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 most valuable functionality of GitLab, for me, is the DevOps. Besides the normal source control based on Git, I find the Auto DevOps features most important in the solution."
"A user friendly solution."
"This product is always evolving, and they listen to the customers."
"GitLab is being used as a repository for our codebase and it is a one stop DevOps tool we use in our team."
"This is a scalable solution. We had around 200 users working with it."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is its convenience. I am able to trace back most of my changes up to a far distance in time and it helps me to analyze and see the older version of the code."
"The code merging capability is something that we use very frequently."
"It is very flexible and easy because you can store data on cloud."
"Polarion ALM's integration is very good and easy to use."
"The initial setup of this solution was straightforward, and there were not too many problems with it."
"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."
"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 offers good performance."
"I am impressed with the solution’s stability."
"The most valuable feature is the function of the ALM system."
"It meets with everybody's needs without having to grab plugins."
"There is room for improvement in GitLab Agents."
"Reporting could be improved."
"It can be free for commercial use."
"Their RBAC is role-based access, which is fine but not very good."
"GitLab could add a plugin to integrate with Kubernetes stuff."
"I would like more Agile features in the Premium version. The Premium version should have all Agile features that exist in the Ultimate version. IBM AOM has a complete Agile implementation, but in GitLab, you only have these features if you buy the Ultimate version. It would be good if we can use these in the Premium version."
"GitLab can improve by integrating with more tools, such as servers with Docker."
"It should be used by a larger number of people. They should raise awareness."
"The user interface is not yet optimized."
"The solution's editing capabilities need improvement."
"The ease-of-use could be improved a little."
"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 needs to improve its user experience and graphics."
"Based on my understanding, the tool's integration capabilities with multiple tools is an area of concern that Polarion needs to focus on more."
"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 interface for this solution needs to be made more user-friendly to provide a better user experience."
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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