PTC Integrity vs Polarion ALM comparison

Siemens and PTC are both solutions in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category. Siemens is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.4, while PTC is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.7. Siemens holds a 6.1% mindshare in ALM, compared to PTC’s 4.1% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Siemens users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 70% of PTC users who would recommend it.

Polarion ALM

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70% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

PTC Integrity and Polarion ALM are competitive products in the ALM landscape. Polarion ALM appears to have the upper hand due to its flexibility and advanced integration capabilities, while PTC Integrity provides robust stability and efficient process control.

Features: PTC Integrity offers comprehensive traceability, process enforcement, and effective command sets. Its ability to manage tasks, change requests, and project statuses within a single platform is notable. Polarion ALM provides flexibility with web-based architecture, document control capabilities, and strong integration options, making it suitable for teams that require rapid adaptation and collaboration.

Room for Improvement: PTC Integrity could improve in user interface simplicity and ease of learning for new users. There is also potential for enhancing its deployment model. Polarion ALM can work on simplifying its complexity for novice users and improving the completion of out-of-the-box features. Additionally, streamlining documentation processes could enhance user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Polarion ALM offers straightforward web-based deployment that minimizes infrastructure costs, alongside responsive customer service. PTC Integrity employs a more traditional deployment model with comprehensive support, reflecting its strong support structure.

Pricing and ROI: PTC Integrity typically offers lower setup costs with stable long-term ROI, appealing to budget-conscious organizations. In contrast, Polarion ALM requires a higher initial investment but justifies this with a higher ROI due to its adaptability and advanced features. While PTC Integrity might be more cost-effective upfront, Polarion ALM's extensive capabilities offer significant efficiency gains over time.

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Categories and Ranking

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)

PTC Integrity

Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

12th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.0

Number of Reviews

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Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category, the mindshare of Polarion ALM is 6.1%, down from 7.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PTC Integrity is 4.1%, up from 4.0% 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	6.1%
PTC Integrity	4.1%
Other	89.8%

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

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LasseMikkonen

CEO 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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SHRINIVAS ALAGERI

Architect at a media company with 10,001+ employees

Customization has enabled long-term document and requirement management for complex projects

PTC Integrity should get rid of the old thick client and move everything to the thin client. The thin client should be made the single source of truth, the way it is for Codebeamer. PTC Integrity should try to integrate this with AI and should have automatic requirement to test case mapping and other AI features that are in Codebeamer. It is not easy for people to migrate from one tool to another, even though it is from the same product. PTC took over the In-Link product, so if I have to migrate my Integrity to In-Link, why would I replicate everything here? People are happy with what they have. The only headache is the thick client, which is a problem for the installation team. By having a thin client, people can directly open it from the web browser and it would be much easier and much better than a thick client on the system. With a thick client, you have Java installation that needs to be done and you have all those certificates to be installed for SSL. With a thin client, it would be much better and you could do all the administrative things also in that. I don't understand why they want a thick client. They could replace it with a thin client, the way it is for Codebeamer. They should incorporate all the AI things. PTC Integrity should become another tool with all the new features and new enhancements, and they should eliminate the thick client altogether.

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Pros

"The initial setup of this solution was straightforward, and there were not too many problems with it."

"Polarion ALM is excellent for tracking who is working on what and how many people are involved in a project."

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

"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 software is stable."

"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."

"It meets with everybody's needs without having to grab plugins."

"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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"The most valuable feature of PTC Integrity is its integration with our existing PTC tools, especially for drawing release activities."

"We found the requirement management and the version control features to be the most useful for our client."

"I personally like PTC Integrity because it provides everything within the software. You can store and access your data and perform various tasks. Compared to other products, I find it user-friendly, which can sometimes feel complex. I think PTC Integrity is user-friendly, making it nice to use. The tool is easier to learn."

"We have been using it because it gives certain abilities in the automotive industry, such as auditing or keeping track of information."

"It's a good tool to manage software versions, update the status, and manage tasks."

"PTC Integrity has good stability."

"The tool is quite structured and has a good command set."

"The most valuable feature is traceability starting from the requirements until the end of a project."

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Cons

"The interface for this solution needs to be made more user-friendly to provide a better user experience."

"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."

"Nowadays, the dashboard is too complex to be created."

"Based on my understanding, the tool's integration capabilities with multiple tools is an area of concern that Polarion needs to focus on more."

"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."

"The solution can be improved by making it more user-friendly, and a server-based application rather than client based."

"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."

"Technical support needs some improvement."

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"The user-friendliness of PTC Integrity can be improved. The interface is not intuitive for first-time users and takes time to get accustomed to."

"The tool's web-based UI needs improvement. Some functionalities don't work yet, and querying items is slow. Also, it's not in the cloud yet. I don't know if they'll do it in the future because they already have core agreements with customers. If they offer these functionalities, customers will likely buy their product."

"For complex businesses, the internal templates could have more flexibility and compatibility."

"From my experience over the years, I believe there might be room for improvement in PTC Integrity. While it's already a good product, it tends to be slower than other software. When it becomes bulky, it slows down even more, sometimes leading to crashes or hangs that require restarting the computer before being able to use PTC Integrity again. This has been my experience multiple times."

"It's not easy to plan on this solution and it's not user-friendly. The interface should be more like a web interface. It's not easy to use."

"It's not so customizable. Compared to other tools, defining user stories is a slightly more cumbersome process as an ALM engineer."

"We are unhappy because everything that we needed required customization and this is not a plug-and-play type of solution at all."

"To be honest, the third controller system is kind of old. There are lots of transactional changes that have not been implemented in PTC. If you have a larger project, for example, whenever you give bits and need to change 10,000 files you can just commit them. But here the work style is a little more file based, so you'll have to take care of almost all the files individually. It's not a single commit like you do here, but rather you have to allocate time for each component or file that you want to check in or commit. That's a very big issue."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Software for medical devices is always expensive."

"The solution is expensive."

"If the pricing would come down and it was more affordable then we wouldn't have to switch."

"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."

"It is an expensive product."

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

"The product is expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

29%

Computer Software Company

10%

Healthcare Company

Educational Organization

Manufacturing Company

25%

Computer Software Company

13%

Healthcare Company

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	10
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	12

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	13

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Polarion ALM?

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What is your primary use case for Polarion ALM?

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 req...

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What advice do you have for others considering Polarion ALM?

The pricing of Polarion ALM and IBM ELM is pretty much aligned. They are not at the same level, but I would say aligned according to the capabilities of the tools, with DOORS being more expensive b...

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What do you like most about PTC Integrity?

I have found that previously, the OEM sector was managing everything, possibly manually. However, with the introduction of the product, it has become much easier for customers to handle their produ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PTC Integrity?

PTC Integrity is expensive, but it is cheaper compared to IBM Rational. The comparative affordability in pricing is an advantage.

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What needs improvement with PTC Integrity?

The user-friendliness of PTC Integrity can be improved. The interface is not intuitive for first-time users and takes time to get accustomed to. A more straightforward and intuitive interface would...

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Overview

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

The PTC Integrity Software Suite provides a comprehensive set of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Systems Engineering capabilities that enable cross-discipline collaboration, improve time-to-market, streamline compliance, and reduce product risk. Simplify the complexity involved in developing today's complex engineered and smart, connected products.

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Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, IBS AG, Zumtobel Group

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