We performed a comparison between Polarion ALM and TFS 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."
"It meets with everybody's needs without having to grab plugins."
"Scalability is good...The integration is quite good."
"The features I find the most valuable are requirement tracking and schematics."
"It offers good performance."
"The initial setup of this solution was straightforward, and there were not too many problems with it."
"I am impressed with the solution’s stability."
"The solution offers good integration."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is its compatibility with Microsoft Windows systems. We have predominantly Microsoft solutions and TFS work well."
"TFS is very user-friendly."
"We use TFS for forecast management."
"The most valuable features of TFS are the test plans. We can reproduce reusable test plans in test automation. We have a lot of queries and this feature is very useful."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is the central repository, and you can see what changes other developers did from which branch."
"From the project management perspective, the tool is efficiently managing teams by giving management information, such as reports, graphs, velocity, capacity, etc."
"This solution enables us to link all items usefully, in the way we use Agile."
"Some of the valuable features are version control and the ability to create different collections in terms of segregating the authorization for teams who connect to small projects."
"The solution's editing capabilities need improvement."
"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 configuration aspect of the solution is not easy. A person needs a lot of programming knowledge in order to successfully handle the job."
"Test management lacks an automated process."
"The ease-of-use could be improved a little."
"The user interface is not yet optimized."
"Technical support needs some improvement."
"There's not automatic access to test case management and execution."
"The solution is stable but could improve."
"The user interface could improve and test management was not useful in TFS."
"The dashboard needs more enhancements."
"The manageability and performance of the product are areas of concern where improvements are required."
"TFS needs to be stable."
"Microsoft should discontinue the use of SharePoint as I don’t really see any value add to TFS, document management features can be included in TFS web portal itself, if required!"
"TFS isn't a great tool if you're on the cloud."
Polarion ALM is ranked 8th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews while TFS is ranked 3rd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 93 reviews. Polarion ALM is rated 7.8, while TFS is rated 8.0. 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 TFS writes "It is helpful for scheduled releases and enforcing rules, but it should be better at merging changes for multiple developers and retaining the historical information". Polarion ALM is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Codebeamer, PTC Integrity and ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, TestRail and Tricentis Tosca. See our Polarion ALM vs. TFS report.
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