How to Manage Requirements with Confidence — Even If You’re Dealing with Legacy Systems
With over 18 years of experience, Inflectra has been a trusted provider of requirements management solutions to a diverse clientele, extending beyond software developers and QA/QE teams. Over time, we've seen mechanical, civil, design, systems, and even aeronautical engineers embrace Inflectra's SpiraPlan as their go-to platform for Requirements Management.
Why the Surge in Need for Requirements Management?
Today, the spike in demand for effective requirements tools is directly tied to the rapid digital transformation of our world. Everything is becoming smarter—and more complex. From IoT-powered vehicles to AI-enhanced medical devices and the modernization of aging infrastructure, managing requirements and ensuring regulatory compliance has never been more vital.
Industries such as aviation, healthcare, defense, transport, manufacturing, and government sectors all share a common need: managing long-term, complex projects with absolute certainty. That’s where Spira excels—delivering clarity, compliance, and consistency for mission-critical initiatives.
Real-World Use Cases of Spira in Requirements Management
Spira’s robust Requirements Management capabilities support diverse and highly regulated industries with powerful, real-time collaboration and traceability features:
- Aviation Policy Alignment: Used by ASEAN Aviation to coordinate policy development across multiple jurisdictions.
- Medical Device Collaboration: Enables companies like Leica Biosystems, to manage cross-functional requirements across global teams from Marketing to Product Development.
- Construction & Infrastructure: Seamless coordination for contractors managing complex tenders and conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for outsourced third-party application development initiatives for public sector customers like Tas Health and multiple Australian local councils.
- Defense Systems Engineering: Supports new product development with traceable Verification & Validation, task scheduling, and change management.
- Transportation Networks: Empowers rail and transit systems to manage testing phases using Spira in projects while upgrading legacy systems.
The Four Cs of Inflectra's Requirements Management Solution: SpiraPlan
Clarity
- Teams can plan and act effectively in real time with agreed-upon milestone definitions.
- Project managers can easily curate, analyze, and mitigate risks, prioritize requirements, and distribute workloads with real-time reporting and resource allocation—regardless of the project phase.
- Customizable, role-based dashboards help teams collaborate efficiently and stay focused, ensuring risks are mitigated.
Consistency
- Spira acts as a single source of truth across geographies, functions, and systems, enabling clarity and adaptability even in the face of changing pipelines and dependencies.
- SpiraPlan’s extensibility and interoperability are unmatched. With Datasync from Inflectra, it integrates seamlessly with nearly 100 widely used tools like Jira, GitLab, GitHub, and ServiceNow — at no additional cost.
- Consistent processes result in cost savings, reduced system vulnerability and team alignment.
Compliance
- Spira ensures auditability, traceability, and accountability across teams, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- At the core, SpiraPlan takes on the challenge of handling the ever-evolving, complex interplay between expectations, change, compliance and the delivery of critical products that power the world.
- The platform supports ISO, FDA, and GxP compliance—critical for industries with tight regulatory demands.
In our latest release, we’ve enhanced traceability with features like test history comparisons, further solidifying Spira’s position as a leader in Requirements Management.
Competitive Advantage
- Spira goes beyond the typical “functional delivery”. It helps organizations optimize workflows, reduce the burden of ongoing maintenance, and create lasting competitive advantage through quality and speed of delivery.
- With Spira, organizations like the Philippines Land Registration Authority, have accelerated delivery while improving process quality and team productivity.
Why Spira Stands Out in the Requirements Management Landscape
- Customizable & Scalable: Spira is both standardized and highly customizable: It offers thousands of reusable industry templates to jumpstart projects.
- Comprehensive Requirements Lifecycle: Users can create, collect, define, and document requirements with ease, then export/import, sync, link, clone, analyze, and approve them within the system.
- AI Integration: With Generative AI, Spira enriches and refines requirements, improving test coverage. For example, Telstra International achieved over an 80% improvement in test coverage using Spira.
- Customer-Driven Innovation: Recognized as a trusted solution for highly regulated industries by analysts, Spira’s development roadmap is shaped by customer feedback. In fact, 81% of the 2024 R&D enhancements were directly inspired by user input through our unlimited support channel support@inflectra.com and beta program ahead of new releases.
In a world of evolving technology, regulatory change, and stakeholder expectations, Spira is the trusted solution to bring clarity, efficiency, and compliance to your projects.
