{"id":602,"date":"2016-06-01T22:51:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T05:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Polarion-Blog\/Unified-ALM-PLM-Helping-Break-Down-Development-Silos\/ba-p\/381068"},"modified":"2026-03-26T05:29:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:29:04","slug":"unified-alm-plm-helping-break-down-development-silos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/unified-alm-plm-helping-break-down-development-silos\/","title":{"rendered":"Unified ALM-PLM: Helping Break Down Development Silos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The successful adoption of application lifecycle management (ALM) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.polarion.com\/products\/alm\/?utm_campaign=Blog-2015-Q3%2FQ4&amp;utm_source=Blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Polarion ALM<\/A>] and product lifecycle management (PLM) has given Siemens the last major piece to its \u201csystems-driven product development environment\u201d &#8211; as IoT leads to even more connected medical devices, cars, factories, and other emerging solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The parallel silos formed around ALM and PLM solutions have come crashing down with better supported ALM-PLM integration. In the past, we discussed a unified ALM-PLM roadmap with a future vision, strategy, and steps toward success.<\/p>\n<p><CENTER><A href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2016\/06\/hand-523233_640.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8837\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2016\/06\/hand-523233_640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"268\" \/><\/A><\/CENTER><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Using the <a href=\"http:\/\/extensions.polarion.com\/extensions\/274-polarion-connector-for-teamcenter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Polarion Connector for Teamcenter<\/A> allows you to ensure &#8211; and track &#8211; software requirements satisfy product requirements (and vice versa). In addition, software engineers have the ability to derive product requirements in software requirements from the ALM environment.<br \/>\n<P style=\"text-align: center;\"><EM>Learn more about Polarion Connector for Teamcenter in our extension portal [<a href=\"http:\/\/extensions.polarion.com\/extensions\/274-polarion-connector-for-teamcenter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">LINK HERE<\/A>]<\/EM><\/P><br \/>\nRelease 1.0.2 was made available in March 2016 and offers a number of key benefits:<\/p>\n<p><STRONG>Integrated Requirements Management<\/STRONG><\/p>\n<p><EM>Ensure and track that software requirements satisfy product requirements (and vice versa)<\/EM><br \/>\n<EM> Enable software engineers can derive software requirements from product requirements<\/EM><\/p>\n<p><STRONG>Integrated Software Change Management<\/STRONG><\/p>\n<p><EM>Initiate product changes and resulting software changes from Teamcenter<\/EM><br \/>\n<EM> Software change analysis for accurate product change decisions<\/EM><\/p>\n<p><STRONG>Accountability and Traceability<\/STRONG><\/p>\n<p><EM>Access traceability from user\u2019s native environment with Polarion UI embedded in Teamcenter and Teamcenter Active Workspace embedded in Polarion<\/EM><br \/>\n<EM> Software and product changes traceability<\/EM><\/p>\n<p><STRONG>Closed Loop Embedded Systems and Software<\/STRONG><br \/>\n<EM>Hardware-software dependencies and BOM management in Teamcenter<\/EM><br \/>\n<EM> Link BOM ECU with software artifacts, manually upload embedded software binary into BOM item<\/EM><\/p>\n<p>Unified ALM-PLM removes barriers and provide toolsets able to improve testing completed as part of your development lifecycles. Software typically requires many more changes as part of the development process &#8211; and during the post-launch phase &#8211; Polarion ALM offers real-time end-to-end lifecycle traceability, visibility, and team collaboration.<\/p>\n<p><HR \/><\/p>\n<p><CENTER><A href=\"http:\/\/www.polarion.com\/resources\/download.php?dl=Why-ALM-and-PLM-need-Each-Other-Whitepaper.pdf&amp;utm_source=iotProductDev&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=blog\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8834\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2016\/06\/ALM-and-PLM.jpg\" alt=\"ALM and PLM\" width=\"349\" height=\"477\" \/><\/A><\/CENTER>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The successful adoption of application lifecycle management (ALM) [Polarion ALM] and product lifecycle management (PLM) has given Siemens the last major piece to its \u201csystems-driven product developme&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}