We performed a comparison between GitLab 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."The most important features of GitLab for us are issue management and all the CI/CD tools. Another aspect that I love about GitLab is the UI."
"The solution's most valuable feature is that it is compatible with GitHub. The product's integration capabilities are sufficient for our small company of 35 people."
"It is very flexible and easy because you can store data on cloud."
"GitLab is very well-organized and easy to use. Also, it offers most features that customers need."
"Their CI/CD engine is very mature. It's very comprehensive and flexible, and compared to other projects, I believe that GitLab is number one right now from that perspective."
"The stability is good."
"The most valuable features of GitLab are ease of use and highly intuitive UI and performance."
"Of all available products, it was the easiest to use and easy to install."
"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 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 graphics and the resolution of the work are very good."
"The customized workflows we can define are very valuable. JIRA's private projects is very useful as well. There are also a lot of plugins that they provide."
"The dashboard is the most valuable feature. The user experience is very good, it's easy to use."
"The status update function is the most valuable feature."
"The tool helps us achieve more within the stipulated timeline and budget."
"The way to manage cards as a KANBAN, is really easy but when you need to track hundreds of projects, you need to be very clear in which way the things must be completed."
"We would like to have easier tutorials. Their tutorials are too technical for a user to understand. They should be more detailed but less technical."
"We'd always like to see better pricing on the product."
"Merge conflicts and repository maintenance could improve. If there is someone new to the system they would not know if there is a conflict."
"I rate the support from GitLab a four out of five."
"I used Spring Cloud config and to connect that to GitLab was so hard."
"As a partner, sometimes it's difficult to get support. They have a really complicated procedure for their support."
"I would like to see better integration with project management tools such as Jira."
"Expand features to match other tools such as a static code analysis tool so third-party integrations are not required."
"It would be nice if it could provide an end-to-end solution for a project."
"This solution is not able to be integrated with other solutions because you have to upgrade it and pay for more licensing."
"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."
"As there are no perfect solutions and considering that I rate JIRA Portfolio's stability an eight out of ten, I feel it is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Portfolio is easy to scale, but we've had some difficulties with it regarding compliance and support."
"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."
"We would love to be able to have direct contact with Atlassian. Currently, they are not working directly with West African countries. We are considering using JIRA Align, but when we contact them, they say that as we are in West Africa, they don't directly work with West Africa."
"Requires some effort to insert functionalities and that could be simplified."
GitLab is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 70 reviews while JIRA Portfolio is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 55 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while JIRA Portfolio is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of JIRA Portfolio writes "Powerful, flexible solution with a bit of a learning curve". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton, whereas JIRA Portfolio is most compared with Jira Align, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project Server and Microsoft Project. See our GitLab vs. JIRA Portfolio report.
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