Forrester Research Report: Selecting the Right Requirements Management Tool -- Or Maybe None Whatsoever

According to Forrester Research, application development organizations are often tripped up in their search for the right requirements management solution, and end up buying a tool that is more complex, more difficult to use, and more expensive than necessary.

Forrester's application lifecycle management (ALM) team urges IT and software engineering organizations to consider requirements management solutions that meet the following critical features:

Part of an ALM solution. This has the advantage of immediate downstream integration and will avoid you having to buy redundant and inconsistent tools and features saving you money, time and frustration.
Baselining.
Linking and tracing to track relationships amongst requirements.
Integration with Microsoft Word.
Requirements reuse - to support sharing of common requirements across projects.
Workflow to automate requirements change processes.

MKS is the only vendor today to fully satisfy all six of these critical features and to receive the highest, four star, ranking from Forrester after their review of the entire requirements management tools landscape. We are pleased to offer you a complimentary copy of this report.

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