Inflectra SpiraTeam vs Polarion ALM comparison

Inflectra and Siemens are both solutions in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category. Inflectra is ranked #22, while Siemens is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.3. Inflectra holds a 0.9% mindshare in ALM, compared to Siemens’s 6.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Inflectra users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Siemens users who would recommend it.

Inflectra SpiraTeam

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

Polarion ALM and Inflectra SpiraTeam compete in the Application Lifecycle Management domain. Inflectra SpiraTeam seems superior in terms of features, as they justify its pricing despite Polarion ALM's advantages in pricing and customer support.

Features: Polarion ALM includes tools for requirements management, change tracking, and quality assurance, known for integrated traceability and collaboration. Inflectra SpiraTeam provides advanced test management, customizable dashboards, and agile project management, making it preferred for feature-rich environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Polarion ALM offers cloud and on-premise deployment options with strong customer service. Inflectra SpiraTeam is straightforward to deploy with user-friendly configuration, and its responsive technical support enhances rapid implementation.

Pricing and ROI: Polarion ALM requires a higher initial investment, providing solid ROI through extensive features and scalability. Inflectra SpiraTeam is more budget-friendly upfront, offering competitive ROI by maximizing agile efficiency and adaptability.

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Categories and Ranking

Inflectra SpiraTeam

Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

22nd

Average Rating

9.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Polarion ALM

Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

5th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category, the mindshare of Inflectra SpiraTeam is 0.9%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Polarion ALM is 6.4%, down from 7.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Polarion ALM	6.4%
Inflectra SpiraTeam	0.9%
Other	92.7%

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it_user1241541

Quality Management Office (QMO) Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Flexible and stable with excellent technical support

I am the end user. I have a contract to provide testing for customers, however, ultimately the owner of the tool is the customer. For this reason, we're not direct customers. I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. I don't like to put 10 due to the fact that I'm sure that something can be improved. That said, if the customer gave me the option to select a product, I'd select SpiraTeam over other tools. The facilities of the tool are more or less the same as the facilities of the ALM or other tools that are in the market. However, the customer support from Inflectra makes you feel like they are working with you. That is the gap in the quality that other options lack. They fix any issue very quickly.

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LasseMikkonen

Principal Consultant at byte

Has provided mature traceability and configuration features while supporting complex product development for mid-to-large companies

Polarion ALM can learn from Atlassian tools a lot, as the usability is not the best, and it is really narrowly focused on requirements management only. For example, if you want to do testing and test result management with it, it is very limited. Jama Connect has similar limitations, and both should really focus on developing the integrations and extendability. For example, Jama Connect does not even have an extension marketplace, whereas Polarion has a small one. However, compared to the Atlassian Marketplace where you can get whatever applications for whatever price, it is a totally different ballgame. I would highly recommend Polarion ALM add more AI features to it. I know they have started to do something, but for example, I have been developing widgets for IBM DOORS Next, AI widgets, so that you can write and analyze requirements with the AI, and I have also done the same for Jira, creating a couple of Jira applications in the marketplace as well.

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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

"The solution is fast and very accessible."

"The initial setup and configuration are straightforward and relatively simple."

"It offers good performance."

"Polarion ALM helps us better structure our customer requirements, and we can also validate the specs of our products against those. If anything changes on our side, we see the impact, and we can see the effect If a customer changes requirements."

"The features I find the most valuable are requirement tracking and schematics."

"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."

"Scalability is good...The integration is quite good."

"Polarion ALM delivers both document views and table views simultaneously and organizes configurations according to norms and standards."

"The most valuable feature is the function of the ALM system."

"When it comes to functionalities like a real-time collaboration feature and traceability capabilities, Polarion ALM has had those basic features for the past five years already, and they are pretty mature products that have all the needed requirements management features, such as traceability and reporting, and even configuration management or version controlling."

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Cons

"It would be great if they worked more closely with other solutions. There needs to be better integration with the platform for development purposes."

"They need to continue improving the interface with the third-party options."

"Integration requires a lot of effort. You typically need to work with an implementation partner to get it done. Most connectors available for Polarion ALM are paid. Unlike other vendors offering several standard connectors for free, integrating third-party software with Polarion ALM involves discussing and coordinating with the third-party software providers, which requires effort."

"The planning and task management aspects of the solution were not that easy."

"The solution's editing capabilities need improvement."

"The user interface of Polarion ALM needs improvement as it can experience changes that disrupt workflows, especially during major updates."

"The weak point of Polarion ALM software is about reporting and time for extraction of the data...The quality of reporting needs to improve."

"I also recently suggested that CMS consider incorporating generative artificial intelligence into the system."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It is an expensive product."

"You have to pay around 50-60 euros per user."

"The solution is expensive."

"The license model is okay for large companies but would be quite expensive for smaller enterprises."

"Software for medical devices is always expensive."

"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."

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Overview

Need to manage your entire project lifecycle? From requirements and test cases, to tasks and code SpiraTeam has you covered. Powerful, straightforward, and flexible, SpiraTeam helps you get started fast. With SpiraTeam, manage your tasks and bugs quickly and easily, sync them with your team, and get back to developing. Integrated version control, testing (manual and automated), and customizable reporting, help you track it all.

Inflectra

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.

Siemens

Sample Customers

Cenduit, Maas Database Applications, DHHS Tasmania, Rota Yokogawa, ASI Business Solutions, ComputaCenter

Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, IBS AG, Zumtobel Group

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