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PROS

Polarion ALM offers excellent traceability, allowing users to manage everything from the initial stage to release through a single point.
The integration with other systems is robust and easy to use, enhancing the efficiency of project management.
It is highly stable and delivers impressive performance, meeting enterprise needs without requiring additional plugins.
Requirement management, test management, documentation, and dashboards are highly effective features, supporting flexible and straightforward configurations.
Polarion ALM provides mature features for real-time collaboration, requirements management, traceability, and version controlling.

CONS

Polarion ALM needs platform-independent features and more extensive pipelines, including release pipelines.
There is a significant need to improve technical support and configuration aspects, requiring less programming expertise.
Polarion's planning feature is basic and lacks comprehensive planning and task management capabilities.
Integration with other tools needs improvement, requiring fewer paid connectors and better standard integration options.
Polarion ALM's technology is outdated, leading to missing features that are standard in modern web-based applications.
 

Polarion ALM Pros review quotes

IZ
Assistant Engineer at FUBA Automotive Electronics GmbH
Sep 13, 2019
The initial setup of this solution was straightforward, and there were not too many problems with it.
reviewer1194969 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant
Sep 25, 2019
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.
reviewer1398537 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Research Engineer at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 2, 2020
We had a nice experience with technical support.
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reviewer1410069 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior DevOps Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 30, 2020
It meets with everybody's needs without having to grab plugins.
VP
Independent Technical Consultant at i4c
Dec 19, 2020
The technical support is quite good.
reviewer952086 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Manager at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 26, 2021
Polarion ALM has some valuable tools for managing our targets and requirements. I think that's its best feature.
Filip Callens - PeerSpot reviewer
Global IT Director - Mirror Division Director at Mirror Controls International
Apr 27, 2022
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.
TT
Principal at a agriculture with 11-50 employees
Jul 26, 2022
The best feature of Polarion ALM to me is its traceability link.
Sri Bhargava Boga - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at Hexagon Capability Center India
Oct 14, 2022
The features I find the most valuable are requirement tracking and schematics.
NK
System Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
May 28, 2024
The solution offers good integration.
 

Polarion ALM Cons review quotes

IZ
Assistant Engineer at FUBA Automotive Electronics GmbH
Sep 13, 2019
The interface for this solution needs to be made more user-friendly to provide a better user experience.
reviewer1194969 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant
Sep 25, 2019
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.
reviewer1398537 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Research Engineer at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 2, 2020
The ease-of-use could be improved a little.
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reviewer1410069 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior DevOps Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 30, 2020
Technical support needs some improvement.
VP
Independent Technical Consultant at i4c
Dec 19, 2020
The configuration aspect of the solution is not easy. A person needs a lot of programming knowledge in order to successfully handle the job.
reviewer952086 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Manager at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 26, 2021
One of Polarion's shortcomings would be planning. It can handle plans, but the planning feature is very basic.
Filip Callens - PeerSpot reviewer
Global IT Director - Mirror Division Director at Mirror Controls International
Apr 27, 2022
We use PTC Windchill, and Polarion ALM doesn't have native integration, so we had to purchase the connector to integrate it with Polarion ALM. We still haven't implemented it.
TT
Principal at a agriculture with 11-50 employees
Jul 26, 2022
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.
Sri Bhargava Boga - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at Hexagon Capability Center India
Oct 14, 2022
The solution can be improved by making it more user-friendly, and a server-based application rather than client based.
NK
System Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
May 28, 2024
Test management lacks an automated process.