Overview
Do you use multiple Polarion servers? Do you work with customers, or partners that also use Polarion? Are you spending time manually exchanging data with other teams, customers or partners? If so, traceability must be a real issue and the Polarion Connector is for you.
Polarion Connector for Polarion® seamlessly connects your cross-functional teams by enabling bi-directional synchronization of work items between different Polarion servers. Thanks to a direct integration, disparate teams can collaborate right within the tools they're used to working with.
Polarion Connector for Polarion® within Polarion® SYNCHRONIZER™, lets you seamlessly integrate disparate applications with Polarion’s unified ALM Solution. It manages all integrations centrally, to speed up development and maintenance by letting you connect all integrated applications and eliminate having to interface with them individually.
Here are some scenarios where Polarion Connector for Polarion® can help:
You have one server for the engineering team where your software is developed and validated, and another server for the product and project management team where requirements are written and managed. Polarion Connector for Polarion® gives your engineers direct access to all requirements, while giving your project managers direct oversight of the development team's progress.
You have a project where development is outsourced abroad. You don’t want to give the development team access to your main Polarion server, but you want them to see the requirements they need to implement.
You manage customer requests on a Polarion server. Your customers have access to this server, post questions and can view the status of their requests. You use a separate server for development and project management. You want your teams to see the customer requests, but you don’t want the customer to see your internal details.
You have both a public and a private server and want to synchronize data between the two while keeping your private data private.
You are working with a partner that uses Polarion. You want to synchronize your requirements with them and receive their status updates.
Here's a closer look at a use case with two Polarion Servers:
The first Polarion server is for requirements and QA management. Let’s call it Polarion REQ-QA.
The second server is for development. Let’s call it Polarion DEV.
You want to synchronize User Stories and Defects to the development server so that the development team knows what to implement. You also want the status of these User Stories and Defects synchronized with the requirements server so that the Product and QA teams can monitor the implementation status.
With Polarion Connector for Polarion® these User Stories and Defects are synchronized seamlessly, with all changes to your items propagated to the other server automatically.
(A single, traceable source that's maintained on both servers.)