Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer vs IBM DOORS comparison

Broadcom and IBM are both solutions in the Application Requirements Management category. Broadcom is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.0, while IBM is ranked #2 with an average rating of 7.0. Broadcom holds a 1.5% mindshare in ARM, compared to IBM’s 30.6% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of IBM users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 6, 2025

IBM DOORS and Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer are competing in the requirements management software space. Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer is often seen as the better option due to its comprehensive features and focus on agile processes.

Features: IBM DOORS is recognized for its strong traceability, its ability to integrate with complex systems engineering tools, and its DXL scripting capabilities which allow customization. Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer offers innovative model-based testing, automation functionality, and is optimized for agile processes, making it suitable for teams focused on agile and test automation.

Room for Improvement: IBM DOORS could improve its user interface for a modern look and feel, enhance cloud support for better remote accessibility, and simplify its pricing model. Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer might benefit from a more intuitive user interface, improved documentation for better user support, and more flexible integration options with a wider range of third-party tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM DOORS provides traditional deployment with strong customer support, making it suitable for large enterprises with complex projects. Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer offers a streamlined deployment process and emphasizes customer-centered agile solutions, easing implementation for businesses seeking agility.

Pricing and ROI: IBM DOORS involves higher initial setup costs but promises substantial ROI for complex requirements management due to its extensive features. Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer, despite incurring higher ongoing costs, justifies its pricing with advanced features that deliver quicker ROI in agile environments. Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer generally provides higher ROI for businesses prioritizing agile test automation.

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Categories and Ranking

Broadcom Agile Requirements...

Ranking in Application Requirements Management

7th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Test Management Tools (8th), Test Design Automation (3rd)

IBM DOORS

Ranking in Application Requirements Management

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Application Requirements Management category, the mindshare of Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer is 1.5%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM DOORS is 30.6%, down from 34.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Requirements Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
IBM DOORS	30.6%
Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer	1.5%
Other	67.9%

Application Requirements Management

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Hosney Osman

Senior Operation Engineer at Vodafone

Integration capabilities enhance testing and workflow automation

I rate Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer as 8 out of 10. It will be very nice if Broadcom has questions or comments related to my review and can reach me via email to clarify something. I want to be a reference for Broadcom. I don't have any information regarding the visual modeling function specifically. I'm not dealing with modeling requirements or generating optimized test cases in Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer. Broadcom takes a lot of information from us as end-users, and they provide fixes within two to five days maximum. My team has raised many enhancement requests and discussed them with Broadcom, and they are adding some of these features to the product itself. I look forward to receiving an email regarding these reviews, and I can add anything later if I forgot something, earning some points for this contribution on the website.

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UweSeufert

Senior Consultant - Technical Expert at Capgemini

Old but capable of storing, organizing, and exchanging requirements

I use IBM DOORS because my customer wants it for managing their requirements IBM DOORS is a tool from the 20th century. It is very old but capable of storing, organizing, and exchanging requirements. It helps to manage requirements efficiently, which significantly improves the way requirements…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"In terms of meeting business challenges, it helped to shorten the dev/testing cycle by identifying requirements gaps early in the process, by having models shared within the development team. It helped increase test coverage and reduce the number of issues experienced by clients/customers."

"Technical support is excellent. They provide solutions quickly for issues encountered."

"It gives us an idea of creating the visual diagrams, which are quite easy to use. It is helpful in creating our business processes."

"Defects can be traced in the solution."

"It takes away all the time to construct test cases, so it is all automatic now, but it also levels the playing field."

"The scale possibilities are endless, especially when combined with all the other products that CA has to offer."

"CA ARD has some beautiful features which I haven't found anywhere else. For example, when designing or creating our test cases and doing scenarios, we are able to restrict our flows. If we take a data link between two processes, we can actually restrict it, so that, in production, if our functionality breaks down, we can restrict that and all the flows related to it will be removed from the test data set."

"The support that we get from Broadcom is great."

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"The program is very stable."

"It is very customizable and easy to scale."

"I like the user interface with regard to creating links between requirements and tracing links to requirements."

"Compared to other tools that I have used over the past 20 years, DOORS is the best of the best."

"The next-generation features are good."

"We have different generations of all products. It lets us select and see unique attributes for each release or generation. You can use attributes to define a selection area to see which equipments are for the old versions and which ones are for the new versions. This inbuilt view is what I like in IBM Rational DOORS. So, for a database and a set of requirements, it will select and show unique attributes for a release or a generation."

"Traceability on requirements for a huge project in an organization is a big gain."

"It is a stable solution."

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Cons

"At present, there is no option for test data parameters from ARD for virtual databases. We have to create them in TDM and push them as well. Virtual database connectivity needs to be improved. They need to come up with some areas where they can create synthetic data parameters easily from the test cases that have been designed."

"It is not scalable anymore. It's not scalable because it doesn't support Kubernetes for making scalability, so I'm just going to increase memory and storage on the same machine."

"CA ARD doesn't provide integration with Tosca. The possibility of creating a test case and exporting it into Tosca is not available. Integration with end-to-end automation tools, like Worksoft or Tosca, is not provided by CA ARD as of now."

"A template in App Test should be created in advance. This has proven to be time consuming. The process is not fully automated, because there is a lot of manual intervention is required."

"Integration with Agile management tools can be improved, i.e., mainly test case maintenance and linking test cases to the automation script."

"Needs improvement in aligning models so they look clear and readable without having to move boxes around."

"Data flexibility is something which I would like to see, along with more integration with App Test."

"It would help if it would save different subsets of test cases, use cases, etc., of a given diagram, for different purposes and provide an easy way to name those subsets."

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"The user interface for the Change Proposal System could be improved."

"It used to be very clunky."

"Enhancing security measures, particularly when handling multiple projects simultaneously, would be beneficial to prevent data loss within DOORS."

"One thing that I would like to see is a lower-cost version of it that we could use for smaller projects. Sometimes, we do projects for commercial customers who would benefit from something like DOORS, but it's just so expensive. It's just a monster, so a lower-cost version would be the thing that we'd like to see."

"It would have been ok ten years ago, but we are used to having better tools now."

"The problem is that because the GUI is so bad, you either have to spend a lot of money customizing the interface yourself, or a lot of money on training."

"It's difficult to set the code on the solution."

"I think there is probably room to improve by offering free training."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Recommendation is to go with concurrent licenses as oppose to seat license; this gives more flexibility."

"The cost of the tool was well worth the benefit that we saw on the back-end."

"This tool reduces the cost associated with test cases, automation script generation, and maintenance costs."

"We were able to scale down some resources to basically self-fund our ability to purchase the tool."

"At present, Broadcom works through partners rather than dealing directly with the consumer. When there are discounts given, it's up to the partner as to whether they want to give that discount to the customer. Sometimes, the partners decide to take the discount themselves. Pricewise, I would give ARD's price a rating of three out of five."

"It is less costly when compared to other tools on the market."

"The pricing model is based on how many people are using it. We have an annual license. There are not any additional costs."

"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, with one being very affordable and ten being quite expensive."

"It is expensive to onboard additional users."

"It's expensive."

"We have to pay for a license. I think it's a one-time payment as my company hasn't notified me about more charges. I don't think it's expensive for large corporations, but it will be costly for an average person."

"IBM DOORS is available at a reasonable price"

"IBM is a bit too expensive in terms of pricing. Customers are paying a lot for the license, and the price is quite high for this kind of environment. It is quite high as compared to what we can get today with other solutions."

"I think it's expensive because you have to pay for the licenses to IBM and all that and maintain them."

"Licensing fees are billed annually and there is no support included with what I pay."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

22%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Retailer

11%

Manufacturing Company

26%

Aerospace/Defense Firm

Computer Software Company

Government

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Large Enterprise	21

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	36

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer?

It's not affordable; it's very expensive. It would be suitable only for large customers, and a large customer will think twice before making a deal with Broadcom.

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What needs improvement with Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer?

Integration with AI is an area that needs to be improved quickly. To be clear, this relates to how to use AI to improve use cases, break down applications, and review designs, as this area needs to...

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What is your primary use case for Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer?

This solution saves a lot of time in the software testing cycle because, with Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer specifically, I am doing a flowchart, and I can extract test cases and use cases t...

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What do you like most about IBM Rational DOORS?

The traceability matrix in DOORS improved our project outcomes. It helps ensure coverage of requirements at different levels, from user requirements to software requirements to test requirements.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Rational DOORS?

Over the years, the first version cost something around 5800 euros.

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What needs improvement with IBM Rational DOORS?

Compared to today, DOORS' competitors also excel in this discipline. Yet the price is too high. It's often not as generic as it used to be. IBM promised to find a way for a generic format that allo...

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Also Known As

Grid Tools Agile Designer, CA ARD, CA Agile Requirements Designer

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Overview

CA Agile Requirements Designer is an end-to-end requirements gathering, test automation and test case design tool which drastically reduces manual testing effort and enables organizations to deliver quality software to market earlier and at less cost. The optimal set of manual or automated tests can be derived automatically from requirements modeled as unambiguous flowcharts and are linked to the right data and expected results. These tests are updated automatically when the requirements change, allowing organizations to deliver quality software which reflects changing user needs.

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IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS (DOORS) is a Requirements Management (RM) software designed to help organizations manage engineering project requirements throughout the development lifecycle. It provides a central location for capturing, defining, and organizing project requirements, facilitating communication and collaboration among stakeholders like engineers, system designers, and customers. Key features include requirements traceability, version control, and impact analysis, ensuring effective implementation and testing. DOORS improves efficiency, enhances communication, reduces risks, and supports better decision-making through clear visibility into requirements. Compared to its newer, web-based counterpart DOORS Next, the mature DOORS 9 offers a wider range of features with a traditional user interface but lacks web-based functionality and modern integration with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) tools.

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