We performed a comparison between JIRA Portfolio and Polarion ALM 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."Having an option to view dependencies between projects and teams is great."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The solution includes good and fast notifications for other project team members."
"The valuable features of the JIRA Portfolio are the customization it provides which is very useful and the Agile project management capability."
"The most valuable feature of JIRA Portfolio is the visuals it provides rather than Kanban boarded tickets."
"Its stability is very reliable."
"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 of the JIRA Portfolio is the many features it provides, such as code integration, documentation, roadmap, and Eclipse. The solution is useful for product managers."
"The technical support is quite good."
"The most valuable feature is the function of the ALM system."
"Polarion ALM's integration is very good and easy to use."
"The tool helped us to more effectively and efficiently gather and structure the information (requirements, test plans, project management data, etc.), and share it with the involved stakeholders in a safe and change-controlled manner."
"The initial setup of this solution was straightforward, and there were not too many problems with it."
"Polarion ALM helps us better structure our customer requirements, and we can also validate the specs of our products against those. If anything changes on our side, we see the impact, and we can see the effect If a customer changes requirements."
"Scalability is good...The integration is quite good."
"It meets with everybody's needs without having to grab plugins."
"Their interface is a little unique and I think that's partly because the core of the product has morphed into several sub-products, but the underlying architecture has stayed the same on all of them in that it was originally a help desk ticketing system. It's a very tech-focused product and that's fair given its origins, but if they really want to expand their community of users, then they're going to have to move beyond that a little bit and polish it up."
"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."
"It would be really nice if the solution provided a heads-up every time they enhance something or add new features."
"The interface JIRA Portfolio could improve."
"It's got kind of a steep learning curve."
"The solution is sometimes complex to use"
"The product could do with more flexible reporting."
"Requires some effort to insert functionalities and that could be simplified."
"The tool needs to improve its planning. It also needs to add more integrations."
"As Polarion ALM is a development-oriented tool, easy support or easy access is provided by default, but if I want to use detailed features, I need to write the script, particularly the VM script, and this is its area for improvement. I want Polarion ALM to have a graphical user interface that doesn't need scripting. In the next release of the tool, I'd like for it to not require scripting and programming because needing to run script language is time-consuming."
"The configuration aspect of the solution is not easy. A person needs a lot of programming knowledge in order to successfully handle the job."
"Based on my understanding, the tool's integration capabilities with multiple tools is an area of concern that Polarion needs to focus on more."
"One of Polarion's shortcomings would be planning. It can handle plans, but the planning feature is very basic."
"The interface for this solution needs to be made more user-friendly to provide a better user experience."
"The weak point of Polarion ALM software is about reporting and time for extraction of the data...The quality of reporting needs to improve."
"The planning and task management aspects of the solution were not that easy."
JIRA Portfolio is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 55 reviews while Polarion ALM is ranked 8th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 17 reviews. JIRA Portfolio is rated 8.2, while Polarion ALM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of JIRA Portfolio writes "Powerful, flexible solution with a bit of a learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Polarion ALM writes "Though needing an improvement in reporting and time for extraction of the data, its integration capabilities are good". JIRA Portfolio is most compared with Jira Align, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project Server and Adobe Workfront, whereas Polarion ALM is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Codebeamer, PTC Integrity and GitLab. See our JIRA Portfolio vs. Polarion ALM report.
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