PROSTEP develops new Integration Solutions for Requirements Management

Many companies still record and manage their requirements using Excel lists. This not only makes it more difficult for them to communicate with development partners but also to assess the impact of changes. This is why an increasing number of companies are making use of commercial requirements management applications. These applications must, however, be seamlessly integrated in the IT landscapes if they are to be able to trace the lifecycle of the requirements. Using a PLM integration solution that serves as middleware significantly reduces the time and effort required for developing bidirectional interfaces to enterprise applications for PLM, ALM or ERP.

PROSTEP's integration solution OpenPDM provides a comprehensive portfolio of standard connectors to the most widely used PLM, ALM and ERP systems and other enterprise applications. We have entered into a development partnership with Jama Software, with the aim of making it easier to connect these systems and applications to Jama's requirements management solution. The objective is to develop a Jama-OpenPDM connector. Jama's requirements management application is used widely in the USA in particular but is also becoming increasingly popular in Europe.