We performed a comparison between Polarion ALM and TFS 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."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."
"We had a nice experience with technical support."
"Scalability is good...The integration is quite good."
"The features I find the most valuable are requirement tracking and schematics."
"It offers good performance."
"You can see the work ticket and you can circulate that within the teams. You can define your flows, customize according to your needs, and you can create dashboards and create the reports according to your needs."
"It meets with everybody's needs without having to grab plugins."
"The best feature of Polarion ALM to me is its traceability link."
"It is a stable solution."
"User alerts are very helpful for knowing when work is required."
"I have found almost all of the features valuable because it integrates well with your Microsoft products. If a client is using the entire Microsoft platform, then TFS would be definitely preferable. It integrates with the digital studio development environment as well."
"It's is a very stable solution."
"The tool's installation is straightforward."
"The solution is very much stable."
"I like the Kanban board. It is very useful in terms of seeing who is working on what and what the current status of work is."
"Complete integration with VS IDE and Office tools: This give us a possibility of high-level automation, thus minimizing human error."
"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's editing capabilities need improvement."
"The configuration aspect of the solution is not easy. A person needs a lot of programming knowledge in order to successfully handle the job."
"The solution can be improved by making it more user-friendly, and a server-based application rather than client based."
"The ease-of-use could be improved a little."
"The tool needs to improve its planning. It also needs to add more integrations."
"Technical support needs some improvement."
"One of the areas that could be improved is to have an effective full lifecycle management."
"Microsoft should discontinue the use of SharePoint as I don’t really see any value add to TFS, document management features can be included in TFS web portal itself, if required!"
"The execution of test cases could stand improvement."
"In the next release, I would like them to include integration for various projects, similar to what JIRA has, and they could create this feature on the dashboard."
"The usability of TFS is not that great."
"Access and permissions are confusing when attempting to include basic manual testing functionalities."
"We encounter issues with backups."
"Since it is Microsoft, it is technology agnostic, thus it does not really fit into various different technologies in the organization."
Polarion ALM is ranked 8th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews while TFS is ranked 3rd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 93 reviews. Polarion ALM is rated 7.8, while TFS is rated 8.0. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TFS writes "It is helpful for scheduled releases and enforcing rules, but it should be better at merging changes for multiple developers and retaining the historical information". Polarion ALM is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Codebeamer, PTC Integrity and ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, TestRail and Tricentis Tosca. See our Polarion ALM vs. TFS report.
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