We performed a comparison between Asana and JIRA Portfolio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Project Management Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Asana's most valuable aspect is its ability to consolidate all tasks and projects onto a single board, allowing for seamless navigation through timelines from start to finish. Additionally, it enables the inclusion of key stakeholders and provides a private communication channel for discreet discussions. The organizational component of Asana is particularly beneficial, including its coding features."
"It is very good for managing the timeline. I'm a quality manager, and I have different testing projects running with different work breakdown structures. Asana makes it very easy to implement and monitor the plans. It is easy to move the tasks and complete them, break them down, and assign them to people."
"By using this software, I have adaptability in my work, and it can improve the production of our company."
"I like how easy it is to use the rules within Asana."
"Asana provides a lot of options and a lot of customization to give the best efficient way for your business to operate. For example, I can customize my tasks, tables, and pipelines the way I want them to fit my business model. It's easy and highly customizable."
"What I like most about Asana is its simplicity. For example: we're not the only ones using it, and we onboard our customers to it, and normally, they have no questions."
"It has helped our departments maintain visibility."
"The most valuable feature of Asana is the ease of navigation."
"With JIRA, you can do amazing things by developing connectors, embedding features, and adding new fields to create new things."
"In general, the valuable features of the tool are its capabilities concerning dependency reports and task status."
"I think the solution's most important and valuable feature is its ability to track the issues."
"The graphics and the resolution of the work are very good."
"The valuable features of the JIRA Portfolio are the customization it provides which is very useful and the Agile project management capability."
"Portfolio's best feature is integration with other JIRA products."
"We have found the solution to be stable."
"Version management is the most valuable feature of JIRA Portfolio."
"You need to have an action plan, otherwise, it won't be as effective."
"The inbox feature can be a little overwhelming if you are working with Asana just from its project boards and only checking it periodically."
"On the development side for technical project management, Asana is missing features. We only use it for discussing tasks and strategies, and we use it for customer to-do lists. It doesn't have the source code integration that Jira and Jira Service Desk both have."
"Their workflows and automation could use a big improvement. I don't even know if they have anything in that regard right now. I would really love to see a way where you can send custom alerts based on a task's completion or status change or an approval coming through. I would love to see a way to get some low-code functionality into Asana because right now, that is a big miss."
"In some instances, there were subtasks where more than one person needed to review it, but I could only assign it to one person. I would have to create a subtask under a subtask and then assign it to other people. This could be improved."
"The stability of Asana is good. However, there are some issues with maintenance, when the solution is down. For example, there might be maintained for a few hours where we cannot use the solution."
"The solution can be difficult for new users to use because of the interface."
"More features can be added."
"There should be an integration of efforts between the cloud service providers' side and JIRA Portfolio."
"JIra is very poor at reporting."
"If you want to generate a report for individual usage, it's difficult."
"It's got kind of a steep learning curve."
"When I want to embed Jira Portfolio in a complete HLI cycle, I'm missing things to evaluate my ethic into my value stream."
"I think their view needs to be more user friendly. The UI makes it difficult to find things. Secondly, the configuration is very complex. JIRA should help people find out what configuration they are using."
"Portfolio is easy to scale, but we've had some difficulties with it regarding compliance and support."
"The HR aspect of the solution could be improved."
Asana is ranked 3rd in Project Management Software with 43 reviews while JIRA Portfolio is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 47 reviews. Asana is rated 8.4, while JIRA Portfolio is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Asana writes "Stands out with portfolios, easy setup, and real-time information, but needs big improvement when it comes to workflows, automation, and dashboards". On the other hand, the top reviewer of JIRA Portfolio writes "Powerful, flexible solution with a bit of a learning curve". Asana is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project, Wrike, monday.com and Jira, whereas JIRA Portfolio is most compared with Jira Align, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, Microsoft Project Server and Adobe Workfront. See our Asana vs. JIRA Portfolio report.
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