Jama Connect

Enable cross-discipline collaboration and an integrated digital approach to accelerate systems development

Jama Connect® is a next-generation Requirements Management (RM) and Verification & Validation (V&V) platform that acts as an authoritative source of systems engineering data. This powerful platform allows teams building complex systems to use a data-centric approach with a human-readable MBSE framework aligned to industry standards.

Innovative Digital Engineering Strategy

Developing complex systems (Automotive, Industrial, Avionics, Defense, Space, Railway or Medical) with disconnected tools or a document-based systems engineering process is inefficient and lacks a trusted source of truth. Jama Connect’s digital engineering strategy helps teams meet the demand of modern development by connecting more teams to the design and engineering process, giving everyone a clear understanding of the big picture. Jama Connect’s digital model, which combines requirements, verification and validation, and safety into a fully traceable data model, enables groups Engineering Strategy.

Systems development acceleration requires optimizing the review and approval process during various stage-gate or regulatory checkpoints and integrating the entire development ecosystem.

Live Treaceability

Jama Connect links and decomposes requirements at every level, from stakeholder and systems requirements to lower-level software and hardware requirements, and follows ISO/IEC 15288 practices. Jama Connect transforms traceability into what it was always meant to be. Live Treaceability ensure product quality and improve change management with complete traceability. Besides, It maintain a rigorous change management process and reveal interdependencies within the process to keep projects on track.

Easily navigate upstream and downstream relationships to understand the impact of change and coverage across the development lifecycle.
Save time finding gaps in overall test coverage
Understand change impact before it happens
Track relationships across projects
Identify potentially problematic links when changes are made
Produce traceability documentation required by regulators
Relationship Rules are tracked across projects with a visual schematic that shows the impact and reach of information across the organization

Real Time Collaboration

Ensure secure, cross-functional collaboration across teams, customers, and complex supply chains to remove friction throughout the development process.

Collaboration in Jama Connect is the key to helping engineering teams streamline and optimize their product development processes in today’s highly competitive market

View open decisions, issues and questions that require response
Make timely decisions by responding directly to emails and @mentioning stakeholders
Stream discussions to quickly get a pulse on a project and seamlessly bring new users and stakeholders into current conversations
View actions quickly: who authored an item, made an edit, commented or was mentioned
Shorten milestone phases, reduce development cycles, and improve efficiency, helping teams identify risks and opportunities.
Quickly see who authored, made an edit, or commented on a requirement to connect users and enhance collaboration

Verification and Validation

Seamlessly manage the traceability between requirements and verification and validation objects within Jama Connect, and provide evidence to comply with government regulations and standards, including DO-178C, ARP-4754, DO-254, ISO 26262, ASpice, IEC 61508, EN 50128, IEC 62304 and more.

Review Center

Transition from a document-centric to a data-centric approach, and capture reviews, approvals, and feedback from stakeholders in one central place. Review Center provides an iterative, collaborative approach to reviewing requirements and tests in real-time.

Enable efficient and scalable reviews and shorten review cycles by up to 50%
Prioritize critical decisions and align stakeholders to improve response times, minimize meetings, and eliminate communication bottlenecks
Facilitate compliant reviews and approvals by creating a standardized review process, gaining formal approvals, and exporting to an auditable system of record
Engage unlimited stakeholders: Drive participation from buyers, suppliers, and partners across organizational boundaries for centralized definitions, input, and decisions

Test and Quality Management

Give your Quality Assurance (QA) teams the ability to create and organize test plans, test cases, dashboards, and reports to manage testing easily, in real time.

Bring your testing teams into the development process earlier to view and run their test cases and instantly log connected defects when tests fail. Your team can:

View and run test cases, and instantly log connected defects when tests fail
Engage in real-time conversations about the impact and prioritization of defects
Execute, open, or assign tests that directly associate with requirements and features
Integrate with trusted solutions for test execution and automation
Build custom reports that provide the analysis you need for industry compliance
Easily show auditors the connections between regulations, requirements, and tests

Risk and Hazard Analysis

Simplify compliance with integrated risk management

Performing risk analysis early and often throughout the product development process allows your teams the ability to:

Identify, estimate, and evaluate risks directly in Jama Connect
Ensure risk analysis is updated throughout the process with real-time data
Provide more coverage by easily tracing open risks and linking them back to requirements
Build a comprehensive risk management profile based on techniques including Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA) and FMEA in accordance with ISO 14971 and IEC 60812
Ensure quality and safety in complex product development

Reuse and Baseline Management

Reduce development time and ensure consistency across projects

Compare versions of a requirement, generate branches to develop a variant, and create catalogs of reusable requirements and baselines of your development streams at milestones or versions.
Compare two versions of a requirement side by side and see what changed
Keep your data organized and secure across one project or many, automatically
Create a baseline by taking a “snapshot” that documents the current state of a project, or any subset of a project, at a given point in time
Create catalogs of reusable requirements to get your next product to market faster
Generate branches of a product to develop a variant or a new version

Requirements Authoring

Seamless experience for authoring and managing requirements

For enabling efficient Requirements Authoring – Jama Connect’s Document View allows users to:

Author, read, and edit items in a single view without losing visual context in the overall document, allowing quick editing and reviewing
Optimize the functionality of editing and creating content efficiently by saving time when switching between different views
Balance the power of atomic requirements management and traceability with a more familiar, approachable document style

Requirements Quality

Ensure Accurate Requirements Authoring Quality

With Jama Connect Advisor™, reduce authoring errors and improve the quality of your requirements

Jama Connect Advisor™ is a state-of-the-art, fully integrated add-on product for Jama Connect to help system engineers or product managers write effective, efficient, and well-organized requirement specifications. Based on industry-accepted INCOSE (International Council for Systems Engineering) rules and EARS notation (Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax) approach, Jama Connect Advisor utilizes Natural Language Processing (NLP) to deliver insight into requirement quality and accuracy in real time.

Author your requirements through guidance based on Systems Engineering Industry Leading Practices online within Jama Connect
Spend less time authoring while increasing the quality and accuracy of requirements statements
Reduce the number and length of requirement review cycles
Enhance development team effectiveness, standardizing the process for authoring requirements
Reduce the risk of late-stage errors in systems development
Exercise greater requirements authoring expertise with higher speed and efficiency and train your teams to improve efficiency

Additional Capabilties in Jama Connect:

Jama Connect brings people and data together in one place, providing visibility and actionable insights  into the product development lifecycle. Share updates in seconds, discover issues weeks sooner, and have one place to collaborate with key stakeholders — in real time.