Siemens Polarion ALMProduct Overview
Siemens Polarion product overview
Siemens Polarion ALM is an application lifecycle management platform that connects teams and projects to improve application development processes. It aims to provide application development teams with a unified solution for requirements, coding, testing, and release.
Polarion delivers project transparency through real-time aggregated management information. It drives advancement while protecting integrity and compliance by ensuring that everyone is aligned around what is being built and why. The platform helps teams respond faster and with better quality to new business opportunities and customer demands.
This ALM is designed for complex development environments and enables businesses to manage all facets of the product development lifecycle. Polarion uses built-in collaboration, traceability, and workflow management tools to streamline application development.
Polarion is available on the cloud (Polarion X) and on-premise.
Pros of Siemens Polarion
- Teams can achieve better quality and regulatory compliance through it’s end-to-end traceability and automated audit trails.
- Developers can adopt modern agile techniques at once or incrementally with out-of-the-box project templates that can be adjusted to the needs of the business.
Cons of Siemens Polarion
- According to some users, Polarion offers limited documentation and has a complex setup.
Breakdown of core features
Collaboration
Polarion enables teams to collaborate on shared assets securely. Through granular permission controls and robust configurable workflow automation, users can control who can see what, who can change what, and when. Teams can enable real-time communication between Analysts, Engineers, QA Members, and DevOps Teams, via threaded discussions, wikis, notifications, and alerts.
Workflow
Teams can manage work items and documents through workflows. Workflows enforce how and when they move from state to state based on definable rules, with full audit trails, electronic signature, and security.
Traceability
Development teams can pass any audit, compliance, or regulatory inspection with traceability that is implemented and guaranteed via automatic change control of every requirement. The platform also has a Time Machine feature that allows users to browse, search, and report any historical state of the project.
Real-time reports
Polarion allows users to export reports to PDF for offline access or view them online and in real-time through mobile devices. Users can create reports with the Online WYSIWYG Report Designer and run reports across multiple projects to help coordinate activities across disparate teams. Users can utilize BIRT for reporting across multiple data sources.
Reports can be accessed from any historical moment with the exclusive Time Machine functionality.
(Last updated on 05/18/2021 by Liz Laurente-Ticong)
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