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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…
Well-suited tool for support in the regulatory environment
Full ALM process coverage with Polarion ALM
Polarion is real ALM
The All-in-One ALM Solution
ELM and beyond
Polarion ALM as a systems engineering tool for managing a company
Polarion ALM Unleashes the Power of Seamless Collaboration
Very good Requirements Management and more
Polarion ALM - Agile Development with Cyber Security
Full coverage of all relevant ALM aspects
Streamline your Development Processes
Perfect for the development and documentation of complex systems
Digitalization in all processes
Here we have the focus on the medical industry and deliver …
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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 single, unified…
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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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Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows |
Mobile Application | No |
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(1-22 of 22)- 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
Full ALM process coverage with Polarion ALM
- 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
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
The All-in-One ALM Solution
- Traceability
- Customization
- Requirements Management
- Test Management
- All-in-one solution
- User Interface
- Customization can be complex
ELM and beyond
We utilize Polarion for all our information management needs and leverage it as the platform for developing systems for our customers. These uses are primarily within R&D, but we have also successfully implemented Quality Management Systems (ISO27001) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems using Polarion.
While Polarion may not be the cutting-edge tool for every application, its versatility often makes it the most productive choice. Its familiarity among users and its efficient integration with other processes are invaluable benefits.
Having worked with Polarion for over a decade, we have gained deep expertise in its functionality. Although Polarion is marketed primarily as an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool with a focus on software, our clients are mainly developing hardware or both HW & SW.
Siemens has recently been enhancing features to improve usability and productivity, enhancements that our customers have warmly received.
- 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
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
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
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
Less suited for small and less complex developments.
Polarion ALM - Agile Development with Cyber Security
- 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
Compliance-focused industries: Polarion ALM's end-to-end traceability and audit trail capabilities can help organizations meet regulatory requirements and reduce the risk of errors.
Agile software development: Polarion ALM's support for agile methodologies, such as Scrum and Kanban, can help teams manage and track their work efficiently.
Full coverage of all relevant ALM aspects
- 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
Streamline your Development Processes
- 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
Digitalization in all processes
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
The most famous ALM Application
- 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
Polarion ALM top shelf ALM tool
- 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.
Polarion ALM for integrated Medical Device development
- 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.
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.
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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
- 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
Polarion, one of the best Test Management 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
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.