versions of requirements.

Collaborative Environment: Teams can collaborate on requirements in real-time, providing feedback, comments, and conducting reviews.

Review and Approvals: Built-in workflow capabilities for reviewing and approving requirements, ensuring stakeholder alignment and sign-off.

Customizable: Users can customize attributes, views, and templates to fit their specific project needs.

Integrations: Seamlessly integrates with other tools in the IBM ELM suite and third-party tools, providing a unified approach to application lifecycle management.

Reporting: Provides powerful reporting capabilities to generate reports on requirements status, traceability, and coverage.

Analytics: Offers analytics tools to analyze requirement changes, impact, and coverage, helping teams make informed decisions.

Standards Compliance: Supports compliance with industry standards and regulations by providing capabilities for documenting and tracking requirements throughout the project lifecycle.

Audit Trail: Maintains a comprehensive audit trail of changes to requirements, facilitating compliance and quality assurance.

Web-based Interface: Accessible via a web-based interface, enabling distributed teams to collaborate effectively.

Cloud and On-Premises: Available as a cloud-based solution or for on-premises deployment, offering flexibility based on organizational needs.