We performed a comparison between Jira Align and ServiceNow DevOps based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Value Stream Management Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The biggest advantage of Jira Align, in my opinion, is its user-friendly interface, making it simple and easy for end users to navigate and utilize. The most valuable feature of Jira Align for me is its automation capabilities, allowing us to create automation rules based on logical conditions for our projects. In terms of cross-team collaboration, Jira Align's integration with our project squads has been highly effective. It enables seamless creation of stories linked to incidents and changes, facilitating better visibility and understanding of the relationships between them. Regarding road mapping and dependency tracking, Jira Align enhances our project planning by aligning with our best practices and providing robust capabilities for mapping out dependencies and tracking progress."
"Jira Align is an easy-to-use and user-friendly solution."
"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 most valuable features of Jira Align are its product roadmap and reporting."
"I found Confluence most valuable."
"The most valuable features are the ability to customize the entries and to update them quickly. Since the new version they released, we started utilizing the customization features to create specific codes and symbols for our teams that were not available before. For example, in team A each person had their own symbols and we had our own demarcation. When our project or task was completed, we had a code that we could enter online that let the main project managers know that it was time to remove it."
"In our workflow, we utilize a dashboard. Our product development backbone relies on two-week sprints. At the beginning of each sprint, we conduct a planning meeting to discuss and challenge the backlogs. Throughout the sprint, we conduct daily sessions to review code, ensure alignment with coding standards, and address any issues. Once all tasks are completed, we proceed with the deployment process."
"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."
"I have found the ease of CACD integration to be the most valuable feature."
"We use it for a lot of things, and it is really good for our use cases. We use it for our help desk and knowledge management, which is really good. When it comes to modules, it has an incident module, which is really good for us in terms of tracking our cases and incidents. Its change management module is really good, and it also has customization capabilities."
"The API part of the solution is very easy to integrate with CI/CD tools, which helps our company achieve our goals related to the integration part."
"It's very user-friendly. It has a reporting side that is very automated. There are a lot of things that you can automate using that tool."
"The synchronization between Jira and Jira Align takes too long."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"The product needs to improve its configurations."
"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."
"In my company, we found the solution to have many issues regarding its ability to handle claims and other processes since the solution is not available on a single window."
"For future releases of Jira Align, I would suggest making workflows simpler and more user-friendly."
"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."
"Lacks sufficient reporting capabilities."
"The roles for the ServiceNow administration side could be improved. I think they could be more specific or add the descriptions for the different roles."
"Its performance is really bad. When you're on the hosted cloud, it gives you the time it takes for a transaction to happen, and it takes anything from 20 seconds to a minute, which is a really long time. Something that is really annoying in this solution is that when you click on the Back button to go back, you don't go back to the previous screen. You go back all the way to the homepage. It is really annoying and painful. Its UI is also pretty dated. It is very customizable, but the customization seems to be clunky. We have a separate team that owns the ServiceNow implementation. They control how it is customized. Its customizations are pretty extensive, and it takes us a while to get them done, which is painful. That could be because of our internal team, as opposed to the product itself. When it comes to DevOps, there are better solutions such as Atlassian and Azure DevOps. ServiceNow DevOps is an ITIL product that is trying to be something else. DevOps is not its prime purpose, even though it is capable of doing that. Trying to be too many things by one platform is not a good idea. They should focus on the ITIL space and not get into all other spaces."
"From a documentation point of view, there are certain areas of concern, and improvements are to be made to make the documentation part clearer and crisper."
"Pricing is our biggest concern with the solution."
Jira Align is ranked 1st in Value Stream Management Software with 37 reviews while ServiceNow DevOps is ranked 3rd in Value Stream Management Software with 4 reviews. Jira Align is rated 8.0, while ServiceNow DevOps is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Jira Align writes "Creates visibility, has lots of reports, and removes silos". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ServiceNow DevOps writes "A tool that offers useful templates and is very easy to integrate with CI/CD tools". Jira Align is most compared with OpenText ValueEdge, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, JIRA Portfolio, Planview AgilePlace and GitLab, whereas ServiceNow DevOps is most compared with Plutora. See our Jira Align vs. ServiceNow DevOps report.
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