R4J

RATING:

4.7

(6)
Overview

About R4J

R4J is a requirements management solution and key features of this native add-on include establishing custom requirements hierarchies with folders and parent-child structures, full traceability, improved requirements change management, change impact analysis, reuse requirements and structures JIRA across projects, baselines management, revision compare, round-trip export/import of all JIRA issues types with our MS Excel Add-On, Search/filter with extended JIRA query language, reports with dashboard gadgets, and fully customizable MS Word export.

R4J Pricing

R4J pricing depends on Jira user tier and environment (on premise vs cloud). Contact Sales (ease solutions) <sales@easesolutions.com> for detailed pricing information and a quote.

Starting price: 

$10.00 one time

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Not Available

Hierarchical structure of the project - Define requirements types, hierarchical requirements structures and role-specific views that suit your project needs: Business, system and component requirements, project constraints, personas, use cases and others.
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R4J Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for R4J

6 Reviews

User Profile

Rahul

Verified reviewer

Industrial Automation, 201-500 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2022

Simple Requirement Management for JIRA

It is a good add-in that mixes very well with your JIRA experience and is very consistent with JIRA in all the ways. I would recommend anyone looking to manage requirements well in JIRA to consider this add-in.

PROS

The simplistic interface of R4J Add-In makes it very easy to manage and track requirements within the JIRA. Most software projects manage requirements using JIRA, but most struggle with managing requirements and organizing them, R4J excels in this aspect.

CONS

The provision to define multiple versions of requirements could be a good value add. As of now, we have to update the single requirement if the requirement updates. It makes it little difficult to track the old requirements. Yes, we can do that via the History tab but this would be a good option to add.

Reasons for switching to R4J

Migrated from Polarion to JIRA

Vendor Response

Hello Rahul, thanks for your fantastic review, we are pleased that R4J serves your needs. To support multiple versions I can recommend you our reuse process: Just create from the existing structure a copy to a new folder and link the source and target issues to know the relationship. Then you can track both versions of your requirements. Best Regards, Bernhard

Replied August 2022

Henrik

Automotive, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2020

R4J for more than requirements

Helps throughout our ASPICE process development. Keeps traceability from customer requirements - test cases - test executions - documentation.

PROS

Easy to keep everyone involved in the requirement management. Makes traceability easy and simple for everyone to understand. The issue tree view, easy to organize and get an overview. Helps all work in JIRA. Easy to create export templates, both word and excel.

CONS

Export template error messages could be improved.

Reason for choosing R4J

Integrated in Jira. Easy to integrate into out normal development. Avoid having the product requirements in a different system that only some can use.

Vendor Response

Hello Henrik, thank you very much for your great review, we are very happy to have you on board. Best Regards, Bernhard

Replied November 2020

Thomas

Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed October 2021

Now we have our Jira data structured!

PROS

We were looking for a tool to organize our customer requirements and development tasks in a structured hierarchy. With R4J we found an easy and cost-efficient solution. The revision history and the baselining capability help us to keep track of our change history. The multi-level coverage provides us an overview of all depending elements. Quick way to share my views with my project team.

CONS

Minor small features missing, but this doesn´t matter.

Vendor Response

Hello Thomas, thank you very much for your review of our flagship product R4J - Requirements Management for Jira. If there is anything we can help with using the tool, please let our support know about. Best Regards, Bernhard

Replied October 2021

Petra

Medical Devices, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2021

R4J for medical devices

CogniMed provides technical development services in regulated industries such as medical technology and aviation. We develop hardware, software and complete products for customers. Our focus is on perfectly documented development services for this demanding environment. We have been using R4J for many years and projects by now. It is is perfect for our needs. Our customers love it, too and some have acquired the tools themselves after learning how to work with it at our company.“

PROS

I love the easy child access here, along with R4Js capability to handle any amount of parent-child hierarchies you might desire to trace (and document coverage of) your requirement. Take T4J in addition and this capability extends to verification specifications and even verification reports. I also appreciate the flexible export options to word documents with an extensible configuration language and word templates.

CONS

That R4J and T4J are not available as cloud products (yet?)

Reason for choosing R4J

Pricing, ease of administration

Vendor Response

Hello Petra, thank you very much for your review, highly appreciated. We are going the cloud path now, R4J is released already in its first version since Nov 10th. You can join our cloud demos at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/4116294462148/WN_jRgAJan5R4OlzgOAdV7cIg Best Regards, Bernhard Doleschel, Ease Solutions

Replied November 2021

Joyce

Government Administration, 201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2022

Using R4J for Jira Requirements Management

This is an awesome app. We have successfully built a full Application Lifecycle Management tool within Jira. R4J offers requirement reuse, baselines, and complete traceability. This tool comes along with exceptional customer support as well.

PROS

Cost, setup, and ease of use. Traceability and Requirements reuse were a must for us.

CONS

Would like more granular permissions in folder view.

Reason for choosing R4J

Adaptability, we have several development teams who manage requirements in many different ways. Only R4J allowed for each team to manage and structure requirements in a way that worked for them.

Reasons for switching to R4J

Cost, setup, and ease of use.

Vendor Response

Hello Joyce, thank you very much for your great review and suggestions, we love to hear feedback from our customers. You are always welcome to share your ideas using our support portal: https://support.easesolutions.com/ Best Regards, Bernhard

Replied December 2022

User Profile

Luca

Verified reviewer

Industrial Automation, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed October 2020

This is what I've been looking for!

Our Company was looking for some methods to hangle complex projects and, in particular, their HW, SW and system requirements. This is the first instuments we use to manage the requirements and it is already an indispensable tool.

PROS

Very great integration with JIRA server. Very fast learning curve.

CONS

The feature R4J improve over the basic JIRA server does not seems to much but they're for sure the essential one. I hope R4J will continue to improve the product.

Vendor Response

Hello Luca and Midac team, thank you very much for your very positive review. Certainly we are still developing new features in R4J to enhance your experience with Jira for Requirements Management. We enjoy listening to our customers, so your input is very welcome at https://support.easesolutions.com/. Best Regards, Bernhard, Ease Solutions

Replied October 2020

6 Reviews