Siemens Digital

Polarion ALM

Composite Score

7.4 /10

CX Score

7.7 /10

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What is Polarion ALM?

Connect teams and projects, and improve application development processes with a single, unified solution for requirements, coding, testing, and release.

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Awards & Recognition

Polarion ALM won the following awards in the Requirements Management category

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0 Top Rated Capabilities

3 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2025

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2025

0 Top Rated Capabilities

2 Top Rated Features

2023

1 Top Rated Capabilities

3 Top Rated Features

2022

Polarion ALM Ratings

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83 Likeliness to Recommend

96 Plan to Renew

76 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+87 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Polarion ALM?

2% Negative

8% Neutral

90% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy
Acts with Integrity

Feature Ratings

Average 81

Generative AI

Traceability

Version Management

Change Management

Artifact Management

Task Prioritization

Analytics and Reporting

Collaboration

Visual Analysis and Design

ALM Integration

Agile Work Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 74

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

Breadth of Features

Vendor Support

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Quality of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

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Score 7.7

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Polarion ALM Reviews

Shannon G.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Telecommunications
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Jul 2025

End-to-End Requirements Management Platform

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Polarion ALM from other similar products?

This multi-level visibility ensures clarity and compliance across the development process. It facilitates its users' ability to tailor workflows, templates, and artifacts to match organizational or industry-specific methodologies. All these collectively make it unique among others.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Polarian ALM browser-based, document-driven environment supports distribution teams working collaboratively on requirements. As I have to deal with distributed team members, this is very helpful for me with version control, live editing, and comment threads. It includes configurable reporting tools to generate traceability matrices, dashboards, and audit logs. These features are my favorite ones.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Though I praised Polarion ALM for its traceability and configurability, due to its rich feature set and highly customizable nature, as being new user, I feel the need for significant training and onboarding time. So, in-app tutorials and documentation should be more beginner-friendly to ease the learning path.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

One of Polarion’s key strengths is its full lifecycle traceability. But to achieve that level, demands deliberate planning from day one. Define artifact types and relationships early for best outcomes.

Pros

Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Efficient Service
Caring

rachid m.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted Jan 2025

VERRY SATISFYING BUT STILL UNDER IMPROVEMENT by si

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Polarion ALM from other similar products?

Its interface and easy of use like traceability of requirement and IVVQ management and also its administration

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

the work item is verry good approach

What do you dislike most about this product?

importation of data like OLE objects form doors for example

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

first you have to make a simple data model and templates

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Glorious A.

Role: Finance
Industry: Insurance
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2024

Great integration options, but expensive licensing

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Polarion ALM from other similar products?

Polarion ALM stands out due to its strong integration capabilities with other tools, its comprehensive traceability features, and its flexibility to support both traditional and agile methodologies, making it suitable for a wide range of projects.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect of Polarion ALM is its robust requirements management capabilities. It allows for real-time collaboration and provides excellent traceability from requirements to testing, which is crucial for project success.

What do you dislike most about this product?

What I dislike most about Polarion ALM is the steep learning curve for new users. The interface can be overwhelming initially, making it challenging to fully utilize all its features.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I recommend investing in comprehensive training for your team before implementation. Also, consider the long-term costs associated with licensing and support, as they can be significant compared to other tools on the market.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Trustworthy

Polarion ALM

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

Polarion ALM Ratings

83 Likeliness to Recommend

96 Plan to Renew

76 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+87 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Polarion ALM?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Generative AI Generate content for optimization and integration to perform product matching, categorization, or competitor analysis.

Traceability ALM artifacts can be traced from ideation to requirements, design, develop, test, and implementation including identifying gaps and the impact of changes.

Version Management Ability to create and view multiple versions of a content asset through iterative edits in accordance with pre-defined limitations.

Change Management Ability to manage the approval of and changes to requirement artefacts.

Artifact Management Unique identification and management of individual requirements or by-products of requirements.

Task Prioritization Ability to assign a priority to tasks.

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Collaboration Includes ability to view, share and direct work between co-workers in real or near real-time.

Visual Analysis and Design Provides the ability to build (not import) various business or technical models that capture an application's alignment to business capabilities etc.

ALM Integration Integrate across all project, product, development, and service delivery phases including products such as ALM and Microsoft Office suites

Agile Work Management Multiple backlogs, backlog grooming, sprint planning, prioritization, and estimation, and a multi-level agile artifact hierarchy (Epics, User Stories, etc.)

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

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Polarion ALM Reviews

Shannon G.

End-to-End Requirements Management Platform

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

rachid m.

VERRY SATISFYING BUT STILL UNDER IMPROVEMENT by si

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Glorious A.

Great integration options, but expensive licensing

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Generative AI

Traceability

Version Management

Change Management

Artifact Management

Task Prioritization

Analytics and Reporting

Collaboration

Visual Analysis and Design

ALM Integration

Agile Work Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

Breadth of Features

Vendor Support

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Quality of Features

Availability and Quality of Training