3SL Cradle vs IBM DOORS comparison

"3SL Cradle's most valuable feature is its flexibility in managing all your needs immediately."

"I really like the customization that can be done using the DOORS Extension Language (DXL)."

"It's a very interesting tool. I like that it's simple. You have to create your document, add your templates, and have your headings and definitions, and it's done. You must attribute the discipline and fill out the comment field for requirements. It also provides you with unique IDs for each requirement. I like that it never duplicates IDs."

"Traceability on requirements for a huge project in an organization is a big gain."

"The solution is stable."

"The traceability matrix in DOORS improved our project outcomes. It helps ensure coverage of requirements at different levels, from user requirements to software requirements to test requirements."

"We have different generations of all products. It lets us select and see unique attributes for each release or generation. You can use attributes to define a selection area to see which equipments are for the old versions and which ones are for the new versions. This inbuilt view is what I like in IBM Rational DOORS. So, for a database and a set of requirements, it will select and show unique attributes for a release or a generation."

"I would say that the best feature of the solution is that since everything is in one place, and if you make any changes, then they are recorded or tracked."

"Makes good work of prioritizing and planning product delivery."

"3SL Cradle could be improved with better support for SysML functionalities."

"Complexity, performance, openness are the three areas that can be improved. The IBM architecture and specifically Jazz looks more complex. There are a lot of servers. It's quite complicated. The search capabilities lack in IBM Rational DOORS Classic for customers who have a database with a requirement of more than 25,000 records. For example, you can search easily for a module, but it's really difficult to look for keywords through the whole database because all the modules are separated into small components, which makes the search quite complex. This is something that's really annoying because when we want to make an impact analysis, we would like to analyze the product globally. It's quite difficult to manage. The fact that you can interact externally with data makes it complex. The approach is complex and doesn't work as expected. For example, when I tried to experiment with exporting some records, the tool crashed, but I couldn't find out the root cause, that is, whether it happened because of Rational Windows or lack of memory. It was just crashing. Logs weren't very clear. IBM can try to use more recent technology for different aspects and make it easy. They can also provide free integration from DOORS Classic to DOORS. Currently, all the customization in Excel is lost, which makes it very complex. It would be a feature to make new versions compatible with features in the past versions."

"It would be nice if it could be scaled-down so that it could be installed and implemented without much learning or training."

"The customer must also have the tool to import the changes and accept them as a part of the review."

"The interface needs an area to be able to type your query and actually be able to find them."

"They need to provide users with information on what options would be best for their setup."

"It used to be very clunky."

"IBM DOORS should cover all engineering functions seamlessly, not just requirement engineering."

"It would have been ok ten years ago, but we are used to having better tools now."

"I think it's expensive because you have to pay for the licenses to IBM and all that and maintain them."

"IBM is a bit too expensive in terms of pricing. Customers are paying a lot for the license, and the price is quite high for this kind of environment. It is quite high as compared to what we can get today with other solutions."

"We have to pay for a license. I think it's a one-time payment as my company hasn't notified me about more charges. I don't think it's expensive for large corporations, but it will be costly for an average person."

"I am not sure why it is so expensive, but one license will cost approximately $15,000 in US dollars."

"It's expensive."

"The licensing cost is too high."

"IBM Rational DOORS is highly expensive."

"It is expensive to onboard additional users."