We performed a comparison between Codebeamer and Jira based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Since implementing this solution we have better communication and information exchange with customers."
"The traceability is so simple that I don't need to do any additional configurations related to traceability."
"It is a stable solution."
"CodeBeamer provides full traceability, excellent collaboration, regulatory compliance, and instant reporting with its holistic approach from requirement management to testing."
"Codebeamer's API-based integration and many other integration aspects with other solutions are very powerful."
"There is a lot of complexity involved, meaning it can do many things, which can be quite useful."
"The platform provided the flexibility to expand our business processes, accommodating or altering them to suit the requirements of a changing environment."
"One of the most valuable features of Codebeamer is its strong performance."
"The dynamic communication and the ability to customize it the way we want are the most valuable features."
"Transparency of development projects, as well as approval processes for some business projects, has improved massively."
"The user interface is simple."
"The ability to change and rewrite tasks is valuable. You can add a lot of columns, change the owners and the change the components."
"Kanban boards are most valuable"
"It helps me to use virtual Scrum boards across four locations, three time zones, and to plan my work. It fully supports the Scrum approach, and the Agile way of working, and it has Agile thinking behind it.."
"It is user-friendly, and you can manage your project according to the methodology you want. It is also easy to configure."
"The features on offer are great. It has everything we need."
"The solution has a very small market share in China. It's almost like a startup."
"Certain areas in Codebeamer could be improved, like addressing small issues, glitches, or bugs."
"We would like to see more industry-specific features that are tailored to the vertical markets."
"The search and replace feature within the tool itself could be improved."
"I would like to see more, easily trackable reports."
"It's still a fairly new tool that lacks maturity right now."
"The product's UI is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"During migrations from other platforms to CodeBeamer, there have been instances where we encountered issues that required redoing certain tasks."
"The next-generation software projects lack a lot, and I found quite a few bugs. There are some really basic things that you still cannot do. For instance, to put a mandatory due date for a task that you create in one of these projects is still not available. That's a bit of a block because people, especially those who are not technical, are not going to add anything if it's not mandatory. It's going to be difficult to teach them that they should do it anyway."
"Stability is an area of concern and it needs improvement, otherwise, it's a good product."
"It is not intuitive."
"The reporting capabilities, specifically customized reports, should be improved. The out-of-box reports don't meet our needs. We are big into customizing our reports, and being able to do ad hoc reporting would be good."
"Jira is a project management tracking tool, and it would be great to see integration with the source front or Azure DevOps, etc."
"There could be some improvements in the project management and portfolio level features."
"The reporting needs to be improved."
"There should be a way to integrate the mobile application or in some way, make it more clear because at first instance, I didn't understand how to use it."
Codebeamer is ranked 9th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 10 reviews while Jira is ranked 1st in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 266 reviews. Codebeamer is rated 7.8, while Jira is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Codebeamer writes "Has good technical support services, but the migration process needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Jira writes "A great centralized tool that has a good agile framework and is useful for day-to-day planning, task management, and work log efficacy". Codebeamer is most compared with PTC Integrity, Polarion ALM, Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational ALM and Jama Connect, whereas Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software and Planisware. See our Codebeamer vs. Jira report.
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