The core capabilities of Codebeamer ALM are Demand Management, Requirements Management, Software Development Management, QA & Testing, and IT Operations / DevOps. Codebeamer ALM also includes robust Risk and Variants Management functionality. It is widely used by companies operating in safety-critical sectors (mainly medical device development and automotive or avionics systems engineering). Codebeamer ALM offers seamless integration with various widely used software tools and file formats (MS Word, Excel, JIRA, DOORS, Enterprise Architect, MATLAB Simulink, Jenkins, etc.) and offers dedicated features for scaling Agile across large enterprises. 

Codebeamer ALM understands the challenges faced by modern product and software development teams and assists with the following: 

• Lifecycle traceability – Easily connect related artifacts, providing better visibility and control throughout development. 
• Systematic reuse – Efficiently manage product variants by branching requirements, designing, testing artifacts, and propagating trace relationships. 
• Predictive change management – Allow teams to predict and plan for the impact of changes, making the entire team aware of changes as they happen. 
• Integrated test management – Providing an entire test management facility in the same solution with requirements engineering ensures accurate, complete, and efficient system verification. 
• Holistic Differentiation – Enables customers to capture and validate requirements and connect them with other critical disciplines to foster innovation across product development. 
• Industry Templates – Offers built-in support for safety-critical industry regulations with industry-specific templates. 
• Support for Different Methodologies – Provides built-in support for waterfall, scrum, agile, SAFE, Kanban, Hybrid, and L methodologies. 
• Modern and Open Architecture – Highly scalable and configurable solution with a modern and easy-to-use interface, including drag-and-drop reporting and dashboarding, supporting business and technical users. 
• Interoperability – Superior integration to version control (with GitHub) and task management (with JIRA Connect). Also, it supports REQIF with our native DOORS plug-in ESS.