IBM ELM Products
IBM DOORS Next Requirements Management
What DOORS Next does
IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next is the requirements tool trusted by aerospace, automotive, medical device and defense teams to manage complex requirements with full traceability. Alidade Technology helps you license it, set it up the right way, and get your teams productive fast.
- Capture and structure requirements in modules, with rich text, attributes, diagrams and reusable artifacts
- Trace end to end, linking requirements to designs, tests and work items across IBM ELM
- Manage change with baselines, change sets, impact analysis and full history
- Reuse and manage variants using streams and Global Configuration Management
- Collaborate and review with comments, formal reviews and approvals in the browser
- Report and publish traceability reports and documents for audits and customers
How Alidade helps
As an IBM Business Partner and IBM ELM specialist, we support DOORS Next from licensing through to ongoing support.
- Licensing: as an IBM Business Partner, we help you choose the right license types and quantities, on-premises or on IBM ELM Cloud.
- Implementation: installation, configuration, project templates, artifact types, attributes and link types tailored to your process.
- Migration from DOORS Classic: a planned move from DOORS 9.x that keeps your data, history and links intact, including module and attribute mapping and DXL replacement.
- Migration from documents and spreadsheets: importing requirements from Word, Excel and ReqIF, with structure and traceability set up as you go.
- SmarterWidgets: our ready-to-use widgets automate content quality checks, bulk link changes, module restructuring and reporting.
- Training: role-based sessions for authors, reviewers, project leads and administrators.
- Ongoing support: upgrades, performance tuning and help desk through our Managed Services.
Moving from DOORS Classic?
Many teams still run DOORS 9.x and know they need to move. We plan the migration in stages, start with a pilot project, and map your modules, attributes, views and DXL scripts to DOORS Next equivalents. Your users get training before cut-over, so the switch feels like an upgrade rather than a disruption.
DOORS Next supports the traceability and change control required by DO-178C, ISO 26262, IEC 62304 and FDA 21 CFR Part 11. We configure it so the evidence you need for audits comes straight out of the tool.
DOORS Next works best connected to IBM Engineering Test Management, IBM Engineering Workflow Management and IBM Rhapsody. See our ELM Consulting and Implementation services for complete rollouts.
Part of a complete IBM ELM solution
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IBM Engineering Test Management (ETM) for test planning and execution
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IBM Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) for planning, change and source control
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IBM Rhapsody for model-based systems engineering
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IBM Global Configuration Management (GCM) for configuration across all of the above
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ELM Consulting and Implementation services for complete rollouts
