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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 a…

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Application Lifecycle Management is Crucial | Siemens Polarion ALM Review
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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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Product Demos

Polarion ALM. 22R2 release - demo and howto for REST API

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Polarion ALM. 22R2 release - demo of new features

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Polarion ALM - Automation & Reuse

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Product Details

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

Polarion ALM Screenshots

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Polarion ALM Videos

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...
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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...
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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...
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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 TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

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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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Reviews and Ratings

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Mario Götz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
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
Polarion covers all relevant aspects of ALM related to our Design Controls based on standard features in combination with specific configurations and scripts (Pros): - Multi level requirement management - Traceability Matrices - Full set of templates Workflow control - Consistency checks (e.g. workitem states) - Digital signatures - Config Management: Component and artifact trees linked to requirements - Code repository linked to Polarion items - Dedicated structure and process for change management - Test Management - Risk Management There are no relevant aspects where Polarion is less appropriate.
  • Workitem status and linking
  • Traceability
  • History Panel/Audit log
  • Document Management
  • Test Management
  • We've had several consecutive audits without finding
  • Process and Polarion are both flexible enough to adapt to new requirements
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Polarion is an integral part of our daily business.
Fred Sookiasian | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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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.
It is well suited in just about any large scaled environment. For the cost to benefit ratio, it works perfect for large scaled systems. With standard traceability matrix view and enhanced task management, it's a behemoth of a software and welcomed one. In the cases for smaller efforts or organizations, it may be a tall order so I would heed with caution for those people. Polarion has wonderful modelling abilities to test try any system being built. And the Risk Management components are down right amazing. Some filtering enhancements can help it rise to the top as well as performance optimizations.
  • Ability to see and act upon risk components related to requirements to test tracing that would have been missed or overlooked especially during regulatory submission.
  • Always ready reporting for executive management based on trending of product releases before they hit the market.
  • One negative is the resources required to maintain the tool which for most non large organizations would be a huge overhead.
Polarion is a juggernaut of a tool when it comes to traceability and modelling. And it is far better for task management.
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Polarion is used from all levels of business functions from software and hardware engineering, marketing, business analyst and PMO group as well as the executive staff. Each group has their own moderator as workflows and key metrics are a result for each group.
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DEvOps stakeholders are the people that represent Polarion. Each one trained to use Polarion for core activities such as workflows, configuration as well as desktop support. The back end involves another 5 people but they provide a passive level of support such as hardware and the network infrastructure layer.
  • Requirements traceability for CAPA
  • Defect reporting to standard and non standard releases
  • Product workflow risk analysis
  • User story for new functionality
  • Creation of dashboard to highlight most frequent usages based on defect types
  • Requirements flagging for heavy risk areas
  • Integration into Supply Chain
  • Integration into executive business workflows
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.
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