PTC Requirements, Validation, and Source Code Management

What is PTC RV&S?

RV&S is short for Requirements, Validation, and Source. PTC RV&S provides a comprehensive set of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and systems engineering capabilities that enable cross-discipline collaboration, improve time to market, streamline compliance, and reduce product risk.

PTC RV&S Features and Benefits include:

Provides visibility into product release readiness
Supports variant complexity
Automates development processes
Ensures complete lifecycle traceability

RV&S benefits

Requirements management

PTC RV goes beyond requirements management with requirements, change, and configuration management with requirements traceability, authoring, visibility, and metrics.

Test and validation management

PTC RV features traceability between requirements, test cases, defects, and more, with powerful querying, charting, reporting, and dashboards. It also features historical reporting and suspect link flagging.

Source code management

PTC Source is a PTC-hosted source code repository that allows teams to manage their source code directly in the software.

Variant management

PTC Source facilitates variant management through comprehensive support for software reuse. Process-driven software change and configuration management.

Key features

Advanced authoring and collaboration

Manage data efficiently with rich text and hierarchical views.

Customer and supply chain integration

Easily share and synchronize requirements information across team, product, and vendor boundaries.

Process and event-driven server-to-server integrations

Access to data through standards-based APIs, including OSLC for link and trace with Windchill and PTC Modeler.

Contemporary web user interface

Including document and item editors, document review and feedback, embedded OSLC client, and more.

Streamlined compliance

Improve compliance, safety, and quality reporting with end-to-end visibility on a secure platform.

Subscription-based access

Bundle software and support in one subscription to simplify budgeting, improve transparency, and reduce costs on unused software.

Enterprise scalability and reliability

Scale to thousands of users with one unified requirements and validation system.

Why RV&S?

ALM offers significant value to a company, as well as enhancing other enterprise systems, such as product lifecycle management (PLM), by enabling the sharing of product information across engineering disciplines. PTC RV&S manages all global software development processes and system engineering relevant aspects, connecting all software engineering artifacts, including requirements, system and software models, code, and test, ensuring comprehensive lifecycle traceability.

PTC RV&S open architecture integrates disparate tools into a streamlined software system engineering process, allowing orchestration of system change and collaboration across the system and software technology supply chain. With PTC RV&S, development teams improve productivity and quality, streamline compliance, and gain complete product visibility, which ultimately drives more innovative products into the market.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between RV&S and Codebeamer?

RV&S is the heritage ALM software at PTC. It is primarily an on-premises software made up of two different components: requirements and validation, and source code management software. These two components can be bundled together or used separately. Codebeamer was added more recently to the PTC ALM portfolio through the acquisition of Intland, and is a cloud-based ALM with a more intuitive UI.

Can I use PTC RV&S and Codebeamer together?

Yes! PTC RV&S and Codebeamer work together, and there are license options for dual use. To learn more about the options available, fill out the contact form below and get in touch with our sales team.

Does PTC RV&S integrate with Windchill?

Yes, PTC RV&S connects requirements directly to Windchill for full product traceability.

Is PTC RV&S the same as Integrity?

Yes, PTC RV&S was originally MKS Integrity. It was then known as Windchill RV&S and is now PTC RV&S, so as not to confuse it with Windchill PLM software.

Will PTC continue to support RV&S?

Yes. PTC continues to invest in this flagship ALM software, adding features, enhancements, and integrations to other PTC products. For customers looking to migrate from RV&S, it’s easy to make the change to Codebeamer. Customers can begin to adopt Codebeamer at their own pace through the dual-use licensing option. For more information about RV&S and dual use with Codebeamer, or to explore which ALM product might be the best fit for your organization, fill out our contact form below.

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Manage your requirements, testing and validation, and source code all in one. PTC RV&S helps enhance traceability, leading to:

Improved time to market
Decreased costs
Improved product quality
More time for innovating

PTC RV&S helps organizations manage their requirements. You can choose the full package or get started with your Requirements and Validation, or Source Code Management software today.

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