We performed a comparison between Codebeamer 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."Codebeamer's API-based integration and many other integration aspects with other solutions are very powerful."
"The platform provided the flexibility to expand our business processes, accommodating or altering them to suit the requirements of a changing environment."
"You can track the metrics in the Agile dashboard very easily."
"It is a stable solution."
"Since implementing this solution we have better communication and information exchange with customers."
"There is a lot of complexity involved, meaning it can do many things, which can be quite useful."
"The traceability is so simple that I don't need to do any additional configurations related to traceability."
"The solution easily replaces IBM DOORS, which no longer offers maintenance in China."
"I am impressed with the solution’s stability."
"Polarion ALM helps us better structure our customer requirements, and we can also validate the specs of our products against those. If anything changes on our side, we see the impact, and we can see the effect If a customer changes requirements."
"The technical support is quite good."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Polarion ALM's integration is very good and easy to use."
"We had a nice experience with technical support."
"Polarion ALM has some valuable tools for managing our targets and requirements. I think that's its best feature."
"You can see the work ticket and you can circulate that within the teams. You can define your flows, customize according to your needs, and you can create dashboards and create the reports according to your needs."
"I would like to see more, easily trackable reports."
"During migrations from other platforms to CodeBeamer, there have been instances where we encountered issues that required redoing certain tasks."
"Usability needs to be improved."
"The search and replace feature within the tool itself could be improved."
"We would like to see more industry-specific features that are tailored to the vertical markets."
"The solution has a very small market share in China. It's almost like a startup."
"Certain areas in Codebeamer could be improved, like addressing small issues, glitches, or bugs."
"It's still a fairly new tool that lacks maturity right now."
"The solution can be improved by making it more user-friendly, and a server-based application rather than client based."
"The tool needs to improve its planning. It also needs to add more integrations."
"The user interface is not yet optimized."
"Technical support needs some improvement."
"One of Polarion's shortcomings would be planning. It can handle plans, but the planning feature is very basic."
"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's editing capabilities need improvement."
"Test management lacks an automated process."
Codebeamer is ranked 9th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 10 reviews while Polarion ALM is ranked 8th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews. Codebeamer is rated 7.8, while Polarion ALM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Codebeamer writes "Has good technical support services, but the migration process needs improvement". 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". Codebeamer is most compared with PTC Integrity, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, IBM Rational ALM and IBM Engineering Workflow Management, whereas Polarion ALM is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, PTC Integrity, GitLab and Jama Connect. See our Codebeamer vs. Polarion ALM report.
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