Serena Requirements Manager requires installation of the following components:
Serena Dimensions RM: The application for creating, editing, organizing, and reporting on requirement data. Its Oracle database is the requirements repository for Requirements Manager.
Serena Business Manager: The component that enables you to create and run process applications. It can be used to manage business processes, including access to other web services and third-party applications.
Requirements Control: The set of process applications (implemented on Serena Business Manager) that orchestrates the requirements workflow:
ALM Projects: The process application to track projects through the various workflow states of planning, development, testing, and release.
Requirements Approval: The process application to propose, review, comment on, edit, and approve/reject collections of requirements in Dimensions RM.
Serena Dashboard (optional): The customizable reporting solution built on the IBI WebFocus platform.
Serena Prototype Composer (optional): The application for planning, modeling and prototyping.
This Requirements Manager documentation includes information on:
Installing Requirements Control
Configuring the other components for use with Requirements Control
The other components have their own installation documentation, so that information is not duplicated here. However, any Requirements Manager specific considerations regarding their installation and configuration will be noted here.