TraceCloud

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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

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Avantages

It is a sctrictly methodical product, so when you take advantage of all of its functionalities correctly, the management of requirements within projects gets as reliable as it can get.

Inconvénients

As TraceCloud prioritizes reliability and strict methods, it doesn't have the most user friendly interface. The overall look on the pages are great, but sometimes you need to stop and analyse the options to comprehend the logic behind finding one or other resource. It takes some getting used to it.

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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)

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Avantages

Exceptional support and responsiveness for Customization

Inconvénients

We keep testing it. So far, all those features that were not already available and could be considered a con, have been solved.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.)

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

It helped me organise and track the requirements. Can attach multiple files

Inconvénients

Unable to download the data as the query to download the data is complex to understand

Alternatives envisagées 

Avantages

Ability to quickly populate database with different types of requirements & to relate them to each other with a many-to-many relationship.
Ability to stratify & relate high to low level requirements.

Inconvénients

Transferring from excel spreadsheets to TraceCloud

Avantages

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!

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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).

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

Provided the Level of Requirements management needed at a reasonable price.
Customer support was excellent.

Inconvénients

Reports and exports where not complete and required importing the embedded drawing and documents (already in Tracecloud) into the final exported word document .

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

Sometimes I receive repeat notifications for the same item.

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

Small unexpected bugs hamper the experience on occasion.

Avantages

Cloud-based, inexpensive, easily configured.

Inconvénients

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