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We performed a comparison between IBM Rational 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 IBM Rational ALM vs. Polarion ALM Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"Everyone in a team can work on the same platform and share the same information.""It is relatively easy to use and user-friendly once the setup is complete.""The solution is customizable.""We have something called the GC (global configuration), which is a unique feature compared to any other competitor we have in the ALM space.""The planning feature is rich with Scrum concepts: Sprint, Sprint retrospective, the rules in the Scrum framework.""It helped us contain critical things, like source code and several documents, which is very important to us.""The most valuable feature is the reporting of the CPU usage on the dashboard.""The word emulation and importing is good."

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"The most valuable feature is the function of the ALM system.""The solution offers good integration.""It offers good performance.""The best feature of Polarion ALM to me is its traceability link.""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.""The initial setup of this solution was straightforward, and there were not too many problems with it.""Polarion ALM's integration is very good and easy to use."

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Cons
"The reporting functionality needs to be improved.""I would like to see better reporting features. The out-of-box reporting is - I don't want to say limited - but the focus is on the Scrum and Sprint reports. We need more reporting features regarding the history of the work, tracking it more deeply.""IBM Rational ALM should remove the features not used by the customers and keep this product as lightweight as possible.""The product must be more user-friendly.""The features should be more intuitive. If I'm looking for something, its location should be easy to locate.""Some improvements to the user interface (UI) would be helpful, such as exposing more services to make it easier to customize to the needs of each customer.""Of course it would be related to customer experience. The solution is not user friendly at all. It needs an expert to use it, although the reporting feature was okay.""The stability of IBM Rational ALM could be improved."

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"The ease-of-use could be improved a little.""The solution needs to improve its user experience and graphics.""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.""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 can be improved by making it more user-friendly, and a server-based application rather than client based.""The planning and task management aspects of the solution were not that easy.""The user interface is not yet optimized.""Test management lacks an automated process."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The price of the solution could be reduced. Many of our customers are not using all the features and this could be why our clients feel the price is too high."
  • "We have a contract, but I am not aware of the details."
  • "This product is a little expensive and we had to pay extra to have them set it up for us."
  • "IBM Rational ALM has both monthly and yearly licensing options."
  • "The solution is not cheap."
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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:We have some special needs. The product does not support our needs perfectly. The GUI is a little bit outdated. There are not many diagrams that help us organize or plan the work for the team. The… more »
    Top Answer:We have three modules. The DOORS module is for requirements. RTC is for storage planning and workflow planning. We also use the module for quality. We use IBM Rational ALM as the main tool to plan… more »
    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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    Also Known As
    Rational ALM, MKS
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    Overview
    Lifecycle management capabilities built on the open, unifying IBM Rational Jazz platform can help agile and traditional teams: see at-a-glance status, access better data for decisions, manage costs, reuse the most efficient processes across the organization, manage cloud, web, SOA and mobile application design and development. Teams can also gain real-time traceability, manage work across vendors, unify across a diverse set of lifecyle tools, and provide collaborative development for continuous delivery as part of the IBM DevOps solution.

    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
    Tennis Australia, WeCloud AB, Port Otago Limited, Logicalis US, Valmer, The Chevrolet Volt, Ashurst
    Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, IBS AG, Zumtobel Group
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company38%
    Manufacturing Company23%
    Comms Service Provider15%
    Government8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company22%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Government8%
    Financial Services Firm8%
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    Manufacturing Company31%
    Healthcare Company23%
    Transportation Company15%
    Consumer Goods Company8%
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    Manufacturing Company24%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Healthcare Company9%
    Financial Services Firm4%
    Company Size
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    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise58%
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    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise76%
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    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise50%
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise72%
    Buyer's Guide
    IBM Rational ALM vs. Polarion ALM
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about IBM Rational ALM vs. Polarion ALM and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    IBM Rational ALM is ranked 10th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews while Polarion ALM is ranked 7th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews. IBM Rational ALM is rated 7.2, while Polarion ALM is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IBM Rational ALM writes "A complex deployment that is not stable, but is cloud-based". 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". IBM Rational ALM is most compared with Jira, Codebeamer, Microsoft Azure DevOps, PTC Integrity and Atlassian ALM, whereas Polarion ALM is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Codebeamer, PTC Integrity and OpenText ALM / Quality Center. See our IBM Rational ALM vs. Polarion ALM report.

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