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Polarion® ALM Community – the FREE ALM Starter Platform

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Does this resemble your team's software development or project management wish list?

  • We just need a good solid bug tracker and version control
  • We want a no-nonsense, down-to-earth web based solution that we can install, configure, and administer ourselves
  • We want to go with the market leader Subversion for version control –preferably without a lot of pain and headaches
  • We want the option of tracker access from the Eclipse IDE.
  • We want seamless upward mobility in case we ever need it
  • We don't have much budget right now - in fact, free would be nice

If this sounds a lot like your wish list, then you've been wishing for Polarion® ALM Community for Subversion™ – the free ALM starter tool with solid, state-of-the-art ALM basics for today, and seamless, affordable, risk-free upward mobility for tomorrow.

Polarion ALM Community is designed for organizations and teams seeking a solution to integrate configuration management and version control with bug tracking and change management now, but who have an eye towards future growth.

  • You get same state-of-the-art bug tracker that comes with our Polarion ALM Pro and Polarion ALM Enterprise products. You also get some highly useful capabilities like work item to revision linking, workflow-based work item life cycle support, and Live Project Overview dashboard.
  • Easy automated installation on Windows® and popular Linux distros, simple administration and configuration with web GUI or easy to understand XML configuration files. Standard HTTP protocols with Apache work inside or outside corporate firewalls with state of the art security.
  • Integrated Subversion repository that manages and versions not only your Java™ source code, but all development artifacts - bugs, tasks, comments, even file attachments. Comes with the same SVN web client as our paid ALM products (or you can use your preferred client). We have a free repository migration tool to move your CVS repositories, or repos from common commercial VCSs, to Subversion. Polarion ALM Community may well be the easiest way to move to Subversion you can find... and you get so much more than just version control.
  • Tracker plugin for Eclipse. You have the option to use the Polarion ALM web portal, or access basic tracker functions right in the Eclipse IDE with Polarion's FastTrack Tracker Plugin for Eclipse.
  • Built-in upward mobility. Because Polarion ALM is a fully integrated platform, moving up to more robust ALM capabilities to support your expanding ALM best practices is a simple matter of switching over to a different license. Nothing to download, nothing to install, nothing to integrate!
  • Low budget? No problem. Polarion ALM Community is free. And not just for 1 or 2 users. You get a non-expiring license that will support your whole team. (Support is not included, but this product is so straightforward you may not need it. If you do, we have support packages available.)

Get as much ALM as you need

Polarion ALM Community is a great way to get started using Subversion and ALM best practices. For smaller distributed teams that just need a solid bug tracking tool and version control, it may well deliver everything they will ever need (and the price can't be beat). But it's definitely not a dead end!

When your organization is ready for more project planning, management, and team collaboration capabilities, you can move your development to Polarion ALM Pro. The path is smooth and completely seamless – just re-license and you're ready to roll. If you find you need still more capabilities like advanced requirements engineering or CMMI compliance support, Polarion ALM Enterprise is readily available. You can mix and match Pro and Enterprise licenses so that all stakeholders have just the level of ALM capabilities they need and no more.

More Free Tools

  • SVN Importer by Polarion® – fast, risk-free data migration from popular version control systems to Polarion ALM's Subversion repository. (FREE)
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  • Polarion® FastTrack™ for Subversion™ – Provides robust, stand-alone issue tracking and basic SVN-based sharing from within the Eclipse IDE, or can function as a rich tracker client for all Polarion ALM products.

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