Polarion ALM - Agile Development with Cyber Security
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Polarion ALM
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What is Polarion ALM?
Polarion ALM is an application requirement management software platform now owned and supported by Siemens since the 2015 acquisition. It is available on the cloud (Polarion X) and on-premise. Polarion connect teams and projects to improve application development processes with...
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What is Polarion ALM?
In legacy software development environments, many different point solutions are used to manage the application lifecycle. As a result, development artifacts are scattered, slowing down collaboration, hindering transparency, undermining integrity and making it difficult to drive innovation.
Polarion ALM gives organizations one unified solution that delivers project transparency through real-time aggregated management information. It is designed so that everyone is aligned around what is being built and why to drive advancement while protecting integrity and compliance. The vendor states this helps teams respond faster and with better quality to new business opportunities and customer demands.
Polarion ALM Features
- Supported: Collaboration, Traceability and Workflow
- Supported: Change & Configuration Management
- Supported: Test & Quality Management
- Supported: Requirements Management
- Supported: Issue & Risk Management
- Supported: Reuse & Branch Management
- Supported: Planning & Resource Management
- Supported: Agile / Hybrid Project Management
- Supported: Build & Release Management
- Supported: Connectors & Extensibility
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Resource Traceability gives Polarion users the power to link source code assets semantically. (Link Work Items directly to the source code function, method or variable that implements them.) This gives managers and auditors a traceable record of all implemented changes and de...
Show More Many companies must have documentation meet certain internal Style Guides, or to match a document style provided by a stakeholder or customer. Watermarks are important for clearly establishing a status for released documents. We’ll talk in depth about these two important top...
Show More Effective use of Polarion’s ability to easily connect and collaborate with stakeholders ensures that requirements are complete and shortens the time to market. In this session, we’ll show how to maximize this functionality, bringing speed and accuracy to the development proce...
Show More Reuse is an important component in the ability to maintain governance and consistency throughout the software development process. Along with collaboration and traceability, reuse completes the triad of fundamental pillars that support, enable, and energize efficiency in the ...
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Polarion ALM Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Polarion ALM is an application requirement management software platform now owned and supported by Siemens since the 2015 acquisition. It is available on the cloud (Polarion X) and on-premise. Polarion connect teams and projects to improve application development processes with
a single, unified solution for requirements, coding, testing and release.
Reviewers rate Polarion Requirements Management highest, with a score of 8.4.
The most common users of Polarion ALM are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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April 19, 2023
Polarion ALM - Agile Development with Cyber Security
Score 10 out of 10
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One of the key business problems that Polarion ALM addresses in our company is the lack of visibility and collaboration in software development projects. With its centralized platform, Polarion ALM enables our teams to collaborate and communicate effectively, which lead to improved productivity and faster time-to-market. Additionally, Polarion ALM provides end-to-end traceability, which can help us to ensure compliance with regulatory standards and reduce the risk of errors.
- Enter requirements via livedocs
- Traceability between all used artifacts like workitems
- Included easy to configure reporting
- Inbtegration to MATLAB Simulink
- Support for System of Systems
- Product Portfolio Planning
March 30, 2023
Full coverage of all relevant ALM aspects
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
We have
been utilizing Polarion ALM for Software as Medical Device development since
2006. It is fully integrated into our process landscape and serves as an
excellent foundation for complete traceability. With proprietary
configurations, widget pages, and embedded scripts, we can achieve full
coverage of aspects such as requirements, document, test usability, and risk
management. Additionally, Polarion ALM supports additional processes like tool
validation and management activities. The platform allows for the configuration
of all elements (workitems, documents, widget pages, etc.), resulting in a high
degree of adaptation to internal processes. The integrated electronic signature
and document workflow also facilitate document release. Overall, Polarion ALM
provides a wide range of functionalities to cover all software
development-related process elements.
- Excellent Traceability
- Fully configurable
- Covers all relevant aspects of R&D related processes in Med Tech
- Provides interfaces to relevant external software systems (e.g. for requirements import)
- Provides all necessary features for document management
- Document editor is okay but formatting is sometimes challenging
- Some (minor) default settings are annoying
March 28, 2023
Streamline your Development Processes
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
As the Institute of Flight System Dynamics of the Technical University of Munich, we use Polarion in research and teaching.
As part of our research, we work on lean model-based development workflows for light control systems (FCS) and unmanned aircraft system (UAS).
Based on our configuration and custom extensions, Polarion helps us to implement these workflows to reduce the effort for the users, improve traceability and ensure consistency.
Everything we have learned during our research, we try to include in our practical seminars so that students get hands-on experience with Polarion and already know what it means to work on the full lifecycle of the system or software.
- Requirements engineering in a document editor
- Customizable automation through workflow functions and conditions
- Connectivity to outside ressources
- Collaboration
- UI could be more modern
- Some areas of the API need more documentation
- LiveDoc editor could more advanced (e.g. reference figures and tables)
As a Polarion Partner, we support companies from the implementation and configuration of Polarion to support, maintenance, administration and hosting.
- High flexibility and adaptability
- Reuse of proven requirements and tests
- Specific extensions for requirements e.g. in medical technology
- UI is intuitive, but could be more modern
- Easy project start possible quickly, but training for competent use of the versatile tool makes sense
March 21, 2023
Digitalization in all processes
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
In the first place, as a Siemens partner, we distribute the Polarion software.
Here we have the focus on the medical industry and deliver the software with our own extensions for existing problems. For our customers, we use it in risk analysis, product development, a formal review & release, and other areas.
As avasis, we use Polarion for our planning, developments and documented communication.
Here we have the focus on the medical industry and deliver the software with our own extensions for existing problems. For our customers, we use it in risk analysis, product development, a formal review & release, and other areas.
As avasis, we use Polarion for our planning, developments and documented communication.
- Interaction of Work Items and LiveDocs
- Customizability
- Planning functionalities
- Review & Release
- API usage
- Save Hooks
- Scaling and performance for large projects (LiveDocs and Work Items) in Polarion
March 07, 2023
The most famous ALM Application
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
We are using it as the Standard Requirements and Testing Application for customer projects.
- Managing Requirements
- Task-Management
- Test-Management
- All combined in one Application used from Locations all over the world
- Improve Administration
- Add more Functionality to the REST-API
February 21, 2023
Polarion ALM top shelf ALM tool
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Mainly we, at ReQonsult, rollout, configure, adapt and maintain Polarion ALM in R&D departments of other companies. So, we gained a lot of experience in all industries and all methodologies implemented in Polarion ALM. We found Polarion ALM a very powerful tool to implement processes, ensure good process guidance, a high grade of process automation and proper collaboration in R&D. Polarion ALM has an excellent stability, robustness and scalability. The long missing REST API is finally developed and providing a good feature set. In general Polarion ALM integrates good into existing toolchain. The main features like Requirements Engineering, QA and Planning are well developed and good adaptable to any process. It is easy to make Polarion ALM an integrated part of a company. With 3-4 days of training to configure the tool and additional 4 days of training for implementing complex reports, complex check and automations or even extensions, it is done. The online help deserves its name. Typical feedbacks we received from are customers are: It just works. It is very intuitive. We get new Requirements Engineers productive within a hour.
- Requirements Engineering
- Process Automation
- Good scalability
- Reuse of artifacts
- Transparency
- Stability
- Complete REST API as soon as possible
- User Interface could be a bit more state of the art, like adding more drag and drop, save changes after leaving the field.
February 14, 2023
Polarion ALM for integrated Medical Device development
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
We use Polarion ALM as fully integrated development platform for Medical Devices. For this purpose, we configured the standard installation as well as customized it with multiple extensions to cover the Product Lifecycle from Requirements Engineer to Verification and Validation in combination with Risk Management, Usability Engineering, and Clinical Evaluation. In addition, we use it for general Quality Management and Regulatory affairs tasks as well as Process Validation, Test Equipment management, and SW tool management.
- Polarion ALM is very robust and provides rock-solid traceability
- Polarion ALM can be easily configured to adapt to our company needs
- Polarion ALM can be customized to extend its functionality beyond the standard package
- Polarion ALM provides inter-connectivity to other databases to integrate into our tool landscape
- The user interface is a bit old-fashioned and does not provide many state-of-the art features such as drag-and-drop out of the box.
July 29, 2022
Multiple Papers may be Handled Easily and Quickly
When we worked on a locomotive project, we were responsible for managing the requirements, reviews, and test cases. In order to handle several projects and various documentation levels, Polarion ALM is utilized to link them and trace them back to each other. Management systems and software requirements may be managed with this tool, Additionally, it helps link and track the two entities. Since it is web-based, it also allows for user-to-user cooperation.
- System and software needs may be managed in a systematic manner.
- Because it is web-based, it makes it possible for users to work together.
- It is possible to upload the papers and files.
- Text editing in that program may be more sophisticated, similar to what you'd find in Word.
- Views, like Table, Tree, and Matrix, aren't all that easy to figure out.
- Finding items that fit specific criteria using filters is cumbersome and should be made simpler. This is particularly true when filtering numerous documents at once.
June 23, 2022
Go for it
We used to manage requirements, reviews, and test cases for a locomotive project. There are many line replaceable units in the system so Polarion ALM is used to manage several projects and different levels of documentation and the linking and tracing between the two.
Scope:- It provide a means to management system and software requirement
It also provide linking and traceability between the two
It also allow for collaboration between users since it is web based
Scope:- It provide a means to management system and software requirement
It also provide linking and traceability between the two
It also allow for collaboration between users since it is web based
- manages multiple documents well and saves time in navigation
- allows multiple uses to view the same document and provide comments and feedback
- provide a means to management system and software requirements
- The text editing could be more advanced like Word
- The different views like Table, Tree and Matrix and not very intuitive
- The ability to use filters to search for items that meet certain criteria is a little clumsy and could be easier, especially if you want to run a filter against multiple documents
Polarion ALM is used to manage requirements, reviews, and test cases for an aerospace project. There are many line replaceable units in the system so Polarion ALM is used to manage several projects and different levels of documentation and the linking and tracing between the two.
- provide a means to management system and software requirements
- provide linking and traceability between the two
- allow for collaboration between users since it is web based
- Thet text editing could be more advanced like Word
- The different views like Table, Tree and Matrix and not very intuitive
- The ability to use filters to search for items that meet certain criteria is a little clumsy and could be easier, especially if you want to run a filter against multiple documents
August 24, 2021
Polarion, one of the best Test Management Tool
Polarion ALM is being used as a test management tool in my company. Am using Polarion since 1+ years, and i can tell you that this was one of the best Test management tools I've ever used. Everything is so easy to understand and the interface is user friendly. Easy to use and can learn this tool fastly. I use this for Test plan, Test cases authoring, Test execution and results review along with the close out documentation.
I definitely recommend other organisations to use this tool.
I definitely recommend other organisations to use this tool.
- Re using process is much more easy
- Uploading the documents and files can be done.
- We can export our file's and TC's as well
- We can lock our Test cases and Results as well, which is a good one. So that our data is safe and secured
- Documentation process can be even more better.
- UI needs some more improvement. Some buttons look like traffic symbols for me personally
- Hard to find difference between which one is TC review and which one is TC execution
May 09, 2017
Polarion Pluses and Minuses
Polarion is used across the entire line of businesses in our entire corporation. Each business is its "own" entity but has crossover products and processes from division to division. As such, many products might share common components and imbedded technologies while each SKU is its own item and has its own "life span." Each division has its own sandbox but many higher level components within each sandbox span across multiple units. The business problem that it addresses is the disparity that would happen by either design or circumstance and it ties in through "traceability" all the aspects of requirements in the lifecycle that would otherwise fall through the cracks.
- The workflows that are customizable in Polarion are amazing. They have specified workflows for companies that deal with different product lines related to regulatory requirements like medical devices. The ability to enhance "out of the box" workflows helps with risk mitigation immensely without having to allocate so many resources to get it going from ground up.
- Reporting - bringing together dashboards with key metrics is an absolute must and leveraging output based on needs from executive level presentations to development metrics is a winner for us. And the drill downs are immensely useful for anyone who wants to get the microscopic view of what drives our success on that nth degree.
- Over all Risk Mitigation: Risk based ALM is very important to us. The ability to integrate our regulatory SOPs into our own client defined formats and procedures gives us the leverage to tie in all that traceability I discussed earlier into palpable digests of risk which our company leaders use to drive vision.
- Requirements management is an absolute nightmare for most people. Polarion helps us drive requirements on different levels like regualtory, business, user interface, etc. This ties in to all the risk mitigation criteria we so much rely on to make us succeed.
- 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.