We performed a comparison between IBM Rational ALM, Jira, and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Atlassian, Nutanix and others in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites."One of the key advantages of IBM Rational ALM is its workflow capabilities, which enable seamless collaboration between development and production teams and ensure that all stakeholders are aware of the progress and readiness of the solution. Additionally, the solution is good for integration."
"I would rate the stability of this product a nine out of ten."
"It's easy to use."
"It helped us contain critical things, like source code and several documents, which is very important to us."
"The integration with Git works well."
"The solution is customizable."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting of the CPU usage on the dashboard."
"We have something called the GC (global configuration), which is a unique feature compared to any other competitor we have in the ALM space."
"We can integrate a lot of tools with the solution."
"The most valuable features are that it is good for tracking the issues and it provides for the usage of Confluence."
"Scaling the product wouldn't be difficult."
"The design of the interface is clean and not too busy visually."
"I enjoy working with (and can recommend) Jira for a number of reasons. The best features are that it is friendly and provides good visibility. It's to the point and very effective."
"Transparency of development projects, as well as approval processes for some business projects, has improved massively."
"It is a stable solution, and we have had no issues with stability."
"The most valuable feature is project management."
"The biggest value-add is the solution integrates well with most Microsoft products."
"I like the Kanban board. It is very useful in terms of seeing who is working on what and what the current status of work is."
"For what I need TFS for, I have never run into any limitation."
"The interface is easy to navigate."
"TFS' most valuable feature is the triage process. It is a robust solution that is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is its compatibility with Microsoft Windows systems. We have predominantly Microsoft solutions and TFS work well."
"This solution enables us to link all items usefully, in the way we use Agile."
"Since it is a robust solution, I face no performance issues. Also, considering how well the implementation process of the solution was carried out, we never faced any issues while using the solution."
"The directory designer manager is uncivil. The design manager is clearly really unstable."
"I think nowadays people are getting into Jira and other tools. What is happening is, this solution is becoming more traditional, whereas Jira and other tools are more attractive for the new users to learn and start using because of the graphical interfaces."
"IBM Rational ALM should remove the features not used by the customers and keep this product as lightweight as possible."
"Some improvements to the user interface (UI) would be helpful, such as exposing more services to make it easier to customize to the needs of each customer."
"There is not enough beginner support material in the form of FAQs or simple training to help you get started."
"The stability of IBM Rational ALM could be improved."
"The product must be more user-friendly."
"The solution can improve in the development area and the customized applications."
"They could improve the solution by having a multiple project dashboard to be able to manage many projects KPI's at once, this would really be helpful."
"I would prefer it if the solution was more intuitive."
"The performance could be improved in the future."
"As the solution is highly configurable, it has very poor governance."
"The user interface is very detailed right now. It could be simplified if they consider targeting the user experience."
"In JIRA, it's a bit complex in terms of what advanced search queries we use. Sharing them is also a problem. Because TFS is on the cloud, we can easily save that query and share it with our team members."
"In Jira Cloud, integration with Excel is missing. Previously, I could import our Excel files into Jira, and I could also download a big Jira report in the Excel format, but now, it needs to be manipulated after that, which is not good. It looks like they've done that on purpose, but I don't understand the reason for it."
"It would be ideal if Jira had future functionalities to integrate more easily with various aspects of code reviews."
"Sometimes we feel that it need more CPU, and RAMs on TFS server, either we implemented the hardware with the product minimum requirements."
"I would also like a true command prompt like Git."
"Since it is Microsoft, it is technology agnostic, thus it does not really fit into various different technologies in the organization."
"TFS should allow more integration with different platforms."
"I would like to see the reporting features expanded so that I can see details on the users connected to all of the projects."
"Overall, I think it would be useful to have something similar where Microsoft comes up with supporting concepts of scaling Agile in TFS so that clients don't have to look for a separate tool."
"This solution is quite old and it is already being bundled as Azure DevOps Server."
"Merging branches is definitely one of the more challenging aspects for people new to TFS."