We performed a comparison between Helix ALM and Jira based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The tool offers high stability."
"Helix ALM enables users to build, make efficient and effective decisions, and use least-cost methods for maximum benefit, as fast as possible. They allow you to see and visualize your configuration."
"The most valuable features of Helix ALM are traceability and flexibility."
"The most valuable feature is the Burndown Chart to see work that is outstanding."
"Kanban board: The board is easy to use and visually impressive to non-IT users, who found it easy to relate to."
"Issue linking has enabled teams to trace issues."
"In our organization, we use Jira for project management and usually use the Scrum project type. We might adjust the workflows and stages to better suit our needs, but we mostly use the default functionalities it offers to manage our projects."
"In terms of product management, Jira increases productivity and visibility into the product. Those are the top benefits this tool provides to the team. Also, it's accessible to the executives and whoever wants to sign on to Jira to see what's going on."
"Jira is a pretty capable product, and a lot of features are valuable. We value being able to set up separate projects and configure teams in them, set up sprints, and manage our sprints with its history tracking. These are all very useful features. It has been a very popular product for our work."
"I have found the most valuable features of Jira to be ticketing, life cycle workflow, definition, and creation. Many of the features are useful."
"We use Jira for project management and tracking."
"The accountability and the equivalent to using, acting, editing, working with Word, and also importing and exporting from Word needs improvement."
"Helix ALM should be able to integrate with other systems better. Helix ALM should also have an easier user interface, and the solution needs to have drag-and-drop tools included in it."
"It would be great to see Perforce's strategy is for implementing intelligence into the process via AI or ML. It's not clearly defined, at least not to my knowledge."
"Jira is raising their prices for the license, which is like a trap because many other providers offer services like Jira but for much cheaper."
"There's a really steep learning curve for configuration."
"Lacks field-level permission in the cloud version."
"While it's very powerful, it's very complex sometimes."
"We have gone through several version changes and some of those changes have not been intuitive. There was a learning curve and we had some complaints internally about the changes, such as the new interface."
"They could improve the solution by having a multiple project dashboard to be able to manage many projects KPI's at once, this would really be helpful."
"If I'm comparing it to ALM Octane, the documentation is not as robust as ALM Octane's documentation. So, they can improve on the documentation side."
"For me, the solution is too complicated as it has too many features. It would be nice if they could streamline things."
Helix ALM is ranked 16th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 7 reviews while Jira is ranked 1st in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 266 reviews. Helix ALM is rated 6.4, while Jira is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Helix ALM writes "Helix ALM is insanely configurable, with great traceability, and flexibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Jira writes "A great centralized tool that has a good agile framework and is useful for day-to-day planning, task management, and work log efficacy". Helix ALM is most compared with IBM Rational DOORS, IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation, Polarion Requirements, Tricentis qTest and Jama Connect, whereas Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software and Polarion ALM. See our Helix ALM vs. Jira report.
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