This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Subversive StoryThis is part two of a three-part series discussing the story of Polarion’s Subversive Project. Celebrating the 8th birthday of Subversive, we had the opportunity to talk about the project with Igor Vinnykov, who led Subversive from its inception. Read Part One How did [...]

This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Risk Management practices in Medical Device developmentIntroduction I am sitting in the office of a Polarion customer when he drops a binder that contains over 1,200 pages on the desk. The sound it made was so loud, it startled me in my chair. “That is [...]

by Nick Entin In this article I will describe the critical performance factors of the Polarion platform, scalability pitfalls and limitations, and recommendations related to capacity-planning your production environment, all based on several scenarios that are representative of our install base. System Configuration Landscape Polarion is a web-based application. Clients interface with it through a [...]

Involved with safety-critical medical device development? Special guest speaker Laurence Sampson, President of SampsonSurgical, will share his experience and challenges as a consultant providing design control services to the Medical Device Industry in this interactive webinar. Polarion’s interactive webinar will help regulatory, quality and R&D professionals understand the special issues of product development and how they [...]

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Subversive StoryThe story of the Subversive project begins in 2005, when Polarion assigned a development team to work on the open-source Eclipse client for Subversion (SVN). In the following years, Subversive changed from a new and almost unknown open-source project to one of the most [...]

This February, employees, partners and guests gathered from all around the world to kick off the release of Polarion 2013. It was a pleasure to see everyone in one place, as the event reflected Polarion’s international presence, with partners from countries such as China, India, Japan, Brazil, and many more. Hard work really does pay [...]

In late February, Polarion Software proudly exhibited at Embedded World 2013, one of the biggest events around the topic of embedded systems.  Located in Nuremberg, Germany, our ever popular polar bear mascot was once again present at our booth, which provided some light-hearted entertainment.  But what stole the spotlight were our Medical Device and Automotive [...]

If you’ve seen my other post – “Polarion 2013 – Just Released” – you know we have just released version 2013 of the Polarion product line. That post summarizes the features we iteratively developed and released to our customers during the past year, but which are actually features of version 2013. (Yes, is a bit different [...]

It’s always fun and exciting to announce a new Polarion release and show off the work of our world-class R&D team. The new 2013 release is no exception, and there are a number of things I’d like to highlight here. In addition to the new features and enhancements, which you can read about below, you [...]

Customers often ask about how they can integrate their own subversion repository into Polarion. The first steps are very easy, and the repository is quickly configured to work with cool things like automated commit recognition for revision linking. However, people expect useful features such as directly viewing files and even seeing the latest changes from [...]

It is with great excitement that we announce the following news — Polarion Software was chosen as the 2013 “Tool Challenge” winner at Software Quality Days and received the event’s “Best Quality Tool Award 2013.”  Held January 15-17 in Vienna, Austria, Software Quality Days is the biggest event in Austria and the second biggest in [...]

At Polarion, creating more value for our customers is a top priority.   Part of Polarion’s ongoing internal training activities are dedicated to just that.  All of our consultants who took the IREB exam passed and were certified for the CPRE (Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering) Foundation Level.  CPRE FL certification signifies the understanding and knowledge [...]

The era of cloud computing and mobile application development has created more challenges in the maintenance and management of requirements.  In the SD Times article “Requirements management: Changing paradigms,” our very own Stefano Rizzo (SVP of Strategy & Business Development) elaborates on the challenges software development teams face in requirements management. In his interview, Rizzo [...]