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We’re very excited to report that Polarion Software was selected as winner of the “Tool Challenge” event at Software Quality Days, held January 18-19 in Vienna, Austria.

As winners, we were awarded the Best Quality Tool Award 2012 by the conference board. Polarion faced stiff competition from the likes of IBM, Tricentis, Seapine and GFB Softwareentwicklung.

Software Quality Days is the largest event focusing on software quality in Austria and one of the largest ones in the world. The “Tool Challenge” is a competition that allows vendors to present their solution by solving a practice-related task live in front of the audience. The winning solution is chosen by a special jury together with the audience, the winner receives the Best Quality Tool Award.

Polarion would like to thank the selection panel for the award which recognized the strength of our solution, which was presented by Tim Ströbele, Manager of Professional Services at Polarion Software.

Polarion's Uwe Bucher accepts the Best Quality Tool Award 2012 on behalf of Polarion Software at Software Quality Days in Vienna Austria.

Martin Klotzberg, CEO of our Austrian Country Partner covalgo consulting GmbH: „We are proud to be a part of the Polarion community, together with Polarion we will capture the Austrian market. A few years ago we decided to become a partner of Polarion. The reason behind this decision was that Polarion fits perfectly with our consulting philosophy. This award once more points out our choice for this trendsetting tool was correct.”

New to Polarion?

If you’ve followed a link here and would like to learn more about Polarion’s award-winning solution, we would be happy to guide you. Below are some links that can help you get started.

Polarion has 1 fully-integrated application lifecycle management platform with several products that enable users to access different feature sets. The two products that have the features that won the Tool Challenge are:

• Polarion ALM: Product Info — Trial Options
• Polarion REQUIREMENTS: Product Info — Trial Options

Links to some resources:

• Whitepapers
• Tutorial Videos
• What Polarion Customers Say

If we can help you or answer some questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

As we end another year and look forward to the release of Polarion 2012, we’re not forgetting about version 2011. Our final service release contains a few new goodies:

• A new Document sidebar pane that renders table of contents and document structure so you can easily navigate across your data any time.
• New Cut and Copy items in Document Work Item menu to help you with copying of Work Items from Documents.
• Bulk edit now lets you process even thousands of items in chunks without need to reformulate the original query.
• Bulk copy (Duplicate) lets you copy and convert multiple items from one type to another all at once.
• You can now move your project to another location and the history is not gone.

Actually there´s even more in SR3 – this is just a sweet selection. For the complete list of what´s new, see the Version History at www.polarion.com/products/ver_history.php

From all of us at Polarion, we wish you happy holidays and a great new year.

The Polarion 2012 Early Access Program (EAP) has been underway for a while now and response from Polarion customers has been excellent. If you would like to participate and haven’t yet, please sign up.

One of the benefits of the EAP is advance “sneak peek” information about key new features and functionality. Here’s a video that will give you a look inside the current state of development, and the new features for Test Management (approx. 9 min.)

Will you find Polarion somewhere in your next automobile? Well, no, not directly. But an increasing number of automotive OEMs and suppliers are discovering that Polarion can help them manage their challenges around increasing complexity of models, compliance with standards and regulations, embedded software and “mechatronics” development, and more.

Visit our new Automotive Solutions web page and learn how Polarion’s automotive solutions can help automotive manufacturers and suppliers deal with functional safety in ISO 26262, Automotive SPICE, and CMMI compliance, and succeed with other industry challenges. You can also download a free informative Automotive Solutions whitepaper to read offline or share.^*

If you go looking for Polarion in your next new car, you won’t find our logo anywhere. But Polarion may very well have been used by the car manufacturer or automotive component suppliers to manage development of the cutting-edge safety and environmental features being designed and built into today’s – and tomorrow’s – new cars.

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