[Polarion ALM] A One-Stop Solution Empowering the New Era of Application Lifecycle Management

Polarion ALM is a comprehensive solution that helps teams collaborate efficiently, track, and manage work throughout the entire application development lifecycle while ensuring compliance and quality standards.

In legacy software development environments, multiple scattered point solutions are often used to manage the application lifecycle. This results in fragmented storage of development artifacts, hinders collaboration speed, reduces transparency, compromises overall integrity, and makes innovation difficult.

Although many development teams are adopting agile processes to achieve higher levels of agility and productivity, developers still worry about challenges related to visibility, deployment, and release quality. In today's environment, customers raise demands, product management defines related requirements, development teams commit to meeting them, and operations teams prepare for delivery. However, when it comes to the actual release, the outcome often differs from the organization’s original goals.

Overall, unknown risks increase as the number of changes and adjustments grows throughout the development process.

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What does Polarion ALM bring us?

Polarion ALM addresses the challenges mentioned above by offering a unified solution. It aggregates management information in real time and provides project transparency, allowing every team member to collaborate around the content being built during the application lifecycle. At the same time, Polarion ALM drives progress while ensuring integrity and compliance, aligning the team with consistent goals.

This unified approach helps teams respond more quickly and efficiently to new business opportunities and customer needs. By providing an integrated platform, Polarion ALM enables organizations to better manage and track the entire application development lifecycle. It also ensures smoother collaboration among team members, promoting innovation and continuous improvement.

Advantages of Polarion ALM

• Enhanced productivity

Improves work efficiency through an intuitive, role-based user interface.

• Project templates ready to use

Adopt modern agile techniques immediately or gradually, using out-of-the-box templates that can be adjusted as needed.

• Improved collaboration and agility

Run entirely through a web browser, enabling all collaborators to share the same data source and collaborate more closely.

• Traceability and automation for quality

Enable users to achieve better product quality and regulatory compliance through end-to-end traceability and automated file logs.

• Optimized evaluation and reporting for predictability

Improve the efficiency of planning, prioritization, and release forecasting through flexible planning and real-time reporting.

Key Features of Polarion ALM

• Change and configuration management

  
  

  • Both project-level and global configurations are version-controlled, offering full auditability and visibility of process configuration and improvement.

  
  

  • Supports SVN and GIT out of the box, and additional version control tools such as Perforce and Plastic SCM through plugins.

  
  

  • Each change to the source code is fully traceable back to the change request, verifying that the final delivered software contains all intended enhancements.

  
  

  • Every artifact, including system requirement specifications, verification procedures, project plans, and tasks, is stored in a version-controlled repository, with each modification generating a version history.

• Reuse and branch management

• Save time managing document copies and eliminate the need for copying and pasting when common specifications change.

• Share requirement specifications in the form of derived documents, enabling projects to publish updates based on needs.

• Branch specifications help manage shared requirements across different products while keeping track of product-specific needs.

• Changes in the main specification can be distributed to branch documents without immediate copy-paste, and can be selectively published when needed.

• Audit, metrics, and reporting

• Ensure that your code meets security, reliability, and maintainability standards through source code status analysis.

• Extend reporting capabilities or deploy custom widgets using open APIs and proper scripting.

• Automate event monitoring and change notifications, and push important information to collaborators through the My Polarion dashboard.

• Generate reports across multiple projects to coordinate activities between different teams, and use BIRT to report across various data sources.

• The unique Time Machine feature allows access to any historical report, and the online WYSIWYG report designer makes report creation easy.

• View reports instantly online, assess project performance in real time, or export as PDF for offline access. All views are fully customizable.

• Requirements management

• Export documents for offline collaboration, and seamlessly reintegrate external changes made outside Polarion.

• All requirement specification documents are immediately visible to all ALM stakeholders for audit, approval, or development.

• Require electronic signatures on reviewed or approved documents before specifications are released to production.

• Built-in ReqIF enables lossless transformation of requirements and test case specifications between customers and suppliers.

• Polarion LiveDocs enables secure collaboration on compliant documents, where each paragraph has a unique ID and traceability.

• Easily import existing assets. Recognize and import requirements, test cases, and other artifacts from Microsoft Word or Excel into the web-based platform.

• Task and risk management

• Automatically assign issues based on classification such as category, severity, and component.

• Identify potential risks and plan tasks to mitigate them.

• Built-in project templates provide risk management functions and help initiate risk assessments for new projects.

• Analyze the quality of requirements by measuring related issues and change requests.

• Automatically track failed manual or automated tests performed in Polarion or third-party tools, ensuring that all issues are traced and managed promptly.

The importance of compliance automation

Users typically rely on multiple vendors, open-source tools, and test solutions such as automated load testing, UI testing, and static code analysis. The architecture of Polarion ALM is designed to manage all of these easily. It serves as the central hub for all test cases, plans, and results. When a test fails, a related work item can be automatically created and assigned to a developer for faster resolution.

Workflow of requirement specification documents

Through Polarion ALM's integrated workflows, compliance is ensured by proving that no steps are skipped. Even in critical situations, actions can be handled quickly. Actual user feedback shows that due to its ease of implementation and full traceability through process change control, they have successfully passed audits and regulatory inspections. Automated workflow control, complete lifecycle traceability, and comprehensive artifact history effectively resolve challenges related to compliance documentation.

Core value of Polarion ALM

In modern development environments, collaboration between customer needs, product management, and development teams has become closer. However, as changes and adjustments increase, so do the risks. Predictability remains an important concern. Polarion ALM offers end-to-end planning and reporting functions, giving teams a comprehensive view of the entire lifecycle. This enables better change management, release forecasting, and impact assessment.

Moreover, Polarion ALM plays a key role in ensuring compliance. By demonstrating that no steps are missed, and responding swiftly to critical situations, it allows customers to pass audits and inspections successfully. Full traceability and automated workflows reduce the burden of compliance documentation, making the process smoother.

Polarion ALM provides a flexible solution that addresses the challenges of transparency, predictability, and compliance in agile development. In this ever-evolving software development environment, Polarion ALM empowers teams to effectively manage the entire application development lifecycle and achieve efficient, traceable, and compliant outcomes.

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