We performed a comparison between Broadcom Clarity 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."The most valuable features are the project, resource, and portfolio management processes are combined in one solution. The data is possible to use either in the one or the other process, and we do not need to enter the data multiple times."
"What has been valuable are the workflows that are there today in order to keep our executive staff informed as well as our program managers and department managers."
"Upgrades were pretty straightforward. CA took care of everything, we just did the testing."
"Visibility is the number one feature. They can see where the bottlenecks are, they can see what their project statuses are, why are things being held up, etc."
"The most valuable features of Broadcom Clarity PPM are demand, project, and product management."
"Clarity PPM's strongest features are project and resource management."
"The app style of the new UI is absolutely fantastic. It's the right way to go. Our users will love it."
"There were probably about five or six metrics that we used. As a result, the groups that I supported were consistently ranked at the absolute top of the organization, as we were leveraging these built-in tools for tracking."
"Portfolio helps us increase the visibility of projects' status and management with remote workers who make up most of the company."
"The solution's tracking capabilities helped ensure we had full visibility into planned work and scheduled work."
"The graphics and the resolution of the work are very good."
"In a PC environment, it is quite stable."
"The feature that we like the most is that JIRA enables modules. Atlassian provides a lot of products around JIRA, such as compliance for the documentation, BitBucket for the Git version. We are new to these products developed by Atlassian, but they can integrate very easily. Generally, when an editor is developing a solution, they think about integrating with JIRA. When we are looking for any other solution, they plan to easily integrate with JIRA."
"The best features of JIRA are its flexibility and configurability, allowing us to tailor it to our specific needs."
"The product's integration capabilities work pretty well, especially considering that more tools are always needed in enterprise-sized businesses."
"It is a good scalable solution that I have used for small projects and reasonably large projects."
"I think user-friendliness is the key. Right now it's really clunky. We're also looking to upgrade, but an upgrade is not going to fix everything. The new UX is good, but there are still a lot of limitations. Once they work through those kinks and get those limitations removed, we'll be able to upgrade."
"As far as a tool that communicates with resources, with individuals - what they're supposed to do next or what action items came out of what meeting - it's not really used that way. Probably I could envision a way that it would be used that way. Until it's as easy as sending an email, it probably won't be utilized by the resources in that manner."
"Whenever that second instance of Clarity came about, it was overwhelming even to people who were accustomed to working with program management tools."
"One of the major pain points for me when it comes to Broadcom Clarity PPM is the new UI. The new UI is very good in terms of functionality and the drag and draw features, but it's not very responsive. When I say that it's not very responsive, what I mean is that sometimes, the tool is not very user-friendly. For example, a user saves a value on the form, but the tool doesn't give any indication to the user that the value has been saved. Some users are moving from the classic UI to the new UI, and end up getting confused because on the classic UI, when you click "Save", it'll save the information and you'll get an indication that it was saved. With the new UI, it auto saves the information, but it doesn't give an indication in the form of a popup box that "this form has been saved", or any type of message indicating that the information was successfully saved. It's been confusing for users who move to the new UI because of that. The users don't understand when the values are being saved or not being saved, even if there's an auto-save feature in the new UI."
"I wish patches would be quicker since we're a SaaS customer, and just be a non-event, so we don't have to go through a whole - essentially - upgrade cycle, just to do a patch. As a SaaS customer, I'd like the patch to just happen."
"The solution could improve the way the workflow is developed. I think they could be more dynamic because they are in a way static. They're very powerful, but they don't have any interaction with end-users."
"There are some tool limitations. We had to create some of our own summary competencies to create more of an agile tool concept, or an agile team concept, that they did not really have."
"The Work Breakdown Structure in the Tasks: I should be able to drag and drop to a level three instead of just stuck at level two."
"Converting a task into an epic is very troublesome."
"Another thing could be to have an easy way to manage the Portfolio and have more ways to share and to show graphics and reports"
"It would be nice if it could provide an end-to-end solution for a project."
"The reporting and dashboard capabilities have room for improvement."
"The solution is sometimes complex to use"
"When using a scrum board, it only shows the current or open sprint. However, we also need to see past and future sprints, which is important for planning the next sprint. To solve this, we tried using a Kanban board instead, but since we follow the Scrum methodology, it's not the ideal solution."
"With Jira, an issue that arises is the length of time it takes to show certain data."
"Currently lacks AWS integration."
Broadcom Clarity is ranked 8th in Project Management Software with 136 reviews while JIRA Portfolio is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 55 reviews. Broadcom Clarity is rated 8.0, while JIRA Portfolio is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Broadcom Clarity writes "A dynamic solution with a lot of great out-of-the-box calculations, but integration with reporting utilities is a bit painful". On the other hand, the top reviewer of JIRA Portfolio writes "Powerful, flexible solution with a bit of a learning curve". Broadcom Clarity is most compared with Microsoft Project, Jira, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planview Portfolios and Microsoft Project Server, whereas JIRA Portfolio is most compared with Jira Align, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project Server and Planview PPM Pro. See our Broadcom Clarity vs. JIRA Portfolio report.
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