IBM Rational ALM vs Polarion ALM comparison

IBM Rational ALM
Read 17 IBM Rational ALM reviews
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73% willing to recommend
Polarion ALM
Read 18 Polarion ALM reviews
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  • 3,406 Comparison Views
85% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between IBM Rational ALM and Polarion ALM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Rational ALM
Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites
10th
Average Rating
7.2
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Polarion ALM
Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites
8th
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (8th)
 

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category, the market share of IBM Rational ALM is 1.9% and it increased by 53.1% compared to the previous year. The market share of Polarion ALM is 7.5% and it increased by 23.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Enterprise Agile Planning Tools
3.5%
 

Featured Reviews

Harold Pogue - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 7, 2022
A complex deployment that is not stable, but is cloud-based
The team of 15 to 20 software engineers uses IBM Rational ALM and Jira for testing. They coupled different online packages together because the Duration Enterprise was impossible to use IBM Rational ALM did not help the organization and we ended up moving to another solution. The most valuable…
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NK
May 28, 2024
Offers very good integration with many features available in a single tool
Our customers use ALM for different product implementations and tracking product activities. We are service providers of Polarion. I'm an administrator of ALM and we implement this solution for our customers.   Polarion is  The solution offers good integration.  Test management could be improved…
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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It is relatively easy to use and user-friendly once the setup is complete."
"It helped us contain critical things, like source code and several documents, which is very important to us."
"I would rate the stability of this product a nine out of ten."
"At the same time, if you're working from the architect or the designing team you, it's quite easy to manage the resources online."
"The tools for requirement capture we have found very useful."
"Everyone in a team can work on the same platform and share the same information."
"The word emulation and importing is good."
"It's easy to use."
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"It is a very stable solution."
"The technical support is quite good."
"The most valuable feature is the function of the ALM system."
"You can see the work ticket and you can circulate that within the teams. You can define your flows, customize according to your needs, and you can create dashboards and create the reports according to your needs."
"The solution offers good integration."
"We had a nice experience with technical support."
"Polarion ALM has some valuable tools for managing our targets and requirements. I think that's its best feature."
"The features I find the most valuable are requirement tracking and schematics."
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Cons

"I would like to see better reporting features. The out-of-box reporting is - I don't want to say limited - but the focus is on the Scrum and Sprint reports. We need more reporting features regarding the history of the work, tracking it more deeply."
"The GUI is a little bit outdated."
"The reporting functionality needs to be improved."
"One of the complaints from users is that they have to click buttons too many times for just a simple task. Changing this would lead to a better user experience."
"The interconnectivity between packages is a major support problem and can be improved."
"The solution can improve in the development area and the customized applications."
"The stability of IBM Rational ALM could be improved."
"The product must be more user-friendly."
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"The weak point of Polarion ALM software is about reporting and time for extraction of the data...The quality of reporting needs to improve."
"The solution's editing capabilities need improvement."
"The most important thing for them to improve should be platform-independent features. They should also provide extensive pipelines and release pipelines that we can define and we can work on."
"The user interface is not yet optimized."
"The configuration aspect of the solution is not easy. A person needs a lot of programming knowledge in order to successfully handle the job."
"We use PTC Windchill, and Polarion ALM doesn't have native integration, so we had to purchase the connector to integrate it with Polarion ALM. We still haven't implemented it."
"The ease-of-use could be improved a little."
"One of Polarion's shortcomings would be planning. It can handle plans, but the planning feature is very basic."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is not cheap."
"This product is a little expensive and we had to pay extra to have them set it up for us."
"The price of the solution could be reduced. Many of our customers are not using all the features and this could be why our clients feel the price is too high."
"We have a contract, but I am not aware of the details."
"IBM Rational ALM has both monthly and yearly licensing options."
"Software for medical devices is always expensive."
"It is an expensive product."
"The license model is okay for large companies but would be quite expensive for smaller enterprises."
"Our license for Polarion ALM is yearly. And it's not the cheapest tool that we've looked at. So if we had made our decision purely based on the licensing cost, we wouldn't have selected Polarion."
"The solution is expensive."
"If the pricing would come down and it was more affordable then we wouldn't have to switch."
"You have to pay around 50-60 euros per user."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
22%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
24%
Computer Software Company
13%
Healthcare Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
4%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM Rational ALM?
The solution is customizable.
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What needs improvement with IBM Rational ALM?
We have some special needs. The product does not support our needs perfectly. The GUI is a little bit outdated. There are not many diagrams that help us organize or plan the work for the team. The ...
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What is your primary use case for IBM Rational ALM?
We have three modules. The DOORS module is for requirements. RTC is for storage planning and workflow planning. We also use the module for quality. We use IBM Rational ALM as the main tool to plan ...
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What do you like most about Polarion ALM?
It is a very stable solution.
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What needs improvement with Polarion ALM?
At the moment, I haven't looked in-depth into what needs improvement in the product. Based on my understanding, the tool's integration capabilities with multiple tools is an area of concern that Po...
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What is your primary use case for Polarion ALM?
I work in an industry where I mainly look after the requirements, for which I use Polarion ALM.
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Compared 18% of the time
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Compared 6% of the time
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Compared 5% of the time
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Compared 29% of the time
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Compared 19% of the time
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Codebeamer vs Polarion ALM
Compared 17% of the time
PTC Integrity vs Polarion ALM Logo
PTC Integrity vs Polarion ALM
Compared 8% of the time
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Compared 2% of the time
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Also Known As

Rational ALM, MKS
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Overview

Lifecycle management capabilities built on the open, unifying IBM Rational Jazz platform can help agile and traditional teams: see at-a-glance status, access better data for decisions, manage costs, reuse the most efficient processes across the organization, manage cloud, web, SOA and mobile application design and development. Teams can also gain real-time traceability, manage work across vendors, unify across a diverse set of lifecyle tools, and provide collaborative development for continuous delivery as part of the IBM DevOps solution.

The world’s first 100% browser-based ALM enterprise solution, which enables seamless collaboration across disparate teams, multi-directionally linked work items, full traceability, accelerated productivity and automated proof of compliance.

 

Sample Customers

Tennis Australia, WeCloud AB, Port Otago Limited, Logicalis US, Valmer, The Chevrolet Volt, Ashurst
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, IBS AG, Zumtobel Group
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