We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure DevOps 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."DevOps is easy to use because we can arrange each task in a project and follow up with the testing, development, and business teams. We manage everything through this."
"The CI/CD pipeline setup is more user-friendly. You can manage various stages, and there are over 400+ plugins available for each stage."
"The most valuable features are continuous integration and deployment, and simplicity."
"The most valuable aspect of Azure DevOps for me is its robust version control functionality, which is critical for our workflow."
"I like the entire tool because it is a one-stop-solution for DevOps."
"It has a good GUI, and it's very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the complete integration between test cases, pipelines, and issue management."
"The initial setup is quick and easy."
"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."
"The technical support is quite good."
"Polarion ALM's integration is very good and easy to use."
"It offers good performance."
"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."
"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."
"I think that they have some menus there that are not very well placed."
"It should be easier to manage Licenses especially because it's in the cloud."
"I would like to see more customization available to the administrator."
"Compared to JIRA, I think Azure DevOps is missing some management elements, like some reporting features. It would be helpful if some things were clearer when we're adding attributes. For instance, sometimes we want to add some categories or attributes, and it's not so easy."
"The test management section needs to be improved."
"The solution could work to improve their reporting."
"The administrative capabilities of the tool need a huge improvement. Its Wiki and reporting also need a lot of improvement. Their support can also be better."
"The main issue that I have is the connection speed. Sometimes, the response is too slow. I am based in Taiwan, and I am not sure if it is because of broadband or something else. Its initial configuration is also a little bit difficult."
"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 user interface is not yet optimized."
"The solution's editing capabilities need improvement."
"The weak point of Polarion ALM software is about reporting and time for extraction of the data...The quality of reporting needs to improve."
"The planning and task management aspects of the solution were not that easy."
"The tool needs to improve its planning. It also needs to add more integrations."
"The ease-of-use could be improved a little."
"Based on my understanding, the tool's integration capabilities with multiple tools is an area of concern that Polarion needs to focus on more."
Microsoft Azure DevOps is ranked 2nd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 127 reviews while Polarion ALM is ranked 8th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews. Microsoft Azure DevOps is rated 8.2, while Polarion ALM is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure DevOps writes "Allows us to deploy code to production without releasing certain features immediately and agile project management capabilities offer resource-leveling". 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". Microsoft Azure DevOps is most compared with GitLab, Jira, TFS, Rally Software and Codebeamer, whereas Polarion ALM is most compared with Jira, Codebeamer, PTC Integrity, GitLab and Jama Connect. See our Microsoft Azure DevOps vs. Polarion ALM report.
See our list of best Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites vendors and best Enterprise Agile Planning Tools vendors.
We monitor all Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.