Likelihood to Recommend We have a small team with limited resources and it worked well for us. Hence I can conclude that AWS Code Artifact are well suited for organizations which have limited resources in terms of hardware and access to administrators for setting up artifact repository in-house. AWS Code Artifact is also suited particularly well for organization(s) which are already using AWS Services/Infrastructure (eg. EC2) . It works quite well with existing AWS services and completes the gap which existed in AWS offering for quite some time. Organizations can move their entire DevOps toolchain and infrastructure to Amazon. It is less appropriate for organization(s) which rely on artifacts like Debian, C/C++, Go etc as AWS does not support those fully.
Read full review Polarion ALM shines where it is intended to be used: Application Lifecycle Management. It fits well with agile development concepts, but the extensive customization abilities allow it to adapt to other concepts, too. It is suitable as an all-in-one solution, which is capable of giving transparency over all related areas, be it Requirement Management, Test Management, Release Management, Defect Management, etc., to the involved stakeholders.
Read full review Pros Code Artifact is a cloud based artifact repository so there is no installation required. Code Artifact comes with out of the box security. Using RBAC and encryption Total cost of usage is less than setting up in-house servers It is accessible from any where.. so no additional network setup is required. Read full review Requirements Management: Polarion ALM provides a centralized repository for capturing and managing requirements. Teams can define, organize, and link requirements to other artifacts like test cases and development tasks. Test Management: Polarion ALM facilitates end-to-end test management. Teams can create detailed test cases, manage test execution, and track test results. Traceability and Impact Analysis: Polarion ALM ensures traceability across all phases of the development lifecycle. Users can establish links between requirements, test cases, development tasks, and other artifacts. This traceability helps in impact analysis, allowing teams to understand how changes in one area may affect other parts of the project. Customization and Adaptability: Polarion ALM is highly customizable to fit the unique needs of different organizations and industries. Users can create custom workflows, define custom fields, and adapt the tool to their specific development processes. Read full review Cons CodeArtifact does not support packages like debian. It will be nice to see them support that. Does not provide security scanning of the packages Lacks support for third party CI/CD toolchain like Jenkins Read full review More robust engine as far as the actual took is concerned. There are navigation components in trace to reporting which we feel can be improved especially when dealing with cross global accessing of the tool. It slows us down a bit so it's backend driven optimization as well as some front end "clunkiness" that can be improved. Improve some filtering capabilities especially in creating custom reports and generally all around the ALM components of the tool. As of the version we have, the ability to enhance replationship types in traceability is limited. Read full review Likelihood to Renew There is too much at stake to go into a new system. But with everything else being promised as far as newer more innovative products, the justification to not renew is a huge risk so that is not a concern
Read full review Alternatives Considered AWS CodeArtifact is an excellent choice for organization(s) which are looking to move their infrastructure and devops toolchain to Amazon. It is very useful for teams/organizations on limited budget or do not want to take on infrastructure and maintenance costs associated with the artifact repository. Other software solutions require resources for setting up and need ongoing maintenance.
Read full review Polarion ALM has the best usability, extensibility and reactiv product management. The support is also very good compared to other companies. Or in other words it is closer to the customer. Codebeamer is for sure also a good ALM tool with a great feature set, but existing customers are often neglected. We will see, what PTC as the new owner of codebeamer will change at this point.
Read full review Return on Investment Overall CodeArtifact has positive ROI on the our team. We had limited budget for procurement of server/administrators. With CodeArtifact we were able to get some savings. We were able to deliver faster hence customers were quite happy. That led to customer satisfaction We didnt have to invest on maintaining network infrastructure/uptime and security. That saved us quite a bit of hassle and funds. Read full review Many of our customers have achieved things that they could not have done without Polarion Possibility to make engineering enjoyable and not so documentation oriented (especially in regulated industries) Automatic and all the time up-to-date reporting gives savings in time Information reuse is typically giving benefits in resource use and time-to-market. Up to 40% reduction in time-to-market seen. 10-20% reduction in R&D cost is typically achievable Read full review ScreenShots