ALM migrations to Codebeamer

Plan your migration to Codebeamer.

Practical guidance for moving requirements, tests, risks, work items, and engineering history from legacy ALM tools into Codebeamer—with traceability and audit evidence treated as explicit migration outcomes.

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Source-specific guidance Practical mapping examples Validation-focused planning

Migration overview

What a successful migration protects

Engineering data

Requirements, tests, risks, defects, documents, and attachments.

Structure and meaning

Hierarchy, fields, links, workflows, versions, and reuse.

Evidence and accountability

Baselines, approvals, authorship, history, and validation results.

Common starting points

IBM DOORSDOORS NextPTC RV&SPolarionJiraJama Connect

Your route through the hub

Start with the system you know, then move from decisions to delivery.

Choose your source

Open the guide for the system you are leaving.

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Design the route

Define scope, target design, mapping, rehearsals, and validation.

Review the approach

Choose delivery support

Decide what stays internal and where specialist support adds value.

Check delivery readiness

Migration guides by source system

Start with your source system.

Each guide explains the source-specific data model, likely migration risks, target mapping decisions, validation scope, and a practical execution sequence.

IBM · Requirements migration

IBM DOORS to Codebeamer

Preserve formal modules, attributes, hierarchy, links, and the evidence behind decades of requirements work.

12 min readEnterprise

IBM · Requirements migration

DOORS Next to Codebeamer

Move components, modules, artifacts, links, and configuration-aware requirements into a clean Codebeamer structure.

11 min readEnterprise

PTC · ALM migration

PTC RV&S to Codebeamer

Translate item types, documents, relationships, workflows, and project structures while retaining the operational context teams still need.

13 min readEnterprise

Siemens · ALM migration

Polarion ALM to Codebeamer

Transform LiveDocs, work items, link roles, workflows, and project templates into a coherent Codebeamer target.

12 min readEnterprise

Atlassian · Work management migration

Jira to Codebeamer

Move issues, custom fields, links, attachments, and delivery context—or define a governed coexistence model.

9 min readStructured

Jama Software · Requirements migration

Jama Connect to Codebeamer

Preserve item structure, relationship rules, reviews, and verification context in a traceable target model.

10 min readStructured

Perforce · ALM migration

Helix ALM to Codebeamer

Unify requirements, tests, issues, folders, links, and workflow history in a modern Codebeamer operating model.

10 min readStructured

Microsoft · Requirements migration

Excel to Codebeamer

Turn uncontrolled rows and documents into typed, linked, reviewable requirements with a durable source record.

8 min readFocused

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Migration approach

From discovery to cutover.

Reliable migrations reduce uncertainty step by step. Each phase produces a concrete deliverable that can be reviewed before the program moves forward.

Assess

Inventory source systems, data volumes, custom logic, interfaces, and evidence obligations.

Design

Define the future Codebeamer project, tracker, workflow, field, and association model.

Map

Document deterministic source-to-target rules for every item type, value, and relationship.

Rehearse

Run representative and full-volume migrations before the production cutover.

Validate

Reconcile structure, content, traceability, permissions, and business workflows.

Migration fundamentals

Plan beyond data transfer.

A complete migration plan covers more than record transfer. These are the disciplines that determine whether the target is usable, trustworthy, and audit-ready.

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Data scope and retention

Decide what remains operational, what becomes an archive, and what can be retired.

Target data model

Design projects and trackers around the future process instead of copying legacy structures.

Traceability and links

Preserve relationship direction, semantics, hierarchy, reuse, and version context.

Validation and evidence

Combine automated reconciliation with user review and documented exception approval.

Users and adoption

Normalize identities, permissions, ownership, and the way teams will work after cutover.

Governance and compliance

Protect baselines, authorship, approvals, review history, and audit-relevant records.

Migration tooling

Build a repeatable workflow.

Purpose-built tooling can help when data volume, relationships, rehearsals, or evidence requirements make one-off scripts difficult to govern. This site includes a product overview of NANGA Migrator; published scope and fit still need to be checked against the source version and target design.

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Source estate

Projects, items, links

Migration pipeline

Map, run, reconcile

Codebeamer

Reconciled target

Configured mappings

Repeatable workflow

Validation evidence

Frequently asked questions

Before a migration starts

Should we migrate everything?

Usually not. Separate active operational data, audit-relevant evidence, searchable archive content, and data that can be retired.

Can a migration be phased?

Yes. Persistent source-to-target IDs and clear coexistence rules can support project-by-project or domain-by-domain migration waves.

How is migration quality proven?

Use automated reconciliation for counts and relationships, visual checks for rich content, process testing, and stakeholder sign-off for exceptions.

When should a migration tool be used?

When data volume, relationships, repeated rehearsals, delta runs, auditability, or multiple projects make one-off scripts difficult to control.

Optional expert support

Strategic Migration Consultation

Use one representative project to test the migration strategy before committing to a full program. Clarify source scope, Codebeamer target decisions, validation evidence, and the most useful next step.

Book a 30-min migration strategy call Review partner criteria

Consultation delivered by NANGA SYSTEMS

A useful first conversation clarifies

Scope and risk

Clarify the source landscape, representative scope, and the uncertainties that need evidence.

Target decisions

Identify the Codebeamer structure, mapping choices, and operating-model questions to resolve.

Evidence and next step

Define how results will be validated and what the most useful first migration wave should prove.