Lined up understanding and focus of the team working on the project.

By structured approach keeps team on focused development path. This is the biggest strength. Allows to avoid misundestandings and serves a common discussion / collaborations online platform for dynamic team. Linking with other systems (such ticketing system) is great. Helps relate the requirements to actual development work. Also helps to have a messy discussion away from the requirements, yet still accessible if needed. Exporting, cloning, children, importing of requirements is great. Keep things lined up in solid tree / folder structure which can be customized to what is needed. The tree structure (folders) can be called to match the business nomenclature which was helpful for us. Filters and reports are great help to manage the project, gives instantaneous snapshot of requirements progress.

The editor is not that intuitive, but has many great features to manage requirements like cloning and children.

The overall experience has been very positive and product.

The ability to begin using the tool productively right away - and without a large expense up front. The pricing model enabled us to take advantage of RTM without passing the cost on to our customers. Response to support issues has been very fast.

The interface is basic (but has provided everything we have needed to manage the requirements for our initial project). Improvements are being made quickly (several new features have been added since we began using TraceCloud)

It was chosen for our team, so we use it. It gets the job done with respect to satisfying audit requirements, but the relative "pain" for the casual user means that we don't take as much advantage as we probably could.

Good for creating an auditable set of linkages from "customer story" through requirements to test artifacts.

Blows it on simple things. Every time I get logged out due to inactivity, the web client goes to a dead "Confirm form resubmission" page which doesn't actually work if you refresh. I have to manually reset the URL back to tracecloud.com or the login page. After login, I have to manually navigate back to the project I was using. Creating test records or other artifacts not always intuitive to the casual user.

Traceability is the primary value from this software (among standards, user needs, requirements, risk controls, interface control documents, test protocols). Previously performed all tracing via Word and Excel tables which is very labor intensive, fragile and error prone.

The feature for connecting projects (=user defined database areas) facilitates organizing data in logical, manageable groups with appropriate user permissions. Even though separate areas still achieve full traceability between related requirements. Customizable attributes and folder views allows tailoring to suit our needs. Can merge database output with a Word document template when exporting data. This allows for database output directly into Word doc with custom company header and footer. Trial license allowed me to explore and become comfortable with tool before purchase. At point of purchase I was confident it would do the job. The interactive Trace Map view of trace relationships is very nice. You can follow it down a path and expand/contract the information as needed. Plus you can click on any requirement in the Trace Map and go directly to that requirement detail in the database. Exceptionally fast response from support team on questions. Often get a response within a few minutes.

User interface is not as polished or intuitive as some other requirements management tools that I've previously used. However, once you explore the tool and understand how it is organized and the functions, then not an issue. I think it helped to have used other relational databases before using TraceCloud. For example, nearly all filtering and selection of data is done via the "Report" function which essentially means via database queries, rather than vi a more interactive user interface. The reports can be saved and run again later, which is good. The on-line documentation and 'how to' videos do not match the current user interface. All the features and functions are there but are presented in the User Interface differently than in the documentation. Word template feature doesn't support .docx formats, so you have to remember to create Word templates as .doc (Word 97-2003 files).

Overall, for the price, this tool is a great one to have though it has some limitations. If you're looking for traceability and version management as your primary asks, then this is a go to tool for requirements management.

The traceability (Trace Tree feature) is what I like the most in this tool. Once you export the tracetree into an excel file, what you see is different heirarchy of requirements and test cases and reports neatly organised and is a visual treat.

The reporting feature needs customisation and client's documentation templates friendly

TraceCloud has been overall a great tool for implementing practical Systems Engineering practices into the transit infrastructure industry which has not traditionally accepted practices such as requirements verification and validation, and interface management. The customer support has been very helpful as well, and we look forward to expanding this SW across our company's infrastructure business line.

TraceCloud enables civil engineering users without any SW development experience to easily develop a custom online environment. TraceCloud's flexibility (and customer support) is also extremely helpful for projects that span multiple years, transition through various phases and experience large volumes of user turnover.

The layouts could be optimized to reduce white space and condense information. SW developed for a web browser should be better customized to maximize usable space and adjust for various browser window configurations (half screen, full screen, etc.)

This does help to solve construction management purposes. It records information for all parties involved.

I do like the record keeping of information for construction management and how it can be found for all of the document management purposes.

I wish there were better ways of reporting structure. Also finding a better way to use it as a method to store documents and view them easier. Its also a little buggy and could be modernized.

TraceCloud is a simple and easy to use product! It allows us to collaborate and track our items in one location! It has been quick to deploy and easy to adopt. Training is also easy since the platform is well laid out. Its highly customizable too!

i wish the change history for admins could be an automated report

We are standardizing across the board on a single location for requirements which is reducing sync issues where previously we had requirements stored in multiple locations and people would reference old outdated requirements. Now we are on the road to a single repository that is more granular than a document.

The team has been very attentive to updating the software to meet our needs. We have very complex requirements and they have been great at working with us to demo and show us how to leverage their product to the max.

The UI is a bit clunky, it could be cleaned up a little modernized a little more but it functions well.

- It manages requirements - Approval process - Baseline - Web API (called REST but it is not REST)

- JSP!! Need different browsers to be able to have more than one requirements open at the same time - Generate link manually for a requirement

TraceCloud looks and feels like a product that is early in it development. It has a good core and the customer support is very responsive. The interface is mostly intuitive with a few features in places where you might not expect them. Once found through, they work work as expected.

Very flexible. Allows you to transition from a paper system to a true trace application without leaving your legacy methods behind. We were able to upload our Word and Excel document into tracecloud and create templates that draw the information from tracecloud in a format that is familiar to our users. This allows us to transition the organization in steps which has resulted in a higher acceptance rate. Also like the ability to do group changes (rather than individual changes to each requirement). This makes updates much easier.

Some quirks in importing and exporting Word and Excel files. Tracecloud has been responsive in addressing these quirks.

I have found Tracecloud to be a very simple tool to use, and effective at task management. It is a software that I would strongly consider when selecting a tool to manage large volume of tasks with large groups of people.

It is simple to setup, with great flexibility for user-defined roles and attributes. Tracing and change logs are accurate and easy to access. Organization of tasks is very structured and intuitive.

I would like to see more dashboard features, with presentations ranging from high-level to low-level for different users.

Overall, a good experience with very capable software. Emphasis should be on user training so they gain maximum benefits

It was easy and logical to use. It allows for good traceability. Reports were easy to use. Easy to acess via a number of devices

In the introduction phase it took a while for our team to get used to its features and how to explain to others.

We use TraceCloud for requirements management where we elicit the requirements and capture them in the tool. We also use the tool for capturing verification evidences. The tool is very useful and user friendly.

1)User friendly 2)Good support to understand the features 3)Immediate response to any queries 4)Very good customer support when new features are requested

There are some hidden features which we need to explore and and ind. Probably a tool manual/Guide describing all the features can help.

The ability to trace requirements is very useful to manage and control change especially for documents that impact a range of lolcations in the reqs library

Search and navigation could use some improvements Could use more versatile fields types and rich formatting of attributes

My Project Manager reviewed this 5/5 in April 2016. Since then it has got even better. Exceptionally attentive support and willingness to enhance the product in line with its philosophy. We use TraceCloud heavily in our project and have found it to be flexible, powerful, simple to use and a project backbone in a multi-disciplinary, multi-dimensional requirements collection process that has stretched well over 1 year now and now leads us to purchasing. We will continue to rely on TraceCloud during evaluation, negotiation and implementation of our new system to be.

Overall my experience with TraceCloud has been great. Its a very efficient and powerful program and easy to use.

TraceCloud is an EASY TO USE, and POWERFUL Requirements Management & Traceability solution.

Sometimes I receive repeat notifications for the same item.

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I do not like much about this tool at all; I've used DOORS for years and it is great. It's accessible, easy, clear, etc. whereas TraceCloud I feel is not.

TraceCloud is a bunch of folders, with requirements in them, with no context (they are not even in the appropriate order of the contract? There are no headings to tell what section you're in? It's extremely confusing). No one should EVER change the contract requirements text, and that has happened. No one should have access to other people's requirements either, but they do. There is no unique Identifier, which makes it extremely hard for traceability as anytime the requirement changes (which again shouldn't happen?) it gets a whole new ID (Tag ID) number assigned to it. That could be an issue with the RM Process as well, but from my experience with TraceCloud, it's frustrating and I am hopeful that I don't have to use it again in the future.

I reviewed and evaluated this product for one of my client and found it very easy, simple and adaptable tool so recommended the product to use as requirements management tool for the project. Client urgently needed a tool with traceability features to establish relationship between different requirement types and generate trace tree reports urgently. Tool supports custom requirement types and requirement attributes to meet project needs. Received very good support from their customer support representative. I interacted multiple times and found them to be very professional, supportive and open to listen any product feedback. I did provided multiple enhancement requests and they were very quick to incorporate some of the requests I suggested. One of the feature we requested was making a comment/reason field available to every trace relationship between any two requirements to document any meaningful comments/reason information about traceability between two requirements. I have used many other tools but have not seen any other tools in the industry that allows such trace attribute features. I strongly recommend others to at least evaluate the tool and provide feedback to their customer support team as I found them to be willing to enhance product with any new justifiable value added features that can be most commonly used by industry practitioners.

I'm using TraceCloud for a variety of projects, and with some configuration, I've used it successfully to describe requirements for a number of embedded networks and embedded software products. Custom attributes can be used to capture such things as whether or not the requirement is a safety requirement or not, what level of safety, etc - very useful feature. I am planning on using a custom attribute to track the completion status of each requirement. I would like a more modern user interface with drag and drop, and trace links between projects could be improved. It would also be great to be able to write macros so that something like an ASIL rating (from ISO26262) could be generated from Severity, Exposure and Controllability values.

Cloud-based, inexpensive, easily configured.

The user interface -- would be better with drag and drop, and better tracking of projects.

It does the job well (tracking and tracing requirements, managing approvals and version history). The customer support is great.

It provides all the features I'm looking for. It supports import/export using excel. The customer support is fast and very helpful. They are willing to add reasonable features upon request.

It can do pretty much everything that I can think of, but certain tools/actions can be hard to find.

The intuitive user interface, speed and flexibility of TraceCloud. Reports are easily generated and transferred to Excel; mass uploads allow for quick changes to multiple documents. This and a wealth of other factors make it easy to manage your project requirements on TraceCloud.

Small unexpected bugs hamper the experience on occasion.

Makes RFI's and Field Design Changes very easy to create and attach files to. "Remind" feature is also useful for making sure you receive reviews as you need them.

The "My Status" page is a powerful tool to manage your items in the project management software

Search results should not include items that you do not have permission to read

Satisfactory.

It is feature rich. It contains plenty of fields and information to be passed back and forth.

The search and advanced search functions are worse than MS-DOS 2.0 from 40 years ago.

We have used it to internally track our organization's projects. Great for systems engineering and for tightly tracking changes, managing traceability and collaborating across the globe. We haven't used the more advanced features, but good to know that they exist The UI has been changing (for the better) over the past couple of years. I recommend this product for others.

Ease of Use and Coming up to speed. Cost and scalability.