What Jama Software Wants You to Know About Jama 8

 

Harris: Jama is a modern, collaborative requirements management platform that companies use to develop complex products and systems. The Jama solution enables cross-team collaboration throughout the product delivery process, from requirements definition to product delivery, that ensures that what was intended gets built correctly the first time. We serve hundreds of customers in the aerospace, semiconductor, medical device and automotive industries, including many of the Fortune 100 and top defense contractors. We were founded in 2007 and are based in Portland, Oregon.

 

Harris: Jama 8 represents a significant milestone in Jama's evolution and continued belief in the value of cross-team alignment through requirements, traceability and collaboration. A big part of Jama 8 was the general availability of our REST API. Our customers are now leveraging the API to find greater value in the tool by further customizing it to their company and industry needs. Looking ahead, we're excited to further expand our ecosystem through our relationships with partners.

 

Harris: Many of our customers are not in what has traditionally been seen as mobile app spaces due to high security and compliance needs. However, the market demands have changed what mobile really means, and systems have simultaneously become more secure. The need for requirements in these types of enterprise apps is significant. Often projects get derailed because a requirement is missed. something goes wrong because you missed a requirement. The process of building a product is long and fraught with opportunities for information to be missed or lost. Tracking requirements with a tool that provides overview.

 

Harris: The core of how we support these trends is through the involved personas. We look at everything from a customer and user perspective. The types of tools that the groups that we work with gravitate toward are iterative, changing, and specific to their needs. Developers need to be connected to each other and other teams in order to achieve their objectives, but also to unlock innovation. Coordinating and collaborating with different teams increases complexity, and to see the payoff, teams need to be aligned. When done successfully, cross-team collaboration yields better results, but teams need help managing that complexity

 

Harris: Mobile development is becoming increasingly necessary and relevant within the corporate enterprise and systems space. Mobile apps are expanding, and there are many different types of apps. Some of our automotive customers require mobility within their testing environment because they need to be able to go on site in order to carry out their tests. We're also seeing a lot of mobile development in military contractors and subcontractors. The defense industry demands that an immense amount of information be available to personnel, and data integrity and security are paramount. As enterprise apps become more prevalent in the workplace, there are new and different questions that developers are going to have to ask. Understanding business users differs from understanding consumers. There are often security concerns with corporate users that do not exist with other types of app users.