"Tomorrow's ALM is a platform for the coordination and management of development activities, not a collection of life-cycle tools with locked-in and limited ALM features. These platforms are the result of purposeful design rather than rework following acquisitions."
— Analyst
About Polarion Software
Polarion Software is a privately held company operating globally with offices in Europe and North America, and partners world-wide. The company hit the market with their Software Application Lifecycle Management solution in Spring of 2005. Our success is best described by the hundreds of Fortune 1000 customers and over 750,000 users who rely daily on Polarion’s ALM, Requirements, and
Track & Wiki software products.
Objective and Approach
Polarion's main objective is to replace expensive 80's and 90's legacy disparate tools, with a single unified Web 2.0 enterprise business application with disruptive low prices, and sourced via multiple channels for ease of purchase, installation, and customer support.
Polarion's unique approach involves:
- Easy to use and support Web 2.0 enterprise application designed for distributed and centralized project teams
- Leveraging proven and reliable open source frameworks like Subversion, Eclipse, Apache, Maven, XWiki to reduce development costs and provide our customers with a low total cost of ownership, a solid return on investment all designed to prevent vendor lock-in.
- Internally or externally hosted Cloud Computing (SaaS).
- Compliance solution for CMMI, Agile, ISO, FDA or any internal or external regulatory mandate with guaranteed Traceability maintained at any point of time for any byte of data.
- Unequaled customer support and a trust based approach to all customers and partners
Polarion's Unique Advantages
Unlike competitive tools that require complex, costly, and often fragile integrations, Polarion is unified by design – a true integrated real–time solution that provides forensic traceability and transparency, supporting all essential software development process activities in one easy to use web based portal solution covering:
- Requirements Management
- Change Management
- Task Management
- Project Planning
- Status, Progress, and Time Reporting
- Traceability, Quality and Performance Audits with Metrics
- Build Management
- Configuration Management
- Team Collaboration and Communication
- Test Management
- Maturity Model Compliance
Polarion Innovates with "Live Technology™"
Polarion's innovative "Live Technology" offers many exclusive benefits such as:
- Live Dashboards: Up-to-the-minute, real-time status of work items, individual, team or project across the enterprise. Remove the guesswork. Traceability and reporting from any macro view down to the finite byte, ensuring accountability and forensic level accuracy.
- Live Project Plan: Eliminate the time wasted in "care and feeding" of a dedicated project planning tool. Polarion builds your plan automatically with the parameters you set, showing the latest realities based on current open and closed developer tasks.
- Live Documents: Eliminate the pain of incorporating requirements authored with Microsoft Office® applications, Email, Wiki, or Doors™ into engineering's change management system. Everyone, regardless of role, works efficiently with their preferred tools, everything stays in sync, and everyone concerned is notified about changes – all in real time as things happen.
- Live CMMI: Self-assessment reports based on the latest, up-to-the-minute development status data, help you understand exactly where your organization stands in the maturity model compliance process.
Polarion Software is dedicated to improving the efficiency of the software development assembly line, removing the guesswork, and enabling all team members from developers and testers, thru project managers, to executives, to understand and appreciate the actual state of software development in their organization, right now, today.
How to learn more
Our team is ready to discuss your situation, answer your questions, and show you how stepping up to Polarion can increase efficiency and competitiveness, lower your total costs for tools, and deliver solid return on investment – painlessly!
Why not take a moment right now and use our online Information Request Form to let us know how we might help you? Or phone the Polarion Corporate Office or Partner serving your locality.
