About Polarion ALM
Polarion ALM pricing
Polarion ALM does not have a free version but does offer a free trial.
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Polarion ALM Reviews for UK Users
Feature rating
- Industry: Industrial Automation
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Simple & Effective ALM Tool
Simple Tool with a quick learning curve.
Pros
Simplicity to maintain documentation (test cases, requirements) is one of the most useful features of this ALM tool.
Cons
The reports that can be generated from Polarion are of basic nature. They could add facilities to add more kinds of reports/dashboards based on the data available to Polarion ALM.
Response from Siemens
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!
- Industry: Medical Devices
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Head Programmable Systems R&D
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.
Pros
+ Polarion ALM provides full Traceability+ Polarion ALM provides the ability to configure all elements (workitems, documents widget pages,...) which allows high degree of adaption to internal processes+ Integrated electronic signature and document workflow ease document release+ Provides wide range of functionality to cover all software development related process elements+
Cons
- Document editing is not state-of-the-art
- Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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"Polarion Review by engineering manager in OCM"
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"
Pros
Software is very simple to use based on a very simple infrastructure, most likely is a web tool so easy to access and use.
Cons
Sometimes the intranet issue is there it will be slow.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used for 1-5 months
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Good first impression during evaluation but impossible to make it run on our server
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...
Pros
GUI user-friendly
Word round-trip very quick and efficient
Web-based application
Cons
Impossible to make it run on our server
Reasons for Switching to Polarion ALM
Polarion offered the quickest and more efficient Word importer for large documents. Other solutions were not able to import them correctly- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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Good tool for application lifecycle management
Polarion ALM is a great tool for experienced users.
Pros
Polarion ALM is quite a complex tool that includes a wide range of functionality. For example Creation of functional test times, in which the time of the test can be measured during execution and thus make testing more effective
Cons
It has an older and confusing design. It is quite complex, so in some cases it is difficult to understand how it works. Dark mode is missing.