Imagine… You are away from office, no laptop or no Ethernet access, but you urgently need to approve release builds, requirement specifications, or project change requests. Polarion’s plug-in for Mobile Devices will help you out Everyone who uses Polarion Requirements or Polarion ALM now has a nifty plug-in for mobile devices – whatever web enabled [...]

Introduction This document offers a high-level description of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) DO-178B certification standards for aircraft equipment, arguably one of the world’s most stringent manufacturing standards, and explains how Polarion customers manufacturing software and hardware for airborne equipment rely on Polarion solutions to help them comply with FAA regulations and manage the complexities of [...]

By Robert Neher You’ve done your homework and you know you’ve come across a great solution (namely Polarion ALM or Polarion Requirements!) that would be a major benefit to your organization. But management wants you to show them the “Return on Investment” (“ROI” in execu-speak). What? You manage development projects, you’re not a number juggler. [...]

Introduction This document will describe the critical performance factors of the Polarion platform, scalability pitfalls and limitations, and recommendations related to capacity-planning your production environment. It will do so based on a few scenarios that are representative of our install base. System Configuration Landscape Polarion is a web-based application. Clients interface with it through a [...]

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is similar to many organizations embracing software to automate while forced to maintain legacy processes. FDA ruling 21 CFR Part 11 specifies how electronic records and electronic signatures can be used as a substitute for paper records and handwritten signatures. It is directly applicable to Polarion customers involved [...]

The Polarion POP Challenge 2010 is over, and the winner has been selected from among the 10 extensions submitted: Traceability Report by Giuseppe Pitzalis (Selex Communications) Bulk Perform Workflow Action by : Giuseppe Pitzalis (Selex Communications) FreeMind Integration by Mika Karaila (Metso Automation Inc.) RoleBasedSVNAccess by Manuel Sprock (Phoenix Contact) MySQL Support Tutorial Source by Matti [...]

Service Release 1 (SR-1) for Polarion 2010 is now available. The release delivers some new features and significant improvements in additions to bug fixes and general improvements: Polarion installs as a service on Windows Work item tree view supports multiple link roles in queries (ALM and Requirements only) New “Load All” action for work item [...]

Polarion VP Research & Development Nick Entin gives a detailed how-to for the MS Office Word Importer for Polarion. The Importer migrates existing Requirements or other types of work items, described in a MS Word document format to Polarion.