Software QA Needs Changing in Connected World

Software QA Needs Changing in Connected World

We expect connected devices to simply work. As more “things” adopt connectivity - thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT) - there is an evolving need for quality assurance (QA) and software test manag...
Holistic Approach to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Holistic Approach to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

A holistic approach to application lifecycle management (ALM) allows your teams and workers to improve application development process using a single, unified solution for software requirements, codi...
Current Tech Trends: Connected Products Changing Industrial Landscape

Current Tech Trends: Connected Products Changing Industrial Landscape

The Internet of Things (IoT) brings connectivity to a wide range of new products, as software disrupts our personal and professional lives. Good software quality is increasingly important, and has b...
Polarion QA: Enhancing your Quality Assurance and Testing Procedures

Polarion QA: Enhancing your Quality Assurance and Testing Procedures

Quality assurance (QA) is an important piece to the puzzle in your software development lifecycle. However, not relying on a complete QA solution might slow down your organization. You can make your ...
Embedded Computing Creating New Business Opportunities

Embedded Computing Creating New Business Opportunities

Embedded software is becoming even more important in product development, leading innovation in connected and engineered products. Although embedded software presents new business opportunities, the...
Quality Assurance (QA) is a Necessity for your Company

Quality Assurance (QA) is a Necessity for your Company

Software testing is an extremely important part of the development process, with quality assurance (QA) and test management growing in importance. If your organization has struggled to find a unifie...
Requirements Management: Helping Solve Complicated Software Development Problems

Requirements Management: Helping Solve Complicated Software Development Problems

Software development is becoming increasingly complex, as more lines of code, demand for smart connectivity, and difficulty resolving post-launch issues plague development teams. Traditional sof...
Webinar On-Demand: ALM Design, Develop and Verify

Webinar On-Demand: ALM Design, Develop and Verify

The use of Polarion ALM [application lifecycle management] gives your team the chance to accelerate innovation in a single unified lifecycle management product. A single, cohesive solution helps...
Making Sense of Current Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Demands

Making Sense of Current Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Demands

Application lifecycle management (ALM) is no longer a solution that decision makers can ignore as part of their development plans. Utilizing three core principles - collaboration, traceability, and w...
ALM-PLM Integration Helping Your Organization Develop Products

ALM-PLM Integration Helping Your Organization Develop Products

The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing how your business develops, manufactures, and supports products. Software continues to “eat the world,” and our dependency on software continues to evolve, s...
On-Demand: Business Benefits of ALM-PLM Integration

On-Demand: Business Benefits of ALM-PLM Integration

Organizations have the ability to bridge the gap between application lifecycle management (ALM) and product lifecycle management (PLM) - with proper ALM-PLM integration providing immediate business i...
Polarion named Market Leader in New Ovum Reports

Polarion named Market Leader in New Ovum Reports

Polarion Software has been listed as a “Market Leader” in two separate categories by the Ovum analyst group, a great honor after being compared to numerous other vendors. As a market leader in both ...
7 Steps to Embracing Enterprise Agile

7 Steps to Embracing Enterprise Agile

There is tough competition in the enterprise business world, as developers need to constantly create innovative software. The ability to embrace Enterprise Agile helps your team deliver better softwa...
On-Demand: Software Development to Boost IoT Innovation

On-Demand: Software Development to Boost IoT Innovation

In case you missed our recent webinar, “Developing to Maximize the IoT Revolution,” the complimentary on-demand recording is now available for you to view. Click the following banner to learn more: ...
Polarion Enterprise Agile: Bridging the 'Speed vs. Compliance' Gap

Polarion Enterprise Agile: Bridging the 'Speed vs. Compliance' Gap

Today’s tough competition means that enterprise developers have to rapidly produce innovative software. Agile methods and approaches have a proven record of delivering better software at a faster pac...
Polarion and Perforce Cross Finish Line for Auto Roadshow

Polarion and Perforce Cross Finish Line for Auto Roadshow

Polarion Software recently joined one of our valued partners, Perforce Software, during the European Automotive Technology Roadshow 2016. It was a fun and exciting opportunity to hop in the roadshow ...
Polarion REQUIREMENTS: Solving Difficult Requirements Management Problems

Polarion REQUIREMENTS: Solving Difficult Requirements Management Problems

Software development is now more complex than ever, with increased lines of code, demand for smart connectivity, and limited time to resolve post-launch issues. Poorly defined requirements often can ...
5 Quick Facts About Why Internet of Things (IoT) Matters to Your Business

5 Quick Facts About Why Internet of Things (IoT) Matters to Your Business

Your workplace is changing, and that is forcing an evolution into how products and services are being created, then deployed to customers. The explosive increase in the Internet of Things (IoT) is s...
ALM-PLM:  Siemens Invests in Future of ALM Market by Acquiring Polarion Software

ALM-PLM: Siemens Invests in Future of ALM Market by Acquiring Polarion Software

As most of you know, Polarion Software is a global world ALM leader and creator of the first 100% browser-based ALM in 2005, Polarion was also the first unified application lifecycle management (ALM)...
Polarion QA is “The Clear Winner” for NetSuite: Success Story

Polarion QA is “The Clear Winner” for NetSuite: Success Story

Selecting the right software for your organization is a difficult task with a number of considerations that must be addressed.  Cloud-based business management firm NetSuite selected Polarion QA...
Siemens Customer Testimonial:  'Polarion's Helping Solve the Problem'

Siemens Customer Testimonial: 'Polarion's Helping Solve the Problem'

At Polarion Software, we pride ourselves on working closely with our partners and customers, providing the best solutions to meet your needs. It’s a symbiotic relationship that we take great care in ...
Unlock Engineering Excellence With a Unified ALM Solution (New On-Demand Webinar)

Unlock Engineering Excellence With a Unified ALM Solution (New On-Demand Webinar)

Our latest on-demand webinar, Unlock Engineering Excellence, Online, throughout Your Application Development Lifecycle, reveals how a 100% browser-based environment can improve collaboration and sync...
Featured Extension: Polarion Connector for Siemens Teamcenter

Featured Extension: Polarion Connector for Siemens Teamcenter

Every so often we like to point up one of the many extensions available to Polarion users on our Extensions Portal. This time we're showcasing a fairly new one: Polarion Connector for Teamcenter. If ...
Designing and Testing For The Human Factor: It IS Rocket Science

Designing and Testing For The Human Factor: It IS Rocket Science

We've all seen the recent headlines: the 2014 crash of Virgin Galactic's experimental rocket, the recall of Jeep and other Fiat Chrysler vehicles. One had fatal consequences, the other easily could h...
How Agile Development and Compliance Can Live Together in the Enterprise

How Agile Development and Compliance Can Live Together in the Enterprise

Like many Polarion customers, medical device market leader NantHealth is the result of several companies merging to maximize strengths and synergies to better compete globally. These mergers resulted...
Polarion 'Puts a Head" on Version 2015

Polarion 'Puts a Head" on Version 2015

It's been a quiet week on the Polarion Software blog. The reason: Polarion teams, partners, and customers have united this week in Pilsen (Plze?), Czech Republic home of the famous Pilsner Urquell br...
New Features of the Polarion Customer Service Portal

New Features of the Polarion Customer Service Portal

One major thing that contributes to a tech company's success is how well they support their customers. At Polarion, "good enough" has never been good enough. Our goal is excellent customer suppo...
Join Polarion at SD Times Webinar on Application Release Automation

Join Polarion at SD Times Webinar on Application Release Automation

Polarion's Director of Technical Services, David Merrill, will co-present a webinar sponsored by SD Times, titled "Consistently Achieve Higher Quality with Application Release Automation" coming...
Holiday Greetings from Polarion Software

Holiday Greetings from Polarion Software

Polarion to talk about requirements and social media at Swiss Requirements Day

Polarion to talk about requirements and social media at Swiss Requirements Day

Polarion Senior VP for Strategy & Business Development, Stefano Rizzo, will speak at this year's Swiss Requirements Day conference in Zurich, June 18, 2014. In his talk at 3:30 pm, Stefano will s...
Polarion Customer Buzz: industrial electrical technology company taking U.S. headquarters off the grid

Polarion Customer Buzz: industrial electrical technology company taking U.S. headquarters off the grid

Our nose for news about customer companies using our Requirements, Testing/QA and ALM solutions turned up an interesting article about an international industrial electrical and electronic techn...
Polarion Customer Buzz: How Luke Skywalker Might Fix Your Teeth

Polarion Customer Buzz: How Luke Skywalker Might Fix Your Teeth

We always have our nose to the net for interesting news about the companies and people who use our solutions for requirements management, testing and quality assurance, and application lifecycle mana...
3 Questions Medical Device Manufacturers Should Ask in the Hunt for Better Traceability

3 Questions Medical Device Manufacturers Should Ask in the Hunt for Better Traceability

By Veijo Inkiläinen, Planmeca Group Planmeca Group is a leading manufacturer of dental and mammography x-ray imaging and dental care products, with sales in more than 100 countries, since 1971. We m...
Learn Requirements Management with Polarion online in 15 minutes

Learn Requirements Management with Polarion online in 15 minutes

Customers consistently tell us how easy Polarion is to use, and how readily it is accepted by stakeholders from requirements engineers to testers to software developers. But what if you're faced with...
5 Things Most Subversion Users Don't Know Are Even Possible

5 Things Most Subversion Users Don't Know Are Even Possible

When Subversion came on the scene, it quickly became the market leading version control system, relegating all others to virtual obsolescence — something unprecedented for an open source product. But...
Source Code Management with Git: Basics for Product Development Managers

Source Code Management with Git: Basics for Product Development Managers

The source control management (SCM) system Git has gained a major foothold in the software developer community in recent years. Our consultants have been getting an increasing number of questions abo...
Polarion Launches New Customer Service Portal

Polarion Launches New Customer Service Portal

"Congratulations to Polarion for an excellent tool interface and a fantastic technical support… Many thanks to your staff members: always friendly, responsive and competent." –Ingo Nickles, Vector S...
Holiday Greetings from Polarion Software

Holiday Greetings from Polarion Software

Risk Analysis: How to Make It a "First-class" Citizen in Your Development

Risk Analysis: How to Make It a "First-class" Citizen in Your Development

In a recent article, the editors of the Tibco Blog claim "Major Plane Crashes Are Always Technology Failures, Not Human Error". You can agree with that statement and the premise of the article or not...
Polarion Partner Leverages Outsourcing Explosion in Emerging Markets

Polarion Partner Leverages Outsourcing Explosion in Emerging Markets

by Manuel Ramirez and Michael Carey Globally dispersed engineering project teams with members in developed and emerging markets is the new norm, and the demand for ALM solution expertise and consult...
When your Excel sheets don't cut it for BIG data testing

When your Excel sheets don't cut it for BIG data testing

If your software testing team is feeling the squeeze of today's BIG data, and tools like Excel ® aren't helping you keep up, our upcoming webinar can help you jump-start plans to cope. Join Polario...
Current Career Opportunities: Czech Republic

Current Career Opportunities: Czech Republic

Polarion Software currently has a number of career opportunities in software engineering in our R&D lab facility in Prague, Czech Republic. Positions include: QA tester - usability and funct...
Job: Trainer and Consultant for Subversion/Polarion (Germany)

Job: Trainer and Consultant for Subversion/Polarion (Germany)

Polarion Software currently seeks a trainer/consultant with deep Subversion expertise to help our customers implement SVN-based Polarion solutions in existing environments. Professional requirements...
Current Career Opportunities – USA

Current Career Opportunities – USA

Polarion Software currently has a number of career opportunities in several U.S. states including California (Bay area), Michigan, Ohio, and Massachusetts: Software Consulting Engineer Senior ...
Safety programming and distributed development required by ISO 26262 (Part 4)

Safety programming and distributed development required by ISO 26262 (Part 4)

By Takao Futagami, TOYO Corporation Part 4: Some Final Thoughts I hope you have found the information in this series of posts useful. Please feel free to leave a comment. I will finish up the ser...
Job: Software Consulting Engineer (USA)

Job: Software Consulting Engineer (USA)

Polarion Software currently has several career opportunities for Software Consulting Engineers to work with the U.S. team in the San Francisco Bay area. A minimum of 3 years Sales Engineering experi...
Happy International Standards Day

Happy International Standards Day

Today is one of those "days" that can sneak up on you if you're not careful: International Standards Day. "International standards represent the consensus view of the world’s leading experts in indu...
Safety programming and distributed development required by ISO 26262 (Part 3)

Safety programming and distributed development required by ISO 26262 (Part 3)

By Takao Futagami, TOYO Corporation Distributed development brings better outcome The development scale for an instrument like REINA-11 (discussed in Part 2) is small, and the specifications a...
Polarion Customers achieve FDA CFR 21 Part 11 compliance

Polarion Customers achieve FDA CFR 21 Part 11 compliance

Image: flickr 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 specif...