We performed a comparison between GitLab and Jira Align based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Agile Planning Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."GitLab's best features are maintenance, branch integration, and development infrastructure."
"I have found the most valuable features of GitLab are the GitClone, GitPush, GitPull, GitMatch, GitMit, GitCommit, and GitStatus."
"GitLab offers a good interface for doing code reviews between two colleagues."
"The most valuable features of Gitlab are integration with CIE and the ability to rapidly deploy solutions, projects, and applications. It is very easy to use, and there are no complaints."
"The tool helps to integrate CI/CD pipeline deployments. It is very easy to learn. Its security model is good."
"The solution's most valuable feature is that it is compatible with GitHub. The product's integration capabilities are sufficient for our small company of 35 people."
"A user friendly solution."
"This is a scalable solution. We had around 200 users working with it."
"Being able to do PI planning using the program levels is most valuable. I find that the program-level reporting is most useful."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"Jira Align is an intuitive tool that features a roadmap view...The initial setup was straightforward...Jira Align is definitely worth the money."
"Defect tracking and dashboards are the most valuable features of Jira Align."
"The deployment phase of Jira Align wasn't difficult."
"The tool helps us to stick with the timeline and budget of our projects. It also helps me to identify dependencies and red flags and intervene wherever possible. I have found the key metrics tab also useful."
"The most valuable features in Jira Align are the dashboard and the reporting feature."
"What I like about Jira is that I can easily keep tabs on the status of different issues and what the team is working on."
"GitLab could consider introducing a code-scanning tool. Purchasing such tools from external markets can incur charges, which might not be favorable. Integrating these features into GitLab would streamline the pipeline and make it more convenient for users."
"The documentation could be improved to help newcomers better understand things like creating new branches."
"The only thing our company is really waiting on in terms of features is the development of metrics."
"As GitLab is not perfect, what needs improvement in the solution is the Wiki feature of the groups or the repertories because currently, it's not searchable by default. You'll need an indexing service such as Elasticsearch to make it searchable, and that requires too much work, so for me, it's the main feature that should be improved in GitLab. In the next version of the solution, from the top of my head, the documentation could be improved. Besides the Wiki, it would be good if there's documentation that would be automatically generated based on the code repository. In other words, there should be some tutorials from GitLab for developers in the next release."
"We do face issues in our company when we run out of disk space."
"The solution does not have many built-in functions or variables so scripting is required."
"I don't really like the new Kubernetes integration because it is pretty focused on the on-premise environment, but we're in a hybrid environment."
"When deploying the solution on cloud and the CI/CD pipeline, we have to define the steps and it becomes confusing."
"Jira Align can improve the visibility of executive teams."
"The framework could be better."
"Jira Align's user interface needs improvement because its user experience is really bad."
"The workflows are scalable from portfolio to individual level but can sometimes be complex to navigate."
"Maybe some of the terms and the connectivity could be improved."
"One area for improvement is that Jira Align's double menu and multiple menus can be difficult for new users."
"We have experienced errors with the internal server that occurs frequently."
"AI is utilized worldwide; they could implement the functionality for notifications and other organizational operations in the product."
GitLab is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 70 reviews while Jira Align is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 36 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Jira Align is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Jira Align writes "Creates visibility, has lots of reports, and removes silos". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton, whereas Jira Align is most compared with OpenText ValueEdge, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, JIRA Portfolio, Planview AgilePlace and Jile. See our GitLab vs. Jira Align report.
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