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What if your project stakeholders could collaborate with each other just by drawing diagrams online with Gliffy and editing traceability between the diagrams and the software requirement specifications in Polarion? This is exactly the thrust of i4ware – Requirements Diagramming, a new commercial plugin for Polarion^® ALM 2010™ from i4ware Software. ( It can also be used by Polarion^® Requirements™ and Track & Wiki™ users on a Polarion ALM installation.)

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Imagine…

You are away from office, no laptop or no Ethernet access, but you urgently need to approve release builds, requirement specifications, or project change requests. Polarion’s plug-in for Mobile Devices will help you out

Everyone who uses Polarion Requirements or Polarion ALM now has a nifty plug-in for mobile devices – whatever web enabled phone you use iPhone, Nokia, Google Android… you can download the Mobile plug-in and have access to your projects and Work Items on your mobile – and the best the plug-in is for free! Read the rest of this entry »

Introduction

This document offers a high-level description of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) DO-178B certification standards for aircraft equipment, arguably one of the world’s most stringent manufacturing standards, and explains how Polarion customers manufacturing software and hardware for airborne equipment rely on Polarion solutions to help them comply with FAA regulations and manage the complexities of planning, development, testing, and certification.

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You’ve done your homework and you know you’ve come across a great solution (namely Polarion ALM or Polarion Requirements!) that would be a major benefit to your organization. But management wants you to show them the “Return on Investment” (“ROI” in execu-speak). What? You manage development projects, you’re not a number juggler. You know Polarion is worth every (Euro or US) cent, but how do you get that across to the boss? Never fear… help is at hand! Polarion has a handy online tool that will help you deliver solid justification for investing in Polarion solutions, and this article will tell you everything you need to know about how to use it. So let’s get down to it.

Understanding ROI

Return on Investment (ROI) is a performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment and compare it to alternative investments. ROI tells you how and how soon an investment pays back, and how much total return you end up with. In essence, it’s a way of gauging BENEFIT in concrete terms. But benefit is different with different investments.

For example, suppose you invest in a spiffy new sports car. The only benefit is fun, and the benefit kicks in immediately when you sit in the driver’s seat with an empty highway before you. The only person to question the investment is you. (Well, some spouses/”significant others” may have something to say about it too.) But in business, the benefit accrues not to you personally (although your workday may well improve as a result) but to the entire organization, and payback typically takes some time.

That’s enough background to go on. Let’s move on to the Polarion Online ROI Calculator and learn how to use it to justify your proposed investment in Polarion lifecycle management solutions.

Where is it?

The ROI calculator is here: www.polarion.com.roi/ (Yes, you should bookmark it now!)
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Introduction

This document will describe the critical performance factors of the Polarion platform, scalability pitfalls and limitations, and recommendations related to capacity-planning your production environment. It will do so based on a few scenarios that are representative of our install base. Read the rest of this entry »