Planview AgilePlace vs Polarion ALM comparison

Planview and Siemens are both solutions in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category. Planview is ranked #17, while Siemens is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.4. Planview holds a 1.9% mindshare in ALM, compared to Siemens’s 5.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Planview users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Siemens users who would recommend it.

Planview AgilePlace

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88% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

Polarion ALM and Planview AgilePlace are two contenders in the project management arena. Polarion ALM appears to have the upper hand in tool integrations and compliance needs, while Planview AgilePlace excels in flexibility and customization.

Features: Polarion ALM provides comprehensive requirements management, excellent traceability, and robust audit capabilities, which are critical for highly regulated industries. In contrast, Planview AgilePlace stands out for its visualization capabilities, efficient workflow management, and support for Kanban and Scrum methodologies, benefiting agile environments.

Room for Improvement: Polarion ALM could improve in its user accessibility and customization, as it can be complex for new users. Additionally, it might benefit from enhanced planning and management tools. Planview AgilePlace could benefit from more advanced reporting features, further integration capabilities, and more detailed customization options for complex project needs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Planview AgilePlace, with its cloud-based deployment, allows for easier adoption and minimal setup challenges, alongside strong customer support. Polarion ALM, typically requiring on-premises deployment, involves longer installation times but compensates with robust customer support to streamline this process.

Pricing and ROI: Polarion ALM might have higher initial costs due to its extensive on-premises installation, but delivers considerable ROI through its functionalities and long-term service agreements. Planview AgilePlace is seen as more cost-effective, offering flexible subscription plans and quicker ROI realization, suitable for budget-conscious organizations.

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Categories and Ranking

Planview AgilePlace

Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

17th

Ranking in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools

13th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Polarion ALM

Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

5th

Ranking in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools

6th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category, the mindshare of Planview AgilePlace is 1.9%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Polarion ALM is 5.9%, down from 7.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Polarion ALM	5.9%
Planview AgilePlace	1.9%
Other	92.2%

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

Featured Reviews

it_user1684173

PM Systems Analyst at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Simple and intuitive, useful for agile management, and helpful for planning based on our capacity and meeting our deadlines

Every feature is valuable. LeanKit is a Kanban-based tool where you have a visual interface that you can use to create various cards and to create boards to house those cards. You can create a board for managing project work. You can create a board to do PI planning. It is pretty close to the agile way of doing business. The Board Layout Editor is excellent in terms of flexibility. They have been improving its usability. Their development is very much agile, so for any feedback that we give them, they let us know if and when they would act on our request for enhancements or change, and then they make those changes. They are responsive.

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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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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"What it does, it does well."

"Adoption across stakeholders and visibility have been the biggest success for us with LeanKit."

"Using the tool seems to save time versus trying to do things in a regular manner; it is highly collaborative, everybody can see things in one place, and it is a highly functional but pretty simple tool, which is hard to find in a tool that has a lot of functions but is also simple."

"People found the ability to set up different lanes and the ability to see where they're within the progress most valuable. They can use different colored cards or sticky notes, and then they can separate out which cards belong to a department or the initiative they're working on. They can filter who's working on it, and I've got good feedback about that."

"The "Blocking" feature has helped our scrum masters track impediments and share them at the program level to stakeholders with accountability and detail so that they understand and the action items which can be noted easily."

"LeanKit has also reduced our cycle times."

"The usability of it and the readability of it is so much better than what JIRA is."

"We use the board and card hierarchies in terms of sprints so that we can see if we have cross-functional teams that are working on the same projects together, especially when projects have dependencies. The parent-child relationship within cards is really nice so that we can see what kind of dependencies there are when we're trying to get projects finished."

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"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."

"We had a nice experience with technical support."

"I am impressed with the solution’s stability."

"It's all in one place, where every department can utilize the same tool."

"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."

"The solution offers good integration."

"The technical support is quite good."

"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

"Within the current features, if they can give some ability to show more icons on the card, it would be helpful. It would help us in showing more data on the cards."

"Our overall impression of Leankit has been very positive, however, our experience with the JIRA integration into our Leankit boards was much harder than we anticipated and that could be improved by simplifying it somehow."

"It is a pretty good product. It is really hard to think of things that I'd want to be improved. Sometimes, we use it for project management lessons learned. So, we have three columns, such as Could be Improved, Keep Doing, and Works Really Well. It would be helpful if there was a template set up for something like that because we code different cards based on the category. For example, if something belongs to the Could be Improved category, we may have those cards as yellow, but then I have to change the color of them and put a header. It is not as smooth, but it still works fine. To be honest, I don't have a lot of complaints about it."

"Being able to track actual time on cards or sprints, instead of using just the planned start and stop date, would also be useful."

"The biggest improvement would be the API and data connections and making the data more accessible or quicker to access. One of our team members has brought up actual-time tracking on a card as a potential improvement. They had an interest in knowing how long a specific card had been worked on by a specific user or somebody that was assigned to that card. But there's not really a way for them to start and stop a time that they were actually working on it, except for if we created a different lane and they dragged it into the lane and then stopped using it in the lane."

"We are a 750-employee company, so we got lucky that our board approved the kind of funding we needed for the solution. But, LeanKit probably needs to reduce its pricing."

"The integration with the Enterprise One product is probably an area for improvement. It's not really broken. It's just that it is such a handy tool and a great way to visually manage things. There is a very limited hookup/integration between Enterprise One, which is the master Planview tool, and LeanKit. While they are looking at this on their roadmap, it definitely needs to happen. There is a lot of opportunity there."

"There's room for improvement with the Instant Coffee feature. There are other businesses that have been interested in leveraging a virtual whiteboard or sticky note capability and how Instant Coffee was developed has not met the mark."

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

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

"The user interface is not yet optimized."

"The configuration aspect of the solution is not easy. A person needs a lot of programming knowledge in order to successfully handle the job."

"If you were to say that everything is integrated and it's a complete solution, I would say it's not."

"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."

"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."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't believe there are any costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."

"As far as I understand, it is not an expensive application."

"In general, Planview's cost structure is reasonable. You get quite a lot of functionality for the license cost that you get."

"I don't know what it would be on its own. It was basically included with what we were already paying or using. So, it was a no-brainer. It wasn't like we had to sell the company on making a purchase or anything like that. There weren't any costs that came in after implementing it."

"Software for medical devices is always expensive."

"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 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."

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

"The solution is expensive."

"It is an expensive product."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Insurance Company

11%

Government

Manufacturing Company

30%

Computer Software Company

10%

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	7

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

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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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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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Also Known As

Planview LeanKit, LeanKit

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Overview

Planview AgilePlace is a cloud-based solution designed to provide businesses with a continuous flow of work to help teams accelerate delivery times by visualizing their work with enterprise Kanban boards and lean metrics. Planview offers project managers the visibility, resource management, and real-time analytics necessary to help their teams reduce bottlenecks and dependencies and work more effectively. By using Kanban boards, teams are able to visually track and manage the flow of their work from the strategy level, through implementation up to end-product delivery.

Planview AgilePlace Benefits

Planview helps teams to smoothly implement their strategies by offering its users the following benefits:

Time and cost management: Planview AgilePlace software provides a single pane of glass for you to monitor your project’s timetables, financial budgets, and costs. AgilePlace provides insights on cost estimates and helps your team reduce the risk of overspending or missing deadlines.

Effective resource allocation: By displaying a real-time view into both your future demands and current processes, Planview AgilePlace software offers resource management capabilities that enable you to effectively prioritize, schedule, and optimize your resource utilization.

Project management: Collaborate with your team to plan, manage, and deliver any type of project, either traditional, agile, or hybrid, using Planview AgilePlace’s project management toolset. The management feature set includes scheduling, Gantt charts, lifecycle management, time tracking, and more tools to help enhance project planning and implementation.

Real-time data and insights: Gain visibility for better decision making and more effective team dynamics. Plainview AgilePlace's flexible and intuitive dashboards and out-of-the-box reporting give a clear picture of the status of your projects and resources. The solution’s interactive visualizations deliver real-time data and insights for your projects and can be viewed by department, program, portfolio, or project, to assist you in making informed decisions.

Simplified logging: Track times, expenditures, and resources to avoid data loss and to help align business practices and goals.

Share your projects across the globe: Planview’s cloud-based solutions allow teams to work together from any time at any place using Planview’s shared central dashboard.

Powerful integrations: Automate the flow of information between Planview AgilePlace and external applications by seamlessly integrating with third-party software. AgilePlace’s open API can also be used to configure connections to other software systems. AgilePlace easily integrates with tools such as:
- Microsoft Azure DevOps
- Zapier
- Atlassian Jira Service Management
- Atlassian Jira Software
- Micro Focus ALM
- Zendesk
- Microsoft Power Automate
- Micro Focus PPM

Reviews from Real Users

Planview AgilePlace stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Several major ones are its user-friendly management pane, the visibility that it provides for its users, and its agile management capabilities.

A manufacturing manager at a large manufacturing company writes, “Using the tool seems to save time versus trying to do things in a regular manner. It is highly collaborative; everybody can see things in one place. It is a highly functional, but pretty simple tool. That is hard to find: A tool that has a lot of functions, but is also simple.”

Planview

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

REA Group, Thompson Reuters

Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, IBS AG, Zumtobel Group

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