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In today’s landscape of interconnected products, global teams, and ever-tightening regulations, complexity in product development is the new normal. Whether you're building autonomous vehicles, surgical robotics, or next-generation avionics, the challenge is not just managing complexity—but engineering it with confidence.
That’s why we’re excited to unveil Codebeamer 3.1 and Pure Variants 7.1. These releases mark a major leap forward in scalability, compliance, and collaboration for modern application lifecycle management (ALM).
A new foundation: streams and smart References
At the core of Codebeamer 3.1 is a reimagining of how teams manage configurations, reuse, and traceability across multiple projects and variants.
Streams introduce a new paradigm in configuration management. They allow organizations to define cross-project working sets that reflect real-world product structures—ideal for modular architectures and platform strategies.
Building on the scalable working sets and smart references introduced in Codebeamer 3.0, this concept ensures instant loading even at scale, avoids data duplication, maintains live consistency across views, and reduces storage needs.
The result is scalable reuse, traceability, and governance across industries such as automotive, aerospace, and medical devices—where compliance is mission-critical.
Baselines and variant control: compliance built in
In regulated environments, managing traceability at scale is essential. Codebeamer 3.1 provides stream-level cross-project traceability for release management and variant analysis. This capability helps teams align with compliance frameworks such as ISO 26262 and IEC 62304, ensuring that the product lifecycle remains auditable and accountable at every stage.
Applied AI (Beta): built-in engineering intelligence
Codebeamer 3.1 introduces Applied AI (Beta)—a suite of intelligent assistants designed to elevate quality and productivity.
The Requirement Assistant (in private preview) checks your requirements against INCOSE standards, flags issues, and suggests rewrites. The Test Case Assistant (in preview) helps generate compliant test cases based on ISTQB guidelines. These tools don’t just speed up authoring—they embed compliance and quality from the very beginning.
Integration-driven digital thread
The release enhances Codebeamer’s position in the digital thread with enterprise-ready integrations, including secure OSLC linking and delegated UI with Windchill, traceability with IBM ETM, and automated variant generation with Pure Variants.
Performance, usability, and administration at scale
Enterprise development requires more than functionality—it demands performance and simplicity. Codebeamer 3.1 delivers with tracker inheritance improvements, PostgreSQL read replica support, enhanced UI filtering, reusable widgets, layout customization, and delegated access controls. These enhancements reduce latency, streamline governance, and provide a more intuitive user experience.
Codebeamer+: cloud-based, without compromise
For teams ready to embrace the cloud, Codebeamer+ is now available and delivers the full power of Codebeamer with cloud-based agility. It offers a 99.5% uptime SLA, PTC-managed infrastructure, and updates and built-in GoldPlus support. It’s the same powerful platform—now optimized for speed, scalability, and innovation in the cloud. Codebeamer+ complements Windchill+, together enabling a unified, cloud-based foundation for integrated product engineering.
Upgrade path: expert support every step of the way
Whether you’re upgrading from version 3.0 or transitioning from older environments, the upgrade to 3.1 is designed to be smooth—no schema migration required when upgrading from 3.0 to 3.1.
Let’s build what’s next—together
Codebeamer 3.1 and Pure Variants 7.1 are more than just product updates—they’re enablers for your next chapter of innovation. With advanced configuration management, built-in AI (Beta), and deep integrations these releases empower teams to engineer complex products with speed, intelligence, and confidence.
Codebeamer 3.1 and Pure Variants 7.1 will be officially available starting August 14.
Ready to explore what’s possible?
Be among the first to explore what’s new by joining our live webinar with Christoph Bräuchle (SVP, Product Management) and Mark Simpson (VP, Product Management). Discover how these releases can help your teams manage complexity, ensure compliance, and accelerate innovation. Register now to secure your spot.