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# Polarion ALM

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> Connect DevOps teams and projects, and improve application development processes with a single, unified solution for requirements, coding, testing, and release.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **4.4/5** by 19 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Overview

### Key benefits of Polarion ALM

• Unifies the entire application development lifecycle—requirements, design, coding, testing, and release—within a single, browser-based platform for seamless collaboration and transparency
• Delivers end-to-end traceability and automated audit trails, helping teams meet regulatory compliance and pass audits with confidence
• Boosts productivity and decision-making with real-time analytics, customizable dashboards, and flexible reporting tools
• Streamlines requirements and test management, enabling concurrent collaboration, easy import/export, and secure electronic approvals
• Supports agile, hybrid, and traditional methodologies with adaptable templates, live planning, and resource management to improve release predictability and team alignment

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.4/5** | 19 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 3.9/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Siemens
- **Founded**: 1847

## Commercial Context

- **Pricing model**:  (Free Trial)
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise), Chromebook (Desktop)
- **Supported Languages**: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- **Available Countries**: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong SAR China, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia and 43 more

## Features

- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Activity Dashboard
- Administrator Level Control
- Agile Methodologies
- Alerts/Notifications
- Automatic Test Generation
- Baseline Manager
- Bug Tracking
- Change Management
- Collaboration Tools
- Configurable Workflow
- Conflict Tracking
- Custom Development
- Customisable Branding
- Customizable Templates
- Data Import/Export
- Database Support
- Defect Tracking
- Deliverables Management

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- Phone Support

## Category

- [ALM Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/269/application-lifecycle-management/software)

## Related Categories

- [ALM Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/269/application-lifecycle-management/software)
- [App Development Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/370/application-development/software)

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## Reviews

### "Simple & Effective ALM Tool" — 4.0/5

> **Rahul** | *3 August 2022* | Industrial Automation | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10
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> **Pros**: Simplicity to maintain documentation (test cases, requirements) is one of the most useful features of this ALM tool.
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> **Cons**: The reports that can be generated from Polarion are of basic nature. They could add facilities to add more kinds of reports/dashboards based on the data available to Polarion ALM.
> 
> Simple Tool with a quick learning curve.

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### "Head Programmable Systems R\&D" — 5.0/5

> **Mario** | *24 February 2023* | Medical Devices | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: + Polarion ALM provides full Traceability+ Polarion ALM provides the ability to configure all elements (workitems, documents widget pages,...) which allows high degree of adaption to internal processes+ Integrated electronic signature and document workflow ease document release+ Provides wide range of functionality to cover all software development related process elements+
> 
> **Cons**: - Document editing is not state-of-the-art
> 
> We are using Polarion ALM since 2006 in Software as Medical Device development. It is fully integrated into our process landscape and serves as a perfect basis for full traceability. 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.

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### "Good first impression during evaluation but impossible to make it run on our server" — 1.0/5

> **Agnes** | *10 March 2021* | Construction | Recommendation rating: 0.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: GUI user-friendly  
Word round-trip very quick and efficient
Web-based application
> 
> **Cons**: Impossible to make it run on our server
> 
> We tested Polarion on a Siemens' server during approximatively 15 days, and it looked really nice.
As a former DOORS 9 administrator, I found it really user-friendly (this is the main criticism I heard from users with D9): the documents can be edited as LiveDocs, but requirements can still be easily tagged, and linking seemed quite easy.
As we had no requirement management tool for the moment, it was important to have a good word importer too. And, compared to the other products we tested, Polarion's one is the best I experienced. 
Licensing pricing seemed quite correct too. Not the cheapest, but not the most expensive.
So we ordered licenses for our team and installed it in one of our server...
Since we installed it in end of January, I saw it run only one time. Contacting Siemens's support was really hard (my colleague took approx. one week to get in touch with them), and after many hours spent trying to solve the problem, Polarion's server is still down, and we had to come back to our old habit of writing specs with Word.
I am really regretting not to have asked IBM for a pricing of DOORS NG... As during the 3 years I was DOORS 9's administrator, IBM's support has always been easy to contact and efficient...

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### ""Polarion Review by engineering manager in OCM"" — 5.0/5

> **Saravana** | *29 November 2024* | Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Software is very simple to use based on a very simple infrastructure, most likely is a web tool so easy to access and use.
> 
> **Cons**: Sometimes the intranet issue is there it will be slow.
> 
> I am an engineering manager and fusion organizational management lead for my company, the software we deployed for our transformation,now now resulted better experience and result for maintaining all the business information in one place safely"

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### "Powerful but Complex ALM Solution" — 5.0/5

> **Mohamed Amine** | *23 February 2025* | Airlines/Aviation | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Polarion plays a key role in the field of requirement engineering. It helps eliminate silos and singularity in the developpement and enables real-time communication between users and more scalablity.
> 
> **Cons**: Working with Polarion may require extensive training to fully utilize the tool.

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