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A Hobbit's Sword As The Ideal IoT Device: Simplicity Coupled With Enchantment

A Hobbit's Sword As The Ideal IoT Device: Simplicity Coupled With Enchantment

Many readers of this blog are either actively developing, or looking into developing applications in the Internet of Things (IoT). If development for IoT hasn’t touched you yet, it seems likely that ...

Featured Extension: Polarion Work Item Integration for Tortoise SVN

Featured Extension: Polarion Work Item Integration for Tortoise SVN

Project managers... listen up. Here's something that can keep your developers both productive and happy. Facts of life: managers love solutions like Polarion because it automatically tracks and ...

Featured Extension: Live Status Reveals Optimal Work Item Flow and Current State

Featured Extension: Live Status Reveals Optimal Work Item Flow and Current State

January 29, 2015

People who are new to Polarion (and even some who are not so new) often take quite some time before they look into the many Polarion extensions available on the Polarion Extension Portal. This is und...

Online Short Course: Requirements Management with Polarion LiveDocs

Online Short Course: Requirements Management with Polarion LiveDocs

Are you taking your first looks at Polarion REQUIREMENTS and wondering "Where do I start with this?". Or maybe your company already has Polarion, and you have new teams or team members who need to ge...

Setting Priorities the Easy Way (video)

Setting Priorities the Easy Way (video)

October 26, 2013

You've probably heard it at least since high school: "Get your priorities straight!" Setting priorities is one of the keys to success in development projects. Unlike priorities in life, prioritizing ...

Updating to Polarion 2013 Test Steps

Updating to Polarion 2013 Test Steps

If you're updating Polarion ALM or Polarion QA from version prior to 2012 SR3to Polarion 2013 SR1, there is a quick migration you need your administrator to perform so that Polarion 2013 Test ...

Polarion and Coca Cola: the BEAR Facts

Polarion and Coca Cola: the BEAR Facts

October 27, 2011

What do Polarion and Coca Cola have in common? (Besides the fact that Coke powers some of our developers?) Well, it seems both companies have a weak spot for the endangered Polar Bear. Since 2009, P...

Polarion 2011-SR2 update is released

Polarion 2011-SR2 update is released

October 4, 2011

The Polarion R&D team delivered Service Release 2 (2011-SR2) for all Polarion products. In addition to fixes, usability, and performance improvements, several new features were introduced: New F...

More video tutorials

More video tutorials

We have some more video tutorials online and ready for you to watch while beating the summer heat lounging by the pool or on the beach. :-) User tutorials: There's a 2-part video on the basics of Po...

Get Going with Git

Get Going with Git

By default, Polarion installs and uses a Subversion repository. But what if you have some codebase in an external repository... a Git repo, for example? And if you're new to Git, how do you set up a ...

New tutorial video: Word Round-trip

New tutorial video: Word Round-trip

We have a new 5-minute video tutorial that demonstrates the basics of working with Polarion 2011's Round-trip for Microsoft Word (a.k.a. "Word Round-trip") feature. You can find the video at www.pola...

Tutorial video: Test Case Management

Tutorial video: Test Case Management

We've published a new video tutorial on the test case management support provided in Polarion ALM 2011. The tutorial is in 2 parts of about 5 minutes each. See the videos on the video tutorials page,...

Add your logo to Polarion 2011's login screen

This Polarion 2011 feature sneaked in so late in the cycle that we didn't have time to document it. We certainly don't want to wait for the next release to tell you how you can customize the Polarion...

Polarion 2011 Tutorial Videos

Polarion 2011 Tutorial Videos

The word is getting around about Polarion 2011 - downloads are increasing steadily. If you are now working with Polarion 2011 or plan to soon, you might want to check out our new series of tutorial v...

Ring in 2011!

Ring in 2011!

No, not a new year (did that already)... a new Polarion! If the word hasn't yet reached you through newsletters, the grapevine, etc. it's official: Polarion 2011 is released! Press release...&nbs...

Sneak-Peek: Creating professional requirements documents in Polarion 2011

Sneak-Peek: Creating professional requirements documents in Polarion 2011

November 30, 2010

If you've seen the little introductory video on the new Polarion LiveDoc™ Documents feature coming in Polarion 2011, you may have found yourself wanting to see more. Well, here is more! SNEAK PREVIE...

New "Boss Convincer" now online

New "Boss Convincer" now online

October 8, 2010

You've been looking at Polarion Requirements. You're excited about the potential for improving life for your Requirements Management team and your organization. You're ready to approach your manageme...

Polarion 2010-SR1 now available

Polarion 2010-SR1 now available

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 insta...

Give your boss $10,000

Give your boss $10,000

February 15, 2010

What would your boss say if you handed over $10,000 worth of Polarion licenses? Would you get to keep the spiffy new Apple iPad that goes with it? You'll never know unless you enter the Win an A...

New integration platform for Polarion ALM

New integration platform for Polarion ALM

February 12, 2010

If you need to migrate or integrate existing (legacy) tools to ensure a successful, cost effective and seamless rollout with user acceptance, or exchange data with external partners in order to fulfi...

Polarion 3.3.2 Maintenance Release Available

Polarion 3.3.2 Maintenance Release Available

August 25, 2009

Polarion has released an update for all products based on the Polarion ALM Platform. Version 3.3.2 is a maintenance release with bug fixes and various improvements and enhancements (no new features)....

Version 3.3.1 Maintenance Release is Out

Version 3.3.1 Maintenance Release is Out

We've just released version 3.3.1 for all Polarion application lifecycle management products. Here's where you can download the updates: Polarion Requirements 2.0 Polarion Track & Wiki ...

Maintence releases available now

Maintence releases available now

Polarion has released an update for all ALM Platform based products. Versions are listed below. This is a maintenance release with bug fixes and various improvements (no new features). Free to custom...

Updates now available for several products

Updates now available for several products

December 24, 2008

We have just released updates for: Polarion Requirements 2.0 (Version 2.0) [Download] Polarion Track & Wiki (Version 1.0.2) [Download] Polarion ALM (Version 3.2.1) [Download] These ...

Polarion ALM 3.1.2 Update Available

Polarion ALM 3.1.2 Update Available

This post is to advise current Polarion ALM customers that we have an update release, version 3.1.2, available. This is a maintenance release focused mainly on bug fixing, performance, and usability....

"Easy Start" Custom Configuration for Polarion ALM

"Easy Start" Custom Configuration for Polarion ALM

We've just released a new free "ALM Easy Start" custom configuration for the Polarion ALM platform. When installed to the platform, users are taken to the Wiki on first login, rather than the dashboa...

Polarion hosts Eclipse downloads

Polarion hosts Eclipse downloads

Polarion Software, as a member of the Eclipse Foundation, has joined the Eclipse distro program and now hosts a couple of Eclipse distros, including one that bundles the Eclipse SDK and Subversive Te...

Heading/chapter numbering in Wiki

Heading/chapter numbering in Wiki

Instead of {toc} you can use #toc("1" "3" "true") This will make headings 1-3 numbered, and will show a table of contents at the place where #toc appears. To simply enable numbering of chapt...

Polarion 3.1 is Released

Polarion 3.1 is Released

In case you haven't got the word via some other means, Polarion ALM 3.1.0 is officially released. You can see an overview of new features and improvements at: http://www.polarion.com/products/alm/sp...

Join Polarion at EclipseCon 2008

Join Polarion at EclipseCon 2008

Attending EclipseCon? Let us invite you to join our Subversion BOF session: When: Monday, March 17 at 7:30 pm (right after the Eclipse Awards) Where: Grand Ballroom C The session will be l...

Polarion ALM Online Demos for Q2

Polarion ALM Online Demos for Q2

We've just posted the Q2 schedule for our ongoing series of personalized online demos of Polarion ALM with time for participant Q-and-A. We began offering these 45-minute sessions illustrating ALM be...

Off we go – with SVN workshops in USA

Off we go – with SVN workshops in USA

February 5, 2008

Thanks to those who helped get the word out about the launch of Polarion's Subversion workshops in the UK last week. This week we have more news, which we hope you will also share with people you kno...

ALM Demo slots filling up fast!

ALM Demo slots filling up fast!

January 22, 2008

The slots for our series of free personalized online ALM demos are filling up fast - as of today almost half of our capacity is already booked solid! Although we will probably schedule more such sess...

Free Personal Polarion ALM Demos

Free Personal Polarion ALM Demos

January 18, 2008

Through March, 2008 Polarion Software is offering a series of free personal online demos of Polarion ALM 3.0. If you already use Polarion ALM, you probably don't need to participate in these, but w...

In-depth online Polarion ALM Demos

In-depth online Polarion ALM Demos

November 15, 2007

Through the end of 2007, Polarion Software will be offering free, in-depth online demos of Polarion ALM 3.0. The sessions will run on the following dates: Date Time P...

Polarion ALM 3.0 Linux Distribution Released

Polarion ALM 3.0 Linux Distribution Released

October 24, 2007

Polarion ® ALM 3.0 is now available for Linux in addition to the previously released distribution for Windows ® . Scripts providing fully or partially automated installation are included in the dist...

Polarion ALM 3.0 is Released!

Polarion ALM 3.0 is Released!

September 13, 2007

Big news - we've just released Polarion ® ALM for Subversion™ 3.0, a much anticipated advance that we hope shows how serious we are about driving forward the art and science of ALM. Polarion ALM ...

New Open Source & Free Solutions for Subversion

New Open Source & Free Solutions for Subversion

September 13, 2007

We are pleased to announce Polarion SVN Solutions for Subversion™ – a handy set of free and open source tools for Subversion that will help you apply the power of Subversion to your projects, includi...

FastTrack and Subversive updates released

FastTrack and Subversive updates released

A new version of FastTrack, the free tracker plugin for Eclipse is now available. The update is directed at those who are currently using Eclipse 3.1. This release is mainly to provide compatibilit...

June "Technologie Tour" dates and locations

June "Technologie Tour" dates and locations

Polarion Software and solution partner Agitar Software will cooperatively conduct " Technologie Tour " seminars in several cities in Germany during the month of June: 13 June - Frankfurt 14 Ju...

Polarion SVN 2.6.5 Linux Installers Available

Polarion SVN 2.6.5 Linux Installers Available

We have released new platform-specific Linux installers for Polarion for Subversion v. 2.6.5. Automated interactive installers are now available for: Red Hat/Fedora Core Debian SuSE (We ha...

Subversive page is live at eclipse.org

Subversive page is live at eclipse.org

Some weeks before the Polarion weblog was launched, Subversive, our open source client plugin for Subversion, was accepted as an Eclipse project. The project is now in the incubation phase, and may o...

Polarion Live Approach Presentation at ALM Expo Web Conference

Polarion Live Approach Presentation at ALM Expo Web Conference

In the last few years, some of the most widely adopted best practices from Software Engineering, especially the adoption and refinement of Agile methods, have significantly reduced software developme...

FastTrack and Subversive Updates Released

FastTrack and Subversive Updates Released

We have released new versions of Subversive, our open source Subversion client for Eclipse, and FastTrack, our free tracker plugin for Eclipse (which includes the Subversive update). The newly relea...

And we have a winner!

And we have a winner!

We are pleased to announce the lucky winner in the recently closed Discover Polarion survey and giveaway. Congratulations to Tsvetelina Kovacheva, winner of a new Apple iPod. Tsvetelina, of Sofia, Bu...

Welcome to the new Polarion weblog

Welcome to the new Polarion weblog

The new Polarion weblog and its associated RSS feeds is your "single source" for news and information about all things Polarion. Here is where we'll announce everything from product releases and up...