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We performed a comparison between Atlassian ALM and Polarion ALM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Atlassian ALM vs. Polarion ALM Report (Updated: May 2024).
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Pros
"The most valuable feature is the Scrum board.""This solution fits very well into our agile product management environment.""The main power of this tool is the integration between the different products of the Atlassian suite. We have good integration with work management with Java. This is the major strength from this provider."

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"Polarion ALM's integration is very good and easy to use.""I am impressed with the solution’s stability.""The solution offers good integration.""Polarion ALM helps us better structure our customer requirements, and we can also validate the specs of our products against those. If anything changes on our side, we see the impact, and we can see the effect If a customer changes requirements.""It meets with everybody's needs without having to grab plugins.""The most valuable feature is the function of the ALM system.""The best feature of Polarion ALM to me is its traceability link.""It offers good performance."

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Cons
"The automation for scheduling software and doing software tests should be simplified because it's complex and too rigid.""The reports are not really customizable, which is something that they should improve on.""There is room for improvement in the high-level project management."

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"The solution's editing capabilities need improvement.""The user interface is not yet optimized.""The ease-of-use could be improved a little.""As Polarion ALM is a development-oriented tool, easy support or easy access is provided by default, but if I want to use detailed features, I need to write the script, particularly the VM script, and this is its area for improvement. I want Polarion ALM to have a graphical user interface that doesn't need scripting. In the next release of the tool, I'd like for it to not require scripting and programming because needing to run script language is time-consuming.""The solution needs to improve its user experience and graphics.""The solution can be improved by making it more user-friendly, and a server-based application rather than client based.""We use PTC Windchill, and Polarion ALM doesn't have native integration, so we had to purchase the connector to integrate it with Polarion ALM. We still haven't implemented it.""Technical support needs some improvement."

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  • "There is a community edition available, but if the price were lower for the addons then more people would use the full version."
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  • "The license model is okay for large companies but would be quite expensive for smaller enterprises."
  • "If the pricing would come down and it was more affordable then we wouldn't have to switch."
  • "Our license for Polarion ALM is yearly. And it's not the cheapest tool that we've looked at. So if we had made our decision purely based on the licensing cost, we wouldn't have selected Polarion."
  • "The solution is expensive."
  • "Software for medical devices is always expensive."
  • "You have to pay around 50-60 euros per user."
  • "It is an expensive product."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature is the Scrum board.
    Top Answer:The pricing is on the higher side. I would give it an eight out of ten, where one is low, and ten is high.
    Top Answer:There is room for improvement in the high-level project management. In future releases, I would like to have a planning feature for high-level project management.
    Top Answer:At the moment, I haven't looked in-depth into what needs improvement in the product. Based on my understanding, the tool's integration capabilities with multiple tools is an area of concern that… more »
    Top Answer:I work in an industry where I mainly look after the requirements, for which I use Polarion ALM.
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    Overview

    How to use Atlassian to manage application lifecycle: Atlassian builds software to pull together all the elements of application lifecycle management. Product management, developers, Q/A, dev ops, and business stake holders all have their own ways of interacting with application lifecycle management and Atlassian splits up the process into a few buckets.

    1) Collaborate to plan and envision work

    Atlassian's Confluence is a collaboration platform for building and driving consensus. Call stake holders in to give approval, comment on, and share pages and integrate with the rest of the development toolchain.

    2) Build and track roadmaps

    Atlassian's JIRA Software offers incredibly flexible project management with custom workflows, plugins, and high visibility rollups through JIRA Portfolio. Issues can be embedded right in confluence, or be used to kick off new branches in version control. Keep everyone on the same page with project progress. 

    3) Track and deploy code

    Atlassian's Bitbucket is the world's most robust Git solution. The ability to deploy multiple-nodes with failover, global mirroring for super fast clones, and powerful code review control set it apart from competition. Bitbucket also has a mature plugin and hooks system that allows extensions and connection to a suite of CI software. 

    4) Support and Iterate

    Track support requests, bugs, and route users in the right direction with JIRA Service Desk. With the same custom workflow engine as JIRA Software, a tight integration with the rest of the stack, and a knowledge base function make it a powerful addition to the ALM stack. 

    5) Tie it together

    ChatOps helps tie every part of the ALM together. Get stake holders in the same room to manage a project, teams in the same page to manage their work, or plugin automated members to report on CI status, pull requests, page changes in Confluence, or bug reports. Like every piece of Atlassian's ALM there is a mature API for extending plugins and everything can be hosted behind your own firewall. 

    The world’s first 100% browser-based ALM enterprise solution, which enables seamless collaboration across disparate teams, multi-directionally linked work items, full traceability, accelerated productivity and automated proof of compliance.

    Sample Customers
    Facebook, NASA, Cisco, eBay, Redfin, Toyota, Kaiser Permanente, Gilt, CSIRO, Autodesk, The Daily Telegraph, CODE, Illumnia
    Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, IBS AG, Zumtobel Group
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company15%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Government11%
    REVIEWERS
    Manufacturing Company36%
    Healthcare Company21%
    Transportation Company14%
    Consumer Goods Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company24%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Healthcare Company9%
    Financial Services Firm4%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise76%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business37%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise47%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise71%
    Buyer's Guide
    Atlassian ALM vs. Polarion ALM
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Atlassian ALM vs. Polarion ALM and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
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    Atlassian ALM is ranked 17th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 6 reviews while Polarion ALM is ranked 8th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews. Atlassian ALM is rated 7.6, while Polarion ALM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Atlassian ALM writes "Scrum board feature is highly valuable and handles different user volumes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Polarion ALM writes "Though needing an improvement in reporting and time for extraction of the data, its integration capabilities are good". Atlassian ALM is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational ALM, TFS and Rally Software, whereas Polarion ALM is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Codebeamer, PTC Integrity and Rally Software. See our Atlassian ALM vs. Polarion ALM report.

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