Polarion is real ALM
Software Version
Polarion On-premise
Overall Satisfaction with Polarion ALM
We at Covalgo Consulting are using Polarion ALM for various purposes. On the one hand for our quality management system (ISO 9001) to guarantee compliance and legal standards, or for our internal CRM system, and on the other hand to develop our consulting products. Business analysis (BA) is one of our core competencies and Polarion is also the perfect tool to support all tasks of BA, from the idea - over concrete requirements - to the finalized product specification. Our customers value Polarion as a real ALM tool, with great possibilities for traceability and reporting. The tool Polarion aligns with any customer's process and can easily be adapted, even by the customer himself!
Pros
- 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
Cons
- Improve Documentation (API, REST-API)
- Improve Administration
- Improve ReqIf import/export functionality
- Improve install/update/backup
- Develop faster
- Provide more quality
- Be more transparent
Polarion is a real ALM, it provides holistic approaches!
Do you think Polarion ALM delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Polarion ALM's feature set?
Yes
Did Polarion ALM live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Polarion ALM go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Polarion ALM again?
Yes
Using Polarion ALM
5 - Requiremt egineers, Process owners, Risk managers, Product owners
2 - Requirement Engineer, Software developers, Polarion consultant
- Requirement management
- Agile SW development
- Set up legal compliance
- Test management
- Project planing
- Set up Quality managment projects according to ISO9000
- Include AI approaches
Evaluating Polarion ALM and Competitors
Yes - Jira
- Integration with Other Systems
- Ease of Use
Open API
No changes
Polarion ALM Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
- Fine tunning
Polarion ALM Training
Configuring Polarion ALM
involve support for complex installations
Some - we have done small customizations to the interface
Yes - we have added extensive custom code - extensions, scripts, jobs
Polarion ALM Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Problems get solved Kept well informed Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | Need to explain problems multiple times |
Yes - Sometimes
Update failed on friday afternoon, US support took over and supported us quickly
Using Polarion ALM
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- Linking
- Roundtrip
- Working with documents
- ReqIf roundtrip
- Signature
- Comments
Polarion ALM Reliability
Integrating Polarion ALM
- Enterprise architect
- Jira
- Team Center
- MatLab
- Doors
- Polarion
- SAP
partly
- File import/export
- Single Signon
- API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
- Javascript widgets
take your time
Relationship with Siemens AG
No comment
so last reply, be more flexible
Upgrading Polarion ALM
Yes - down time is too long
- new functions
- faster
- more stable
- shorter downtime for update
- more AI integrations out of the box
- better comment possibilities
- better reqIf features
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