We performed a comparison between Polarion ALM and Rally Software 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."I am impressed with the solution’s stability."
"The solution offers good integration."
"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 best feature of Polarion ALM to me is its traceability link."
"The technical support is quite good."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the function of the ALM system."
"Polarion ALM's integration is very good and easy to use."
"What I like the most about Agile Central is that it is the only system I need to have full control and visibility of our entire body of work plus the activities and processes required to deliver it."
"What I like most about Rally Software, in terms of using it for the agile process, is that it's clear, useful, and user-friendly. I also like that it has every field you can use for the Scrum process."
"The most useful part is how it breaks down tasks into parents and children, manageable tasks. It has a whole project as an initiative, and then it breaks it down further and further. And then you get to actual user stories and tasks that you can sit and develop."
"The most valuable features of Rally Software are the executive dashboards, ease of use, and many other features. They have encapsulated everything that a GI can do, such as monitoring, maintaining, and then releasing. It's continuous integration and development."
"Reporting is much easier and faster than Micro Focus ALM, with CA AC built on web services... Also, the data is more granular when it comes to tasks, iterations, sprints, and releases."
"It helps with getting the alignment between strategy and execution for the product teams, all the way down to the delivery teams."
"With this product, searching for historical information or the evolution of the requirement, detecting conflict between projects has helped a lot."
"The most valuable feature is actually creating a field within there for architectural review. So when teams are struggling or have questions on the architecture or strategy that they take, they can actually flag that particular story, release, or project. Those can then be reviewed by the architecture team and the teams actually get additional information on how to course-correct, build on the architecture that we're trying to build throughout the organization, and get over road blocks much quicker."
"The user interface is not yet optimized."
"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 solution needs to improve its user experience and graphics."
"One of Polarion's shortcomings would be planning. It can handle plans, but the planning feature is very basic."
"The solution can be improved by making it more user-friendly, and a server-based application rather than client based."
"The interface for this solution needs to be made more user-friendly to provide a better user experience."
"The planning and task management aspects of the solution were not that easy."
"Test management lacks an automated process."
"We want Rally to generate OKRs, to allow teams to record the OKRs, and then the OKRs can be mapped to the epics and there is organizational alignment."
"The product needs to have more integration capabilities."
"I would like to see more Kanban support. As it stands, it doesn't seem to have the features or the layouts that the teams really need to be able to execute their tasks. It almost tries to force you into more of a Scrum style."
"CA Agile Central does not have a workflow tool included."
"The stronger CA can get on dependency mapping the better. That's the biggest hiccup. As you're setting up your features, they should make it easier to flag the dependencies, either across features or across projects. Then you're more set up for success."
"The Reporting feature can improve, especially around executive summaries and dependency mapping."
"There are few customisation options. For instance, the workflow for story cards cannot be changed out of the box from the standard (Defined, In-Progress, Completed and Accepted)."
"The navigation within the tool sometimes is a little tricky for me. I'm sure with more use, more practice, I'll become accustomed to it, but some of the things just aren't intuitive."
Polarion ALM is ranked 8th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews while Rally Software is ranked 6th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 116 reviews. Polarion ALM is rated 7.8, while Rally Software is rated 8.2. 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 Rally Software writes "Good discussion and note-taking capabilities but hard to track the changes". Polarion ALM is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Codebeamer, PTC Integrity and IBM Engineering Workflow Management, whereas Rally Software is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, TFS, Jira Align and IBM Rational ALM. See our Polarion ALM vs. Rally Software report.
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