PTC Codebeamer

Codebeamer from PTC is a complete software lifecycle management solution combining requirements, risk and test management in one product, on an open platform.

What sets it apart from general purpose ALM is product line configuration. Most tools assume one product moving through a lifecycle, but manufacturers ship families of variants that share most of their engineering and differ in specific ways, and managing those as separate projects duplicates the shared 90 percent while losing track of which variant a change applies to.

Combining risk management with requirements and test in one place is equally deliberate. In regulated engineering a hazard must be traceable to the requirement that mitigates it and the test that proves the mitigation works, and when those live in three systems the links are maintained by hand and rot quietly between audits.

Integration is treated as a first class concern rather than an afterthought, connecting fragmented software engineering tool environments to a central development platform through out of the box and standards based integrations, explicitly to reduce the hidden costs and tedious manual work of building integrations yourself. Codebeamer also connects to other PTC products, joining the engineering digital thread that links software development to the wider product record. Smart digital workflows connect people, roles and processes, and lifecycle data is turned into actionable intelligence. Pricing is not published.