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Polarion ALM User Reviews
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Jorge
Verified reviewer
Company size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
September 2018
Good and complete ALM solution with all you need in a single Solution
I am usin Polarion for my software factory and I have complete control of the actual status of all the projects. Delays, control of the developers, defects, versions, costs, documents, all in one single solution Also I can provide access to my customers to let them see the status of their development.
Pros
- Everyting you need to control the development of your teams in a single solution. - You have all the relationships between all the artifacts on your development - You can deploy your own development methodology from agile to waterfall or hybrid even your own defined methodology in an easy way - You can control in "real time" the satus of your development - You can extend or connect the solution with webservices
Cons
- Some lack of the documentation to make extensions or connections with other solutions

Murad
Verified reviewer
Company size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Medical Devices
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
June 2020
Product development and writing requirements
I do use the tool for entering/writing records and files including test plans/STDs and other more. I also use it for test execution and traceability matrix generate.
Pros
As one that was involved in writing requirements to the development team per our intended use: Traceability matrix is the most complicated module in the SW and it is just done properly and in a correct way. The navigation within the tool is also easy and reasonable.
Cons
there is no such thing in Polarion organization by 'Folders' or 'Tree', everything is done by searching and it is enough not to give the right name or it was forgotten, you will easy get lost.
Reasons for switching to Polarion ALM
Organization decision
Agnes
Company size: 501-1,000 employees
Industry: Construction
Time used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
March 2021
Good first impression during evaluation but 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...
Pros
GUI user-friendly Word round-trip very quick and efficient Web-based application
Cons
Impossible to make it run on our server
Reasons for choosing Polarion ALM
Polarion offered the quickest and more efficient Word importer for large documents. Other solutions were not able to import them correctly
Benjamin
Company size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Machinery
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
April 2021
Application Lifecycle Management at its best
Wir nutzen es für unserer Softwareentwicklung (Requirements-Management, Quality Assurance sowie Issue-Tracking) diese helfen uns in unserem Tagesgeschäft und liefern ein Rückverfolgbarkeit in den verschiedenen Software-Versionen.
Pros
Polarion ist intuitiv zu bedienen und sehr gut dokumentiert, man kann bestehende Word- oder Excel-Dokumente importieren und so diese Daten direkt wiederverwenden. Die integrierte Risiko-Bewertungsfunktion sowie das optionale Varianten-Management ergänzen das stimmige Bild.
Cons
Meine Testinstallation lief erst nach einer halben Stunde, das könnte man optimieren.
Reasons for choosing Polarion ALM
Da es eine geschlossen Lösung mit einer Vielzahl von Schnittstellen an andere Tools liefert. Es gibt eine Vielzahl von Projekt-Templates verschiedener Anbieter, die in den unterschiedlichen Geschäftsbereichen, die eine Überführung in den Betrieb beschleunigen.

Response from Siemens
HI Benjamin! We really appreciate your review, we´ll communicate your suggestion to our Development Team. Thank you!
Replied January 2022
Anonymous
Company size: 10,000+ employees
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
December 2018
Polarion ALM with cusomization
I am using Polarion tool for requirements management for the complete product line. This is one of the best tools I have used till now.
Pros
1. It is a web based tool. So, there is no issue with the speed. 2. user friendly - word document look alike interface for writing the requirements. 3. Trace-ability - Very easy to make the trace-ability between different levels of requirements. 4. Review process - This tool can also help in the independent review of the requirements. 5. Customization - This tool can be customized according to the project or organization needs.
Cons
1. Training - end users need lot of training to use this tool which is bit expensive. 2. The document needs to be saved as and when the requirements are written on the interface document. There is no auto-save option.
Matt
Company size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Railroad Manufacture
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
October 2018
Stay away
2 Years Polarion Administrator
Pros
Nice markiting slides. Its hard to find any pro.
Cons
Still doesn't work even after spending a fortune for consultants. Very slow Crashes frequently Its is necesarry to manipulate .xml files to get trivial task done. No admistration tools. Outdated user interface. Supports blames the browser however no major browser works flawless with polarion. Distracts people from getting their job done.