Whether ASPICE or FDA regulations, increasing regulations in product development and cross-company project teams make regulated and automated monitoring of requirements indispensable. The interaction between software, electronics and mechanics in particular pushes conventional PLM solutions to their limits. In addition, there are often cross-company project teams with different workflows and processes. Does this sound familiar to you?
Polarion®ALM™ is a requirements management tool that simplifies the visualization of requirements management for product development projects. The 100% browser-based application lifecycle management solution is used to define, test and manage complex systems. As one of the leading instruments for successful product development, the tool gives you a permanent insight into the current development progress – whether in small teams or with several thousand users. Thanks to Polarion®ALM™, collaboration can be managed using classic waterfall or V-models as well as agile and even mixed models: Originally designed with the main objective of developing a requirements management tool for software development, Polarion® is increasingly evolving into a system requirements management tool that can also handle mechanical and electronic hardware requirements. The tool can be used flexibly and individually to provide you with targeted support for your processes and their optimization and impresses with its traceability.
By introducing a requirements management system such as Polarion®, which covers not only requirements management but the entire operational development process, workflow integrations across departments can be improved. Polarion® helps to reduce the number of different tools and software solutions and thus simplify workflows. Errors can be rectified at an early stage thanks to end-to-end traceability.
What we Offer you: Our Expertise with Polarion®ALM™
As a long-standing Siemens Smart Expert sales partner for Polarion®ALM™, invenio not only works with the intelligent tool for its own software developments. We have also already convinced many customers in complex projects with the ALM solution from Siemens and its efficiency and transparency in the product development process.
Would you also like to benefit from the application? We can advise you on methods and processes in systems engineering and how they can be mapped in Polarion®ALM™. In this way, we guarantee you the optimum symbiosis of methods, process and tool for maximum efficiency in your work.
- Licenses
- Installation and Update
- Tool Administration
- Configuration
- Custom Addons
- Training
- Coaching
- Support-Hotline
The first step to your Polarion® success story is choosing the Polarion® license model that suits you best. Whether you want to equip a small team of developers with Polarion® or a larger number of users, we will work with you to evaluate your structures and roles in order to recommend the optimal type and number of licenses for your needs. You also have the option of choosing between a self-managed on-premise model or the low-maintenance cloud-based variant Polarion® X as 'Software as a Service'.
To ensure that your start in the Polarion® world runs smoothly, we offer the installation and updating of Polarion®ALM™ for the on-premise model to support and relieve your IT. Benefit from our many years of experience with various installations on different set-up environments.
Do you want not just a smooth start in the Polarion® world, but smooth operation throughout? No problem, your Polarion® is in good hands with us. We not only take care of the installation, but also:
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Updates of Polraion®ALM™ and Plugins
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LDAP, SVN and database access configuration
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Global user and license management
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Troubleshooting and debugging of Polarion® errors (Polarion® Log)
It is not the process that adapts to the tool, but the tool that adapts to the process. That's why the out-of-the-box solution from Polarion®ALM™ offers you numerous options for individual configuration. At the same time, a tool implementation offers potential for process improvements – you can reuse a customized Polarion® configuration as a template for future projects. For projects in the ASPICE environment, you can also use our ASPICE Basis Template, which has been specially configured for this task.
Polarion®ALM™ not only lives within a fixed framework, but also allows and supports individual expansion and process improvement through user-defined add-ons. Whether you need an individual report or a connector to another tool in your tool landscape: Polarion® can be adapted to your needs beyond the limits of the tool configuration to further simplify and accelerate the flow of processes and work with Polarion®.
To enable your team to use Polarion® efficiently, you can benefit from our standard training courses tailored to your role:
Our aim with training and our individual coaching is to enable you to map your processes in Polarion®ALM™ quickly and purposefully.
If you want to give your team an even more in-depth introduction to Polarion®, we also offer custom training courses that are specially tailored to your Polarion® configuration and your processes.
Polarion® coaching sessions offer you the opportunity to address any questions and hurdles that arise in the day-to-day running of the project to our Polarion® experts – at regular fixed appointments. This ensures that problems are solved quickly and the project runs smoothly.
The support hotline package for Polarion®ALM™ offers you fast and competent assistance with tool-related questions and access to our best practice know-how flexibly and selectively during ongoing Polarion® operation.
Our Products for Even Greater Efficiency with Polarion®ALM™
GetPolarion®Properties Library (GPPL)
The GPPL is an easy-to-use Java library that enables direct access to the 'Configuration Properties' for your own Java applications such as Polarion® servlets. This has several advantages for the user:
- It enables Polarion® add-ons to be parameterized on a project-specific basis, otherwise only a standard server parameterization is possible
- Changes to the parameters can be made directly in Polarion®
- A Polarion® restart is no longer necessary when changes are made, which reduces disruption to production environments
Redmine Connector
The Redmine Connector bridges the tool boundary between Polarion® and the Redmine project management software. It enables:
- Create identical Redmine tickets to Polarion® Work Items with a bidirectional link between the original Polarion® Work Item and the created Redmine ticket.
- Create an “m-to-n” relationship between Polarion® Work Items and Redmine tickets.
- Polarion® Work Items can be linked bidirectionally with existing Redmine tickets.
- Remove existing links between e.g. Polarion® Issues and a Redmine ticket.
ASPICE Basic Template
Our ASPICE basic template comprises the process groups System (SYS.1 - SYS.5), Software (SWE.1 - SWE.6), Hardware (HWE.1 - HWE.4) and Mechanics (MEE.1 - MEE.4) as well as Issue Management (SUP.9) and Change Management (SUP.10). This can either be used directly without further configuration or adapted to existing processes and requirements. Suitable documents and work item types with ASPICE-compliant attributes, workflows, link roles and live reports are created for each of these process groups.
Polarion® Expert Services
Our Polarion® expert services provide additional relief. We take on highly specialized project tasks, such as:
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Importing specifications
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Data migration from other tools to Polarion®
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Data migration when merging two or more Polarion® servers
Do not hesitate to contact us! As an official Siemens expert partner for Polarion®ALM™, we will provide you with comprehensive, individual and honest advice on the tool and our services. Benefit from our experience – because we not only sell Polarion®ALM™, we also use it ourselves.
Your Contact Persons
Ingo Paech
Managing Director
invenio Systems Engineering GmbH
Hermann-Hollerith-Straße 1
68163 Mannheim
Contact me
T +49 (621) 490887-77
Max Posmek
Consultant Systems Engineering
invenio Systems Engineering GmbH
Hermann-Hollerith-Straße 1
68163 Mannheim
Contact me
M +49 (176) 11899262
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