Quick Comparison: RequisitePro, DOORs, and Requirements Composer

Ever since the acquisition of Telelogic by IBM, it has been quite a challenge to figure out what tool fits best and in what context.

Here is a quick compilation:

General/historic tool use

DOORS			RequisitePro
Systems			Software/IT
Formal Req. Change Process			Lightweight Req. Change Management
Telelogic Tools / Harmony Process			Rational Tools / RUP
Reviewer Web Client			Full Web Client
Formal Rigorous Compliance / FDA			IT Compliance
More expensive			Less expensive

(adopted from this presentation)

The Requirements Composer complements both DOORs and ReqPro by providing capturing, modeling, diagramming, and collaboration capabilities.

Capability	ReqPro	DOORS	Requirements Composer
Word integration	great	poor	none
Manage requirements	great	great	poor
Req. Lifecycle Traceability	great	great	poor
Web-based access	great	poor	good
Detailed reporting for standards compliance	good	great	poor
Tool integration	good	good	good
Rich text capture	none	good	great
UI sketches and storyboards	none	none	great
Diagramming	none	none	great
Dashboards	none	none	good

The roadmap at IBM is to merge DOORs and ReqPro in the new product out in 2011: http://jazz.net/projects/rational-requirements-composer/

This is a larger ALM vision IBM has for their products: http://jazz.net/projects/rational-workbench-for-clm/