We performed a comparison between Jira Align and JIRA Portfolio 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."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."
"In my previous experience, the Portfolio and Structure feature in Jira is really valuable because it assists with forecasting for projects."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"I like Jira's structured project plan, with tasks and subtasks. Jira can use various external plugins. Third-party providers can add new features to the solution. If I need some functionality, I can usually find an app for it. They have thousands."
"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 product's most valuable feature is CMDB for services desk management and backlog projects."
"The OKR experience is great."
"The deployment phase of Jira Align wasn't difficult."
"JIRA has helped us reduce the rate of unseen or undetectable issues in the future. It has also helped us understand the demand overload across the defense team, including capacity and availability, and how we can leverage different teams to ensure overall success."
"The most valuable feature of the JIRA Portfolio is the many features it provides, such as code integration, documentation, roadmap, and Eclipse. The solution is useful for product managers."
"I think the solution's most important and valuable feature is its ability to track the issues."
"The workflow and bucket features are most helpful."
"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."
"Jira Portfolio is useful for tracking time and hours. It's easy to manage, create tickets, and change the status of delivery reports. It's not complicated."
"The graphics and the resolution of the work are very good."
"The dashboard is the most valuable feature. The user experience is very good, it's easy to use."
"Other companies that are competitors of Jira and Confluence, they are able to create their active directories for the vendors that don't come in internally."
"The product needs to improve its configurations."
"The framework could be better."
"The tool's corporate pricing is expensive."
"It would be helpful if they had something for capacity planning that was simpler to understand."
"There are fewer customization options in Jira Align due to how it was designed."
"I would like to see Jira Align merge and integrate better with Jira as a whole. A lot of the time, the data from Jira won't map very well into Jira Align."
"One of the biggest issues I found in the new version was once we clicked on one of the tasks that were specifically for our group and went to look at the other portfolios in other areas we had to browse all the way back to the beginning. If you click the back button, it would not work, it stayed the same place. Additionally, if you click on page B, but then you wanted to go back to page A it would not go back to page A. You would have to browse back to the portfolio and then find your group again and open it. This was the only issue that I had with it and I am not sure if it is a Jira issue or it was because of the way the site was laid out."
"Requires some effort to insert functionalities and that could be simplified."
"Their interface is a little unique and I think that's partly because the core of the product has morphed into several sub-products, but the underlying architecture has stayed the same on all of them in that it was originally a help desk ticketing system. It's a very tech-focused product and that's fair given its origins, but if they really want to expand their community of users, then they're going to have to move beyond that a little bit and polish it up."
"It would be nice if it could provide an end-to-end solution for a project."
"Jira has room for improvement in terms of managing various projects and linking requirements centrally under one project. They could include some add-ons that enable you to link all the requirements and put them into a centralized place. That central place should be restricted to a limited set of users with privileges based on user groups with those rights."
"The product could do with more flexible reporting."
"We are using the on-premise deployment, but it is slower and not as easy to manage as the cloud version."
"An improvement would be if Portfolio were integrated with Office 365."
"Another thing could be to have an easy way to manage the Portfolio and have more ways to share and to show graphics and reports"
Jira Align is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 36 reviews while JIRA Portfolio is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 50 reviews. Jira Align is rated 8.0, while JIRA Portfolio is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Jira Align writes "Creates visibility, has lots of reports, and removes silos". On the other hand, the top reviewer of JIRA Portfolio writes "Powerful, flexible solution with a bit of a learning curve". Jira Align is most compared with OpenText ValueEdge, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planview AgilePlace, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Rally Software, whereas JIRA Portfolio is most compared with Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, Microsoft Project Server, Adobe Workfront, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Broadcom Clarity . See our JIRA Portfolio vs. Jira Align report.
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