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Polarion® ALM - Key Application Lifecycle Management Capabilities

Requirements Management Software Configuration Management (SCM) Change Management Issue/bug Tracking
Project Management Team Collaboration Process Support Quality Assurance Support

Requirements Management

Source Code Management (SCM)

3 ways to elicit/author: Word/Excel, Wiki, Web

Leverage existing content and skills, gain the power of Web 2.0

All development artifacts and content managed with repository

Never lose anything. Complete history of all artifacts and content automatically.

Reuse & customize standard requirements libraries

Start new projects faster, preserve knowledge assets

Deeply integrated with Subversion, the SCM market leader

Cut costs with an OSS solution & consolidation across the organization

Easy linking for structure and traceability

Create traceability seamlessly and inherently as people do their jobs day to day

Built-in client, or use any external Subversion client

Less resistance to adoption, quicker productivity when people can use their accustomed tools

Approval process support with special workflow

Speed up the process. Stakeholders just move to next step and everyone gets notified automatically.

Automatic revision-to-issue linking from external clients

People stay productive and focused on tasks, not tools

Change Management

Issue/bug Tracking

Easy linking of artifacts and/or content

Traceability happens day to day as part of work process

Customizable issue types

Support your process & semantics; adapt the tool, not how you work

Cross-project traceability linking

A "must have" for many regulatory compliance scenarios

Issue-to-issue linking

Gain visibility for relationships, dependencies, follow-ups, etc.

Maintainable traceability with bi-directional editable matrix

Ensure accuracy and control for even the most stringent requirements

Issue-to-source code linking with internal or external VCS client

Always know what revision implemented changes to your code

Customizable impact analysis views

Understand the scope and impact of change before committing to it

Apache Lucene query engine with visual query builder; customizable shortcuts

Quickly find what you want to see; get back to most needed views fast

Project Management

Team Collaboration

Automated Project Planning

Assign tasks to milestones and estimate time needed to complete and watch the plan appear. See bottlenecks before committing to schedules.

Threaded comments in issues

Stakeholders easily discuss different topics related to the same issue, seeing only the thread(s) that concern them

Live Project Plan in GANTT format

Managers know exactly where projects stand based on real task completion data. See where resources are over or under utilized. Manage your resources, not a planning tool.

Global and project wiki spaces

Create, manage, and preserve history of content and knowledge assets relevant for the entire organization, and for each managed project

Simple, straightforward time tracking

People log actual time spent on tasks as the close them; automatic comparison to estimate. Increase transparency and accountability, improve planning accuracy over time

Tracker and wiki content integration

No more barrier between tools. No more application switching. Easy access to key tracker information for non-technical stakeholders.

Information exchange with legacy tools

Facilitate collaboration with stakeholders tied to older project management tools

Stakeholder notifications

Those who need to know are automatically informed of all changes so processes don't bog down

Integrated, Automated Build Management

Set up industry standard Ant and Maven builds for continuous integration and constant quality

Information import/export with common document formats

Handy when you need to share info with, or bring in information from external stakeholders

Quality Assurance Support

Process Support

Extensive real-time quality audits and metrics

Always up to date, based on real task data for accuracy and timeliness

"Live" CMMI assessment

Based on actual data, per project, or across the enterprise; better accuracy, less guesswork about state of compliance

Test case to requirements/tasks linking

Testers can always know what verifies what

Agile process compliance assessment w/ embedded knowledge

Teams can learn Agile process easily and see how they stack up against industry best practices

"Suspect" Links

Make testers alert for changes in issues verified by their tests