The Voice of the Customer

Two essential areas of focus that enable companies to best leverage requirements management are process integration and traceability. Process integration eliminates communication barriers by creating a collaborative environment for sharing ideas, requirements and data throughout the product lifecycle. Increased innovation, in turn, fosters ideas that improve products and new product introductions. In addition, continuous traceability — from capturing the customer needs to product definition — makes a significant difference in project cycle times and cost reductions.

This paper will highlight the criteria needed for a comprehensive requirements management solution that incorporates PLM to offer customers a scaleable enterprise grade solution. This collaborative approach is designed to bring together people, processes, data and systems to deliver products to market faster and more efficiently.