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."Has good analysis integration capabilities."
"The documentation is very well done."
"The solution's tracking capabilities helped ensure we had full visibility into planned work and scheduled work."
"Jira's Structure, agile, and Kanban boards are helpful. I also like JQuery, which allows you to fetch the relevant set of data. We use JQuery, JQL, and the Structure board a lot. Kanban boards help us monitor daily tasks, and we review the progress using the burndown charts."
"Has many functionalities including good supervision and workflows."
"The most valuable feature is that it fits very well into an agile framework, and it is especially helpful with the planning aspects."
"The solution has good reporting and is very user-friendly."
"The graphics and the resolution of the work are very good."
"Polarion ALM's integration is very good and easy to use."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Polarion ALM has some valuable tools for managing our targets and requirements. I think that's its best feature."
"The best feature of Polarion ALM to me is its traceability link."
"It offers good performance."
"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."
"We had a nice experience with technical support."
"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."
"It's got kind of a steep learning curve."
"The solution's look and feel could be a bit more intuitive and user friendly."
"JIRA and Confluence must be linked automatically."
"This solution is not able to be integrated with other solutions because you have to upgrade it and pay for more licensing."
"It would be nice if it could provide an end-to-end solution for a project."
"JIRA Portfolio could improve new implementation because if I want integration for the complete wide frame tools it cannot provide any wide frame tools."
"There should be an integration of efforts between the cloud service providers' side and JIRA Portfolio."
"In the next release, Portfolio should include more metrics and develop their portfolio planning."
"The planning and task management aspects of the solution were not that easy."
"The ease-of-use could be improved a little."
"The configuration aspect of the solution is not easy. A person needs a lot of programming knowledge in order to successfully handle the job."
"The most important thing for them to improve should be platform-independent features. They should also provide extensive pipelines and release pipelines that we can define and we can work on."
"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 solution can be improved by making it more user-friendly, and a server-based application rather than client based."
"The user interface is not yet optimized."
"The solution needs to improve its user experience and graphics."
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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