We performed a comparison between IBM Rational ALM and Polarion ALM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The tools for requirement capture we have found very useful."
"The solution is customizable."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting of the CPU usage on the dashboard."
"The planning feature is rich with Scrum concepts: Sprint, Sprint retrospective, the rules in the Scrum framework."
"I would rate the stability of this product a nine out of ten."
"At the same time, if you're working from the architect or the designing team you, it's quite easy to manage the resources online."
"One of the key advantages of IBM Rational ALM is its workflow capabilities, which enable seamless collaboration between development and production teams and ensure that all stakeholders are aware of the progress and readiness of the solution. Additionally, the solution is good for integration."
"It helped us contain critical things, like source code and several documents, which is very important to us."
"Scalability is good...The integration is quite good."
"The tool helped us to more effectively and efficiently gather and structure the information (requirements, test plans, project management data, etc.), and share it with the involved stakeholders in a safe and change-controlled manner."
"It meets with everybody's needs without having to grab plugins."
"I am impressed with the solution’s stability."
"It offers good performance."
"The technical support is quite good."
"The solution offers good integration."
"We had a nice experience with technical support."
"I would like to see better reporting features. The out-of-box reporting is - I don't want to say limited - but the focus is on the Scrum and Sprint reports. We need more reporting features regarding the history of the work, tracking it more deeply."
"IBM Rational ALM should remove the features not used by the customers and keep this product as lightweight as possible."
"The features should be more intuitive. If I'm looking for something, its location should be easy to locate."
"The reporting functionality needs to be improved."
"The solution can improve in the development area and the customized applications."
"The stability of IBM Rational ALM could be improved."
"The directory designer manager is uncivil. The design manager is clearly really unstable."
"The GUI is a little bit outdated."
"The configuration aspect of the solution is not easy. A person needs a lot of programming knowledge in order to successfully handle the job."
"The most important thing for them to improve should be platform-independent features. They should also provide extensive pipelines and release pipelines that we can define and we can work on."
"The solution needs to improve its user experience and graphics."
"The solution can be improved by making it more user-friendly, and a server-based application rather than client based."
"The ease-of-use could be improved a little."
"The solution's editing capabilities need improvement."
"One of Polarion's shortcomings would be planning. It can handle plans, but the planning feature is very basic."
"The interface for this solution needs to be made more user-friendly to provide a better user experience."
IBM Rational ALM is ranked 11th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews while Polarion ALM is ranked 8th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews. IBM Rational ALM is rated 7.2, while Polarion ALM is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IBM Rational ALM writes "A complex deployment that is not stable, but is cloud-based". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Polarion ALM writes "Though needing an improvement in reporting and time for extraction of the data, its integration capabilities are good". IBM Rational ALM is most compared with Jira, Codebeamer, Microsoft Azure DevOps, PTC Integrity and Atlassian ALM, whereas Polarion ALM is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Codebeamer, PTC Integrity and OpenText ALM / Quality Center. See our IBM Rational ALM vs. Polarion ALM report.
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