Polarion ALM 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

Simple Tool with a quick learning curve.

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.

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...

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"

Polarion is our de-facto standard for product documentation. Everything is catalogued, earchable comparable and versioned. The Support answers very competent and really helps you usually in a matter of hours

We have been using Polarion ALM for test management and in the meantime for requirements management and several other purposes for over 10 years and we are still very happy with it! It is a great tool for managing both manual and automated tests, as well as tracking test results. Same goes for requirements management and the other ALM functionality. The built-in reporting features are also very helpful, allowing us to quickly generate detailed reports on the status of our tests, requirements and any other information which are stored in Polarion. Overall, we have found Polarion ALM to be a very valuable tool that has helped us to improve the quality of our projects.

We are using this software for embedded software development in automotive oem as well as tier 1 supplier, requirement exchange is really good across teams. All other features are useful like source code management, test management, across V cycle.

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.

Clean and easy usage across all relevant topics for requirements and systems engineering.