Compare JIRA vs. Polarion Requirements
JIRA is ranked 1st in Application Requirements Management with 31 reviews while Polarion Requirements is ranked 7th in Application Requirements Management with 3 reviews. JIRA is rated 8.4, while Polarion Requirements is rated 5.4. The top reviewer of JIRA writes "Helps us work in Agile and Scrum formats across multiple locations and time zones". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Polarion Requirements writes "Well-structured, but the import feature and the dashboards need to be improved". JIRA is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, TFS and Micro Focus ALM Octane, whereas Polarion Requirements is most compared with IBM Rational DOORS, JIRA and Jama Connect. See our JIRA vs. Polarion Requirements report.
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The most valuable features in Jira are the dashboard, reports, and boards that help us to control the advancement of the project. Issue linking has enabled teams to trace issues. Transparency of development projects, as well as approval processes for some business projects, has improved massively. The most valuable feature of this solution is the source linking on the commit level to git. This solution assists us with being able to quickly and easily start sprints and keep accurate track of them, including billing using a time-tracking add-on. The most valuable feature is the Burndown Chart to see work that is outstanding. The most valuable features are the customized Dashboard, Sprint Planning, and Automatic Notifications. The most valuable feature is the full integration between Work management, Source code management, and Test Automation. | A valuable feature from my side would be the comparison corporization. I like the way this solution is structured. The biggest improvement would be in the transparency we have now. We have very complex products. We make whole systems with difficult and diverse areas such as hardware, software, mechanical and printing, etc. To get the overview of all the requirements into a system, at that sizing, is the main advantage we have in the organization now. |
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We would like to see the integration of a lite-version of Confluence, just to manage some of the templates and documents. The only thing that JIRA doesn't for us is release management in a way that I can create a list of versions easily. My main concern is the administration of projects, especially user groups, and this requires root access rights but there is no concept of layered admin rights. Backlog pruning and visualization are poor. The permissions can be challenging to get right. The reporting needs to be improved. This solution would be improved with the inclusion of integration with SVN, and auto-sync with the build release number. The hierarchy for Jira tickets is too flat. | It is stable enough but if you would like to work with more requirement objects, then you will get timeouts. If we have more than one thousand work items in one live-book then it becomes almost unusable. The one thing I would mention is the license policy is a little bit difficult. For different roles, you will need different license models. That seems a little bit difficult for us. Especially when you introduce such a complex system, you want to know the right way is to do licensing. It's not clear what that best way would be. The solution will be here for a long time, and I just think it could be more clear. |
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To try this solution, use their cloud offering to get familiar. After that, it's in my view worth the money. Licensing is on a monthly basis, and it is based on what you use. We feel that the product is a good value for the cost. I understand JIRA is quite expensive. It does not cost that much. Almost everybody uses JIRA nowadays because it is the most cost-effective solution. | Information Not Available |
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Views 68,415 Comparisons 59,304 Reviews 32 Average Words per Review 294 Avg. Rating 8.3 | Views 3,082 Comparisons 2,709 Reviews 3 Average Words per Review 513 Avg. Rating 5.3 |
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| JIRA Software | |
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| Atlassian | Siemens |
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JIRA has multiple deployment options to provide the flexibility your organization needs. Cloud is a fully hosted service for customers who want to iterate quickly and have us take care of managing the infrastructure. For customers who need to run our applications behind their firewall, we have Server and Data Center options. Server delivers greater capacity for a larger user base and gives you more control, allowing you to remain compliant with your enterprise IT, security, IP and privacy policies. For our largest customers, Data Center provides all the capability of our Server option, along with high availability, instant scalability and performance at scale. Atlassian also offers premium support and strategic services for enterprise customers. Technical Account Managers are cross-functional technical advisors providing proactive planning and strategic guidance across your organization. Premier Support goes above and beyond our standard offerings to give you account-wide support from a team of senior support engineers. | Polarion REQUIREMENTS is designed from the ground for highly effective, transparent and secure collaboration, while teams have the option to work in their familiar environments. |
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Sample Customers | |
| Square, Nasa, eBay, Cisco, SalesForce, Adobe, BNP Paribas, BMW and LinkedIn, Pfizer, Citi. | NetSuite, Ottobock, Zumtobel Group, Kªster Automotive GmbH, Sirona Dental Systems, LifeWatch, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), PHOENIX CONTACT Electronics GmbH, Metso Corporation |
Top Industries | |
Financial Services Firm15% Manufacturing Company15% Insurance Company13% Software R&D Company13% Software R&D Company32% Comms Service Provider11% Manufacturing Company9% Financial Services Firm7% | Manufacturing Company35% Software R&D Company19% Comms Service Provider16% Retailer7% |
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Small Business31% Midsize Enterprise20% Large Enterprise49% Small Business13% Midsize Enterprise18% Large Enterprise70% | No Data Available |
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