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This latest release provides configuration management capabilities that enable safe parallel development at an enterprise scale. It also establishes stronger integrations across the intelligent product lifecycle. Engineering leaders gain the tools necessary to manage change, reduce risk, and govern complex product lines. By bridging the gap between high-speed development and rigorous compliance, Codebeamer ensures that teams can move faster without sacrificing quality or traceability.
Configuration management
As systems and software grow more complex, teams must reuse shared components safely. Traditional copy-and-customize approaches quickly break down, leading to manual rework and compliance risks. Codebeamer introduces robust solutions to solve the core challenges of configuration management at scale.
Streams management
Codebeamer offers improved views, baselining, and management capabilities for Streams. This functionality allows organizations to define and manage cross-project configurations that reflect actual product structures rather than isolated tool silos.
Teams can establish stable, immutable configurations for releases. This provides an audit-ready foundation that is critical for certification and compliance. Furthermore, enhanced usability and scalability ensure that large, parallel teams can navigate and manage these streams efficiently.
Delta merge
Working alongside Streams, the new Delta Merge capability provides a controlled, system-level merge mechanism. It automatically detects, analyzes, and propagates changes across streams, releases, and product variants.
Delta Merge simplifies the flow of updates from a reference configuration. Teams benefit from the selective, rule-based merging of requirements, tests, and downstream artifacts. This drastically reduces manual merge efforts and errors. Because every applied or rejected change is fully traceable, organizations can scale their parallel work confidently without blocking team autonomy.
Codebeamer AI
Engineering teams frequently struggle to parse through massive volumes of unstructured ALM data. Manual engineering tasks such as locating relevant information and assessing design changes can be highly time-consuming. Codebeamer AI carries the weight of many of these repetitive, labor-intensive tasks, by embedding enterprise-grade artificial intelligence directly into the engineering workflow.
Customer-hosted deployment
Many enterprise environments operate under strict data residency, security, and regulatory requirements. Codebeamer AI introduces a customer-hosted deployment option to support these sensitive environments. Organizations can now host the AI infrastructure within their own tenant. This deployment flexibility removes data governance barriers, allowing highly regulated industries to leverage AI capabilities without compromising their security protocols.
Semantic search
Available with Codebeamer AI, Semantic Search fundamentally changes how users interact with their engineering data. Instead of relying on exact keyword matches, Semantic Search understands search intent, synonyms, and context.
Users can retrieve relevant requirements, tests, and artifacts based on their actual meaning. This capability drastically reduces the time spent searching across large datasets. Engineers can quickly find existing requirements, compare them, and adapt them, which significantly boosts reuse and accelerates decision-making.
AI-Assisted authoring analysis
Codebeamer AI also features dedicated assistants to improve asset quality at the source. The Requirements Assistant provides real-time guidance and suggestions while users author specifications. This helps enforce standards early, ensuring clarity and consistency. Similarly, the Test Case Assistant analyzes requirement quality, generates test cases based on specific conditions, and verifies test coverage. These tools minimize downstream rework and streamline the review process.
Product line engineering
Managing hundreds or thousands of product variants requires systematic reuse and predictable scale. Codebeamer tightly integrates with Pure Variants to enable configuration-aware Product Line Engineering (PLE).
This integration replaces manual alignment with automated, feature-based variant generation. Organizations can drive enterprise-scale PLE directly from their ALM environment. The optimized variant transformation speeds up the creation of large product structures. Teams maintain consistent, traceable configurations across entire product families. This systematic approach lowers risk and builds higher confidence when delivering regulated, variant-rich products.
Digital Product Traceability (DPT)
Products today are a complex blend of mechanical, electrical, and software components. Disconnected tools create traceability gaps that slow down change propagation and complicate impact analysis. Digital Product Traceability (DPT) provides a single source of truth across these diverse disciplines.
Codebeamer strengthens the end-to-end traceability foundation required for Integrated Product Engineering (IPE). It creates a shared engineering reality where software requirements, system models, and validation artifacts remain continuously connected. When a change occurs, teams can perform faster, more confident impact analyses. This robust traceability model ensures that every decision is understood within the context of the full product, providing stable evidence for audits and certifications.
Scale your engineering with confidence
Scaling a modern engineering organization requires a delicate balance between rapid execution and rigorous governance. Codebeamer now provides the exact framework needed to achieve this balance. By leveraging Streams, Delta Merge, and advanced Product Line Engineering, teams can work in parallel without generating merge chaos. The addition of customer-hosted AI and Semantic Search ensures that engineers spend their time making informed decisions rather than searching for data.
With comprehensive Digital Product Traceability connecting every phase of development, your organization can maintain strict compliance while accelerating time-to-market. Upgrade to the latest release of Codebeamer to establish a governed, intelligent foundation for your entire product lifecycle.
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