{"id":1126,"date":"2014-03-11T15:31:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T22:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Polarion-Blog\/Polarion-Version-2014-is-now-available\/ba-p\/380834"},"modified":"2026-03-26T05:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:34:59","slug":"polarion-version-2014-is-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/polarion-version-2014-is-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Polarion Version 2014 is now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I like best about my job is the privilege of announcing&nbsp;a new Polarion release and revealing the result the efforts of Polarion&#8217;s amazing R&amp;D team. The <STRONG>new 2014 release<\/STRONG>, available now, is the latest-greatest output. Here are the main highlights:&nbsp;<!--more--><br \/>\n<H2>Polarion 2014 Top New Features<\/H2><br \/>\n<STRONG>Clustering<\/STRONG><br \/>\nPolarion 2014 delivers unprecedented enterprise power to both new and existing Polarion installations with out-of-box capabilities for load balancing and failover strategies.<\/p>\n<p><STRONG>Easy Planning<\/STRONG><br \/>\nRelease planning and management has never been easier. New top-level Plan object makes the planning of your releases, milestones, sprints \u2026 or anything else you need to accomplish\u2026 easier and more robust than ever before.<\/p>\n<p><STRONG>Requirements Interchange<\/STRONG><br \/>\nPolarion 2014 delivers new ReqIF round-trip natively without any additional plugins required. Easily exchange requirements with customers and\/or suppliers using industry-standard RIF\/ReqID formats.<\/p>\n<p><STRONG>Enhanced LiveDoc\u2122 Documents<\/STRONG><br \/>\nMore rich text editing capabilities, custom document metadata, and personal document presentation<\/p>\n<p><STRONG>Approval Center<\/STRONG><br \/>\nAn easy to use solution for your review and approval process<\/p>\n<p><STRONG>Polarion Connector for MATLAB<SUP>\u00ae<\/SUP> Simulink<\/STRONG><br \/>\nFull integration with this popular system engineering tool.<\/p>\n<p><STRONG>Parallelization and more data connection protocols<\/STRONG><br \/>\n5 times faster system operations<\/p>\n<p><STRONG>Per-document PDF Headers and Footers<\/STRONG><br \/>\nConfigure custom PDF header and footer per LiveDoc. You can refer to document custom fields both from PDF and Microsoft Word<SUP>\u00ae<\/SUP> header and footer.<\/p>\n<p>For more details on these new features, see my post <A href=\"http:\/\/blog.polarion.com\/polarion-2014-whats-new-and-noteworthy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><STRONG>Polarion 2014: What&#8217;s New &amp; Noteworthy<\/STRONG><\/A> or the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.polarion.com\/2014\/index.php?utm_source=REPLACE-ME&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=blog\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><STRONG>release announcement web page<\/STRONG><\/A>.<br \/>\n<H3>There&#8217;s more&#8230;<\/H3><br \/>\nThe release also incorporates many other improvements, requested by our customers, that we implemented in service releases during the past year, and which lead, via our iterative development process, to major releases like version 2014. Here&#8217;s a brief summary of what we added in each of the past 3 Service Releases&#8230; follow the links for details:<br \/>\n<A href=\"http:\/\/blog.polarion.com\/polarion-2013-sr1-new-and-noteworthy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><STRONG>SR1<\/STRONG><\/A>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Approval Center,  Connector for MATLAB<SUP>\u00ae<\/SUP> Simulink, more live report templates.<\/p>\n<p><A href=\"http:\/\/blog.polarion.com\/polarion-2013-sr2-new-and-noteworthy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><STRONG>SR2<\/STRONG><\/A>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Easy Prioritization of Work Items, rich text enhancements, including font selection, font color, and font background color, svn protocol support for improved performance, new diagnostic tool for admins.<\/p>\n<p><A href=\"http:\/\/blog.polarion.com\/polarion-2013-sr3-release-new-and-noteworthy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><STRONG>SR3<\/STRONG><\/A>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Test Record attachments, new charting library (HighCharts), LiveDoc find &amp; replace.<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least&#8230; just in case you didn&#8217;t yet hear the news&#8230; we are really thrilled by the recent <A href=\"http:\/\/blog.polarion.com\/siemens-invests-10-million-series-a-funding-in-polarion-software\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">investment in Polarion Software by Siemens Venture Capital<\/A>. It&#8217;s not related to the 2014 release, but it is, I think, new and worth noting nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of the entire Polarion team, thanks once again for using Polarion solutions!<\/p>\n<p>Jiri Walek<br \/>\nVP Product Management<br \/>\nPolarion Software<\/p>\n<p><DIV id=\"cta\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 32px 0; border-top: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 1em;\"><br \/>\n    <A href=\"http:\/\/www.polarion.com\/2014\/index.php?utm_source=2014announce&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=blog\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2014\/03\/try-polarion-2014.jpg\" alt=\"Banner image: Try Polarion 2014\" width=\"660\" height=\"135\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5158\" \/><\/A><br \/>\n<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I like best about my job is the privilege of announcing&nbsp;a new Polarion release and revealing the result the efforts of Polarion&#8217;s amazing R&amp;D team. 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