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We performed a comparison between GoCD 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.
To learn more, read our detailed GoCD vs. Polarion ALM Report (Updated: May 2024).
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Pros
"The UI is colorful.""The most notable aspect is its user interface, which we find to be user-friendly and straightforward for deploying and comprehending pipelines. We have the ability to create multiple pipelines, and in addition to that, the resource consumption is impressive.""Permission separations mean that we can grant limited permissions for each team or team member."

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"The solution offers good integration.""The best feature of Polarion ALM to me is its traceability link.""The technical support is quite good.""It meets with everybody's needs without having to grab plugins.""It offers good performance.""The initial setup of this solution was straightforward, and there were not too many problems with it.""Polarion ALM's integration is very good and easy to use.""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."

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Cons
"The documentation really should be improved by including real examples and more setup cases.""The aspect that requires attention is the user management component. When integrating with BitLabs and authenticating through GitLab, there are specific features we desire. One important feature is the ability to import users directly from GitLab, along with their respective designations, and assign appropriate privileges based on that information. Allocating different privileges to users is a time-consuming process for us.""The tool must be more user-friendly."

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"The tool needs to improve its planning. It also needs to add more integrations.""The interface for this solution needs to be made more user-friendly to provide a better user experience.""The solution needs to improve its user experience and graphics.""The ease-of-use could be improved a little.""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.""As Polarion ALM is a development-oriented tool, easy support or easy access is provided by default, but if I want to use detailed features, I need to write the script, particularly the VM script, and this is its area for improvement. I want Polarion ALM to have a graphical user interface that doesn't need scripting. In the next release of the tool, I'd like for it to not require scripting and programming because needing to run script language is time-consuming."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It's an open-source and free tool."
  • "This is an open-source solution and it is inexpensive."
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  • "The license model is okay for large companies but would be quite expensive for smaller enterprises."
  • "If the pricing would come down and it was more affordable then we wouldn't have to switch."
  • "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."
  • "Software for medical devices is always expensive."
  • "You have to pay around 50-60 euros per user."
  • "It is an expensive product."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Jenkins is overtaking the product. The product must enhance user experience. Jenkins has everything in a simple XML format. However, GoCD is complex. Upgrading it to a simpler language would be… more »
    Top Answer: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… more »
    Top Answer:I work in an industry where I mainly look after the requirements, for which I use Polarion ALM.
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    Also Known As
    Adaptive ALM, Thoughtworks Go
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    Overview
    GoCD is an open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks. GoCD offers businesses a first-class build and deployment engine for complete control and visibility. It was designed for continuous delivery and the concepts essential to this practice are built in at the core.

    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
    Ancestry.com, Barclay Card, AutoTrader, BT Financial Group, Gamesys, Nike, Vodafone, Haufe Lexware, Medidata, Hoovers
    Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, IBS AG, Zumtobel Group
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Comms Service Provider13%
    Retailer10%
    REVIEWERS
    Manufacturing Company31%
    Healthcare Company23%
    Transportation Company15%
    Consumer Goods Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company24%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Healthcare Company9%
    Financial Services Firm4%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business38%
    Midsize Enterprise38%
    Large Enterprise25%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise50%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise72%
    Buyer's Guide
    GoCD vs. Polarion ALM
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about GoCD vs. Polarion ALM and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
    769,630 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    GoCD is ranked 14th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 6 reviews while Polarion ALM is ranked 8th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews. GoCD is rated 7.6, while Polarion ALM is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of GoCD writes "User-friendly, useful multiple pipeline capabilities, and low resource consumption". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Polarion ALM writes "Though needing an improvement in reporting and time for extraction of the data, its integration capabilities are good". GoCD is most compared with GitLab, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Tekton, GitHub Actions and Jenkins, whereas Polarion ALM is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Codebeamer, PTC Integrity and GitLab. See our GoCD vs. Polarion ALM report.

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