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Polarion ALM

Composite Score

7.9 /10

CX Score

8.2 /10

37 Reviews Write a Review

What is Polarion ALM?

Connect teams and projects, and improve application development processes with a single, unified solution for requirements, coding, testing, and release.

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Awards & Recognition

Polarion ALM won the following awards in the Application Lifecycle Management category

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2 Top Rated Features

2025

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1 Top Rated Features

2023

Polarion ALM Ratings

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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

85 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

100 Plan to Renew

81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+91 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Polarion ALM?

0% Negative

4% Neutral

96% Positive

Pros

Enables Productivity
Security Protects
Reliable
Respectful

Feature Ratings

Average 80

Artifact Management

Workflow Management

Managed Artifact Repository

Traceability

Resource Planning

Visual Analysis Design

ALM Integration

Bug Tracking & Issue Mgmt

Agile Work Management

Analytics and Reporting

Automation

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 79

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Vendor Support

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of IT Administration

Quality of Features

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Polarion ALM Reviews

Jubin C.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Healthcare
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2024

Fantastic Product

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Polarion ALM from other similar products?

Polarion has variety of customizations as per the client requirement and the polarion team always ready to support for the issues and challenges we are facing.Polarion is a stable system compared to others and it does the job quiet nicely.We as team is trying to use all the functionality polarion does and it helps a lot in our job.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Customization options,traceability,performance,Security etc

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing as of such now

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Try exploring the features

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Kien P.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2024

Easy to setup, configure and use.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Polarion ALM from other similar products?

Workflows with action driven scripts. Uses Postgres and SVN for file and configuration storage. Add flexibility for custom plugins for cronjob, form automation, and workflow trigger.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Writing professional reports or dashboard to qualify requirements using live report and Velocity scripting. Easy to customize form layouts and workflow including enumeration for pick lists.

What do you dislike most about this product?

No license usage tracker. Full re-indexing takes hours to restore the databases. Annoying circular hierarchy detection in logs when items have no compute fields. Major memory hogger where the servers need extreme amount of RAM.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The application is easy to install, configure, and use. Concurrent licensing model has the best pricing compared with other similar applications. Workflow driven script action is a plus, assisting with field validation, auto-assignment, setting field values, notifying respective stakeholders to respond and so on.

Pros

Enables Productivity
Unique Features
Generous Negotitation
Over Delivered

Cons

Vendor Friendly Policies
Vendor's Interest First
Less Friendly Negotiation

Siddharth V.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

integrated solution for Change and Source code mgm

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Polarion ALM from other similar products?

Proprietary configurations, widget pages and embedded scripts allow full coverage of aspects like requirement , document, test usability and risk management. Furthermore, additional processes like tool validation and management activities are supported.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The underlaying SVN-Repository and its data structure is still backwards compatible with very old versions

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Go through the youtube videos to learn the configuration

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Polarion ALM Ratings

85 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

100 Plan to Renew

81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+91 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Polarion ALM?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Artifact Management ALM artifacts can be readily created, reused, moved, and managed through baselines, reviews, approvals, releases, and audits for projects and products.

Workflow Management Custom workflows can be created, managed, and monitored for artifacts, processes and practices to govern and streamline ALM work.

Managed Artifact Repository Artifacts are stored in version controlled repository that supports check out, update, check-in, and collaboration across multiple types and workspaces.

Traceability ALM artifacts can be traced from ideation to requirements, design, develop, test, and implementation.

Resource Planning Assigning resources to activities and estimates to manage workloads, support project management, and ensure completion of work related to ALM artifacts, including dashboards to manage multiple teams

Visual Analysis Design Can create and manage context diagrams, business process models, use cases, data flow diagrams, sequence diagrams, data models, and UI mockups, etc.

ALM Integration Integrate artifacts across ALM phases such as requirements, analysis, design, development, and testing, either internally or through an API.

Bug Tracking & Issue Mgmt Supports the ability to create tests and acceptance criteria and assign, prioritize, track, and resolve tests,related bugs, and issues.

Agile Work Management Multiple backlogs, backlog grooming, sprint planning, prioritization, and estimation, and a multi-level agile artifact hierarchy (Epics, User Stories, etc.)

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Automation Manual activities such as traceability, test generation, artifact state changes, integrations, and artifact creation can be automated to streamline ALM work.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

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Polarion ALM Reviews

Jubin C.

Fantastic Product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Kien P.

Easy to setup, configure and use.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Siddharth V.

integrated solution for Change and Source code mgm

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Artifact Management

Workflow Management

Managed Artifact Repository

Traceability

Resource Planning

Visual Analysis Design

ALM Integration

Bug Tracking & Issue Mgmt

Agile Work Management

Analytics and Reporting

Automation

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Vendor Support

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of IT Administration

Quality of Features