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Polarion ALM

Polarion ALM
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ALM Wheel

Everything You Need in One Single ALM Solution

  • 100% Web based to Manage all phases of the Application Lifecycle
  • Full traceability from initial requirements to source code to production
  • Support any process or methodology (Agile, Waterfall, regulatory, hybrid)
  • Accelerate adoption, cut training & IT Admin costs

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Traceability and Audit Trails

Traceability & Versioning

Understand the "Who, What, When and Why" of any changes

Online Authoring with LiveDocs

Online Authoring
with "LiveDocs"™

Imported documents still look and edit like documents

Any Methodology or Workflow

Any Workflow or Methodology

Flexible, customizable workflows easily adapt to your systems and methods

Web-based collaboration

Collaborate anytime, anywhere

Discussions, wikis, polling, subscriptions, alerts & more

Test Management

Test Management

Specify, manage, and execute Test Cases on a single platform

Reuse

Reuse

Avoid risk of un-synced changes when requirements are Copy-Pasted across your project.

Risk Management

Risk Management

Save time reviewing & performing risk assessments with pre-built project templates.

Build Management

Automated Build Management

Integration with leading tools such as Hudson, Ant & Maven

Live Reporting and Dashboards

Live Reporting and Dashboards

Real time visibility into the status of your release

Audits and Metrics

Audits & Qualitative Metrics

Manage risk better by catching problems earlier in the lifecycle

Planning

Resource & Project Planning

Spot potential bottlenecks
before they occur

Extensibility

Extensibility

Free, open APIs let you build your own apps and extensions

Compliance

Compliance

Attain compliance with a wide spectrum of industry standards

Diagramming

Text, Drawings, Diagrams

Express requirements as text, as drawings/diagrams, or both

 

 

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Traceability and Audit TrailsTraceability, Versioning, and Audit Trails

Understand the "Who, What, When and Why" of any changes

How do you bring sanity and accountability to the process of gathering, vetting, and implementing the inevitable change requests that happen during every project?
Change Control and Impact Analysis are a vital part of the Requirements Management Process.

Visual Impact Analysis

  • Pass any compliance audit easily
  • Determine the potential impact changes may have on other requirements, release timelines, resource allocations, etc.
  • "Visual Diff": You can visually compare the old documents with the new versions and see the changes highlighted
  • Linking - Ability to link one to many or many to one and do so across projects
  • Time Machine - Browse, search and report any historical state of your project.
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Visual Diff
Visual Diff
Visual Diff
Customize Traceability Reports using Wiki
Customize Traceability Reports using Wiki
Customize Traceability Reports using Wiki
Traceability down to the source code revision
Traceability down to the source code revision
Traceability down to the source code revision

 

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Online Authoring with LiveDocsOnline Authoring with “LiveDocs”™

Leverage your existing Micrososft Office documents

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Import Word Documents
Import Word Documents
Import Word Documents
Edit Documents online
Edit Documents online
Edit Documents online
Export and re-import changes
Export and re-import changes
Export and re-import changes

The Usability of Word without any of the limitiations

The Polarion Import Wizard easily recognizes and imports Microsoft Word and Excel documents that contain requirements, test cases, defects, etc. to a modern, web-based management platform.

  • Imported documents look and edit exactly like the source documents
  • Preview before import prevents time consuming errors
  • Create professional looking documents for export.
    • Supports PDF, MS Word, Excel, XML, HTML
  • Document "RoundTrip"™ - Changes made outside of Polarion can be imported back seamlessly while keeping your original formatting.
 

 

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Any Methodology or WorkflowSupport any workflow or methodology

Flexible, Adaptable, Customizable Support for the way you build your software and systems

Don't adapt to your software,
Make your software
adapt to you

  • Supports Agile/Lean, Traditional, Hybrid, or custom environments
    • FDD, XP, Scrum, RUP, Kanban, etc.
  • Attain compliance with a wide spectrum of industry standards like FDA, FAA, CMMI, ISO, IEC, CPI, SPICE, and many more.
  • Customizable Workflow Support - covers all the artifacts from requirements
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Support any Workflow
Support any Workflow
Support any Workflow
Sprint Board drives the SCRUM sprint
Sprint Board drives the SCRUM sprint
Sprint Board drives the SCRUM sprint
Bulk perform workflow transition
Bulk perform workflow transition
Bulk perform workflow transition
 
WE DO SCRUM
WE DO SCRUM

Do you SCRUM? So do we!

Scrum Process2

Polarion´s R&D team loves the tool they use to manage Polarion development. One would hope so, because they make it! After several years of refinement and proven success "in the trenches", our own SCRUM-based "ALM Project" Template... the same one our R&D team uses for Polarion development... is bundled with Polarion ALM. The configuration has been fine-tuned in our own labs by Polarion SCRUM masters, and includes predefined Status Dashboard, Sprint Board with burn-down chart, Task Board, workflows for the user story review process, and much more. It´s "out-of-box" ready for your SCRUM projects, or you can tweak it to make our SCRUM-based process fit yours.

 

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Web-based collaborationCollaboration

Improve communication between Development, Operations and Quality Assurance.

DevOps oriented processes and methods help you increase collaboration, reduce production risks, and release your products or services in a more timely manner.
Sharing information, plans and requirements amongst the team helps them to respond faster to frequent changes. Sharing tools makes it possible to automate
repeated cross-team tasks and reduces deployment errors.

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Comments and Discussion online and offline
Comments and Discussion online and offline
Comments and Discussion online and offline
Email notifications on selected events
Email notifications on selected events
Email notifications on selected events
Electronic Signatures
Electronic Signatures
Electronic Signatures

Real Time Collaboration
Across Tools and Teams

  • Subscriptions let you select events you want to monitor and be notified of any changes
  • Enter and browse document comments from within Word documents or from online collaborators
  • "My Polarion" dashboard pushes the information to user, so user does not need to search what is important.
  • Read and sign documents electronically
  • All aspects of collaboration such as discussion threads are recorded so you can trace how you came to various decisions
 

 

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Test Case ManagementTest Management

Specify, Manage, and Execute Test Cases on a Single Platform

One Testing Solution
for the Entire Team

  • Create test cases & easily link them to their corresponding work items such as requirements, change requests, other test cases, etc.
  • Automatically create bug reports and tasks for developers based on test failures
  • Workflow triggers automatic test script runs & reports results
  • Import test cases from wide variety of 3rd party apps including Excel
  • Manage test cases from any browser enabled device
  • Bi-directional synchronization of test cases between MS Excel and Polarion ALM
  • Automated Test Case is a "first-class citizen": integrate with 3rd party test automation tools via Open API, auto-run via Builds, import-ready for any test results in xUnit file format.
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Specify, Manage, and Execute Test Cases
Specify, Manage, and Execute Test Cases
Specify, Manage, and Execute Test Cases
Test Specification document
Test Specification document
Test Specification document
Automatically created bug report
Automatically created bug report
Automatically created bug report
 

 

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ReuseReuse

Avoid risk of un-synced changes when requirements are copy-pasted across your project.

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Live Branch of Requirements Specification
Live Branch of Requirements Specification
Live Branch of Requirements Specification
Branch Document with single click
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Branch Document with single click
Derived Documents for Regulatory Specifications
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Derived Documents for Regulatory Specifications
  • Document Reuse for efficient sharing of regulatory requirements across your projects
  • Live-Branches for managing variants of your requirements specification document
  • Granular changes propagate instantly or on-demand
  • Save time on managing isolated copies of your documents - no copy/paste on every change of your common specification
 
 

 

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Risk ManagementRisk Management

Identify all possible failures (as risk items), and plan tasks to mitigate the potential risk

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FMEA Work Sheet
FMEA Work Sheet
FMEA Work Sheet
Risk Specification Document
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Risk Specification Document
  • Built-in preconfigured project templates (fully customizable) will save you time when creating risk assessment for new projects
  • Ensure your regulatory requirements are verified
  • Real time analytics for assessment of failure modes including support for FMEA worksheets
  • Reduce risk of critical bugs being untested before release into the field
 

 

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Build ManagementAutomated Build Management

Integration with leading tools such as Hudson, Ant & Maven

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Create new Build on demand or as scheduled job
Create new Build on demand or as scheduled job
Create new Build on demand or as scheduled job
Build notification speedup recovery process
Build notification speedup recovery process
Build notification speedup recovery process
Changelog
Changelog
Changelog

Improve Product Quality with Continuous Integration

  • Email notifications on build or test failures help speed up compile and error recovery processes
  • Quickly track down issues with complete Audit trails of builds and releases
  • Measure re-use of requirements, test cases, and other artifacts across projects
 

 

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Live Reporting and DashboardsLive Reporting and Dashboards

Real time visibility into the status of your release

Visual Metrics Enable Continuous Improvement

  • Any stakeholder can review the real time project status online
  • Easily create your own reports or use any of the reporting extensions available on the Polarion Extensions Portal (POP)
  • Run reports across multiple projects to help coordinate activities amongst different teams
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Cross-project reporting
Cross-project reporting
Cross-project reporting
Burn-down chart for release cycle
Burn-down chart for release cycle
Burn-down chart for release cycle
Project Dashboard
Project Dashboard
Project Dashboard
 

 

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Audits and MetricsAudits & Qualitative Metrics

Real time visibility into the status of your release

  • Manage risk better by catching problems earlier in the lifecycle
  • Assess the performance of your project im real time: live, always up-to-date fully configurable to your needs
  • Ensure your code meets metrics for security, reliability & maintainability with status source code analysis
  • Process analysis reports generate recommendations to improve your process maturity
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Metrics, Statistics and KPIs
Metrics, Statistics and KPIs
Metrics, Statistics and KPIs
Test Coverage report
Test Coverage report
Test Coverage report
Static source code analysis
Static source code analysis
Static source code analysis
 

 

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Automated Resource & Project PlanningAutomated Resource & Project Planning

See bottlenecks before committing to schedules

Live Dashboards and a "LivePlan" enable you to quickly get a handle on project status and progress, reveal dependencies and over- or under-utilized resources
in real time as team members complete assigned tasks.

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LivePlan shows the actual workload across the projects
LivePlan shows the actual workload across the projects
LivePlan shows the actual workload across the projects
Log time spent and export the work report for a user, team or project
Log time spent and export the work report for a user, team or project
Log time spent and export the work report for a user, team or project
Plan your milestones
Plan your milestones
Plan your milestones

Predict & fix problems
before they occur

  • Assign tasks to milestones and estimate time needed to complete and then watch the plan appear.
  • Simple, straightforward time tracking - People log actual time spent on tasks as the close them
  • Managers know exactly where projects stand based on real task completion data. Manage your resources, not a planning tool.
  • If your team works on multiple projects just drill up and review the organization wide cross project plan
 

 

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ExtensibilityConnectors and Extensibility

Out of the box integrations with popular tools.
Free, open APIs let you build your own apps and extensions

Polarion ALM manages all phases of the application lifecycle but our customers need integrations: to make a smooth start, to connect external teams

  • Polarion’s HP QC Connector - Seamless integration with HP Quality Center used for test management
  • Polarion’s Jira Connector -Seamless integration with Atlassian JIRA used for defect tracking and Agile project management
  • Custom Connectors - Built on open standards, Polarion Professional Services can build you custom integrations with other complimentary 3rd-party solutions
  • Java Open API and Web Services API - Leverage the Polarion API and build your own extension/integration that works with Polarion
  • Leverage the skills of the entire Polarion Community: 10.000 members, 150 extensions
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Polarion Popular Extensions - Polarion POP
Polarion Popular Extensions - Polarion POP
Polarion Popular Extensions - Polarion POP
All kinds of extensions - e.g. Polarion integration with Eclipse IDE
All kinds of extensions - e.g. Polarion integration with Eclipse IDE
All kinds of extensions - e.g. Polarion integration with Eclipse IDE
Fully documented API
Fully documented API
Fully documented API
 

 

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ComplianceCompliance

Attain compliance with a wide spectrum of industry standards

Combined innovative Application Lifecycle management technologies with the thorough knowledge of many industry standards: CMMI, SOX, FDA, SPICE, and more.

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Polarion MedPack cover full
Polarion MedPack cover full
Polarion MedPack cover full
CMMI self assessment
CMMI self assessment
CMMI self assessment
Electronic signatures
Electronic signatures
Electronic signatures

Multiple industries,
Multiple standards,
Multiple regulations...
One Solution

  • Qualified as a trusted tool for ISO 26262/IEC 61508,
  • Project templates for fast implementation
  • Based on actual data, per project, or across the enterprise
  • Better accuracy, less guesswork about state of compliance
 

 
 
 

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ReuseText, Drawings, Diagrams

Express requirements as text, as drawings/diagrams, or both

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UML - Flowcharting
UML - Flowcharting
UML - Flowcharting
Extensive Digram Editor
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Extensive Digram Editor
Diagrams integrated into LiveDoc
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Diagrams integrated into LiveDoc
  • Create almost any kind of diagram right in your browser
  • Embed diagrams in LiveDoc text and/or Work Items
  • Robust library of diagram elements
  • UML - Flowcharting - BPMN and more
  • Extensive menu of element formatting options
  • >Diagrams export with LiveDocs to Word and PDF Documents.

 

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