Polarion ALM Reviews

We use Polarion ALM for software development, including requirements management, testing, change requests, and task tracking. We set up the environment by configuring items and reports based on user requests. Once the environment is prepared, users work with what we have set up. We collaborate with them to define their needs and then develop the technical solutions to meet them.

We also use Polarion ALM for traceability and compliance. It is particularly strong in areas related to software functional safety and cybersecurity. One advantage is acquiring templates and then easily modifying them to fit your specific needs.

We are in our product development using Polarion ALM's functionalities. I am a power user, partly responsible for configuring the tool. We are using it for many things. The idea was to go for a requirements management tool. Before we decided for Polarion ALM, we analyzed DOORS and some other tools from the IBM platform. The decision was taken in 2009 that we would go for Polarion ALM. For us, this was the best solution considering performance and price. We rolled this out for many more things. We are using it also for project management, documentation of project pages and wikis. The major focus still is requirements management.

We are integrating Polarion ALM with other third party tools. One integration is with SAP and another one is with IBM Cognos and Power BI. We generate reportings that cannot be done directly in OnePlan, such as for resource managers to see where their people are working and on which topics.

Polarion ALM is powerful in easily creating your own workflows for completely different kinds of things. We have our own workflow for specifications such as draft, ready for review, and approved. We also have product change management reflected in the tool, risk management, and quality issues from our quality system. Results from audits can be documented and countermeasures can be tracked. It is very open and flexible. You do not need any development skills or support from Siemens itself to configure your own workflows, and this is one of the strengths of Polarion ALM.

One feature I find valuable in Polarion ALM is the easy way of configuring workflows and establishing traceability between different items. For example, requirements and specifications or planning artifacts in a project plan with change requests or risks. Traceability is really strong, and the main reason why we are using Polarion ALM is the requirements management. It is powerful with the different kinds of documents you can create, where you can generate traceability between documents very easily.

It is very easy to generate wiki pages in Polarion ALM and to link pages, so that you can adapt to information needs of the teams depending on your project subject. It is also very easy to collect high-level overviews about different projects and folders in Polarion ALM. It is easy to generate a start page where at a glance you see all your running projects or important links to other pages within Polarion ALM or outside Polarion ALM. That is definitely helping us keeping the teams informed.

Real-time collaboration allows several people to work on the same documents. We are using this technology to document decisions. Having easy access because it is web-based is also a strength. It is pretty easy to generate information and to directly distribute them to many people. That is daily business.

I use the solution in my company for STLC. We use the tool for testing processes, from test management to dashboard creation.

The solution's most valuable feature is that it is a strong tool. Jira is too open, and too many people can do what they want and have flexible control over it.

We use the solution for managing the requirements for a development project for a new type of transportation system. The challenge was to create a common basis for a multi-functional DevOps team working on a big program with different connected projects and to improve the development processes with a single, unified platform for requirements management, development support, testing, and release management. A major need was to more effectively plan, orchestrate, and track the requirements for our complex system across those multiple projects, and their individual yet connected lifecycles.

The tool helped us to more effectively and efficiently gather and structure the information (requirements, test plans, project management data, etc.), and share it with the involved stakeholders in a safe and change-controlled manner. It also allowed us to easily link the technical data to the PLM and 3D Design Tools and thus provide a common baseline for the whole team (which is multi-functional, spread over different locations). Compliance Management was significantly improved, and test plans were more easily created and linked to the requirements data.

I work in an industry where I mainly look after the requirements, for which I use Polarion ALM.

The features of the solution are most valuable when it comes to its use in our company's development-related area.

Based on the requirements of my company, I can say that the tool helps collect information from different people with the help of a component in the tool known as epics. The tool offers our company the capabilities and features for use cases. The tool mainly helps our company in the area of planning, especially on the agile side we work on presently, which we recently integrated with DevOps. The planning phase is worked out based on the aforementioned details.

I’ve worked on a few exercises, mainly on importing requirements, customization, and integrating with other third-party software. 

The tool's most valuable feature is its browser experience. I rate its traceability feature a ten out of ten. From the initial stage to the release, you can manage everything through a single point.