Polarion ALM for Requirements Management and traceability
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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 a…
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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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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Requirements Management
- Synchronization with Azure DevOps and Teamcenter
- Cross references between projects
- Collaboration in Live Docs (e.g. parallel editings)
- Creation and sharing of project templates
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Requirements Management
- Test, Defect, Change and Risk Management
- Project Planning and Monitoring
- Traceability
- Collaboration
- High flexibility of adaptions
- Complex Customization
- Difficult to reset items or documents
- Limited document and table editor
- Polarion-to-Polarion connector not included for automatical synchronization between Stakeholders (Defects, Tasks etc.)
- License model implausible, only ALM can create Test Runs or Plans but not RM
- Several levels of traceability not generated down to the deepest level as required in the automotive business (i.e. Stakeholder Requirements to System Requirements to Software Requirements to Test Cases and Results)
- Traceability
- Interfaces for customizations
- Configuration options
- Re-merge branches of documents
- Linking Polarion ALM projects across different Polarion ALM servers
March 25, 2024
Full ALM process coverage with Polarion ALM
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Requirement management in Polarion is extremely effective, with a simple but powerful authoring environment, simple approval process management, seamless traceability and advanced reuse capabilities
- Test management capabilities allow to link together the requirements with the validation process, and let the user define, plan, execute and record tests across the whole development process
- Day bay day management of development is easy to track, with out of the box support for agile methodologies, live planning reports and integration with Git, SVN and CI/CD tools.
- Test management could have more ways to organize test sessions
March 24, 2024
Polarion is real ALM
- Traceability and Workflow of any object is guaranteed over the whole lifecycle
- Polarion ALM is highly customizable and open to be easily integrated in a complex toolchain
- Reviews or Audits are supported tremendously by the possibility of accessing all historical data of your projects
- Many functions are provided to Reuse instead of Duplicate
- Improve Documentation (API, REST-API)
- Improve Administration
- Improve ReqIf import/export functionality
- Improve install/update/backup
March 16, 2024
The All-in-One ALM Solution
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Traceability
- Customization
- Requirements Management
- Test Management
- All-in-one solution
- User Interface
- Customization can be complex
February 29, 2024
ELM and beyond
- Requirement management
- Test management
- Traceability
- Information reuse
- Collaboration
- Configurability
- Any information management where you can gain advantage from objects and documents.
- Depending on complexity of application, it can be difficult to learn
- Object oriented way of organizing information might be difficult due to high abstraction level
- Massive configuration possibilities give also great responsibility and need clear focus on business benefits to prevent going too much tool centric
February 28, 2024
Polarion ALM as a systems engineering tool for managing a company
- Traceability
- Reviews and approvals
- Change management
- requirement management
- test management
- Risk management
- Workflow scripting from the admin panel
- Configuration management capability on the oslc side
January 15, 2024
Polarion ALM Unleashes the Power of Seamless Collaboration
- 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.
- User Interface and User Experience
- Mobile Accessibility
- Customization Complexity
July 04, 2023
Very good Requirements Management and more
- Very good traceability
- Reporting
- Supports project workflows
- With a good configuration, no issues with audits
- Sometimes a lot of browser tabs are used
- More features in the REST API soon
April 19, 2023
Polarion ALM - Agile Development with Cyber Security
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- 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
Vetted Review
Verified User
- 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
Vetted Review
Verified User
- 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)
- 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
- 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
Vetted Review
Verified User
- 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
Vetted Review
Verified User
- 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
Vetted Review
Verified User
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.