We performed a comparison between IBM Rational ALM and TFS 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."You can customize the board according to your needs."
"One of the key advantages of IBM Rational ALM is its workflow capabilities, which enable seamless collaboration between development and production teams and ensure that all stakeholders are aware of the progress and readiness of the solution. Additionally, the solution is good for integration."
"The integration with Git works well."
"It is relatively easy to use and user-friendly once the setup is complete."
"We have something called the GC (global configuration), which is a unique feature compared to any other competitor we have in the ALM space."
"It helped us contain critical things, like source code and several documents, which is very important to us."
"The solution is customizable."
"The word emulation and importing is good."
"I like the Kanban board. It is very useful in terms of seeing who is working on what and what the current status of work is."
"The initial setup is fairly easy."
"TFS’s test management capability without the expensive licensing has large gaps. Users will be unable to access performance testing and coded UI testing capabilities."
"Work item management integration with source control."
"Complete integration with VS IDE and Office tools: This give us a possibility of high-level automation, thus minimizing human error."
"We use TFS for forecast management."
"Some of the valuable features are version control and the ability to create different collections in terms of segregating the authorization for teams who connect to small projects."
"The interface is easy to navigate."
"The stability of IBM Rational ALM could be improved."
"The reporting functionality needs to be improved."
"The features should be more intuitive. If I'm looking for something, its location should be easy to locate."
"The directory designer manager is uncivil. The design manager is clearly really unstable."
"There is not enough beginner support material in the form of FAQs or simple training to help you get started."
"The GUI is a little bit outdated."
"In the next release, we expect a traceability metrics configuration where we can configure the user stories. We also expect them to improve or simplify the query process."
"The interconnectivity between packages is a major support problem and can be improved."
"Sometimes we feel that it need more CPU, and RAMs on TFS server, either we implemented the hardware with the product minimum requirements."
"TFS isn't a great tool if you're on the cloud."
"TFS and MTM have their own style of working and they are different from other tools like Jira or TestRail, which are simpler and easy to use."
"The solution should have better dashboards."
"The dashboard and the customization of dashboards is an area they have to work on."
"I would also like a true command prompt like Git."
"One of the areas that could be improved is to have an effective full lifecycle management."
"It would be better if we could bring it out on the cloud."
IBM Rational ALM is ranked 10th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews while TFS is ranked 3rd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 93 reviews. IBM Rational ALM is rated 7.2, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Rational ALM writes "A complex deployment that is not stable, but is cloud-based". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TFS writes "It is helpful for scheduled releases and enforcing rules, but it should be better at merging changes for multiple developers and retaining the historical information". IBM Rational ALM is most compared with Jira, Codebeamer, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Polarion ALM and PTC Integrity, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, Visual Studio Test Professional and OpenText ALM / Quality Center. See our IBM Rational ALM vs. TFS report.
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