We performed a comparison between Asana and JIRA Portfolio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Project Management Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Asana has helped me (as an individual contributor) organize my daily work and given me a way to plan for longer term objectives."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its project management tracking systems."
"I like how easy it is to use the rules within Asana."
"The solution scales well."
"The initial setup is straightforward. It was just a few clicks to get started and to integrate Asana into our existing business system. It took 15 days to fully implement our projects using Asana."
"The most valuable feature of Asana is the tracking of comments and documents in one place."
"Asana has a wonderful user experience that is very easy to interact with and has tons of integrations with other products and tools."
"The most valuable feature of Asana is the ease of navigation."
"I think the solution's most important and valuable feature is its ability to track the issues."
"The solution's tracking capabilities helped ensure we had full visibility into planned work and scheduled work."
"The most valuable features of the JIRA Portfolio are the ease of use, many developers are familiar with it."
"The most valuable feature is that it fits very well into an agile framework, and it is especially helpful with the planning aspects."
"The most valuable features of Jira are the dashboards where we see all the features lined up with the release dates in the portfolio view, it is very good."
"Having an option to view dependencies between projects and teams is great."
"The workflows are the most valuable feature of the solution, whether for tasks, bugs, or chain requests from the site. I also like the solution's GUI, which is easy to navigate for everyone."
"The documentation is very well done."
"The stability of Asana is good. However, there are some issues with maintenance, when the solution is down. For example, there might be maintained for a few hours where we cannot use the solution."
"It's difficult to have short-term collaborations with external users because the operations team owns the final licenses, and I work for marketing."
"The documentation could be enhanced by incorporating more visually informative videos that demonstrate how to accomplish specific tasks. While Asana's community support is valuable for answering questions, finding precise answers often requires sifting through multiple posts. Having concise and explanatory videos would greatly improve the user experience. When searching on platforms like Google, there are many individuals sharing their approaches to using Asana. However, the information provided is often not directly applicable to one's specific needs. Therefore, it would be advantageous to have comprehensive video tutorials that address common user queries. This would provide a more efficient and intuitive way of accessing information, especially when it comes to learning how to navigate and utilize Asana's features effectively."
"The product's page is not user-friendly."
"Currently, there are only a few available options, but it would be helpful to have more control over the notifications received."
"The documentation for integration could be improved. We require more information to facilitate the integrations."
"We have not used Asana on our private server. We have been using the cloud solution. We need an on premise solution for government agencies."
"The solution can be difficult for new users to use because of the interface."
"When I want to embed Jira Portfolio in a complete HLI cycle, I'm missing things to evaluate my ethic into my value stream."
"Portfolio is easy to scale, but we've had some difficulties with it regarding compliance and support."
"The HR aspect of the solution could be improved."
"We are using the on-premise deployment, but it is slower and not as easy to manage as the cloud version."
"The product could do with more flexible reporting."
"Requires some effort to insert functionalities and that could be simplified."
"It's got kind of a steep learning curve."
"I think their view needs to be more user friendly. The UI makes it difficult to find things. Secondly, the configuration is very complex. JIRA should help people find out what configuration they are using."
Asana is ranked 3rd in Project Management Software with 43 reviews while JIRA Portfolio is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 55 reviews. Asana is rated 8.4, while JIRA Portfolio is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Asana writes "Extremely stable, user-friendly, and easy to navigate". On the other hand, the top reviewer of JIRA Portfolio writes "Powerful, flexible solution with a bit of a learning curve". Asana is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project, Wrike, monday.com and Jira, whereas JIRA Portfolio is most compared with Jira Align, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Microsoft Project Server. See our Asana vs. JIRA Portfolio report.
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