Create and Link Work Items together to create deep granular relationships and to perform impact analysis. Work Item Link rules are the semantics for traceability and describe how two or more linked items relate to one another. With Polarion, it is possible to employ any variation of semantic linkages to reflect any business processes. With relation to the software development lifecycle Polarion has the ability to:

• Trace from requirements to the Work Items and source code that implement them 
• Back-trace from defective code to the task/change request that implemented the defective code and from those to the requirement that called for the functionality
• Assess the impact, and by extension the cost, of a changed requirement by seeing all the artifacts that would get affected by the change
• Review and analyze relationships between Work Items as dependency, relevance, parent-child, duplication and follow-up

Polarion can support the formal document review and sign-off process for specifications and other types of documents using secure electronic signatures compliant with U.S. 21 CFR Part 11. A Polarion administrator can map your review and sign-off process to the Document workflow configuration where each step in the process can optionally be set up to require one or more electronic signatures before the Document can move to the next stage in the workflow.

Document workflow signatures let you control parallel workflow transitions (i.e. enable status transition only if specified stakeholders sign the transition).

Document “Round-Trip” capabilities enable you to seamlessly export documents and import changes made outside of the Polarion platform while preserving your original formatting. You can easily import existing assets using the rule-based import wizard. It recognizes artifacts such as requirements, test cases, defects and other items contained in Microsoft Word or Excel files and quickly imports them into the modern Polarion browser based platform.

Polarion's export capabilities also allow for documents to be exported as DOC, XLS, PDF, XML or HTML format.