We performed a comparison between Polarion ALM and Rally Software 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 best feature of Polarion ALM to me is its traceability link."
"Polarion ALM's integration is very good and easy to use."
"Scalability is good...The integration is quite good."
"The initial setup of this solution was straightforward, and there were not too many problems with it."
"Polarion ALM has some valuable tools for managing our targets and requirements. I think that's its best feature."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The technical support is quite good."
"The features I find the most valuable are requirement tracking and schematics."
"It helps me evaluate teams' historical performance using velocity charts."
"The Defect feature. In one view you can see all your defects and you can push them into the different releases."
"The effect of these kind of tools drives the way you organize things. It helps you shape the way you flow."
"It's designed around Agile, so it has all of the pieces that match up with the process."
"It helps with getting the alignment between strategy and execution for the product teams, all the way down to the delivery teams."
"Helps me determine how fast I can launch, go to production."
"I was able to create epics for our budgeting concerns and it helped me link everything together."
"It allows us to work in a more dynamic fashion and track more of the development lifecycle."
"The solution's editing capabilities need improvement."
"The user interface is not yet optimized."
"Test management lacks an automated process."
"Based on my understanding, the tool's integration capabilities with multiple tools is an area of concern that Polarion needs to focus on more."
"As Polarion ALM is a development-oriented tool, easy support or easy access is provided by default, but if I want to use detailed features, I need to write the script, particularly the VM script, and this is its area for improvement. I want Polarion ALM to have a graphical user interface that doesn't need scripting. In the next release of the tool, I'd like for it to not require scripting and programming because needing to run script language is time-consuming."
"The planning and task management aspects of the solution were not that easy."
"We use PTC Windchill, and Polarion ALM doesn't have native integration, so we had to purchase the connector to integrate it with Polarion ALM. We still haven't implemented it."
"The interface for this solution needs to be made more user-friendly to provide a better user experience."
"I think there needs to be some simplification. The team-level side can be challenging and complicated."
"CA Agile Central does not have a workflow tool included."
"It could improve by being self-organizing: user stories, different hierarchies, and different perspectives. Not just as a single hierarchical structure, but something that can be multidimensional."
"I would like for workspace admins to be able to hide projects in the Project Picker and not lose any historical data; make them invisible to certain users, visible to certain users, depending on permission sets. That would be lovely."
"It's a bit cumbersome to manage the Project Picker. As we sunset teams or projects close out - but we still have test cases tied to those teams or projects that are being used in other spaces - we have this monstrous list in the Project Picker that becomes really difficult to manage and find, and we can't clean that up ourselves. It would be nice if it was easier to do that and not lose your history."
"There's a lot of support for Scrum and Agile, but it needs something for the Kanban side."
"I think the interface could be a little bit more visual and less wordy. Right now, it seems like it's just a lot of text on the page. In other ticketing systems where it's more visual, you can see more of a flow. But in this one it's more just a list of tasks. I would like to see that a little bit better, especially considering it has so many great organizational features, like child tasks, different artifacts. It would be great to see it presented more appropriately."
"We would like more meaningful, customizable dashboards."
Polarion ALM is ranked 8th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews while Rally Software is ranked 6th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 116 reviews. Polarion ALM is rated 7.8, while Rally Software is rated 8.2. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rally Software writes "Good discussion and note-taking capabilities but hard to track the changes". Polarion ALM is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Codebeamer, PTC Integrity and IBM Engineering Workflow Management, whereas Rally Software is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, TFS, Jira Align and IBM Rational ALM. See our Polarion ALM vs. Rally Software report.
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