We performed a comparison between Codebeamer 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."One of the most valuable features of Codebeamer is its strong performance."
"Codebeamer's API-based integration and many other integration aspects with other solutions are very powerful."
"The traceability is so simple that I don't need to do any additional configurations related to traceability."
"It is a stable solution."
"The platform provided the flexibility to expand our business processes, accommodating or altering them to suit the requirements of a changing environment."
"There is a lot of complexity involved, meaning it can do many things, which can be quite useful."
"You can track the metrics in the Agile dashboard very easily."
"CodeBeamer provides full traceability, excellent collaboration, regulatory compliance, and instant reporting with its holistic approach from requirement management to testing."
"It meets with everybody's needs without having to grab plugins."
"Scalability is good...The integration is quite good."
"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."
"It offers good performance."
"Polarion ALM's integration is very good and easy to use."
"I am impressed with the solution’s stability."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The technical support is quite good."
"The solution has a very small market share in China. It's almost like a startup."
"We would like to see more industry-specific features that are tailored to the vertical markets."
"Usability needs to be improved."
"It would be helpful if Codebeamer's overall processing and integration with software like Jira could be improved."
"Certain areas in Codebeamer could be improved, like addressing small issues, glitches, or bugs."
"It's still a fairly new tool that lacks maturity right now."
"The search and replace feature within the tool itself could be improved."
"The product's UI is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The ease-of-use could be improved a little."
"The configuration aspect of the solution is not easy. A person needs a lot of programming knowledge in order to successfully handle the job."
"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."
"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 tool needs to improve its planning. It also needs to add more integrations."
"Based on my understanding, the tool's integration capabilities with multiple tools is an area of concern that Polarion needs to focus on more."
"Technical support needs some improvement."
"The solution needs to improve its user experience and graphics."
Codebeamer is ranked 9th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 10 reviews while Polarion ALM is ranked 8th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews. Codebeamer is rated 7.8, while Polarion ALM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Codebeamer writes "Has good technical support services, but the migration process needs improvement". 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". Codebeamer is most compared with PTC Integrity, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, IBM Rational ALM and IBM Engineering Workflow Management, whereas Polarion ALM is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, PTC Integrity, GitLab and Jama Connect. See our Codebeamer vs. Polarion ALM report.
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