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 most valuable feature is the function of the ALM system."
"The technical support is quite good."
"Polarion ALM has some valuable tools for managing our targets and requirements. I think that's its best feature."
"The initial setup of this solution was straightforward, and there were not too many problems with it."
"The best feature of Polarion ALM to me is its traceability link."
"We had a nice experience with technical support."
"Scalability is good...The integration is quite good."
"The solution offers good integration."
"Having that view into features and roadmap from product to delivery teams, and where they are going, then execute on."
"CA Agile Central provides visibility into how teams are meeting business objectives."
"I was able to create epics for our budgeting concerns and it helped me link everything together."
"CA Agile Central helps the entire organization run like one powerful team."
"The transparency it allows us to provide, both from the team level all the way through the executive level within the company and the work that we are doing."
"Helps me plan an estimate of how soon or how far out we'll be able to deliver something."
"We have teams come and go all the time. We have teams in India, America, Ireland, Poland, Italy, England... we are spread out everywhere! Rally is our key tool for scrum planning and our single source of truth, and it handles it all flawlessly."
"What I like the most about Agile Central is that it is the only system I need to have full control and visibility of our entire body of work plus the activities and processes required to deliver it."
"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 solution needs to improve its user experience and graphics."
"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 solution can be improved by making it more user-friendly, and a server-based application rather than client based."
"Technical support needs some improvement."
"Test management lacks an automated process."
"The user interface is not yet optimized."
"The interface for this solution needs to be made more user-friendly to provide a better user experience."
"Rally Software is highly complex, and it takes some effort to get everything tied together. But once you do, it's a satisfying experience, and the result looks beautiful. Azure, ServiceNow, and Jira do not have all the features that Rally Software provides in one place, making it an exceptional tool for project management."
"I'd like the ability to customize reports without having to incur Professional Services, or having to write my own code GitHub and then implement that as a custom report. That's untenable. It's not sustainable."
"The stronger CA can get on dependency mapping the better. That's the biggest hiccup. As you're setting up your features, they should make it easier to flag the dependencies, either across features or across projects. Then you're more set up for success."
"A lot of the features that we would be looking to add, I am learning may not be within Agile Central, but part of another CA tool set."
"In Rally Software, the connection with GitLab and GitHub needs improvement."
"We did submit an enhancement request. I think a lot of teams that do very large scale products have the same issue. They just do not realize it would help them."
"As it is right now, it does not support automation of the quality assurance process. It just supports manual testing."
"I think there is a missing link with the development activity. Some developers are pushing in new versions of the code, but you cannot make the link from the user story to a specific application version."
Polarion ALM is ranked 8th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews while Rally Software is ranked 7th 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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