We performed a comparison between GitLab and Polarion ALM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Agile Planning Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."GitLab is being used as a repository for our codebase and it is a one stop DevOps tool we use in our team."
"The code merging capability is something that we use very frequently."
"As a developer, this solution is useful as a repository holder because most of the POC projects that we have are on GitLab."
"It is very useful for reviews. We are using branch merging operations and full reset operations. It is also very useful for merging our code and tracking another branch. The graph diagrams of Git are very useful. Its interface is straightforward and not too complex for us."
"We use the Git repository and tagging feature. We are a product-based company and use this solution to move to a forward or backward tag."
"It speeds up our development, it's faster, safer, and more convenient."
"This is a scalable solution. We had around 200 users working with it."
"I like that it's easy to deploy our services over GitLab. The customer support is also good with a really active community. You have a lot of support that you can get online with your stack. That is probably one of the benefits of using GitLab. It's also really fast."
"We had a nice experience with technical support."
"Scalability is good...The integration is quite good."
"The most valuable feature is the function of the ALM system."
"The tool helped us to more effectively and efficiently gather and structure the information (requirements, test plans, project management data, etc.), and share it with the involved stakeholders in a safe and change-controlled manner."
"The best feature of Polarion ALM to me is its traceability link."
"The solution offers good integration."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Polarion ALM has some valuable tools for managing our targets and requirements. I think that's its best feature."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration into the CI/CD pipeline, an autocomplete search tool, and more supporting documentation."
"It could have more security integrations and the ability to check the vulnerability of the code. I don't think it is a responsibility of Gitlab, but it would be nice to have more options to integrate with."
"There is room for improvement in GitLab Agents."
"As a partner, sometimes it's difficult to get support. They have a really complicated procedure for their support."
"I would like to see better integration with project management tools such as Jira."
"When deploying the solution on cloud and the CI/CD pipeline, we have to define the steps and it becomes confusing."
"We would like to generate document pages from the sources."
"Based on what I know so far, its integration with Kubernetes is not so good. We have to develop many things to make it work. We have to acquire third-party components to work with Kubernetes."
"The most important thing for them to improve should be platform-independent features. They should also provide extensive pipelines and release pipelines that we can define and we can work on."
"The ease-of-use could be improved a little."
"Based on my understanding, the tool's integration capabilities with multiple tools is an area of concern that Polarion needs to focus on more."
"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."
"The weak point of Polarion ALM software is about reporting and time for extraction of the data...The quality of reporting needs to improve."
"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's editing capabilities need improvement."
GitLab is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 70 reviews while Polarion ALM is ranked 8th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 17 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Polarion ALM is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". 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". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton, whereas Polarion ALM is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Codebeamer, PTC Integrity and Jama Connect. See our GitLab vs. Polarion ALM report.
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