We performed a comparison between Jira Align and JIRA Portfolio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Agile Planning Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like Jira's structured project plan, with tasks and subtasks. Jira can use various external plugins. Third-party providers can add new features to the solution. If I need some functionality, I can usually find an app for it. They have thousands."
"The tool helps us to stick with the timeline and budget of our projects. It also helps me to identify dependencies and red flags and intervene wherever possible. I have found the key metrics tab also useful."
"The product's most valuable feature is CMDB for services desk management and backlog projects."
"Jira is one of the most widely used tools in the market, and it has a vast amount of data already stored in it. Jira Align is crucial in orchestrating this data and providing valuable views and insights. However, it's essential for tools like Jira Align to offer configurable features. While complete customization might not always be feasible for enterprise-level tools, configurable features allow organizations to drive transformation accordingly."
"The tool helps us with better tracking across various departments. Jira Align is highly valuable for organizations due to its flexibility. With my experience as an administrator, I can attest that it can be tailored to meet the diverse needs of any organization. It helps to eliminate the mess created by Excel spreadsheets."
"The product has good visualization capabilities and helps to see the different dimensions of a plan."
"Velocity and reporting provide good visibility, burndown charts, and particularly velocity measurement."
"Defect tracking and dashboards are the most valuable features of Jira Align."
"The solution is very stable."
"I use it to plan and schedule the things I take care of. I can create and share a document if I want to discuss new ideas with my team remotely."
"The most valuable feature for me is the visualization and organizing of the tasks. We can have a pick, and then we can stick the multiple issues under that, and then we can again have a sort of hierarchical installation, and that's very useful."
"Portfolio's best feature is integration with other JIRA products."
"The best features of JIRA are its flexibility and configurability, allowing us to tailor it to our specific needs."
"The developers can simplify tasks and each one of them can undertake a task and then they continue with development. Our processes are more efficient and easier for our manager and developers to track them. Their work is more organized."
"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."
"The product's integration capabilities work pretty well, especially considering that more tools are always needed in enterprise-sized businesses."
"Jira Align can improve the visibility of executive teams."
"For future releases of Jira Align, I would suggest making workflows simpler and more user-friendly."
"AI is utilized worldwide; they could implement the functionality for notifications and other organizational operations in the product."
"Other companies that are competitors of Jira and Confluence, they are able to create their active directories for the vendors that don't come in internally."
"The tool's corporate pricing is expensive."
"The product should improve its communication. My English proficiency is not high, but writing in English is another skill that you need. Maybe AI can help here. Because I can see in some other applications, they have AI helpers. So when you write something and you want to do something, it can help. For example, Google Cloud Platform has it. They have a helpdesk for it. When you want to create a cluster, it can help you."
"The product needs to improve its configurations."
"The synchronization between Jira and Jira Align takes too long."
"There is room for improvement in terms of scalability."
"Requires some effort to insert functionalities and that could be simplified."
"The HR aspect of the solution could be improved."
"The solution's look and feel could be a bit more intuitive and user friendly."
"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"
"Jira has room for improvement in terms of managing various projects and linking requirements centrally under one project. They could include some add-ons that enable you to link all the requirements and put them into a centralized place. That central place should be restricted to a limited set of users with privileges based on user groups with those rights."
"It's got kind of a steep learning curve."
"The kanban board could also use some more filters. We just had a project where the deployment for Jira didn't have any ETA, and it's a requirement for the client. We accommodate a lot of issues on the board, so the workaround was to create boards by project, not client."
Jira Align is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 36 reviews while JIRA Portfolio is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 50 reviews. Jira Align is rated 8.0, while JIRA Portfolio is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Jira Align writes "Creates visibility, has lots of reports, and removes silos". On the other hand, the top reviewer of JIRA Portfolio writes "Powerful, flexible solution with a bit of a learning curve". Jira Align is most compared with OpenText ValueEdge, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planview AgilePlace, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Rally Software, whereas JIRA Portfolio is most compared with Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, Microsoft Project Server, Adobe Workfront, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Broadcom Clarity . See our JIRA Portfolio vs. Jira Align report.
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