Polarion ALM Reviews - Pros & Cons, Ratings & more

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Polarion ALM

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Software engineer

As we had no requirement management tool for the moment, it was important to have a good word importer too. And, compared to the other products we tested, Polarion's one is the best I experienced.

Reliability engineer

There is no such thing in Polarion organization by 'Folders' or 'Tree', everything is done by searching and it is enough not to give the right name or it was forgotten, you will easy get lost.

Managing director

Compared to other tools Polarion is easy to use and has a brilliant core idea. All functionality is based on the same or on a similar usability.

Continuous Integration Engineer

But also as a standalone product with standard configuration you have a tool with a super solid versioning concept.

Also Polarion is super stable. The underlaying SVN-Repository and its datastructure is still backwards compatible with very old versions.

General Director

Some lack of the documentation to make extensions or connections with other solutions.

Software engineer in test

It has an older and confusing design. It is quite complex, so in some cases it is difficult to understand how it works.

Delays, control of the developers, defects, versions, costs, documents, all in one single solution. Also I can provide access to my customers to let them see the status of their development.

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Simple & Effective ALM Tool

Dear Rahul, we are glad to hear that you like Polarion. Thank you for your review!
To access more reporting capabilities, feel free to visit our extensions portal. Free and paid extensions for your reports can be found there: https://extensions.polarion.com/searches?category=10-reports 
Best regards!

We are using Polarion ALM since 2006 in Software as Medical Device development. It is fully integrated into our process landscape and serves as a perfect basis for full traceability. Proprietary configurations, widget pages and embedded scripts allow full coverage of aspects like requirement , document, test usability and risk management. Furthermore, additional processes like tool validation and management activities are supported.

Head Programmable Systems R&D

Powerful but Complex ALM Solution

We tested Polarion on a Siemens' server during approximatively 15 days, and it looked really nice.
As a former DOORS 9 administrator, I found it really user-friendly (this is the main criticism I heard from users with D9): the documents can be edited as LiveDocs, but requirements can still be easily tagged, and linking seemed quite easy.
As we had no requirement management tool for the moment, it was important to have a good word importer too. And, compared to the other products we tested, Polarion's one is the best I experienced. 
Licensing pricing seemed quite correct too. Not the cheapest, but not the most expensive.
So we ordered licenses for our team and installed it in one of our server...
Since we installed it in end of January, I saw it run only one time. Contacting Siemens's support was really hard (my colleague took approx. one week to get in touch with them), and after many hours spent trying to solve the problem, Polarion's server is still down, and we had to come back to our old habit of writing specs with Word.
I am really regretting not to have asked IBM for a pricing of DOORS NG... As during the 3 years I was DOORS 9's administrator, IBM's support has always been easy to contact and efficient...

Good first impression during evaluation but impossible to make it run on our server

I am an engineering manager and fusion organizational management lead for my company, the software we deployed for our transformation,now now resulted better experience and result for maintaining all the business information in one place safely"

"Polarion Review by engineering manager in OCM"

We are using this software for embedded software development in automotive oem as well as tier 1 supplier, requirement exchange is really good across teams. All other features are useful like source code management, test management, across V cycle.

Best Technical Management Software for V Cycle Development

Dear user,
thanks a lot for your review. We are glad that you like Polarion ALM. Regarding integrations between Polarion ALM and other tools you can find more information on the Polarion extensions portal: 

https://extensions.polarion.com/


I do use the tool for entering/writing records and files including test plans/STDs and other more.
I also use it for test execution and traceability matrix generate.

Product development and writing requirements 

I am usin Polarion for my software factory and I have complete control of the actual status of all the projects.
Delays, control of the developers, defects, versions, costs, documents, all in one single solution
Also I can provide access to my customers to let them see the status of their development.

Good and complete ALM solution with all you need in a single Solution

I am using Polarion tool for requirements management for the complete product line. This is one of the best tools I have used till now.

Polarion ALM with cusomization

I started using Polarion in University during a practical project and really like it. I'm not too experienced in software development but found Polarion to be very intuitive and I consumed a lot of tutorials and learning material in general that Polarion/Siemens offers. I only know Jira besides it but I prefer to have everything in one package as it seems more simple to me. The performance is very stable and reliable.

Easy to Use for non-specialists

Polarion ALM is a great tool for experienced users.

Good tool for application lifecycle management

Polarion is our de-facto standard for product documentation. Everything is catalogued, earchable comparable and versioned. The Support answers very competent and really helps you usually in a matter of hours

Polarion is the tool for people who know what they are doing..

Dear Lutz, thanks for your review! We are glad, you are satisfied.

We have been using Polarion ALM for test management and in the meantime for requirements management and several other purposes for over 10 years and we are still very happy with it! 

It is a great tool for managing both manual and automated tests, as well as tracking test results. Same goes for requirements management and the other ALM functionality. The built-in reporting features are also very helpful, allowing us to quickly generate detailed reports on the status of our tests, requirements and any other information which are stored in Polarion. 

Overall, we have found Polarion ALM to be a very valuable tool that has helped us to improve the quality of our projects.

10+ years experience with Polarion ALM and still very happy with it

Dear Thomas, thanks for your review! We appreciate it.

Wir schreiben nicht nur Software - wir Supporten auch für unsere Kunden die unterschiedlichsten ALM System (IBM, HP, Atlassian, Bugzilla, PHPBugtracker, ........ und viele mehr) und aus meiner Sicht finde ich Polarion ALM als eines der Besten aktuell am Markt befindlichen Werkzeuge. Die Luft wird langsam dünner und Siemens muss zukünftig nachlegen, aber bei Siemens wird heute noch Musik gemacht.

In Summe geht es für mich am Tagesende darum einem Stempel vom TUEV oder einer anderen Zertifizierungsstelle für das entwickelte Produkt zu erhalten. Mit Polarion ALM ist dies auf jeden Fall möglich und deutlich einfacher als mit Excel und Word bzw. einfachen Trackern.

Ein ALM Tool für alle Projekte und Aufgaben

One ALM tool for all projects and tasks

Lieber Matthias, wir sind begeistert! Vielen Dank für Deine Worte. 

Clean and easy usage across all relevant topics for requirements and systems engineering.

Easy to use tool for requirements and systems engineering

Hello Max, 

thanks for your review! Glad you are satisfied. If you have any suggestions or needs for reports or functions, feel free to contact us and we will find a way to support the request.

Top tool for improvement of quality

Dear Ingo, we're glad you are satisfied. Thank you for your review!

Wir nutzen es für unserer Softwareentwicklung (Requirements-Management, Quality Assurance sowie Issue-Tracking) diese helfen uns in unserem Tagesgeschäft und liefern ein Rückverfolgbarkeit in den verschiedenen Software-Versionen.

Application Lifecycle Management at its best

Application lifecycle management at its best

HI Benjamin! We really appreciate your review, we´ll communicate your suggestion to our Development Team.
Thank you!

- Vielseitiges Tool mit diversen Möglichkeiten, z. B. Tests, Dokumente und Artefakte zu gestalten.
- Ermöglicht kollaboratives Arbeiten

Vielseitiges Tool mit diversen Konfigurationsmöglichkeiten

Versatile tool with various configuration options

Liebe Noemi, danke für deine Review! 

Grundsätzlich ist dein Vorschlag mit ein wenig Konfigurations-Geschick umsetzbar. Dazu wird die korrekte Verlinkung der Work Items als Bedingung festgelegt und dann automatisch von Polarion überprüft. Außerdem könnte dir die Coverage-Analyse oder das Multi-Level-Traceability Widget aus den Reports helfen. Es können auch Traceability-Bedingungen definiert werden, die z.B. beim Statuswechsel von "draft" auf "in review" überprüft werden. Beste Grüße!

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