We performed a comparison between Jira Align and Polarion ALM 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."In my previous experience, the Portfolio and Structure feature in Jira is really valuable because it assists with forecasting for projects."
"The deployment phase of Jira Align wasn't difficult."
"Velocity and reporting provide good visibility, burndown charts, and particularly velocity measurement."
"The biggest advantage of Jira Align, in my opinion, is its user-friendly interface, making it simple and easy for end users to navigate and utilize. The most valuable feature of Jira Align for me is its automation capabilities, allowing us to create automation rules based on logical conditions for our projects. In terms of cross-team collaboration, Jira Align's integration with our project squads has been highly effective. It enables seamless creation of stories linked to incidents and changes, facilitating better visibility and understanding of the relationships between them. Regarding road mapping and dependency tracking, Jira Align enhances our project planning by aligning with our best practices and providing robust capabilities for mapping out dependencies and tracking progress."
"Jira Align has been quite a helpful tool for us because, without it, we would be juggling with all our story points or our backlog items, which would be difficult to manage."
"Jira Align is an easy-to-use and user-friendly solution."
"I joined the company because they had a large project, and as a startup company, they needed to scale up efficiently. My task was to review the current baseline, assess the team's capabilities, and propose solutions to increase production capacity. Upon observing the process in Jira Align, I realized we didn't need to invest heavily in expanding capacity."
"The most valuable feature of Jira Align is the overall team vision."
"Scalability is good...The integration is quite good."
"I am impressed with the solution’s stability."
"The best feature of Polarion ALM to me is its traceability link."
"The technical support is quite good."
"Polarion ALM has some valuable tools for managing our targets and requirements. I think that's its best feature."
"It offers good performance."
"The initial setup of this solution was straightforward, and there were not too many problems with it."
"The most valuable feature is the function of the ALM system."
"Maybe some of the terms and the connectivity could be improved."
"One area where Jira Align could improve is in its licensing model. There was a significant change in the licensing module about six months ago, which resulted in increased costs for customers like us. This change wasn't communicated clearly, and it made it challenging for companies to adopt Jira Align without facing higher expenses. In terms of features, I would like to see improved workflows in the next release, as that would greatly benefit our organization."
"Jira Align should reduce the many information fields we need to provide while closing defects."
"The tool must provide better bulk editing features."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"Someone who is new to Jira or doesn't have many years of working experience in Jira Align gets easily lost because everything looks the same in the product."
"Deployment was very complex."
"Jira Align fails to provide its users with a complete package in terms of portfolio management."
"The weak point of Polarion ALM software is about reporting and time for extraction of the data...The quality of reporting needs to improve."
"The ease-of-use could be improved a little."
"The solution needs to improve its user experience and graphics."
"One of Polarion's shortcomings would be planning. It can handle plans, but the planning feature is very basic."
"The solution's editing capabilities need improvement."
"The planning and task management aspects of the solution were not that easy."
"The solution can be improved by making it more user-friendly, and a server-based application rather than client based."
"The most important thing for them to improve should be platform-independent features. They should also provide extensive pipelines and release pipelines that we can define and we can work on."
Jira Align is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 37 reviews while Polarion ALM is ranked 8th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 17 reviews. Jira Align is rated 8.0, while Polarion ALM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Jira Align writes "Creates visibility, has lots of reports, and removes silos". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Polarion ALM writes "Though needing an improvement in reporting and time for extraction of the data, its integration capabilities are good". Jira Align is most compared with OpenText ValueEdge, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, JIRA Portfolio, Planview AgilePlace and Microsoft Azure DevOps, whereas Polarion ALM is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Codebeamer, PTC Integrity and GitLab. See our Jira Align vs. Polarion ALM report.
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