While Requirements Management widgets provide a slick experience to update the requirement specification definition by adding/removing items within the specification, modifying content and establishing links between requirements, requirements capture from MS Word and MS Excel are still very relevant for capturing content from a file and digitizing that content on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
Digitizing goes way beyond electronic because one can make an argument that a MS Word file is electronic, and indeed it is. What is missing, though, from electronic to digital is storing all of the information in a database so it can be searched, accessed from anywhere with controlled access to the latest and greatest, and having meta-data that adds to the definition of a requirement - and of course, using all of this in a business process with real time notifications across the enterprise. This is what we offer with ENOVIA Requirements Management compared to managing requirements in "electronic" files.
Consider a simple everyday use case: if requirements were managed in files, it would be painful to determine the importance of a requirement just by looking for text highlighted in 'red' in a large requirements document. Furthermore, if there were multiple requirements documents for different systems of a product and requirements within these different documents were linked to each other, it would be very inefficient to physically mark text in a document that is related to text in another document. T
These are just some of the pains you might experience while defining/capturing requirements. Imagine the pain for users across functions who have to consume these requirements for their work, and how this would all play out when there is a change.
The first step to solving this problem is to digitize this content by bringing it onto the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.Different ways of doing this include requirements capture from MS Word, MS Excel and Reqtify. The video on this post is recorded in 17xFD05 and it shows what we offer for capturing requirements from MS Word.
In 18x this solution has been enhanced to include capturing sub-requirements from MS Word, but all other functions in the video are still relevant.
