# Polarion Reviews **Vendor:** Siemens Digital Industries Software **Category:** [ALM Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/alm-software) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 98 ## About Polarion Polarion is a comprehensive software lifecycle management solution designed to assist organizations in maintaining project transparency and enhancing collaboration throughout the development process. By aggregating real-time management information, Polarion ensures that all stakeholders are aligned on project goals, timelines, and deliverables. This alignment fosters a culture of accountability and responsiveness, enabling teams to adapt swiftly to new business opportunities and evolving customer demands while safeguarding integrity and compliance. The target audience for Polarion includes project managers, software developers, quality assurance teams, and compliance officers across various industries, particularly those in regulated sectors such as automotive, aerospace, and healthcare. These professionals require a robust platform that not only streamlines their workflows but also provides visibility into every stage of the software development lifecycle. Polarion addresses these needs by offering a centralized hub for documentation, requirements management, testing, and project tracking, thus facilitating seamless communication and collaboration among team members. Key features of Polarion include real-time reporting, customizable dashboards, and comprehensive traceability from requirements through to testing and delivery. The platform allows users to create and manage requirements, track changes, and ensure that all modifications are documented and compliant with industry standards. Additionally, Polarion supports agile methodologies, enabling teams to implement iterative development practices while maintaining control over their projects. The ability to visualize project status and progress through intuitive dashboards enhances decision-making and helps teams prioritize tasks effectively. By utilizing Polarion, organizations can achieve greater agility in their software development processes while maintaining full control over their product lifecycles. The solution's emphasis on transparency and collaboration not only improves the quality of the final product but also accelerates time-to-market. With Polarion, teams can respond to customer feedback and market changes more effectively, ensuring that they remain competitive in a fast-paced environment. This makes Polarion a valuable asset for any organization looking to optimize its software development practices and drive innovation. ## Polarion Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **user-friendly environment** of Polarion, which simplifies project management and enhances team collaboration. (8 reviews) - Users highlight the **customizability** of Polarion, enabling tailored workflows and processes for diverse project needs. (6 reviews) - Users value the **customizable workflows** of Polarion, enhancing productivity and adaptability for various team requirements. (6 reviews) - Users value the **impressive traceability** in Polarion, enabling clear connections between requirements, tasks, and updates. (6 reviews) - Users appreciate the **organized system** of Polarion, enhancing collaboration and ensuring traceability across the project lifecycle. (5 reviews) - Team Collaboration (5 reviews) - Users value the **flexibility** of Polarion, allowing for tailored configurations to meet specific business needs effectively. (4 reviews) - Tool Integration (4 reviews) - Customer Support (3 reviews) - Customization Options (3 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find Polarion's **steep learning curve** challenging, necessitating considerable training and time for effective usage. (4 reviews) - Users find **Polarion's complexity** daunting, with a steep learning curve that complicates onboarding for new teams. (3 reviews) - Users find the **interface outdated** , which impacts navigation and overall usability of Polarion. (3 reviews) - Users find **process inefficiency** in Polarion due to its cumbersome project management and manual requirement ordering. (3 reviews) - Users experience **slow performance** with Polarion, especially when managing large projects, affecting their overall productivity. (3 reviews) - Difficult Learning (2 reviews) - Users find Polarion's interface **not intuitive** , making it challenging for newcomers to navigate and customize effectively. (2 reviews) - Poor Reporting (2 reviews) - Poor UI Design (2 reviews) - Authentication Issues (1 reviews) ## Polarion Reviews ### 1. Good start **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2025 **What do you like best about Polarion?** It handles all our requirements and have integration to Azure DevOps **What do you dislike about Polarion?** The integration with Teamcenter is something I am missing **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Handle all requirements in one place ### 2. Much more than ALM **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tommi P. | R&D Process Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2024 **What do you like best about Polarion?** Already realized productivity improvements through enhanced collaboration, traceability, and reuse of information. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Like any tool, the numerous configurable options can be overwhelming when starting your journey with Polarion. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** The complexity of today's product development is such that you cannot handle requirements with spreadsheets. Even if you theoretically could, there is no point in doing so. No one should have a role where a significant portion of their time and effort goes into manually updating spreadsheet information and especially references to other information. The true power of Polarion comes when you easily connect requirements, test cases, risks, documents, project planning, cybersecurity, management systems, sales feedback, change management, product architecture, etc., all within the same tool. When everyone uses the same tool, it effectively eliminates the need for the download-change-upload cycle and allows people to truly collaborate. When you reach the limits of Polarion in MBSE, you can extend your modeling using connectors to tools like Simulink or Capella. PLM integration can be done using OSLC, REST API, or dedicated connectors. We have even created our own connection to ChatGPT. One of the significant benefits is the productivity improvement you gain when you stop blindly copying information from place to place and instead connect information using links. **Official Response from Yolanda Dong:** > Tommi, it's great to hear how Polarion has helped you connect requirements, test cases, risks, documents, project planning, cybersecurity, management systems, sales feedback, change management, and product architecture within the same tool, leading to improved productivity. ### 3. Does it’s Job **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2025 **What do you like best about Polarion?** Document repositorio, tracking of status **What do you dislike about Polarion?** It does its job but is not an industry popular choice and I was told the license is $$$ , **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Documents were in multiple sources and difficult to find ### 4. Great database **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2025 **What do you like best about Polarion?** Flexibility, possibility to configure datamodel, API, automation **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Performance bottlenecks, rich text editors sometimes produce strange formatting **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Requirements authoring, managing traceability ### 5. Simple and great software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2025 **What do you like best about Polarion?** it is easy to implement and deploy updates good coverage of plugins available in the market place. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Nothing major dislike to highlight here. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping us to comply with A SPICE standards ### 6. Best web tool for requirements management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steffen H. | Development Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2025 **What do you like best about Polarion?** I like most about Polarion that it is so open for devs and therefore one can adjust Polarion to specific business process. It feels a bit like a framework with a really great backend. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** That most pages are based on a technology that is quite old and slow (Velocity) **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Impact traceability of changing requirements as well as an overall transparency ### 7. Flexible and easy to use requirements and verification management tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2025 **What do you like best about Polarion?** Ease of use, customizability, browser-based **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Expensive, upgrades can be challenging to implement **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Defining our product requirements from top-to-bottom with full traceability, as well as managing verification coverage and execution. ### 8. My Experience with Polarian **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2025 **What do you like best about Polarion?** It can keep your requirements at one spot **What do you dislike about Polarion?** We use Teamcenter as our PLM software...it has the same features as TC **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Requirements gathering and documentation ### 9. A must event for Polarion users.. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2025 **What do you like best about Polarion?** This event on Polarion has a wider coverage of very relevant topics for the end users of ALM solution and excellent value adds from partners. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Event place - infrastrcutre could have been better. It was a relatively small place **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Requirements management, AI based requirements analysis, requirements structure, traceability. Product embedded software management ### 10. Best in class ALM tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roger S. | Systems Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2024 **What do you like best about Polarion?** From all the presentations I have seen at RealizeLive it seems as the best tool. In fact, at my company Epiroc we have started looking into getting Polarion for our R&D business. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** As of now I have not seen any disadvantages. Looks like when users are having need for fixes or new features, Siemens will meet the needs and provide improvements. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** It will solve the problem of losing control over requirements and tests, that today is stored in Word documents. **Official Response from Yolanda Dong:** > Roger, thank you for your positive feedback! We are committed to continuously improving Polarion to meet the needs of our users. If you ever encounter any issues or have suggestions for new features, please don't hesitate to let us know. ### 11. Introduction of Polarion in a System of system development **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Polarion?** Polarion is very flexible and end-user friendly. You can configure it to your needs and build it up so that it is scalable. Due to it's complexibility it can be used to connect the whole develpment process and make it transparent and tracable. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** The administration (in the backend) is a bit tricky and not as "user"-friendly as the UI for the end-user. To build it up from the scratch it would be helpful to have e.g a few decision charts connectet to solutions or best practice, because the first base and infrastructure is essential. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** tracebility and transparence. bring development silos together **Official Response from Yolanda Dong:** > Thank you for your feedback on the administration. We are constantly working to improve the backend to make it more user-friendly. ### 12. Experience with Polarion **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shivanshu S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Polarion?** The usability given by Polarion. The flexibility given by Polarion. The customisation options provided by Polarion. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** It does not support containerisation i.e., we cannot deploy Polarion as a container and we cannot use Kubernetes as well. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main target of problems we are solving is digitalisation of processes like Requirements Engineering, Risk Management, Test Management etc. **Official Response from Yolanda Dong:** > Shivanshu, it's great to hear that Polarion is helping with the digitalization of processes like Requirements Engineering, Risk Management, and Test Management for you. ### 13. Polarion ALM Toolsuite **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael I. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Polarion?** You can cover your whole devops process but also Single steps with Connection to your other process Applications **What do you dislike about Polarion?** The Polarion License Model is complicated **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes it possible to Implement a reference process with BU Adaptions **Official Response from Yolanda Dong:** > Michael, we're glad to hear that Polarion is helping you implement a reference process with business unit adaptations. Thank you for choosing Polarion for your needs. ### 14. Excellent experience at Realize Live 2024 **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Polarion?** Easy to use and user friendly. Many options to customize based on our need. One solution for all your needs into Product development. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Variant Management not so good to use due ti lack of understanding **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its usef for writing requirements and managing risk management. **Official Response from Yolanda Dong:** > We're thrilled to hear that you find Polarion easy to use and user-friendly, with many options for customization. We appreciate your feedback and are constantly working to improve our Variant Management to better meet your needs. ### 15. Good user experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Polarion?** Simple user experience on a web based approach. Strong functionalities for requirements management. Flexibility, possibility to adapt the tool to our process and data model **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Few limitations on the test part. Document generation can be improved. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Single tool for requirements and testing **Official Response from Yolanda Dong:** > Thank you for sharing your positive experience with Polarion. We're pleased to hear that the tool's flexibility and adaptability have been beneficial for your process and data model. We have noted your feedback on the limitations in the test part and document generation, and will work towards enhancing those areas. ### 16. Intro of Polarion **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Polarion?** the flexibility, the user interface, variaty of options and possibilitys of customization **What do you dislike about Polarion?** a lot of insights you need to know for the admin part, not that intuitive but very complex. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** traceability, transparency, compliance **Official Response from Yolanda Dong:** > We're glad to hear that you appreciate the flexibility, user interface, and customization options of Polarion. We understand that the admin part may have a learning curve, and we're continuously working to improve the user experience. ### 17. Efficient Requirements Management with Polarion REQUIREMENTS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jacklyn R. | Founder & CEO of Onward, Financial Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Polarion?** I like the simple connection with other corporate ALM tools that use requirements data. This makes it simple to expand into Polarion's Test Management solution or other out-of-the-box extensions. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** In Polarion REQUIREMENTS, the ordering of requirements is typically based on their position in the hierarchy. However, if you are missing the ordering case structure, you may want to consider manually reordering the requirements in the hierarchy. To do this, you can simply drag and drop requirements within the hierarchy to the desired position, but this process is a bit time-consuming. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Polarion REQUIREMENTS solves the problem of effective requirements management by providing a comprehensive solution that allows my team to gather, author, approve, and manage requirements effectively. **Official Response from Yolanda Dong:** > Jacklyn, thank you for sharing what you like best about Polarion REQUIREMENTS! The seamless connection with other corporate ALM tools is definitely a valuable feature for expanding into other solutions. ### 18. Polarion makes it easy to organize complex requirements **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Narayanan P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Polarion?** The UI is fairly intuitive after some training. We are able to extend the behavior using scripts. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Performance is slow on large documents. this has to be fixed to help extend usage **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Requirements Management & Traceability **Official Response from Yolanda Dong:** > Narayanan, thank you for sharing your feedback. We're pleased that Polarion helps with requirements management and traceability. We acknowledge the performance issue on large documents and are actively working on enhancing the system's performance for improved usability. ### 19. Polarion allows smooth Requirements Suite **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2023 **What do you like best about Polarion?** Using Polarion we can effectively manage the requirements and also it allows a hassle free traceability **What do you dislike about Polarion?** The in-line edit may allows changes in requirements so that should be difficulty **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves the problem of traceability and allows to integrate the tool with several Requirements tools like Integrity, DNG etc **Official Response from Yolanda Dong:** > It's great to hear that Polarion is helping you solve the problem of traceability and integrate with other requirements tools. ### 20. Polarion allows better solution for requirement engineering. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Polarion?** It allows document base requirement traceability **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Customization of plugins is quite difficult **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows the traceability among several work items which are used on daily basis by engineers **Official Response from Yolanda Dong:** > It's great to hear that Polarion's traceability feature is benefiting your daily work. We appreciate your feedback about the difficulty of customizing plugins, and we're committed to enhancing the customization experience to better meet your needs. ### 21. Flexibility and collaboration with some improvement potentials **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pedro F. | Power Hardware Electronics Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Polarion?** The flexibility in defining documentation tailored to our processes and workflows is great, and the collaborative base also with external suppliers with export and import functionality of documentation is a big plus. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Some features could be improved, like integration with draw.io is not great not allowing having in Polarion the original and editable diagrams. When a document is signed with a comment, and later, before document release, the same signature is reset and the comment is removed, a message of missing comment is left. Reviews tend to be slow and cumbersome for the reviewers to identify the changes to previous release, maybe an easier identification of WorkItems affected to previous release or other functions could be beneficial (history compare is already very good, but link needs to be always provided for the review) **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralizing requirements and documentation capture all throughout different departments and levels. Allowing automated testing to generate compliance evidence for requirement verification. **Official Response from Yolanda Dong:** > Pedro, we appreciate your positive feedback on the flexibility and collaborative capabilities of Polarion. We understand your concerns about certain features and the review process, and we are committed to continuously enhancing our platform to address these areas for improvement. ### 22. Polarion requirements review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Trishit C. | Programmer Analyst Trainee, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Polarion?** I like the seamless integration of it with Jira, as we use Jira as our internal software development life cycle software. Everyone from product owner, scrum masters, developers and qa team gets updated through one software which really makes it standout. Also it's very flexible and the api place is also good. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** The user interface can be more updated and can be more smooth also. Few functionalities are missing which can be added also like unit testing cases or the ordering of it. It's a bit expensive but value for its money **Recommendations to others considering Polarion:** You can definitely try it or take a demo and get the better understanding of the software but it will be worth it. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it for project management overall integrated with Jira. Without it noone would have got the proper requirement gathering, consolidating information and sharing it across the stake holders. It also gives in depth analysis and metrics of the teams helping in the better management. **Official Response from Yolanda Dong:** > Thank you for sharing your positive experience with Polarion's integration with Jira and its flexibility. We understand your concerns about the user interface and missing functionalities, and we will work on improving those aspects. ### 23. Honest Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul G. | Program Anlayst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Polarion?** It is your one-stop destination as a foolproof requirement management tool. It has great application management capabilities! It can easily handle and incorporate different stages of the project in one place. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** To be honest, while exploring the software I could find an option available for all of my concerns, there is nothing that I disliked about the software. **Recommendations to others considering Polarion:** I would totally recommend it to the users wanting a requirement management tool. It's just flawless. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I created test cases for my business sector using this tool and it did a pretty sweet job. It has a very structured approach with proper documentation for the same. The help I found to be truly exceptional. I even used this tool for approving and managing requirements given by my team all in one place. ### 24. Good Enterprise planning tool for Organisations **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nagarjuna K. | Digital Marketing Executive, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2022 **What do you like best about Polarion?** Best testing-based application for the enterprises, Easy to customize, with this tool we can define our process according to our requirement and then implementation is easy in this. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** License types are less compared to other similar tools, Use cases are a little bit confusing while different approaches, Integrations needs to improve, customer support is not supportive. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Polarion helped me to allow test cases and executions worldwide easily across the different teams. Smoothening the process helped me to get better results. Customization and reporting gave better results. **Official Response from Yolanda Dong:** > Nagarjuna, thank you for sharing your feedback on Polarion. We're glad to hear that you find it to be a great testing-based application for enterprises and that it allows for easy customization and process definition. We appreciate your input on the areas for improvement, such as license types, use cases, integrations, and customer support. ### 25. Senior Administrator **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deepak C. | Oracle apps Dba, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Polarion?** Things i like most about Polarion- - Complete browser based application - Lots of functanality in single product like configuration management, Audit,Defect and quality management **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Here are very less to dislike but in order to grab more customer it needs to provide integration with other major product like SAP and EBS. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** We utilize Polarion during one major Taxation tool implementation, where team size was very big. Polarion help in managing complete development process end to end including document management. ### 26. Polion - an interesting tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Keith R. | Director - Global AC Design Engineering, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Polarion?** The automation ability to perform user testing, the error tracking and resolution, and the connectivity between the various systems. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** nothing so far, just getting visibility. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking software lifecycle and tracing requests that come thgouth Jira **Official Response from Yolanda Dong:** > Keith, thank you for sharing your positive experience with Polarion. We're thrilled to hear that you are benefiting from the automation ability, error tracking, and connectivity between systems. We hope it continues to meet your needs. ### 27. Polarion feedback **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Polarion?** It is basically a complete requirements management solution . It provides a complete structured specification documents , and let team gather , approve, validate and manage requirements. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** As far as I have explored this software is much useful and easy to use. It really provides structured approach which is efficient in solving problems. It is all together a complete set that one needs . **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can use it for polarisation connector for jira to integrate the user stories and other backlog items. For QA we can use polarisation connector for HPALM or for Microsoft TFS ### 28. Using Polarion for ALM for continuous releases **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Polarion?** Polarion features to enable integration with continuous releases, testing, build, automation and integration with multiple industry leading tool sets enables quick and rapid deployments **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Polarion doesn't have the features to source code configration natively and depend on outside tools and this puts dependencies on external tool set. Also the IDE can be more intuitive **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Continuous releases **Official Response from Yolanda Dong:** > We're sorry to hear about your challenges with Polarion's lack of native source code configuration features and the dependency on external tools. We appreciate your feedback and will share it with our product team. ### 29. Comprehensive ALM platform with good PLM integration **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Polarion?** Polarion provides comprehensive capabilities for requirements management and other ALM capabilities with good integration with Teamcenter for closed-loop product development and traceability. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Need ability to better manage projects and dependencies of requirements across products; also consistent UX across Polarion and Teamcenter. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Closed-loop requirements management. Benefits include better requirements to test traceability and closed loop compliance. **Official Response from Yolanda Dong:** > We're glad to hear that you appreciate Polarion's comprehensive capabilities for requirements management and its integration with Teamcenter for closed-loop product development and traceability. ### 30. Saas cloud platform for hosting infrastructure **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Polarion?** Application management lifecycle throughout the process thereby increasing the agility for application management its quality and governance of the softwares fulfilling the requirements. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Usually there are best things but i am not satisfied with the vulnerabiltites issues that needs to be adressed for business stakeholders privacy and roles and personal should be implemented. **Recommendations to others considering Polarion:** Best app tool for application management. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building Application managing its lifecycle interacting with business stakeholders automation testing and creation working with data centralized into a platform. ### 31. Tool for Test Management **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2021 **What do you like best about Polarion?** Polarion provides traceability management between Requirements, Test Cases, Exploratory Testing, and Test Execution. Polarion can export the results to be exported in Microsoft Excel and pdf. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** It is challenging to create summary reports. It is also challenging to use previously created reports. It would be desirable to have sample reports that can be customized. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Polarion allows team members across the globe to review and approve test cases and test executions. Polarion supports a life cycle process from the creation of requirements, test requirements, test executions, and test reporting. ### 32. Polarian Reviewer **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Polarion?** Enable internal and external stakeholders to review and comment on work items, **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Needs more complexity to give the full picture **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problem with work items that are not fully arranged, the polarion reviewer solved these issues **Official Response from Yolanda Dong:** > Thank you for sharing your experience with Polarion. We understand the importance of having a comprehensive view of work items and will continue to work on enhancing the platform to meet your needs. ### 33. Polarion - Excellent Application for Requirements Management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Polarion?** It is beneficial when we can link all stages of requirements across multiple departments and project phases. The tool is also helpful with validation and traceability. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** No outstanding aspect that I dislike with the Polarion requirements tool **Recommendations to others considering Polarion:** The Polarion Requirements application is a great tool and provides a much better platform to link different vehicle-level activities compared to older applications that have been in the market for quite some time. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Manage vehicle level, system level, functional safety requirements, along with DFMEA analysis and test cases for the automotive sector ### 34. Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Polarion?** User friendly, orchestration and ui well designed **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Missing ordering case structure as well multiple board creation **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly in testcase and keeping task track ### 35. Excellent issue management tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Polarion?** It is a very user-friendly tool with easy learning curve. Offers a wide variety of options to filter, export and analyse the data in it. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Not as widely used as some other tools in its category. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am managing issues in the automotive sector and using it to report their status to the Quality department. Because of the wide spectrum of data that can be inserted, I am able to present an insightful analysis of the status of the issues I am handling. ### 36. Testing Tools **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** osdwall l. | CEO DomHardware, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Polarion?** It is webased app, easy to use, deliver template to other peers. Easy to manage the reporting as well the information to be tested by using links to each test. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Support team, take some time to response. With some auto answers services this could be solved. I give the headsup but no change at the end. **Recommendations to others considering Polarion:** To start into the automation and reporting testing result, this tool can be a good start **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Payment Processes, gateways, etc..!! ### 37. It is very useful to perform requirements management of the entire product line **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sandra s. | Exceptional project management software that does everything our marketing agency needs, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Polarion?** I like it because it allows you to customize and implement your own agile development methodology. also gives you the option to control in "real time" the status of your development. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** when making extensions or connections with other solutions has certain mishaps because it has a lack of documentation **Recommendations to others considering Polarion:** improve the capacity of document management thus enabling extensions or connections **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a beneficial tool to use when carrying out projects, since it allows you to evaluate and detail the real state of how new projects are being carried out. ### 38. Polarion engineering process and document management tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Polarion?** clear stages and control of process and documents. visibility of status of any stage and document. Ability segment user levels. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** It can be a bit cumbersome to operate at times, due to the extent of controls. **Recommendations to others considering Polarion:** For my purposes, I find it a useful tool that provides the appropriate scope of information on our process and elements of the process, and ability to comment int that process. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** engineering product development process and handling of design review stages. It has helped us to improve clarity in design reviews and reduce confusion, smoothing the process toward more orderly and effective development. ### 39. This is advanced ALM system. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Chemicals | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2018 **What do you like best about Polarion?** this framework allow to optimize development processes across multiple projects and lifecycles. I am doing multiple projects and using this framework helps me a lot to leverage cross the projects. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** sometimes the format from MS office product is not properly pasted on the the web page in Polarion. I had to retype those contetns to avoid inconvenience. **Recommendations to others considering Polarion:** it is great tool/framework from small project/company to large. strongly recommned to use it, learning curve wouldn't bother you a lot. since the GUI is very tuitive. this is a great tool, I have been using this tool since 2014, it is really great support for customization. so you can develop your own framework. and esepcailly data processing power is great. however, you will need to spend a bit of budget for better computing power to use the system fast enoguht to not get irriated by the slow response since most of web based system has such cons. more users requires better hw performance. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** it is giving me to generate all relevent document , report, matrix without spending lots of time. it provides customization. ### 40. Best tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Polarion?** The way the user stories and defect are tracked are easily understood. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Nothing as of now. May be improvement in performance. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Defect tracking. ### 41. Powerful project management and tracking tool **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Polarion?** excellent project tracking, and document review process for multiple participants and stakeholder reviewers. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Fairly complex to set up and use, but that's also what makes it a powerful tool. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not only managing and tracking engineering projects in process, but managing design ideas and feedback with stakeholder reviewers, and obtaining review of projects throughout the process. ### 42. End to end enterprise application development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Polarion?** Unified enterprise application for development lifecycle in all stages like design , code and analysis **What do you dislike about Polarion?** No negative feedback about the product according to my view. **Recommendations to others considering Polarion:** Good job... Keep going on **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used for coding deployment n monitor tool perspective ### 43. Great if set up correctly **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Polarion?** The ability to customize and set up various workflows. Love the document storage so finding all related artifacts are easy and traceable. Lots of roles and security to make sure everyone has the right information at the right time. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** The ability to customize and set up various workflows. Love the document storage so finding all related artifacts are easy and traceable. Lots of roles and security to make sure everyone has the right information at the right time. **Recommendations to others considering Polarion:** Take your time with set up and hire a consultant to get it right the first time. Otherwise it will be an endless tangle of data. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** One source of information, one source of truth. Meetings are easier and settings make prioritizing requirements and bugs easy and accountable. ### 44. Best ALM **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Polarion?** I use Polarion to import system and software requirement. Importing requirement from Excel and Word file is very convenient. **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Tree structure and live status GUI can be improved. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work for Tier 1 supplier in automotive industry. Working on multiple projects and traceability of work item is very beneficial ### 45. Good software for project documentation, task/requirement **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Polarion?** That it's easy to link documents and find related (parent/child) files **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Not so much yet, I just started to use it **Recommendations to others considering Polarion:** If you need a central location for your product requirements and prioritize tasks, this is good **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Putting together project requirements, tasks, and clarifying priority. The benefit is that we now have a common place to check out requirements of the product. ### 46. Unique real ALM **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2017 **What do you like best about Polarion?** Polarion is a great tool, very stable and configurable, easy to use and great for team's collaboration. I am using it since long time, before the Siemens acquisition, with enormous success in every cases. It has the "framework" approach, letting the admins configure it to cover almost everything you have in mind. I have experience with it and some customers that are using Polarion from requirement management to final delivery of physical object where Polarion were able to create the PDF for the transport documents for courier! **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Even if it is one of the best tool I ever used, what I personally love and also dislike in the same time is the backend, that is based on the Subversion. I love it because thanks to its nature Subversion saves everything in a real concrete storage, with no possibility of data loss. My personal dislike is based on the fact that even Subversion can store millions of revisions it is file based, so it may become quite slower than expected after some years. **Recommendations to others considering Polarion:** Download and try it, with attention: Polarion is not immediate to use out of the box, due the nature of the tool it requires commitment. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** More or less everything: from Requirement management purposes to testing, from issue tracking to document management. ### 47. Polarion is robust and allows us to configure workflows/custom fields to meet our requirements **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2016 **What do you like best about Polarion?** Polarion is customizable and gives requirements manager to customize workflows and create unique custom fields meet our company's requirements. Polarion's customer tech support is excellent! **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Polarion can sometimes run very slow on our company's virtual machine and migrating data and having it run on Polarion's cloud server is costly. **What problems is Polarion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Traceability and managing requirements/test cases. ### 48. Good but slow **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2016 **What do you like best about Polarion?** It's very easy to customize workflows and what is managed **What do you dislike about Polarion?** Performance. Slow page loading. 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