The Top Alternative to
IBM Rational CLM

Rational CLM is Heavy

IBM's application lifecycle management (ALM) suite is a collection of products known as IBM Rational collaborative lifecycle management (CLM). IBM Rational CLM covers requirements management, quality management, change and configuration management, project planning and tracking all on one platform.

Many Legacy Tools

Many of the features you need to fully use the CLM suite rely on legacy Rational tools that you have to integrate into the IBM Jazz platform. For example, there are many different overlapping requirement tools you can integrate such as DOORS, DOORS Next Generation, Requisite Pro and Requirements Composer.

Customers report that the CLM suite is comprehensive, but suffers from being complicated to setup and administer, with an outdated user interface that can be slow at times. In addition, CLM does not have integrations with many modern tools such as Git and Jenkins.

The Spira Difference:

Agile

Agile

Spira includes out of the box support for popular agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban and Scaled Agile. With Spira you don't need separate tools for requirements, testing, and code management, it's all available, fully integrated from day one.

DevOps

DevOps

Baked into Spira are seamless integrations with Git for source code management, Jenkins (and others) for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, as well as integrated DevOps features such as code collaboration & viewing.

Collaboration

Collaboration

Spira makes team collaboration easy, with integrated discussion threads, instant messaging, subscriptions and notifications, RSS feeds and a built-in document management system.

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How Does Inflectra Map to IBM Rational CLM?

Product IBM Rational Inflectra®
Project Management Features
Portfolio Management Rational Portfolio Manager SpiraPlan
Program Management & Roadmaps IBM Engineering Workflow Management
Rational Team Concert (RTC)
SpiraPlan
Project Estimation & Management IBM Engineering Workflow Management
Rational Team Concert (RTC)
SpiraPlan
Release/Sprint Planning IBM Engineering Workflow Management
Rational Team Concert (RTC)
SpiraPlan
Issue Tracking IBM Engineering Workflow Management
Rational Team Concert (RTC)
ClearQuest
SpiraPlan
Task Management IBM Engineering Workflow Management
Rational Team Concert (RTC)
ClearQuest
SpiraPlan
Project Baselines Rational DOORS
Rational DOORS Next Generation
Rational RequisitePro
Rational Requirements Composer
SpiraPlan
Risk Management IBM Engineering Workflow Management
Rational Team Concert (RTC)
SpiraPlan
Resource Management IBM Engineering Workflow Management
Rational Team Concert (RTC)
SpiraPlan
Time Tracking IBM Engineering Workflow Management
Rational Team Concert (RTC)
SpiraPlan
Agile & DevOps Features
Requirements Management Rational DOORS
Rational DOORS Next Generation
Rational Requirements Composer
Rational RequisitePro
SpiraPlan
Test Management Rational Quality Manager SpiraPlan
Automated Testing Rational Functional Tester
Rational Robot
Rapise
Scrum Boards IBM Engineering Workflow Management
Rational Team Concert (RTC)
SpiraPlan
Kanban Boards IBM Engineering Workflow Management
Rational Team Concert (RTC)
SpiraPlan
Source Code Management Rational ClearCase
Rational Team Concert (RTC)
Rational Synergy
TaraVault
Build Management IBM Engineering Workflow Management
Rational Team Concert (RTC)
Rational Build Forge
SpiraPlan
Collaboration Features
Document Management IBM Lotus Domino Document Manager SpiraPlan
Wikis and Content Management Jazz Team Server SpiraPlan
Instant Messenger (IM) IBM Lotus Sametime Connect SpiraPlan
Reporting & BI Features
Executive Dashboards IBM Engineering Workflow Management
Rational Team Concert (RTC)
SpiraPlan
Customizable Graphing IBM Engineering Workflow Management
Rational Team Concert (RTC)
SpiraPlan
Customizable Report Generation Rational Reporting SpiraPlan