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Jira Align vs. Polarion ALM
May 2024
Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Jira Align 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.
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Featured Review
Juan Pablo Barragán
It has excellent tools that simplify task management
Jira helps us perform complex implementations, and it has excellent tools that simplify task management.
Michael Hengst
Good test and quality management and helps with resource management
The tool helped us to more effectively and efficiently gather and structure the information (requirements, test plans, project management data,... Read more →
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Pros
"I joined the company because they had a large project, and as a startup company, they needed to scale up efficiently. My task was to review the current baseline, assess the team's capabilities, and propose solutions to increase production capacity. Upon observing the process in Jira Align, I realized we didn't need to invest heavily in expanding capacity.""The most valuable feature of Jira Align is the overall team vision.""The product's most valuable feature is CMDB for services desk management and backlog projects.""I like the way the UI functions.""Jira Align is an intuitive tool that features a roadmap view...The initial setup was straightforward...Jira Align is definitely worth the money.""What I like about Jira is that I can easily keep tabs on the status of different issues and what the team is working on.""The reporting structure is great.""Jira Align helps us manage communication and tasks for a variety of teams without overlap."

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"Scalability is good...The integration is quite good.""I am impressed with the solution’s stability.""We had a nice experience with technical support.""It meets with everybody's needs without having to grab plugins.""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.""Polarion ALM's integration is very good and easy to use.""You can see the work ticket and you can circulate that within the teams. You can define your flows, customize according to your needs, and you can create dashboards and create the reports according to your needs.""The features I find the most valuable are requirement tracking and schematics."

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Cons
"The solution’s stability could be improved.""The product needs to improve its configurations.""One area for improvement is that Jira Align's double menu and multiple menus can be difficult for new users.""Deployment was very complex.""Jira Align can improve the visibility of executive teams.""Jira Align's setup process could be more straightforward, and they could make training and educational documentation more accessible.""Jira Align should reduce the many information fields we need to provide while closing defects.""The synchronization between Jira and Jira Align takes too long."

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"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.""The weak point of Polarion ALM software is about reporting and time for extraction of the data...The quality of reporting needs to improve.""We use PTC Windchill, and Polarion ALM doesn't have native integration, so we had to purchase the connector to integrate it with Polarion ALM. We still haven't implemented it.""The user interface is not yet optimized.""Technical support needs some improvement.""The solution needs to improve its user experience and graphics."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The software is very good, but the price is expensive. Our licensing costs are on a monthly basis, but there are no additional costs to the standard license fees."
  • "The license for Jira Align is priced fairly."
  • "Jira Align is quite expensive for small-to-medium companies, but it's quite reasonable for larger ones."
  • "I would rate this solution a nine out of ten for pricing. The price of the solution depends on the number of people using it and the projects you are working on."
  • "My company pays approximately 399 USD per month for the solution."
  • "On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate Jira Align a seven out of ten."
  • "The tool is moderately expensive."
  • "Jira Align is an expensive solution."

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  • "The license model is okay for large companies but would be quite expensive for smaller enterprises."
  • "If the pricing would come down and it was more affordable then we wouldn't have to switch."
  • "Our license for Polarion ALM is yearly. And it's not the cheapest tool that we've looked at. So if we had made our decision purely based on the licensing cost, we wouldn't have selected Polarion."
  • "The solution is expensive."
  • "Software for medical devices is always expensive."
  • "You have to pay around 50-60 euros per user."
  • "It is an expensive product."

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    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about Jira Align?
    Top Answer:I joined the company because they had a large project, and as a startup company, they needed to scale up efficiently. My task was to review the current baseline, assess the team's capabilities, and… more »
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    What needs improvement with Jira Align?
    Top Answer:One feature that needs improvement is the tool's ability to change schedules automatically. Users can't simply drag and drop tasks to reschedule them without notifying the entire team. This lack of… more »
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    What is your primary use case for Jira Align?
    Top Answer:When we receive a new customer requirement, the sales and marketing team inputs it into Jira Align. Then, the design team creates a task in Jira Align and assigns it to various engineers, such as… more »
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    What do you like most about Polarion ALM?
    Top Answer:It is a very stable solution.
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    What needs improvement with Polarion ALM?
    Top Answer:At the moment, I haven't looked in-depth into what needs improvement in the product. Based on my understanding, the tool's integration capabilities with multiple tools is an area of concern that… more »
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    What is your primary use case for Polarion ALM?
    Top Answer:I work in an industry where I mainly look after the requirements, for which I use Polarion ALM.
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    Ranking
    3rd
    out of 19 in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools
    Views
    3,963
    Comparisons
    2,178
    Reviews
    28
    Average Words per Review
    521
    Rating
    8.0
    8th
    out of 19 in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools
    Views
    1,895
    Comparisons
    1,240
    Reviews
    9
    Average Words per Review
    369
    Rating
    7.9
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    Overview

    Jira Align is a cloud-based agile planning tool designed to help enterprises visualize, manage, and carry out large-scale software and IT projects. Jira Align’s features are designed to align the activities of your company’s development team with the overall goals of the organization by helping you achieve the following results:

    • Connect and coordinate enterprise-level business teams.
    • Make your entire enterprise’s work visible to drive and improve business outcomes.
    • Improve product quality with a fully aligned organization.
    • Shorten delivery cycles by increasing operational efficiency.

    With Jira Align’s integration with Jira Software, businesses can simplify governing large-scale software development efforts by translating their strategy and goals into the technical execution and delivery of work.

    Jira Align uses the aggregated data from Jira Software to produce reports on every aspect of the development process. Product stakeholders are granted immediate visibility into the progress that has been made and can easily identify delays and their causes.

    The solution also assists in budget planning by assigning expenses to various work items and giving management real-time insights into ongoing expenditures and performance against set budgets.

    Jira Align Features

    Some of the top features and benefits of using Jira Align include:

    • Strategy management: Jira Align provides a clear visualization of where your enterprise is holding via strategic snapshots. The snapshot helps guide teams throughout the product. With the snapshot in view, it becomes easier to see and track the goals your company wants to carry out.
    • Progress monitoring: View a progress bar that provides indication of the level of completeness of your projects. The interface is populated with live data, which assists with planning and execution reporting.
    • Reporting and metrics: Jira Align creates valuable insights using the aggregated data it collects, ensuring that changes are tracked across teams and results are made visible early on in the process. These metrics allow managers to quickly determine what actions need to be taken.
    • Scalability: Jira Align is designed to work within organizations with hundreds of technical staff members and it can scale to support tens of thousands of users.
    • Backlogs and workflows: Effectively manage your work utilizing backlogs and workflow boards.
    • Customizable dashboard: Lay out key data points to help management keep tabs on important items. Easily make decisions based on active live consolidated data along with forecasting, risk tracking reports, and more. To help lower risks, Jira Align provides you with a visualization of program cross dependencies. It also displays a comprehensive view of resource utilization across projects, and highlights inefficiencies so that they can be resolved quickly.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Jira Align stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its program-level planning options and its reporting capabilities.

    A project manager at a consultancy notes, “I like how things can be sorted out, and it shows the different objectives one can do. You could also create a team view that would allow your team to see work outcomes. Jira Align also helps with the reporting, because we can export data to Excel or another format.”

    The world’s first 100% browser-based ALM enterprise solution, which enables seamless collaboration across disparate teams, multi-directionally linked work items, full traceability, accelerated productivity and automated proof of compliance.

    Sample Customers
    Anthem, nielsen, Homeland Security, NCR, dimension data
    Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, IBS AG, Zumtobel Group
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company37%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Construction Company5%
    Retailer5%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm28%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Insurance Company6%
    REVIEWERS
    Manufacturing Company36%
    Healthcare Company21%
    Transportation Company14%
    Consumer Goods Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company24%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Healthcare Company9%
    Financial Services Firm4%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business39%
    Midsize Enterprise29%
    Large Enterprise32%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise79%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business37%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise47%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    Jira Align is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 37 reviews while Polarion ALM is ranked 8th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 17 reviews. Jira Align is rated 8.0, while Polarion ALM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Jira Align writes "Creates visibility, has lots of reports, and removes silos". 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 Align is most compared with OpenText ValueEdge, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, JIRA Portfolio, Planview AgilePlace and Microsoft Azure DevOps, whereas Polarion ALM is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Codebeamer, PTC Integrity and GitLab. See our Jira Align vs. Polarion ALM report.

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