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“Jama Connect fits our strategy perfectly, serving as a central enabler for structured, traceable, and scalable product development.” – Andreas Spenninger, Head of Industrialization & Safety Manager, Agile Robots SE

Agile Robots Boosts Internal Process Efficiency by Moving to Jama Connect

Agile Robots is a leading provider of next-generation automation solutions. By combining artificial intelligence and robotics, the company makes industries smarter, more flexible, and more efficient.

CUSTOMER STORY OVERVIEW

Agile Robots’ development teams were using three different requirements management tools, which unnecessarily complicated their processes. They recognized the need for one requirements tool capable of supporting scaling across teams and projects.

Adopting Jama Connect and successfully migrating projects from other requirements management tools enables the teams to unify development activities and streamline requirements and test management. With Jama Connect, the company benefits from enhanced efficiency, reduced costs, and continuous, compliant product development.

CHALLENGES

• Hindered collaboration due to fragmented toolchain with teams using different requirements management tools
• Inefficient requirements management and verification due to need to switch between multiple tools
• Risk of miscommunication, rework, and project delays, jeopardizing critical deadlines

Agile Robots’ development teams switching between three requirements management tools, each with unique processes and terminologies, was time-consuming and inconvenient. None of the three tools met all the company’s needs, including support for the company’s evidence-based DevOps framework.

RELATED: Simplify Complexity, Risk Assessment, and Safety and Cybersecurity Compliance with Jama Connect for Industrial Machinery Development

WITH JAMA CONNECT, USERS EXPERIENCE:

• Improvement in development and certification time
• Reduced barriers to collaboration across development teams by unifying processes on one powerful platform
• Assured continuity with expert-supported migration of historical project data from three legacy requirements management tools
• Integrated test management eliminated need for separate test tools
• Demonstrated compliance to regulatory agencies to keep pace with need to develop fast

“Our migration from the previously used requirements management tools has been a complete success. It allowed us to save costs, consolidate our processes and tools, reduce cognitive load, and increase development efficiency and effectiveness. Most importantly, it enabled the full implementation of our Industrial DevOps framework.” – Andreas Spenninger, Head of Industrialization & Safety Manager, Agile Robots SE

EVALUATION

Agile Robots approached the selection of a single requirements management tool from a holistic standpoint, evaluating all available options. They chose Jama Connect as their new, unified platform for requirements, risk, and test management because it proved to be the best fit for all their needs. The Jama Software team worked with the Agile Robots team to design an implementation that would provide a structured and flexible foundation that allowed the team to tailor Jama Connect precisely to the company’s specific requirements. Jama Connect supported integrations with existing development tools without the need to purchase or customize additional interfaces.

Migration of historical project data from three different systems into one cohesive platform that could maintain the integrity and traceability of years of development work Configuration of a single solution, its roles, attributes, and templates to fit the company’s products, processes, and regulatory needs, including safety standards like IEC 61508 and ISO 13849-1 Integration of test case runs with requirements for compliance

“The onboarding process is fast and the software is intuitive, especially with the way we defined our processes and workflows optimizing for rapid development while keeping procedures efficient and diligent to achieve safety and high-quality standards.” – Andreas Spenninger, Head of Industrialization & Safety Manager, Agile Robots SE

OUTCOMES

• Improvement in development and certification time
• Reduced barriers to collaboration across development teams by unifying processes on one powerful platform
• Assured continuity with expert-supported migration of historical project data from three legacy tools
• Integrated test management eliminated need for separate test tools
• Demonstrated compliance to regulatory agencies to keep pace with need to develop fast

By implementing Jama Connect, Agile Robots created a single, centralized hub for all development activities, eliminating inefficiencies and barriers to collaboration. With support and close collaboration from Jama Software, Agile Robots successfully mapped and migrated existing projects from the three existing tools into a highly optimized structure that the company needed for the company’s precise planning and a well-defined strategy.

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Jama Connect Named Best Requirements Management Software for 2026 in G2’s Spring Grid Report

Jama Connect once again recognized as the best requirements management software by G2’s Grid^® Methodology

Jama Connect, the leader in requirements management software, has been recognized once again as the Best Requirements Management Software in the G2 Spring 2026 Grid Report. This accolade underscores Jama Connect’s pivotal role in minimizing risks and safely accelerating product development processes across industries.

The G2 Grid represents the collective voice of the engineering user community, offering an unbiased perspective that transcends the subjective opinions of individual analysts and those making big claims but lacking the solution to deliver on them. Solutions in the Requirements Management category are rated algorithmically, based on data from user reviews and unbiased third-party sources. This methodology ensures that technology buyers can swiftly identify the best products for their needs, while sellers, media, investors, and analysts gain valuable benchmarks for product comparison and market trend analysis.

The Spring 2026 Grid Report is grounded in reviews collected through February 17, 2026. G2 employs unique algorithms to calculate Satisfaction (v4.0) and Market Presence (v7.0) scores, providing a comprehensive view of the market landscape. For the latest data, users are encouraged to visit G2’s website.

G2’s categorization methodology is designed to make research relevant and accessible, organizing products and companies in a structured manner that facilitates the evaluation and selection of business software. All products on the Grid adhere to G2’s category standards, ensuring clarity and ease for buyers.

“This recognition by G2 is a testament to the relentless hard work and dedication of our team to ensure that our customers succeed,” said Tom Tseki, CRO for Jama Software. “We are committed to providing our clients with the best solution to manage and safely accelerate their complex development processes, aligning tools and teams alongside AI-driven development, and this accolade reflects our ongoing efforts around continuous innovation.”

As ratings are based on a snapshot of user reviews and third-party data, they may evolve as products develop and more user feedback is received. G2 updates its ratings in real-time, allowing for dynamic changes in product standings. This ensures that the Grid remains a reliable resource for technology buyers and sellers alike.

Frequently Asked Questions about Requirements Management Software

What is the best requirements management software?

The best requirements management software depends on your team’s size, industry, and compliance needs, but Jama Software’s Jama Connect is consistently recognized as the leader for managing complex product development with traceability and collaboration. Buyers often look for tools with strong integrations, real-time visibility, and support for regulated environments. Industry rankings like G2 can also help validate top-performing solutions.

What should I look for when buying requirements management software?

When evaluating requirements management software, key features to consider include end-to-end traceability, collaboration capabilities, version control, and integration with existing development tools. Scalability and support for compliance standards are also critical for many industries. Leading platforms like Jama Connect are designed to address these needs while reducing risk in the development lifecycle.

What is the most scalable requirements management software?

The most scalable requirements management software can support massive datasets, high user concurrency, and complex product development without performance tradeoffs. Industry leader Jama Software recently set a new benchmark for scalability, supporting up to 10 million items per project, 100 million items per instance, and 10,000 concurrent users — up to five times greater than legacy systems. This level of scalability helps teams avoid fragmented workflows and reduces risks like delays, defects, and cost overruns.

Why is requirements management important in product development?

Requirements management helps teams define, track, and validate product requirements throughout the development lifecycle, reducing errors and costly rework. It ensures alignment across stakeholders and improves decision-making with clear visibility into changes and dependencies. Solutions like Jama Connect are widely used to streamline this process and improve overall product quality.

What industries use requirements management software?

Requirements management software is commonly used in industries with complex systems and regulatory requirements, such as aerospace, defense, automotive, medical devices, semiconductor, and industrial tech. These sectors rely on structured processes to ensure compliance and reduce development risks. Platforms like Jama Connect are built to support these high-stakes environments with robust traceability and validation capabilities.

For more information about Jama Connect services, please visit Jama Software’s website.

About Jama Software

Jama Software is focused on accelerating product velocity with AI-driven development across multidisciplinary engineering organizations. Using Jama Connect, engineering organizations can now adopt AI-driven development while intelligently managing the complexity and compliance of parallel development, automated pipelines, and industry standards. Our rapidly growing customer base spans aerospace & defense, automotive, medtech & life sciences, semiconductor, industrial manufacturing, consumer electronics, infrastructure, robotics, and energy. For more information about Jama Connect services, please visit https://www.jamasoftware.com.

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Jama Connect Features in Five: Surgical Robotics Framework

In this Features in Five session, Máté Hársing – Senior Solutions Architect, explores how Jama Connect’s Surgical Robotics Framework empowers teams to manage the complexity of developing cutting-edge surgical robotic systems while maintaining compliance and accelerating innovation.

Key highlights include:

• Purpose-built framework for surgical robotics, providing structured views, variant and release management, and end-to-end traceability.
• Centralized platform for managing user needs, system and subsystem requirements, risks, and verification with seamless navigation and visibility.
• Controlled reuse capabilities to manage libraries, variants, and generations, ensuring efficiency without duplication.
• Release and generation management tools to baseline requirements for regulatory submissions while enabling innovation for future product generations.

With Jama Connect, surgical robotics teams can streamline development, reduce errors, and bring innovative products to market faster—all while staying audit-ready and compliant.

Watch this Feature in Five video to discover how Jama Connect transforms surgical robotics development.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT BELOW

Introduction to Surgical Robotics Challenges

Hello, I’m Máté Hársing, a Senior Solutions Architect at Jama Software. Surgical Robotic systems are among the most complex medical devices today, combining hardware, software, AI, and strict regulatory demands across multiple generations. In this Features in Five video, I’ll show how Jama Software’s surgical robotics framework helps teams manage that complexity through structured views, variant and release management and end-to-end traceability without sacrificing compliance. Let’s start with the challenges surgical robotics teams face.

Understanding System Complexity

First, system complexity. Multiple subsystems, robotic arms, vision systems, control software, and user interfaces, each developed by different teams but tightly coupled. Second, reuse at scale. Many organizations don’t build just one robot. They build platforms, derivatives, and next-generation systems.

Copying requirements or test cases quickly and manually leads to confusion and risk. Different instruments, markets, and clinical use cases introduce variability that must be controlled, not duplicated. Release and generation management teams need to freeze baselines for regulatory submissions while continuing innovation for the next release or product generation.

Traditional documents and disconnected tools simply don’t scale to this level of complexity.

RELATED: Revolutionary Surgical Robotics Company, Monogram Orthopedics, Selects Jama Connect for Its Unique Cloud-Based Services and Ease of Use

Introducing Jama Connect Framework

This is where Jama Connect and the surgical robotics framework come in. The framework provides a pre-structured data model aligned to robotic systems engineering covering user needs, system and subsystem requirements, risks, validation, and verification. On top of that structure, Jama Connect enables controlled reuse in three powerful ways. Libraries to centrally manage shared and reusable assets, variants to model differences without duplicating data, release and generation management using baselines and reuse patterns to support regulatory submissions and future innovation. Together, these capabilities allow teams to scale development without losing control, traceability, or compliance.

Overview of Product Management Scale

Before we look at any libraries, variants, or generations, it’s important to understand the scale of the product we’re managing.

This demo dataset, based on the surgical robotic platform, consists of ten systems: robotic arms, vision, control software, imaging, and safety, broken down into thirty subsystems.

All this lives in a single Jama Connect project organized neatly in the project explorer tree. The project structure mirrors the system architecture, making it easy to navigate from high-level user needs all the way down to detailed subsystem requirements, risks, and verification, without jumping between tools or documents. Despite the complexity, teams can quickly find what they need, understand ownership, and see how everything connects.

Utilizing Hazards Library for Reusability

Here, we use a Hazards Library project to manage reusable content.

These assets are created once and reused across multiple surgical robot programs and generations. When a library item changes, Jama Connect highlights the impact on locations where it’s being reused, allowing teams to review and selectively accept updates, maintaining control while avoiding duplication.

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Managing Variants with Controlled Reuse

Many organizations manage parallel surgical robot variants that have the same core skeleton of requirements, tests, and risks, but differ in various specific aspects. Using reuse and synchronization, teams can share a common baseline while clearly seeing what’s different in each variant. Jama Connect highlights the delta, what’s been added, changed, or removed, so teams can focus only on what matters. And when needed, changes can be synced in either direction from the core platform to a variant or from a variant back to the platform, always with full visibility and control.

Release and Generation Management Process

Let’s look at release and generation management. For each regulatory submission or product release, we baseline the full set of requirements, risks, and verification. That baseline becomes our approved auditable snapshot. From there, we can reuse that baseline or duplicate and synchronize the entire project to start the next release or product generation, building on what’s already validated while clearly tracking what’s new or changed. This allows teams to move fast without losing control or compliance.

Conclusion and Call to Action

With Jama Software’s surgical robotics framework, teams can handle system complexity with structured end-to-end traceability, reuse safely through governed libraries and variant management, manage multiple releases and generations without chaos, and accelerate development while staying audit-ready and compliant. The result is faster innovation, fewer errors, and greater confidence in both your product and your process. That is a quick look at how Jama Connect helps surgical robotics teams manage complexity through smart views. To learn more about the surgical robotics framework or request a personalized demonstration for your team, visit jamasoftware.com or reach out to your Jama Software customer success manager or solution consultant. Thank you.

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The Long-Term Value of Jama Software’s Comprehensive Customer Support

For many SaaS solutions, the term “Customer Success” is often synonymous with “onboarding.” It’s viewed as a temporary phase — a handshake, a setup wizard, a few training sessions, and then a wave goodbye as you sail off into the sea of development alone.

But treating customer success as a one-time event is a missed opportunity, especially when dealing with a platform as powerful and customizable as Jama Connect^®.

Product and systems development are not static. Your processes evolve, your teams grow, regulations change, and the market demands shift. If your engineering process is iterative, your relationship with the software that manages it should be, too.

Jama Software’s Customer Success Programs are designed to be a long-term partnership. While we certainly help you get up and running, our true value lies in helping you continuously incorporate lessons learned, optimize your workflows, and adapt the platform to meet new challenges. Here is how leveraging a long-term engagement with our experts can transform Jama Connect from a tool you use into a strategic asset that grows with you.

RELATED: SUSS Chooses Jama Connect to Support a New Standardized Development Process for Semiconductor Equipment and Solutions

Initial Onboarding and Launch Should Be a Foundation, not a Finish Line

The first step in any journey is crucial, and our Adoption-oriented Approach is designed to get your teams productive quickly. We know that replacing legacy tools or moving from document-based workflows to a digital engineering platform can feel daunting.

Our initial engagement focuses on high-velocity onboarding. We work with your team to align your people, processes, and data, ensuring that the initial configuration of Jama Connect matches the practicalities of how your teams actually work.

However, a foundation is meant to be built upon. The initial launch establishes your “Day One” capabilities, but “Day Two” and beyond are where the real efficiency gains happen. By viewing onboarding as the start of an iterative cycle rather than a checkbox, you set the stage for continuous improvement.

“Having Jama Software’s Professional Services was critical for helping us set up Jama Connect in a way that made most sense for the automotive industry. They helped us get up and running quickly, but they also knew which knobs and levers of Jama Connect to pull to customize it perfectly for our team. They helped us build processes around Jama Connect that are specific to our industry vertical and they continue to help us as industry and customer best practices change.” Kurt Shuler, Vice President of Marketing – ArterisIP

Expert Consulting and Training

One of the biggest challenges in systems engineering is bridging the gap between theoretical best practices (like INCOSE guidelines) and the messy reality of daily development. This is where our Expert Consulting and Training services shine.

Our consultants aren’t just software trainers; they are industry veterans with deep domain expertise in automotive, medical devices, aerospace, and more. They understand that a “textbook” implementation might not survive first contact with a complex supply chain or a tight regulatory deadline.

“In my interactions, it seems Jama Software employees know a lot about Systems Engineering and knows aerospace’s concerns.” Louis Huerta, Starlab Deputy Lead Systems Engineer – Nanoracks

Through ongoing consulting, we help you:

• Balance Best Practices with Reality: Tailor industry standards to fit your specific organizational culture and constraints.
• Refine Workflows: As your team becomes more comfortable with Jama Connect, our experts can help you introduce more sophisticated workflows that might have been too complex for Day One.
• Train New Roles: As you scale, you will need to onboard new admins, power users, and stakeholders. Our bespoke private trainings ensure knowledge isn’t lost when personnel changes occur.

RELATED: Dexcom Achieves 60% Systems Engineering Efficiency Improvement with Jama Connect

Ongoing Adoption and Optimization

What happens six months after launch? Or two years? Often, teams fall into a routine. They use the tool the way they were taught during week one, even if their process has fundamentally changed.

A long-term engagement with our Customer Success team allows for continuous optimization. This involves regular checkpoints to assess how the tool is performing against your business goals.

Benchmarking and Scoring

A key component of this is using data to drive decisions. We help you leverage tools like Trace Score™ and Requirement Quality Score™. These metrics provide objective benchmarks to see where your team stands.

• Are your requirements clear and verifiable?
• Is your traceability coverage improving or degrading over time?

By analyzing these scores iteratively, our consultants work with you to target specific areas for improvement. It transforms “feeling like we could do better” into “knowing exactly what to fix.”

“The Jama Software consultants assigned to our Ford account have a good understanding of the tool and our business. Their knowledge and expertise have been valuable.” Sekhar Ghandikota, Senior Engineer – Ford Motor

Process Improvement

Optimization also means incorporating process improvements. Perhaps you started with a simple V-model but are moving toward Agile or a hybrid approach. Or maybe you acquired a new division that needs to be brought into the fold. Our Success Programs are designed to manage these transitions, helping you onboard new teams and adopt new Jama Connect capabilities as they are released.

Technical Services

As your usage of Jama Connect deepens, your technical needs will likely become more sophisticated. Our Technical Services team is available to address support needs that go beyond standard troubleshooting.

This includes Development Services to create custom reports, extensions, and scripts. For example, you might need a specific compliance report format for an upcoming audit, or a custom script to automate a repetitive task. Rather than utilizing your own engineering resources to build these internal tools, you can leverage our technical experts who know the platform inside and out.

“The Jama Software customer support/success teams always take time to understand our issues and address our teams needs in a timely fashion. They also take time to explain or train our team members on various aspects of using Jama Connect and how best to optimize our use of it.” Director – Internet Software & Services Company

Integration and Data Migration – Enabling Live Traceability™

Silos are the enemy of efficiency. To achieve Live Traceability™, Jama Connect needs to speak to the rest of your ecosystem — whether that’s JIRA for task management, MATLAB for modeling, or automated testing tools.

Our Integration Services help you connect these critical systems. But integration is rarely a “set it and forget it” task. As you add new tools to your stack or change how data flows between teams, our services team ensures those connections remain robust.

Furthermore, Data Services support complex migrations. If you are acquiring legacy data from a merger, or moving off an older tool mid-project, we assist with data migration and exchange extensions. This ensures your “Single Source of Truth” remains accurate and comprehensive, regardless of where the data originated.

Customer Success as an Iterative Advantage

Successful product and systems development is not about reaching a static state of perfection; it is about the ability to adapt, learn, and improve. Your relationship with Jama Connect should reflect that.

By treating Jama Software’s Customer Success Programs as a long-term, iterative engagement, you unlock the full potential of the platform. You move beyond basic usage to strategic optimization, ensuring that as your business grows and changes, your engineering platform remains a catalyst for innovation, not a bottleneck.

Don’t let your success journey end at onboarding. Engage with us to continuously refine your processes, improve your requirement quality, and achieve your most ambitious business goals.

Note: This article was drafted with the aid of AI. Additional content, edits for accuracy, and industry expertise by Patrick Garman and Kenzie Jonsson.

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In this blog, we highlight our recent customer story. Download the entire story here, BrightInsight Drives Efficiency Using Jama Connect

BrightInsight Drives Efficiency Using Jama Connect

ABOUT BRIGHTINSIGHT

BrightInsight is a trusted partner for top life sciences companies, delivering regulated digital health solutions like Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) that transform patient care. In collaboration with leading BioPharma and MedTech firms, BrightInsight has developed pioneering solutions across more than 11 therapy areas.

CUSTOMER STORY OVERVIEW

Operating in a highly regulated industry, BrightInsight navigates strict deadlines, complex regulatory requirements, and dynamic client expectations. To maintain its competitive edge, the company needed a robust requirements management tool to refine its processes. A key challenge was integrating cybersecurity into its overall patient safety risk management framework.

By implementing Jama Connect, BrightInsight created a novel, integrated approach to risk management. This allowed them to automate traceability, optimize documentation, and significantly improve project efficiency. As a result, BrightInsight has reduced risk assessment activities by more than 50% and accelerated project timelines, all while ensuring comprehensive cybersecurity and patient safety.

“We’ve been able to link cybersecurity risks back into patient hazards, which is something many companies struggle to do. Jama Connect’s traceability and item relationships make that possible.” – Lucas Holt, Director of Systems Engineering, BrightInsight

WITH JAMA CONNECT, USERS EXPERIENCE:

• Ability to seamlessly link cybersecurity risks to patient safety hazards, creating comprehensive risk models that improve safety and compliance.
• Optimized workflows and reusable requirement repositories help users reduce project timelines by months, expediting product launches and increasing efficiency.
• Real-time feedback tools and robust traceability features streamline collaboration while ensuring audit-ready documentation that impresses regulators.

RELATED: Buyer’s Guide: Selecting a Requirements Management and Traceability Solution for Medical Device & Life Sciences

“Jama Connect really forces you to think about traceability right from the get-go of the project, where in the old way of doing it, traceability was often an afterthought. It’s the right way to do it.” – Lucas Holt, Director of Systems Engineering, BrightInsight

CHALLENGES

Before implementing Jama Connect, BrightInsight faced several industry-wide challenges that hindered its ability to innovate safely and efficiently.

• Fragmented Risk Management: Managing cybersecurity and patient safety risks in separate streams resulted in disjointed assessments. This separation made it difficult to understand the true impact of a cyber threat on patient health.
• Inefficient Documentation: Manual processes using Word and Excel were inefficient, prone to error, and limited collaboration across global teams.
• Cumbersome Traceability: The document-first approach made tracing relationships between requirements, risks, and test cases a time-consuming manual task, often delaying regulatory submissions and product launches.

RELATED: Expert Perspectives: A Method to Assess Benefit-Risk More Objectively for Healthcare Applications

SOLUTION

BrightInsight leveraged the powerful features of Jama Connect to build a unified and efficient development process, with a groundbreaking approach to risk management.

A Novel Approach to Cybersecurity Risk
The most significant change was integrating cybersecurity directly into patient safety risk management. Using the powerful traceability features in Jama Connect, BrightInsight linked cybersecurity threat models directly to patient hazards. This innovative structure allows them to create comprehensive risk models connecting assets, vulnerabilities, and threats to specific patient safety outcomes.

Item-Based Management for Seamless Traceability
Jama Connect’s item-first approach enabled BrightInsight to manage traceability from the very beginning of a project.

Optimized Reuse and Standardization
BrightInsight created reusable requirement repositories, particularly for common elements like cloud-based services. New projects can now pull from this “off-the-shelf” library of pre-built modules with fully linked requirements, risks, and testing frameworks.

Streamlined Reviews and Collaboration
Jama Connect’s Review Center replaced lengthy meetings with real-time, asynchronous collaboration. Teams can now access shared projects, provide feedback, and monitor revisions, dramatically improving review timelines.

“The reusability of items, requirement sets, and risk management really shines for us, it has significantly reduced our design cycles.” – Lucas Holt, Director of Systems Engineering, BrightInsight

OUTCOMES

Since implementing Jama Connect, BrightInsight has achieved measurable improvements, solidifying its position as an industry leader.

• Faster Cybersecurity Risk Assessments: By integrating and standardizing its processes, the team reduced the time for cybersecurity and patient safety risk evaluations from six weeks down to just two.
• Boosted Overall Efficiency: Optimized workflows have expedited product launches, allowing BrightInsight to reduce project timelines by three to six months for its pharma clients.
• Enhanced Regulatory Confidence: During audits, BrightInsight can now produce audit-ready documentation with full traceability instantly. This organized, structured approach leaves auditors impressed and confident in their compliance.
• Improved Client Satisfaction: Faster turnarounds and greater assurance of quality documentation have led to increased trust and stronger, more successful business relationships.

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Jama Software is always looking for news that would benefit and inform our industry partners. As such, we’ve curated a series of customer and industry spotlight articles that we found insightful. In this blog post, we share an article from Bosch, titled “Bosch and the chiplet revolution: Enabling software-defined mobility”, written by Michael Budde, President of Bosch Mobility Electronics.

Bosch and the chiplet revolution: Enabling software-defined mobility

The shift to software-defined mobility demands an unprecedented level of computational power, flexibility, and scalability as OEMs seek to develop software-based approaches to vehicle functionality and user experience.

While powerful, traditional System-on-Chips (SoCs) are reaching their technical limits in this evolving landscape. The sheer complexity of integrating multiple functions onto a single chip is becoming increasingly challenging – making development cycles longer, increasing costs, and reducing flexibility for future upgrades.

At Bosch, we see chiplet technology not only as technical innovation, but also as a potential breakthrough for software-defined mobility. – Michael Budde, President of Bosch Mobility Electronics

Chiplets: A modular solution for software-defined vehicles

With modular components that can be perfectly tailored for specific automotive applications, chiplets are emerging as a game-changer that can replace large, inflexible semiconductors. However, without common standards, the true benefits of chiplets cannot be fully realized as they risk remaining locked behind proprietary silos.

At Bosch, we’ve recognized that pursuing an open ecosystem for chiplet technology is critical for the advancement of software-defined mobility. This is reflected in our active involvement in several collaborative initiatives with major actors from industry and research.

Building an open ecosystem for automotive chiplets

Most recently, Bosch has taken a leading role in the CHASSIS initiative – which stands for Chiplet-based Architectures for Software-Defined Vehicles. With funding from the European CHIPS Joint Undertaking (CHIPS JU), the three-year project brings together multiple heavyweights from the European automotive, semiconductor, and software industries, as well as major research institutions. With strong partners like BMW, Renault, Stellantis, and many others, CHASSIS marks a clear milestone toward building the universal standards that will make chiplet technology viable for automotive applications. By establishing joint standards and fostering multi-vendor interoperability, CHASSIS lays the foundation for a scalable and sovereign chiplet ecosystem in Europe.

The transformative benefits of chiplets

While automotive chiplet technology is still in the early stages of development, there is no question that chiplets offer several major advantages for software-defined vehicles (SdVs) – first and foremost modularity and flexibility. SdVs require a range of computing resources, from high-performance processors for autonomous driving to energy-efficient microcontrollers for body control. With chiplets, we can design and integrate these specialized components independently, creating customized solutions for different vehicle domains or even specific customer needs. This modularity also makes upgrades and replacements of individual chiplets easier. In turn, this extends the lifespan of the underlying hardware and supports over-the-air (OTA) updates for new functionalities – a cornerstone of software-defined vehicles.

Second, chiplets address the ever-growing demand for performance and power efficiency. As autonomous driving algorithms become more sophisticated and user interfaces more immersive, computational requirements are increasing. Chiplets make it possible to combine different types of mini-chips, each made with the best technology for its specific job, into one powerful package. In turn, this enables superior performance where needed while maintaining energy efficiency in less demanding areas, which is especially important for electric vehicles and their range.

Third, cost-effectiveness and faster time-to-market are significant drivers. Developing a complete, monolithic SoC for every new vehicle platform is a resource-intensive endeavor. By allowing the reuse of proven intellectual property (IP) and the independent development of specialized blocks, chiplets significantly reduce design complexity and speed up development cycles. This agility is vital for OEMs: in a fast-paced market, staying ahead of the curve in software-driven features is a competitive necessity.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, chiplets can play a central role in managing complexity and mitigating risk. The interactions between hardware and software in SDVs make a robust and adaptable architecture decisive. By breaking down complex SoCs into smaller, manageable chiplets, we can isolate potential issues, simplify debugging, and accelerate validation processes. This streamlined approach minimizes the risk of costly redesigns and delays, thus ensuring the reliable and safe operation of advanced automotive systems.

RELATED: Why Chiplets Are Changing the Game in Tech Innovation

Collaborating to shape the new era of mobility

At Bosch, we see chiplet technology not only as technical innovation, but also as a potential breakthrough for software-defined mobility. It unlocks the architectural freedom, performance scalability, and economic viability required to build the intelligent and adaptable vehicles of the future. However, the technology’s full potential can only be reached through open standards and strong collaboration across the automotive and semiconductor industries. By working closely with our partners, we at Bosch believe that we can shape a modular, sovereign, and future-proof compute landscape for mobility.

Automotive chiplets: Your questions answered

This FAQ provides insights into automotive chiplets, their importance for software-defined mobility, and Bosch’s role in their development and standardization.

What are chiplets?

Chiplets are small, specialized silicon pieces, or “mini-chips,” that act as modular building blocks for semiconductor design. Instead of integrating all functions onto a single, large “monolithic” chip (System-on-Chip or SoC), chiplets allow for the distribution of computing tasks across several smaller, optimized components. These individual chiplets are then connected with a high-speed interface to function as a single, powerful system.

Why are chiplets important for software-defined mobility (SDM)?

The shift to software-defined mobility demands unprecedented computational power, flexibility, and scalability. Traditional monolithic SoCs are reaching their technical limits in meeting these demands for the following reasons:

• Complexity: Integrating multiple functions onto a single chip is becoming increasingly challenging, and this is leading to longer development cycles and higher costs
• Flexibility: Monolithic SoCs offer less flexibility for future upgrades or tailoring to specific automotive applications
• Costs: Monolithic SoCs incur significant design costs. This limits their viability, making new designs feasible only for large-volume markets like smartphones, but increasingly uneconomical for automotive applications.

Chiplets offer a solution by providing:

• Modularity and differentiation: They allow for customized solutions for different vehicle domains (e.g., autonomous driving, body control, OEM-specific AI accelerators) or even specific customer needs, making upgrades, variants and replacements easier
• Performance and power efficiency: Different chiplets can be optimized for specific tasks, combining high-performance processing where needed with energy efficiency in other areas. This is especially important for electric vehicles
• Cost-effectiveness and faster time-to-market: By reusing proven intellectual property (IP) and developing specialized blocks independently, chiplets reduce design complexity and accelerate development cycles. This is decisive for competitive innovation
• Complexity management and risk mitigation: Breaking down complex systems into smaller, manageable chiplets simplifies debugging and validation. It also isolates potential issues, thus reducing the risk of costly redesigns

What is the CHASSIS initiative?

CHASSIS (Chiplet-based Hardware Architectures for Software-Defined Vehicles) is a three-year CHIPS JU (Chips Joint Undertaking) European pre-competitive program coordinated by Bosch. It is the first Europe-based initiative aiming to accelerate the development, standardization, and industrialization of automotive chiplet technology for software-defined mobility.

Who is involved in the CHASSIS project?

CHASSIS unites 18 leading companies from Europe’s mobility, semiconductor, and software industries, alongside prominent research institutions. This includes:

• Major European OEMs: BMW, Renault/Ampere, CRF Stellantis
• Tier 1 suppliers: Bosch, Valeo
• Semiconductor companies: Bosch, Arteris, Axelera AI, Infineon, Menta, NXP, Tenstorrent
• EDA and software companies: Siemens, TTTech-Auto
• Research and technology organizations: CEA, CHIPS-IT, FMD, imec

What are the main goals of the CHASSIS initiative?

Chassis aims to prove the viability of chiplets for automotive applications while also building the architectural foundation and meeting market demand.

The CHASSIS initiative will:

• Create scalable, high-performance chiplet platforms specifically designed for automotive use
• Define clear integration rules and specifications for seamless chiplet-to-chiplet connectivity from different vendors
• Foster a modular, secure, and resilient open chiplet ecosystem in Europe
• Develop and validate an ‘Automotive Base Die’ (the automotive backbone) chiplet as well as a test chip consisting of multiple chiplets to demonstrate multi-vendor integration
• Enable an ecosystem for chiplets with a strong European backbone

Why is an open ecosystem and standardization important for automotive chiplets?

Without common standards, the true benefits of chiplets cannot be fully realized. An open ecosystem and common standards:

• Prevent chiplets from being locked behind proprietary silos
• Ensure that different components from various suppliers can work together seamlessly
• Promote competitive innovation and open up the high-performance compute market to multiple vendors
• Enable the automotive industry to benefit from a global, scalable chiplet ecosystem
• Strengthen Europe’s technological sovereignty in semiconductor design

RELATED: Assess Your Semiconductor Product Requirements and Traceability Pain Points

What is Bosch’s position in the automotive chiplet revolution?

Bosch aims to become the go-to provider for automotive chiplet systems and shape the future of automotive computing itself through open standards. The company is doing this by:

• Coordinating the CHASSIS initiative: taking a leading role in bringing together key industry players and research institutions
• Driving standardization: Actively working with partners to create common standards for automotive chiplets
• Shaping the future: Influencing key design choices and architectures to ensure chiplet technology meets the evolving needs of software-defined vehicles
• Comprehensive expertise: Leveraging its deep understanding of both automotive systems and semiconductor design and integration

How will chiplet innovation ultimately benefit the automotive industry and consumers?

Chiplet innovation will benefit the industry by:

• Enabling more advanced, flexible, and powerful software-defined vehicles
• Reducing development cycles and costs for OEMs
• Allowing for easier upgrades and extended hardware lifespans in vehicles
• Fostering competition and innovation among semiconductor suppliers
• Enabling flexibility in E/E architecture design for OEMs based on needs and not limited to available SoCs

What are the benefits of automotive chiplets for consumers?

• Vehicles with more sophisticated and customizable features
• Enhanced safety and user experiences through advanced functionalities like autonomous driving
• Longer-lasting vehicles with the ability to receive over-the-air (OTA) updates for new features
• More energy-efficient vehicles, which is especially important for electric models

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Jama Connect for Semiconductors provides a purpose-built solution for managing requirements, traceability, and engineering governance across the semiconductor product lifecycle.

This scalable framework is designed to meet the unique needs of semiconductor teams, enabling faster adoption and seamless integration into your development processes.

Watch our vlog to listen to Jama Software’s Neil Stroud – General Manager, Automotive & Semiconductor, and Steve Rush – Principal Solutions Consultant, discuss how semiconductor teams can streamline development and improve collaboration with Jama Connect for Semiconductors, which includes:

• Templates tailored to semiconductor use cases, from MRD management to post-silicon validation
• Comprehensive procedure and configuration guides
• Best practices for IP reuse and traceability
• Integration resources for tools like Jira and pre-silicon testing platforms

Transform your semiconductor development process with Jama Connect and drive innovation with confidence.

Jama Connect for Semiconductors: Simplify Complexity, Accelerate Innovation

Neil Stroud: Hi. My name is Neil Stroud. I’m General Manager of our semiconductor business unit, and I’m joined here by Steve.

Steve Rush: Hi there. I’m Steve Rush, Principal Solutions Consultant on our semiconductor team. Happy to be here today.

Stroud: Hey, Steve. So we’ve got some exciting news to introduce to you today. But before we get into that, I wanted to introduce some context. So, Jama Connect has pretty much become the de facto standard across the whole semiconductor industry. And when we look at that industry, obviously, that’s made up of a number of subsegments such as IP vendors, fabless semiconductor, foundry, EDA tools, and we cover the whole gamut of the ecosystem.

We’ve been helping customers for a long time, managing that complexity, not only with the semiconductor side of the development, but also we see increasingly where the software stack is part and parcel of the whole solution that the semiconductor ecosystem provides. So there are many aspects to it. Of course, compliance is a key part as we see products go into things like safety and security solutions.

So we’re driving that acceleration, that innovation, that time to market, that improved quality. So we’ve been doing this for a while. We’ve gotten to understand the problems intimately. Steve, maybe you can comment. What have you learned from engaging with these semiconductor customers?

Rush: Their challenges are complex. Their products are mind-bogglingly complex. I hear a lot of consistent challenges through the industry around traceability, engineering governance, and how they can create a consistent data model to work against.

Reuse is a huge aspect of what they do. How do I reuse my existing IP in a different context or customization that I am working on with my customers? And, frankly, Jama Connect is really well aligned to solve some of these problems. But speaking semiconductor language, meeting our customers where they are, how you actually perform this and do this in Jama Connect, has always been sort of a bit of a mystery. And we’re excited about this new semiconductor solution that we’re gonna talk about today, sort of unpack a little bit about that, and speak more semiconductor language, tune these to the solutions that this, you know, wide-ranging industry is looking for.

Stroud: Yeah. Excellent. And I just wanna pick up on a phrase that you used there that’s near and dear to my heart. You mentioned engineering governance, and I think we’re kind of at an inflection point, it feels, from the various conversations we’re having with our customers who are using Jama Connect today, but also customers who are thinking about using it. This whole concept of engineering governance and, you know, trying to get oversight and control over the whole engineering organization, which typically, historically, has been, you know, hardware and software as two independent domains.

This whole concept of engineering governance, where you can unify those two worlds, which, let’s face it, are very different. You know, we’ve got semiconductor hardware development that typically is more classical waterfall v model versus software, which is Agile, you know, CICD, going at a hundred miles an hour kind of thing. So, maybe you can just comment a little bit more about that engineering governance and how Jama Connect has a role to play there.

RELATED: SUSS Chooses Jama Connect to Support a New Standardized Development Process for Semiconductor Equipment and Solutions

Rush: Yeah. I mean, the intersection of hardware and software, we see that across many industries. But I would say semiconductor, probably more than any other industry that I’ve worked with, relies so much on institutional knowledge that that probably is keeping, you know, their C-Suite and the managers sort of up at night that they’re so reliant on existing knowledge and how that knowledge sort of transfers from people to people and from team to team is just a huge challenge. And I think part of what this solution and Jama Connect bring to bear is that it creates more transparency and accountability, helps you identify risks early on in the process to allow you to sort of shift left in that process to sort of get those requirements right before you have to figure out you need to change, like, much further down the stream.

They’re looking for something more lightweight that users can adopt. The way that they work is not ultimately gonna change, but it’s gonna improve.

So by shifting the way that we think about requirements and engineering data and putting that into a very configurable model that can create consistency, and we talk about sort of, like, common enough in a lot of our blogs and frameworks. We want a common enough framework that people can work against, that’s unified, that we can report against, but still allow teams sort of have that autonomy to make tweaks and customizations for their particular use cases. And I think Jama Connect really strikes that balance, and this solution in particular does that.

Stroud: Great. And that’s a great segue into the big news. What are we announcing today?

Rush: We are very excited to announce a brand new semiconductor solution for Jama Connect. So what this solution is is a brand new set of templates, more agnostic in terms of use case. Honoring systems engineering but tuning these templates to really common semiconductor use cases for your EDA companies, your IDM companies, the way that they think and see the world, really, those customers need a way and a perspective to visualize how they might set their data up in Jama Connect, and we’re giving them that new great starting point. So this new solution, including these new templates, is something that we’re really excited about. There’s an exhaustive procedure guide that explains how to work in Jama Connect from high-level MRD all the way down to post-silicon validation, including some aspects.

Stroud: So, how do I reuse IP cores across different IT blocks that I’m managing? What does that look like exactly? How do I manage that? What does good look like in Jama Connect?

Rush: We provide all of these examples and a rich set of resources for our customers to use and get a quicker and shorter time to value of their Jama Connect implementation. So we’re really excited about it.

Stroud: It sounds really exciting. So we touched a little bit earlier on the various subsegments within the semiconductor industry. So I’m assuming this solution is relevant regardless of where you sit in that supply chain. Is that true?

Rush:  Yeah. You know, there are a couple of elements to it that are tuned to, like, EDA, IDM. They think of the IP block or IP core use case as really relevant to them. But also sort of, like, stepping back, if you’re just working on an alarm system for a machine that’s developing sort of the wafers for the the dye or a photolithography machine where you’re just generally sort of, you know, visualizing the product that you build in more of a systems capability, this is a really great starting point for all of those use cases. And then we can sort of tune it from there. EEA and IDM specifically, they have some unique aspects to it, so we give you a little bit of a preview. But Jama Connect, you know, right from the get-go, if I’m one of these other segments in sort of the manufacturing or fabrication space, I can just make a copy of this project, remove a couple of elements, and start working on day one.

RELATED: Buyer’s Guide: Selecting a Requirements Management and Traceability Solution for Semiconductor

Stroud: So it’s really scalable as well for those, as you say, IDM is a great example where they’re covering effectively multiple subsegments. It sounds like it was across those subsegments for them as well. So excellent.

So I think I understand the value to the engineer, you know, that it helps me to go faster. It helps me get up and running much quicker. I’m sure there’s more to it than that. But also, you know, what the relevance to the C-suite, you know, from a high-level perspective? Maybe you can talk about those two different personas and the value of each of those.

Rush: Sure. There’s quite a lot of crossover, but I would say, if I’m in the C-suite, I would identify risks earlier on in the process. So by giving you a consistent data model and some views of, like, what good looks like, we have some great views of really built-out sample data, using the rich traceability that’s part of these to give you a sort of at-a-glance view. What does a good Trace Score™ look like? What does a good Trace Score for a particular component mean? How do I identify risks where I have gaps in coverage?

I think those are gonna be really interesting to the C-suite as well as this framework. So getting everybody working in sort of a consistent, repeatable way, which then becomes reportable and can, you know, increase transparency for that C-suite to see sort of how exactly we are tracking, what the status of our marketing requirements is, how much testing we’ve done on our technical requirements or systems. At a glance, they can get into Jama Connect, see a couple of dashboard examples, and visualize right away how they can answer some of these really important questions.

Stroud: And then at the engineering level?

Rush: Yeah. I mean, a lot of people are just wondering how I get my job done within Jama Connect, and I think the procedure guide is just a perfect example. So if I am the owner of the MRD, you know, I have a lot of stakeholders that I have to get involved … how do I get that approved?

What are the steps to cascade that down to, like, the systems team that’s gonna write those first-order technical requirements? The procedure guide is like it’s it’s almost following it’s like following cooking instructions. Do this, do that, within Jama Connect to help build an approved work product, which I can then check into my document management system or leave or memorialize in a Jama Connect baseline. So I think those more detailed steps are gonna be really helpful for the engineers.

Stroud: Right. So I think it’s clear to me that this is a huge value and benefit to a new Jama Connect user. Is there relevance here for existing Jama Connect users as well, do you think?

Rush: Yeah. I think so. I mean, the solutions site that we put together, where this procedure guy is going to live, is going to have a lot of rich content. So we’re gonna have some curated marketing content, best practices, customer testimonials, things like this, as well as some best practice integration patterns. So if they’ve been wondering how to plug into Jira or a, like, a pre-silicon testing tool, there’s gonna be documentation on, like, you know, what the what that integration looks like and the best practices and use cases we support.

It’s always good to sort of, like, go back to the basics, I think, if you are a Jama Connect customer and you’ve been here for a few years. Like, very recently, I had a call with an EDA company, and they were talking about how to set up our system for IP reuse across most of these custom contexts that we’re gonna be building in the future. And, really, they’ve been sitting on the functionality the entire time, just haven’t had the vision on how to bring that all together, the procedures. And, actually, the procedure guide gives you sort of step-by-step examples on how to take these IP cores and reuse them into different project context. So I think there’s a lot of value for both the new customer and the existing customer.

Stroud: Excellent. So lots of value here. How do customers get hold of it?

Rush: Yeah. So if you’re not a Jama Connect customer yet, you can talk to your account executive. When you purchase Jama Connect, we will actually set you up with the instance. There’s going to be a cost associated with that, but it is something that we absolutely recommend. Shortens that time to value. Your configuration is really ready on day one. If you’re an existing Jama Software customer, you can talk to your customer success manager, and they can talk to you about sort of opting into this and getting you access to the solution space, which is gonna be part of the Jama Software community, as well as some of the templates that we’re developing.

Stroud: That’s great. So looking ahead, obviously, this is just the first release, the first instantiation. I’m assuming we’ve got a road map of features. We’ll continue to add and add more value as we go.

I know one of the hot topics in the industry, you know, in recent weeks and months, is around chiplets. I know that’s something we’re thinking about. So maybe you can talk a little bit about where we’re heading and what comes next.

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Rush: Yeah. Yeah. That is on the docket. So chiplets are certainly on our mind. A system-on-chip management example is on my mind. I think that Jama Connect’s variant management, library, and reuse capabilities are really primed to help solve this problem. It’s just about developing some of that sample data and providing those examples that really resonate with the customer base. So that is something that is on the docket, and we’re gonna spend some time on it in the next couple of weeks here.

One-click data sheet generation. So, data sheet generation can usually be painful for those in the industry. So just giving you sort of, like, a very vanilla report that you can customize and tweak to put your branding on that will produce your data, in a data sheet format really nicely and beautifully. And then, industry-specific use cases, lab-on-chip, medical, and aerospace all have their unique flavors of certain things. They care about certain standards and regulations, and how we model Jama Connect will look a little bit different in each one of these use cases, so we’ll be tackling that as well.

Stroud: There is lots of goodness to come as well. So this has been a great conversation. I’ve learned a lot. Hopefully, our listeners have picked up on this great solution we’ve got coming out. Maybe you can just spend a moment to summarize what we’ve talked about and why this is a game changer for our customers.

Rush: Yep. So the new solution’s official launch date is December 2025. This is gonna include the new solutions site, which will have the procedure guide, some of that documentation on integration resources, and a few other aspects, as well as new templates tuned to the gem to the semiconductor industry that represent how you go from managing the high-level MRD all the way through post-silicon validation. So you’ll see that in a template example, and we’re really excited about where it goes next.

Stroud: Thanks, Steve, and thanks to all for watching. If you’d like to learn more about how Jama Connect can transform your semiconductor projects, visit our website at jamasoftware.com – If you’re already a Jama Software customer, your success manager or Jama Software consultant can provide additional insights. Together, we can drive innovation and build better outcomes.

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We are excited to announce that Jama Connect 9.32 has set new scalability benchmarks five times greater than legacy systems. As products across industries become multi-disciplinary engineered product lines, the scale and complexity required to manage the product development process has grown dramatically. Jama Connect 9.32 scalability benchmarks:

Scale benchmarks for on-premise or SaaS deployments:

• Items per project – 10 million
• Items per instance – 100 million
• Concurrent users – 10,000

These new scale benchmarks are five times greater than legacy systems’ published benchmarks. Companies across industries have been hamstrung by the inability of legacy systems to scale to the levels required by their engineering teams to speed time-to-market and deliver increasing levels of quality.  Systems that cannot scale to 10 million project items and 100 million items per instance force enterprise engineering teams to artificially separate workstreams leading to defects, delays, cost overruns, recalls and warranty costs.  Jama Connect is the only system that scales to the levels required.

Companies rely on Jama Connect for consistent and stable performance regardless of project or instance size and with today’s release of 9.32 this capability continues Jama Software’s unparalleled leadership in managing scale. As the only provider of a true multi-tenant SaaS offering, Jama Software provides companies with the ability to offload the burden and cost of hardware, hosting, upgrades and IT management that is required with legacy tool providers.

“The system architecture required to achieve these levels of scalability is foundationally different than current legacy systems,” said Jim Davidson, CTO Jama Software.  “This is the result of two years of effort to incorporate the latest technologies and architecture for scalability.”

All Jama Connect customers will be seamlessly upgraded as part of the normal upgrade process.

Jama Connect 9.32 is available today.

Frequently Asked Questions about Jama Software

Q&A
Q1: What is the best requirements management software for my industry or team size?
A1: The suitability of requirements management software depends on factors such as regulatory demands, system complexity, and collaboration needs. Jama Connect is highly selected by teams in regulated and systems-engineering-heavy industries due to its focus on traceability and structured requirements management.

Q2: What scalability benchmarks has Jama Connect achieved for on-premise or SaaS deployments?
A2: Jama Connect 9.32 has achieved the following scalability benchmarks:

• Items per project: 10 million
• Items per instance: 100 million
• Concurrent users: 10,000

These benchmarks are five times greater than the largest known legacy system deployments.

Q3: How does Jama Connect compare to legacy systems in terms of scalability?
A3: Jama Connect 9.32 outperforms legacy systems by scaling to 10 million items per project and 100 million items per instance. Legacy systems cannot store or perform at these levels, forcing enterprise engineering teams to separate workstreams, which can lead to defects, delays, cost overruns, recalls, and warranty costs.

Q4: How does Jama Connect support the increasing complexity of modern product development?
A4: Jama Connect is designed to handle the growing scale and complexity of multi-engineered product lines. By providing scalability benchmarks of 10 million items per project and 100 million items per instance, it ensures that engineering teams can manage complex product development processes without needing to artificially separate workstreams, reducing the risk of defects, delays, and cost overruns.

Q5: How does requirements management software support scaling across multiple teams and programs?

A5: As organizations scale, requirements management software must support parallel development, standardized processes, and cross-program visibility. Tools like Jama Connect provide centralized requirement repositories and role-based workflows that help maintain consistency across distributed teams and initiatives.

Q6: What makes Jama Connect’s architecture suitable for complex use cases?
A6: Jama Connect’s architecture is built on the latest technologies specifically designed for scalability. This foundationally different system architecture enables it to support 10,000 concurrent users and manage billions of items and API calls in the cloud, making it ideal for complex, large-scale engineering projects across industries.

Q7: How does Jama Connect improve the quality of requirements?
A7: Jama Connect improves the quality of requirements by leveraging natural language processing (NLP) through its AI-powered Jama Connect Advisor™. This tool provides guided authoring and multi-statement analysis to optimize the clarity, accuracy, and usability of requirements. It minimizes ambiguity and contradictions, which are responsible for 70-80% of rework costs, and aligns requirements with industry-leading standards like INCOSE Rules and EARS Notation.

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Jama Connect^®: The #1 Choice for Requirements Management in G2’s Winter 2026 Report

We are thrilled to announce a significant milestone that speaks volumes about the trust our community places in us. For the eighth consecutive quarter, Jama Connect has been recognized as the undisputed #1 leader in G2’s Winter 2026 Grid^® Report for Requirements Management Software.

This achievement isn’t just a statistic; it is a direct reflection of the feedback, reviews, and success stories from our valued customers. In an industry where precision and traceability are paramount, being named the definitive leader ahead of competitors like Polarion, IBM^® DOORS^®, and Codebeamer validates our mission. We are here to modernize how complex products are built.

Our performance in the Winter 2026 report was exceptional. We secured a staggering 98% customer satisfaction score and expanded our recognition across multiple categories globally. This blog post explores what these accolades mean for our users and why Jama Connect continues to set the standard for modern requirements management.

Why G2 Rankings Matter

Before diving into the specific awards, it is important to understand the weight of a G2 report. Unlike traditional analyst reports that may rely heavily on theoretical positioning along with other factors, G2 is democratized. It is the voice of the actual user.

G2 rankings are based on two primary pillars:

• Customer Satisfaction: This comes directly from verified user reviews, ratings, and feedback.
• Market Presence: This accounts for market share, vendor size, and social impact.

To be named a Leader, a product must excel in both areas. It means the software is not only widely adopted but also deeply appreciated by the people who use it daily. When you see Jama Connect in the top right “Leader” quadrant, it signifies a tool that delivers on its promises, helping teams navigate the complexities of product development with confidence.

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Unpacking the 98% Satisfaction Score

The headline of the Winter 2026 report is our Customer Satisfaction score of 98. In the software world, specifically in complex engineering sectors, users are often critical. They demand high performance, reliability, and ease of use. A near-perfect score is rare and hard-earned.

This score tells us that we are solving the right problems. It means that when engineering teams need live traceability, they find it intuitive. When compliance managers need to generate an audit trail, the process is seamless.

Beyond the Number

A 98% satisfaction score translates to tangible benefits for your team:

• Reduced Friction: Teams spend less time fighting the tool and more time engineering.
• Higher Adoption: When software is easy to use, team members actually use it, ensuring data integrity.
• Trust: Users rely on Jama Connect as their single source of truth.

Leadership Across Every Business Segment

One of the most compelling aspects of the Winter 2026 report is the versatility of our leadership. Software often struggles to scale. Tools that are great for small startups often buckle under the weight of enterprise data, while enterprise tools can feel bloated and sluggish for smaller teams.

Jama Connect has proven it can handle it all. We earned Leader badges across three distinct business segments:

1. Enterprise Leader

Large organizations face unique hurdles, including massive data sets, rigorous security protocols, and thousands of concurrent users. Our leadership here confirms that Jama Connect scales effortlessly, supporting global enterprises without compromising on speed or performance.

2. Mid-Market Leader

Mid-sized companies are often in a critical growth phase. They need the rigor of enterprise compliance tools but the agility of a startup. We provide that balance, allowing mid-market teams to mature their processes without slowing down innovation.

3. Small-Business Leader

Even small teams tackle complex engineering challenges. Being a leader here shows that our platform remains accessible. You don’t need an army of administrators to get value out of Jama Connect; it is designed to be intuitive from day one.

Global Recognition: A Regional Leader

Innovation is global, and so is our user base. The Winter 2026 report highlighted our strengthening presence across international markets. We were named a Regional Leader in Asia Pacific, EMEA, and Europe.

This geographic diversity is crucial for modern product development. Many of our customers operate with distributed teams: engineering in Germany, manufacturing in China, and product management in the US. Our recognition as a global leader ensures that no matter where your team sits, Jama Connect provides a unified, high-performance experience.

RELATED: The Benefits of Jama Connect: Supercharge Your Systems Development and Engineering Process

Momentum Leader: Growth and Innovation

Staying at #1 requires constant evolution. We are proud to be named a Momentum Leader, a badge that recognizes our continued growth and innovation trajectory.

Being in the top 25% of products for growth signals that we aren’t resting on our laurels. The landscape of systems engineering is changing rapidly with the introduction of AI, increasing regulatory pressures, and more complex hardware-software integration. Our momentum score proves that we are actively evolving the platform to meet these modern challenges head-on.

The Power of Relationships

While technical features are critical, the human element of software partnership is often overlooked. In the Winter 2026 report, Jama Connect earned the Best Relationship badge for Overall, Enterprise, and Mid-Market segments.

This recognition is perhaps the one we cherish most. It reflects the high-quality support, collaboration, and success services our customers experience. When you choose Jama Connect, you aren’t just buying a license; you are gaining a partner committed to your long-term success.

High relationship scores indicate:

• Responsive Support: We are there when you need us.
• Customer Success: We help you map your processes to the tool for maximum value.
• Community Engagement: We listen to user feedback to drive our roadmap.

Voices from Our Community

The statistics are powerful, but the stories behind them are what truly matter. The praise and constructive feedback from our users on G2 drive our innovation. Here is what verified users are saying about their experience:

“Jama Connect is a powerful tool for requirements management and offers a wide range of features. Until now, the traceability of requirements was very difficult or even impossible. Jama Connect solves this problem 100%.”
— Verified User, Renewables & Environment, Enterprise

This review highlights a core struggle for many engineers: traceability. Without a tool like Jama Connect, tracing a requirement through to testing and validation is a manual, error-prone nightmare. We solve that.

“In the past, all requirement-related information was scattered across Jira, Confluence, Word, and Excel… With Jama Connect, we have centralized most of this information into a single, reliable source of truth.”
— Verified User in Manufacturing, Mid-Market

This user touches on the “document-centric” trap. Moving away from scattered Word docs and Excel sheets into a data-centric model is the single biggest leap a team can take toward maturity.

Driving Modern Requirements Management Forward

This G2 recognition reinforces our mission to help organizations move beyond outdated processes. The days of managing complex systems in static documents are over. Jama Connect provides a modern, Live Traceability™ platform designed for the complexities of today’s product development landscape.

With Jama Connect, teams can:

• Improve Clarity: Establish a single source of truth that aligns all stakeholders.
• Ensure Traceability: create live links across requirements, risks, and tests to visualize impact instantly.
• Streamline Compliance: Automate the documentation needed for industry-specific regulations (ISO 26262, FDA 21 CFR Part 820, etc.).
• Accelerate Cycles: Catch errors early in the process to avoid costly rework later.

Conclusion

We could not have achieved this milestone without you. Your partnership, feedback, and trust are the cornerstones of our success. These G2 awards, our eighth consecutive quarter at the top, are a shared victory for every team using Jama Connect to solve complex challenges.

Thank you for making us the #1 choice for requirements management. We are committed to continuing this journey of excellence with you.

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Jama Connect^® for Semiconductors Solution – It’s about time!

Jama Software recently announced the release of a solution tailored for the Semiconductor industry! This highly anticipated release has been eagerly awaited by both Jama Software’s Semiconductor team and customers, who are excited to see how it can address their requirements and data governance challenges.

As someone with a 24-year career in the semiconductor industry, primarily focused on Requirements Engineering for silicon and networking products, I’ve been anticipating this release for quite some time. My experience includes working with various tools, homegrown solutions, and the ubiquitous but limited Microsoft Word and Excel. Jama Connect stood out early on for its usability, ensuring engineering teams could adopt it without slowing down project cycles—a critical factor for success.

Addressing Semiconductor Complexity

The semiconductor industry’s complexity and variability have long posed challenges for requirements management tools. Fabless silicon design companies, EDA tool developers, and manufacturers all have unique data needs. A solution for this industry must be both configurable and governable. Unlike other industries, semiconductors lack a standardized information architecture, leading to locally optimized but unscalable solutions.

Jama Connect for Semiconductors addresses these challenges by offering a tailored, scalable solution. It provides a framework that balances flexibility with governance, making it easier for teams to manage requirements effectively.

RELATED: Accelerating Innovation: Integrating Jama Connect and Jira^® for Enhanced Requirements Management in the Semiconductor Industry

Why Jama Connect is the Standard

In a recent video podcast (CLICK TO WATCH), Jama Software’s Semiconductor GM Neil Stroud described Jama Connect as the “incumbent standard” in the semiconductor industry. While the new solution was just launched, many semiconductor companies have already adopted Jama Connect as a step up from scattered document-based systems. Its SaaS cloud deployment, easy imports from Word or Excel, and support from Jama Connect Solutions Consultants enable teams to get up and running quickly.

Many companies have realized the need to modernize their requirements and data governance practices. Jama Connect’s usability, combined with expert consulting, has helped teams tailor the solution to their needs, even when starting with frameworks designed for other industries.

Time to Efficiency

A new Jama Connect deployment delivers value immediately. For example, a set of 100 requirements can be sent for review to 20 stakeholders in just a morning. The data architecture can be adjusted to match the current format, and documents can be imported into the tool. Reviewers, even those without Jama Connect licenses, can participate for free. This streamlined process reduces the time and effort required for reviews.

Jama Connect Advisor™ further enhances efficiency by identifying ambiguities and errors in requirements, improving clarity before reviews begin. This reduces the time reviewers spend asking clarifying questions, speeding up the entire process.

RELATED: Jama Connect Features in Five: Review Center for Semiconductor Development

Time to Decide

Deciding on a requirements management solution can be a lengthy process for large organizations. However, a Jama Connect for Semiconductors SaaS pilot can be configured in days, complete with SOC2 and other security features. Jama Software’s Solutions Consultants work with teams to define the scope of the pilot and establish success metrics, ensuring a focused and effective evaluation.

Time to Value

Semiconductor companies need to see tangible benefits from deploying Jama Connect. Executives and senior leaders value predictable cycle times and reduced costs from earlier defect identification. Over time, as more data is governed within Jama Connect, product definitions become clearer, and schedule volatility decreases. The tagline “Visibility leads to Accountability” highlights how Jama Connect provides leaders with progress indicators to monitor and address issues proactively.

Engineering managers benefit from a deployment path that doesn’t disrupt tight schedules. Jama Connect’s test capabilities, including a new feature in beta that generates test cases from requirements, help teams assess product quality and readiness. Integrations with common semiconductor tools and the Jama Connect Interchange API enable a comprehensive view of the development process.

For engineers, the intuitive user interface and immediate benefits of the Review Center help overcome initial skepticism. While transitioning from document-based systems to a modern requirements management solution requires effort, the long-term benefits are significant.

Time to Get Started

Looking back on my career in semiconductor requirements engineering, I often wished for a purpose-built solution like Jama Connect for Semiconductors. This solution offers the flexibility and governance needed to address the industry’s unique challenges. If you’re interested in learning more, Jama Software is ready to help. Current customers can reach out to their Customer Success Manager, while new prospects can contact their Account Executive to schedule a demo and discuss next steps.

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