Planview AgilePlace vs Polarion ALM comparison

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Planview and Siemens are both solutions in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category. Planview is ranked #19, while Siemens is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.3. Planview holds a 1.8% mindshare in ALM, compared to Siemens’s 4.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Planview users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Siemens users who would recommend it.

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88% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

Polarion ALM and Planview AgilePlace are two contenders in the project management arena. Polarion ALM appears to have the upper hand in tool integrations and compliance needs, while Planview AgilePlace excels in flexibility and customization.

Features: Polarion ALM provides comprehensive requirements management, excellent traceability, and robust audit capabilities, which are critical for highly regulated industries. In contrast, Planview AgilePlace stands out for its visualization capabilities, efficient workflow management, and support for Kanban and Scrum methodologies, benefiting agile environments.

Room for Improvement: Polarion ALM could improve in its user accessibility and customization, as it can be complex for new users. Additionally, it might benefit from enhanced planning and management tools. Planview AgilePlace could benefit from more advanced reporting features, further integration capabilities, and more detailed customization options for complex project needs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Planview AgilePlace, with its cloud-based deployment, allows for easier adoption and minimal setup challenges, alongside strong customer support. Polarion ALM, typically requiring on-premises deployment, involves longer installation times but compensates with robust customer support to streamline this process.

Pricing and ROI: Polarion ALM might have higher initial costs due to its extensive on-premises installation, but delivers considerable ROI through its functionalities and long-term service agreements. Planview AgilePlace is seen as more cost-effective, offering flexible subscription plans and quicker ROI realization, suitable for budget-conscious organizations.

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Categories and Ranking

Planview AgilePlace

Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

19th

Ranking in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools

13th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Polarion ALM

Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

8th

Ranking in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category, the mindshare of Planview AgilePlace is 1.8%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Polarion ALM is 4.2%, down from 7.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Polarion ALM	4.2%
Planview AgilePlace	1.8%
Other	94.0%

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

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it_user1676835

Perfect Execution Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Gives us visibility into projects and enables users to leave comments on different projects

We use the submit feedback button pretty often. I encourage the teams to use that if they see anything that could be improved. But we've been really happy with how fast LeanKit improves. The biggest improvement would be the API and data connections and making the data more accessible or quicker to access. One of our team members has brought up actual-time tracking on a card as a potential improvement. They had an interest in knowing how long a specific card had been worked on by a specific user or somebody that was assigned to that card. But there's not really a way for them to start and stop a time that they were actually working on it, except for if we created a different lane and they dragged it into the lane and then stopped using it in the lane. They requested that there'd be some sort of timer function on each one of the tasks.

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LasseMikkonen

CEO at byte

Has provided mature traceability and configuration features while supporting complex product development for mid-to-large companies

Polarion ALM can learn from Atlassian tools a lot, as the usability is not the best, and it is really narrowly focused on requirements management only. For example, if you want to do testing and test result management with it, it is very limited. Jama Connect has similar limitations, and both should really focus on developing the integrations and extendability. For example, Jama Connect does not even have an extension marketplace, whereas Polarion has a small one. However, compared to the Atlassian Marketplace where you can get whatever applications for whatever price, it is a totally different ballgame. I would highly recommend Polarion ALM add more AI features to it. I know they have started to do something, but for example, I have been developing widgets for IBM DOORS Next, AI widgets, so that you can write and analyze requirements with the AI, and I have also done the same for Jira, creating a couple of Jira applications in the marketplace as well.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"LeanKit is amazing when it comes to getting answers about a given card's status. That's one of the biggest takeaways that we've had. The status is right there on the board. Everybody can see it. You just click on it and it gives you everything that you need to know, especially the comments feature because it gives us a timeline of updates. We use that a lot where we write a comment on the card and then we can see and track progress as we move it across the board."

"We have really benefited from it from the delivery perspective as well as from the perspective of planning the work."

"The transparency that it brings is valuable. I like to look at things from all angles, and sometimes, flip chart paper on a wall and sticky notes are better than something on a screen, but the way they've made it accessible from all points for anyone within an organization is great. As a project management guy, sometimes, you have to force people into new environments where they have to see what you're talking about. Any screen is a barrier, and people got to get into the screen. How do you know they do? You don't necessarily know, but you are getting around that barrier with a countermeasure of making it accessible to as many as possible. So, everyone can jump in there and see everything. It is fully transparent, and I like that. This is one thing that helps."

"Our cycle times have reduced by 50%; they are now half as long as they used to be."

"We use the board and card hierarchies in terms of sprints so that we can see if we have cross-functional teams that are working on the same projects together, especially when projects have dependencies. The parent-child relationship within cards is really nice so that we can see what kind of dependencies there are when we're trying to get projects finished."

"I think we tripled our outputs roughly with half the resources."

"People found the ability to set up different lanes and the ability to see where they're within the progress most valuable. They can use different colored cards or sticky notes, and then they can separate out which cards belong to a department or the initiative they're working on. They can filter who's working on it, and I've got good feedback about that."

"The "Blocking" feature has helped our scrum masters track impediments and share them at the program level to stakeholders with accountability and detail so that they understand and the action items which can be noted easily."

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"It is a very stable solution."

"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 features I find the most valuable are requirement tracking and schematics."

"The initial setup of this solution was straightforward, and there were not too many problems with it."

"Even though Polarion is quite expensive, it's quite a good solution for medical device development in general, especially for software development."

"We had a nice experience with technical support."

"Polarion ALM is powerful in easily creating your own workflows for completely different kinds of things."

"The technical support is quite good."

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Cons

"Sometimes, we use it for project management lessons learned, and it would be helpful if there was a template set up for something like that because we code different cards based on the category."

"Our overall impression of Leankit has been very positive, however, our experience with the JIRA integration into our Leankit boards was much harder than we anticipated and that could be improved by simplifying it somehow."

"Some aspects of the reporting and dashboard could be improved."

"The integration with the Enterprise One product is probably an area for improvement. It's not really broken. It's just that it is such a handy tool and a great way to visually manage things. There is a very limited hookup/integration between Enterprise One, which is the master Planview tool, and LeanKit. While they are looking at this on their roadmap, it definitely needs to happen. There is a lot of opportunity there."

"It is a pretty good product. It is really hard to think of things that I'd want to be improved. Sometimes, we use it for project management lessons learned. So, we have three columns, such as Could be Improved, Keep Doing, and Works Really Well. It would be helpful if there was a template set up for something like that because we code different cards based on the category. For example, if something belongs to the Could be Improved category, we may have those cards as yellow, but then I have to change the color of them and put a header. It is not as smooth, but it still works fine. To be honest, I don't have a lot of complaints about it."

"The ability to report on customizable fields and third-party extensions needs improvement."

"There's room for improvement with the Instant Coffee feature. There are other businesses that have been interested in leveraging a virtual whiteboard or sticky note capability and how Instant Coffee was developed has not met the mark."

"I do not know what it can do in the area of scrum."

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"Polarion ALM can learn from Atlassian tools a lot, as the usability is not the best, and it is really narrowly focused on requirements management only."

"The planning and task management aspects of the solution were not that easy."

"The solution is not easy to use. The configuration aspect of the solution is not easy."

"The weak point of Polarion ALM software is about reporting and time for extraction of the data...The quality of reporting needs to improve."

"One of Polarion's shortcomings would be planning. It can handle plans, but the planning feature is very basic."

"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 backlog management for Agile in Polarion ALM could be improved or enhanced in future releases."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"In general, Planview's cost structure is reasonable. You get quite a lot of functionality for the license cost that you get."

"I don't believe there are any costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."

"As far as I understand, it is not an expensive application."

"I don't know what it would be on its own. It was basically included with what we were already paying or using. So, it was a no-brainer. It wasn't like we had to sell the company on making a purchase or anything like that. There weren't any costs that came in after implementing it."

"Software for medical devices is always expensive."

"The solution is expensive."

"Our license for Polarion ALM is yearly. And it's not the cheapest tool that we've looked at. So if we had made our decision purely based on the licensing cost, we wouldn't have selected Polarion."

"If the pricing would come down and it was more affordable then we wouldn't have to switch."

"You have to pay around 50-60 euros per user."

"The license model is okay for large companies but would be quite expensive for smaller enterprises."

"It is an expensive product."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Outsourcing Company

Insurance Company

Manufacturing Company

32%

Comms Service Provider

Healthcare Company

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	7

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	13

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What needs improvement with Polarion ALM?

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What is your primary use case for Polarion ALM?

We are in our product development using Polarion ALM's functionalities. I am a power user, partly responsible for configuring the tool. We are using it for many things. The idea was to go for a req...

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What advice do you have for others considering Polarion ALM?

The pricing of Polarion ALM and IBM ELM is pretty much aligned. They are not at the same level, but I would say aligned according to the capabilities of the tools, with DOORS being more expensive b...

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Also Known As

Planview LeanKit, LeanKit

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Overview

Planview AgilePlace provides an intuitive platform for managing and visualizing work, supporting task tracking, Kanban boards, and agile management while enhancing collaboration and transparency.

Planview AgilePlace is a tool for tracking and optimizing team workflows through visual boards and advanced features like swim lanes and lean methodologies. It integrates with Power BI, facilitates strategic planning through its card status updates and Scrum integration, and improves project prioritization with resource management and financial tracking. It stands out due to its intuitive design and ease of use. While effective, the platform could enhance integration with Enterprise One and JIRA, improve customization, and offer better time-tracking functionalities. Enhanced reporting, dashboard capabilities, and API access are also anticipated upgrades. Users desire further enhancements in AgilePlace's recurring card functionalities and industry-specific agile project management features.

What are the key features of Planview AgilePlace?

Customizable Kanban Boards: Design boards with swim lanes and dependencies for efficient task management.
Visible Work Tracking: Improve transparency with clear visual workflows and defined card status.
Integration Capabilities: Seamless connectivity with tools like Power BI for improved data analysis.
Efficient Reporting: Generate comprehensive reports to support strategic decisions.
LeanKit's Interface: Navigate tasks easily with an intuitive layout and agile features.

What benefits should users look for in Planview AgilePlace reviews?

Enhanced Collaboration: Foster teamwork through shared visual management tools.
Strategic Planning: Utilize Scrum integration and resource management for effective planning.
Improved Task Management: Streamline workflows with tailored Kanban boards and visible progress tracking.
Enterprise-wide Integration: Connect with systems like JIRA for comprehensive project oversight.
Usability and Visibility: Benefit from an intuitive platform that simplifies project tracking and execution.

Planview AgilePlace finds application in industries requiring agile management and task visualization, such as technology and finance. It supports project management from initial requests to closure, aligning team priorities and enhancing workflow management. Teams leverage its capabilities for planning, resource allocation, and capital project tracking, integrating seamlessly with enterprise systems to deliver outcomes efficiently.

Planview

Polarion ALM focuses on requirements management, offering structured management and traceability across projects. Known for integration and flexibility, it supports collaboration with user-friendly navigation.

Polarion ALM is recognized for its ability to streamline tasks, enabling comprehensive project management without external plugins. Its interface supports real-time collaboration and advanced reporting, while document control and workflow configuration provide additional value. Despite needing enhancements in integration and automation, it serves application lifecycle management across industries like medical device development and automotive, integrating with SVN and GitLab.

What are the key features of Polarion ALM?

Traceability: Ensures seamless tracking of project requirements.
Document Control: Manages comprehensive documentation efficiently.
Workflow Configuration: Simplifies tasks with customizable workflows.
Integration: Connects well with tools like SVN and GitLab.
Collaboration: Supports teamwork with real-time sync and interaction.

What benefits or ROI should users look for?

Efficiency: Reduces time through streamlined task management.
Flexibility: Adapts to diverse project requirements.
Scalability: Grows with organizational needs.
Compliance: Supports regulatory requirements effectively.
Comprehensive Features: Minimizes need for external plugins.

Polarion ALM finds application in sectors such as medical device development and automotive, utilized for application lifecycle management, requirements engineering, and documentation. Organizations benefit from its support for DevOps, task management, and traceability, effectively capturing customer needs and managing test cases.

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Sample Customers

REA Group, Thompson Reuters

Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, IBS AG, Zumtobel Group

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