About Polarion ALM

Polarion is a browser-based application lifecycle management (ALM) solution that allows businesses to manage all facets of the product development lifecycle. Designed for complex development environments, Polarion ALM utilizes built-in collaboration, traceability, and workflow management tools to and streamline the application development process for requirements, coding, testing, and release. Features include workflow automation, real-time reporting, change management, test case creation, issue tracking, built-in project templates, branch management, time tracking, resource planning, release management, an integrated document editor, customizable project planning boards, a WYSIWYG report designer, and more. One of the core functionalities of Polarion ALM is its emphasis on collaboration, traceability, and workflow. This software is built on three core principles that ensure synchronicity and easy access to all data via a browser-based interface. Real-time communication among various stakeholders such as analysts, engineers, QA members, and DevOps teams is facilitated through threaded discussions, wikis, notifications, and alerts. Polarion ALM also provides robust traceability features, enabling users to pass any audit, compliance, or regulatory inspection with ease. Moreover, Polarion ALM offers a unique Time Machine feature that allows users to browse, search, and report on any historical state of a project, providing valuable insights for decision-making and project execution. The software leverages native clustering for load balancing and failover strategies, ensuring optimal performance and reliability. Additionally, Polarion ALM provides out-of-the-box integrations and open APIs that allow users to extend the software's functionality to meet specific requirements. Another key aspect of Polarion ALM is its focus on audits, metrics, and reports to enhance decision-making and project execution. The software offers detailed analytics and real-time status reports that can be viewed online or exported to PDF for offline access. Users can create custom reports using the online WYSIWYG Report Designer and utilize the Time Machine functionality to access historical reports. By automating event monitoring, change notifications, and dashboards, Polarion ALM enables teams to assess project performance in real-time and ensure code quality meets metrics for security, reliability, and maintainability. With discussion threads, built-in wikis, and more, teams can stay connected and keep up with product updates without the need for third-party software. Real-time reporting and integrated traceability tools allow users to have total visibility of all product development operations for audit and compliance requirements. Using workflow automation, Polarion ALM is able to automatically manage the flow of work items, documents, and issues, state to state. Polarion Reseller Partners are certified to provision and issue Polarion ALM to any organization and will provide configuration, design, training, and IT support services.
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Polarion ALM pricing

Polarion ALM does not have a free version but does offer a free trial.

Starting Price:
Not provided by vendor
Free Version:
No
Free trial:
Yes

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Polarion ALM Reviews for UK Users

Feature rating

Value for Money
4.1
Functionality
4.5
Ease of Use
4.2
Customer Support
3.9
5 reviews of 18 View all reviews
Rahul
Rahul
  • Industry: Industrial Automation
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 03/08/2022

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!

Replied 23/08/2022
Mario
  • Industry: Medical Devices
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
0

5
Reviewed on 24/02/2023

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

Saravana
  • Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 29/11/2024

"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.

Agnes
  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
1
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
1

1
Reviewed on 10/03/2021

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

Alternatives Considered

Jama Connect and Visure Requirements

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
Viktor
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
0

4
Reviewed on 13/10/2023

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.

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