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 has significantly reduced the number of emails we exchange because we can access the project directly. It organizes all the tasks related to each project, assigns them to staff with due dates, and tracks progress."
"The most valuable feature of Asana is the tracking of comments and documents in one place."
"The solution appears to be quite stable."
"It has helped our departments maintain visibility."
"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."
"Asana allows you to create your own project with sub sections with subtasks that can be assigned. The feature I really love is that you can tag people to notify them that there has been progress on a project as well as add attachments."
"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's an easy way to communicate."
"JIRA Portfolio has many wonderful features."
"The solution is very stable."
"The solution is very powerful and the underlying structure of it is well done. The company behind the solution is very open as far as their whole ecosystem is concerned. They also do a lot of work in the training area."
"I use it to plan and schedule the things I take care of. I can create and share a document if I want to discuss new ideas with my team remotely."
"The product's centralized database creates a single source of data for working groups so no data needs to be reconciled."
"Portfolio helps us increase the visibility of projects' status and management with remote workers who make up most of the company."
"The workflows are the most valuable feature of the solution, whether for tasks, bugs, or chain requests from the site. I also like the solution's GUI, which is easy to navigate for everyone."
"The most valuable feature of JIRA Portfolio is the visuals it provides rather than Kanban boarded tickets."
"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."
"For large teams, scalability should be improved."
"The calendar view in Asana has shortcomings and can be improved."
"We have not used Asana on our private server. We have been using the cloud solution. We need an on premise solution for government agencies."
"The product's page is not user-friendly."
"In Asana, there's no way to add a custom date field."
"We tried, but we haven't been successful with it. If people don't have the training, it is not easy to use. You need to make sure that the people are trained to use the system. They can provide more resources in the form of webcasts and videos that people can use to train themselves and understand how to use it."
"We'd like the capability to be able to set up weekly reminders."
"The interface JIRA Portfolio could improve."
"The initial setup could use improvement."
"The product's initial setup phase is complex."
"We would love to be able to have direct contact with Atlassian. Currently, they are not working directly with West African countries. We are considering using JIRA Align, but when we contact them, they say that as we are in West Africa, they don't directly work with West Africa."
"n the next version I would like to see better reporting and safer plugins, as well as easier scalability."
"The kanban board could also use some more filters. We just had a project where the deployment for Jira didn't have any ETA, and it's a requirement for the client. We accommodate a lot of issues on the board, so the workaround was to create boards by project, not client."
"The solution’s pricing could be reduced."
"The team-centric view is slightly weaker in JIRA compared to its competitors, especially considering how I can evaluate how each resource has been placed, not just in one project but across JIRA."
Asana is ranked 3rd in Project Management Software with 43 reviews while JIRA Portfolio is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 55 reviews. Asana is rated 8.4, while JIRA Portfolio is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Asana writes "Extremely stable, user-friendly, and easy to navigate". 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 Azure DevOps and Microsoft Project Server. See our Asana vs. JIRA Portfolio report.
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