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."The code merging capability is something that we use very frequently."
"It speeds up our development, it's faster, safer, and more convenient."
"The initial setup of GitLab is pretty simple, with no complications."
"GitLab is very well-organized and easy to use. Also, it offers most features that customers need."
"GitLab's best features are continuous integration and fast deployment."
"The user interface is really good so that helps with huge teams who need to collaborate."
"The solution's service delivery model is fantastic."
"I like GitLab from the CI/CD perspective. It is much easier to set up CI/CD and then integrate with other tools."
"The solution offers good integration."
"The technical support is quite good."
"The most valuable feature is the function of the ALM system."
"The initial setup of this solution was straightforward, and there were not too many problems with it."
"The best feature of Polarion ALM to me is its traceability link."
"The features I find the most valuable are requirement tracking and schematics."
"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."
"Polarion ALM has some valuable tools for managing our targets and requirements. I think that's its best feature."
"We'd like to see better integration with the Atlassian ecosystem."
"GitLab could add a plugin to integrate with Kubernetes stuff."
"We would like to generate document pages from the sources."
"I'm new to GitLab, so I would appreciate more documentation about the code and commands."
"The solution should be more cloud-native and have more cloud-native capabilities and features."
"There was a problem with the build environment when we were looking at developing iOS applications. iOS build require Mac machines and there are no Mac machines provided by GitLab in their cloud. So to build for mobile iOS application, we needed to use our own Mac machine within our own infrastructure. If GitLab were to provide a feature such that an iOS application could also be built through GitLab directly, that would be great."
"I would like to see security increased in the future. A secure environment is very important."
"I rate the support from GitLab a four out of five."
"Test management lacks an automated process."
"The solution needs to improve its user experience and graphics."
"The solution's editing capabilities need improvement."
"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 solution can be improved by making it more user-friendly, and a server-based application rather than client based."
"The user interface is not yet optimized."
"The weak point of Polarion ALM software is about reporting and time for extraction of the data...The quality of reporting needs to improve."
"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."
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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