We performed a comparison between Codebeamer 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."One of the most valuable features of Codebeamer is its strong performance."
"The traceability is so simple that I don't need to do any additional configurations related to traceability."
"It is a stable solution."
"The platform provided the flexibility to expand our business processes, accommodating or altering them to suit the requirements of a changing environment."
"Codebeamer's API-based integration and many other integration aspects with other solutions are very powerful."
"The solution easily replaces IBM DOORS, which no longer offers maintenance in China."
"There is a lot of complexity involved, meaning it can do many things, which can be quite useful."
"CodeBeamer provides full traceability, excellent collaboration, regulatory compliance, and instant reporting with its holistic approach from requirement management to testing."
"Powerful features including a good reporting capability."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is that it is a quite powerful user tracking system."
"I like that all of the team members on an agile team can use it. No one is in a separate application."
"Jira has a useful user interface and overall is easy to understand and learn."
"We have around 2000 plus users, so scale wise, there are no issues. We can easily scale up with multiple users."
"We can integrate a lot of tools with the solution."
"All of the tracking features are the most valuable because it allows me to see where we stand today and every day."
"It is user-friendly, and you can manage your project according to the methodology you want. It is also easy to configure."
"The search and replace feature within the tool itself could be improved."
"Usability needs to be improved."
"During migrations from other platforms to CodeBeamer, there have been instances where we encountered issues that required redoing certain tasks."
"The solution has a very small market share in China. It's almost like a startup."
"It's still a fairly new tool that lacks maturity right now."
"Certain areas in Codebeamer could be improved, like addressing small issues, glitches, or bugs."
"I would like to see more, easily trackable reports."
"The product's UI is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution can improve by including test management functionality in a native bundle without plugins."
"We'd like to use it with non-Agile projects in the future, however, right now, it is a very Agile-focused product."
"The pricing is quite high."
"Jira is a little bit old fashioned, it could be more user friendly."
"The reporting part is a little bit difficult for me. It is not so easy. There should be a simpler way to track the efforts of our team. For example, in an Excel sheet, there is a feature for filtering. It would be much better if we can use something like that. Currently, for a complex query, we need to use Jira Query Language. Using Jira Query Language every time is not efficient for me."
"Lacks field-level permission in the cloud version."
"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."
"Integration with some of the automation tools could be improved."
Codebeamer is ranked 9th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 10 reviews while Jira is ranked 1st in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 266 reviews. Codebeamer is rated 7.8, while Jira is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Codebeamer writes "Has good technical support services, but the migration process needs improvement". 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". Codebeamer is most compared with PTC Integrity, Polarion ALM, Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational ALM and IBM Engineering Workflow Management, whereas Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software and Planisware. See our Codebeamer vs. Jira report.
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