We performed a comparison between JIRA Portfolio 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."The most valuable feature of JIRA Portfolio is the visuals it provides rather than Kanban boarded tickets."
"JIRA Portfolio has many wonderful features."
"The product's centralized database creates a single source of data for working groups so no data needs to be reconciled."
"With JIRA, you can do amazing things by developing connectors, embedding features, and adding new fields to create new things."
"Portfolio's most valuable features are that it's user-friendly and customer-centric."
"The solution's tracking capabilities helped ensure we had full visibility into planned work and scheduled work."
"Managing product development and managing inter-team communications are also valuable features."
"The most valuable feature is that it fits very well into an agile framework, and it is especially helpful with the planning aspects."
"The solution offers good integration."
"It offers good performance."
"The best feature of Polarion ALM to me is its traceability link."
"It is a very stable solution."
"You can see the work ticket and you can circulate that within the teams. You can define your flows, customize according to your needs, and you can create dashboards and create the reports according to your needs."
"It meets with everybody's needs without having to grab plugins."
"The most valuable feature is the function of the ALM system."
"Scalability is good...The integration is quite good."
"We had to use assistance for the initial setup."
"It would be really nice if the solution provided a heads-up every time they enhance something or add new features."
"Our major team does not control or manage JIRA server well since sometimes there is trouble using the solution, which is a problem. The solution's speed needs to be improved."
"The initial setup could use improvement."
"The HR aspect of the solution could be improved."
"JIRA Portfolio could improve new implementation because if I want integration for the complete wide frame tools it cannot provide any wide frame tools."
"The solution's look and feel could be a bit more intuitive and user friendly."
"The product presently lacks visualization capabilities"
"The solution can be improved by making it more user-friendly, and a server-based application rather than client based."
"We use PTC Windchill, and Polarion ALM doesn't have native integration, so we had to purchase the connector to integrate it with Polarion ALM. We still haven't implemented it."
"One of Polarion's shortcomings would be planning. It can handle plans, but the planning feature is very basic."
"The user interface is not yet optimized."
"The ease-of-use could be improved a little."
"Test management lacks an automated process."
"The tool needs to improve its planning. It also needs to add more integrations."
"The solution needs to improve its user experience and graphics."
JIRA Portfolio is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 55 reviews while Polarion ALM is ranked 8th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 17 reviews. JIRA Portfolio is rated 8.2, while Polarion ALM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of JIRA Portfolio writes "Powerful, flexible solution with a bit of a learning curve". 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 Portfolio is most compared with Jira Align, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project Server and Adobe Workfront, whereas Polarion ALM is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Codebeamer, PTC Integrity and GitLab. See our JIRA Portfolio vs. Polarion ALM report.
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