We performed a comparison between Atlassian ALM and IBM Rational ALM 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 most valuable feature is the Scrum board."
"This solution fits very well into our agile product management environment."
"The main power of this tool is the integration between the different products of the Atlassian suite. We have good integration with work management with Java. This is the major strength from this provider."
"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."
"We have something called the GC (global configuration), which is a unique feature compared to any other competitor we have in the ALM space."
"IBM Rational ALM is a very good tool. I like the management and traceability features and the test management tool. The latter is not linked with the stories and fixed management. It is really useful, and we can create test plans. We can also test some metrics related to QA."
"I would rate the stability of this product a nine out of ten."
"At the same time, if you're working from the architect or the designing team you, it's quite easy to manage the resources online."
"The solution is customizable."
"It helped us contain critical things, like source code and several documents, which is very important to us."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting of the CPU usage on the dashboard."
"The automation for scheduling software and doing software tests should be simplified because it's complex and too rigid."
"There is room for improvement in the high-level project management."
"The reports are not really customizable, which is something that they should improve on."
"IBM Rational ALM should remove the features not used by the customers and keep this product as lightweight as possible."
"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 solution can improve in the development area and the customized applications."
"The features should be more intuitive. If I'm looking for something, its location should be easy to locate."
"One of the complaints from users is that they have to click buttons too many times for just a simple task. Changing this would lead to a better user experience."
"The reporting functionality needs to be improved."
"The product must be more user-friendly."
Atlassian ALM is ranked 16th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 6 reviews while IBM Rational ALM is ranked 11th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews. Atlassian ALM is rated 7.6, while IBM Rational ALM is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Atlassian ALM writes "Scrum board feature is highly valuable and handles different user volumes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Rational ALM writes "A complex deployment that is not stable, but is cloud-based". Atlassian ALM is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, TFS, Polarion ALM and Rally Software, whereas IBM Rational ALM is most compared with Jira, Codebeamer, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Polarion ALM and Rally Software. See our Atlassian ALM vs. IBM Rational ALM report.
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