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Polarion ALM

Composite Score

7.9 /10

CX Score

8.2 /10

36 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

Traceability

Managed Artifact Repository

Resource Planning

Bug Tracking & Issue Mgmt

Visual Analysis Design

ALM Integration

Agile Work Management

Automation

Analytics and Reporting

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 79

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Vendor Support

Breadth of Features

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

Krunal G.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2021

Easy to use. Need to focus on CI/CD

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Polarion ALM from other similar products?

GUI is user friendly. Easy to manage everything on single screen. User-friendly.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Inbuilt SVN features.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Integration with 3rd party tools

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would say there should be plugin to integrate with different IDE. Like eclipse and pycharm

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Efficient Service

Prabhat K.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2021

Very Satisfying experience

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Polarion ALM from other similar products?

PLM ALM both from same Principal- seamless integration

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Requirement Mgmt.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing is there to dislike

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Just go for it.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Role: C-Level
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted May 2021

Easy to use and adapt, endless possibilites

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Krunal G.

Easy to use. Need to focus on CI/CD

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Prabhat K.

Very Satisfying experience

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Easy to use and adapt, endless possibilites

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Artifact Management

Workflow Management

Traceability

Managed Artifact Repository

Resource Planning

Bug Tracking & Issue Mgmt

Visual Analysis Design

ALM Integration

Agile Work Management

Automation

Analytics and Reporting

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Vendor Support

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of IT Administration

Quality of Features