We performed a comparison between IBM Rational ALM, OpenText ALM / Quality Center, and Rally Software 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."I would rate the stability of this product a nine out of ten."
"We have something called the GC (global configuration), which is a unique feature compared to any other competitor we have in the ALM space."
"The tools for requirement capture we have found very useful."
"The planning feature is rich with Scrum concepts: Sprint, Sprint retrospective, the rules in the Scrum framework."
"The word emulation and importing is good."
"It's easy to use."
"The solution is customizable."
"You can customize the board according to your needs."
"The AI and functionality interface are useful."
"The most valuable feature of Micro Focus ALM Quality Center is the alignment of the test to the execution and the linking of the defects to the two. It automatically links any issues you have to the test."
"I love to use this solution with single projects. It has helped our productivity. With the metrics that I receive, I can put them onto the management model so I can see them there. It has reduced our time for project management and controls by 20 percent."
"It allows us to easily make linkage and dependencies, with plenty of integrations."
"The stability is very good."
"You can do your development from start to finish: starting with the requirements, ending with defects, and testing in-between."
"As a stand-alone test management tool, it's a good tool."
"The initial setup is straightforward. It's not too hard to deploy."
"Rally Software provides the capability to accurately estimate the time required for building large software projects, which can be challenging to predict...Rally Software enables us to schedule tasks better, allocate resources, and meet project deadlines."
"Reporting is much easier and faster than Micro Focus ALM, with CA AC built on web services... Also, the data is more granular when it comes to tasks, iterations, sprints, and releases."
"The transparency it allows us to provide, both from the team level all the way through the executive level within the company and the work that we are doing."
"CA Agile Central provides visibility into how teams are meeting business objectives."
"It's designed around Agile, so it has all of the pieces that match up with the process."
"Helps me plan an estimate of how soon or how far out we'll be able to deliver something."
"It's very user-friendly."
"What I like the most about Agile Central is that it is the only system I need to have full control and visibility of our entire body of work plus the activities and processes required to deliver it."
"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."
"The reporting functionality needs to be improved."
"The stability of this solution can be improved."
"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."
"One of the complaints from users is that they have to click buttons too many times for just a simple task. Changing this would lead to a better user experience."
"The QA needs improvement."
"There are always new features and more support for new and legacy technology architectures with each release. But the bad news is a growing list of long-standing issues with the product rarely gets addressed."
"Currently, what's missing in the solution is the ability for users to see the ongoing scenarios and the status of those scenarios versus the requirements. As for the management tools, they also need to be improved so users can have a better idea of what's going on in just one look, so they can manage testing activities better."
"Micro Focus ALM Quality Center should improve the reports. Reporting on tax execution progress against the plan. However, they might have improved over two years since I have used the solution."
"The uploading of test scripts can get a little cumbersome and that is a very sensitive task. They could improve on that a lot. It's really important that this gets better as I'm loading close to a thousand test scripts per cycle."
"I'd like to be able to improve how our QA department uses the tool, by getting better educational resources, documentation to help with competencies for my testers."
"It is pricey."
"ALM Quality Center could be improved with more techniques to manage Agile processes."
"We would like more meaningful, customizable dashboards."
"I think there needs to be some simplification. The team-level side can be challenging and complicated."
"I think the interface could be a little bit more visual and less wordy. Right now, it seems like it's just a lot of text on the page. In other ticketing systems where it's more visual, you can see more of a flow. But in this one it's more just a list of tasks. I would like to see that a little bit better, especially considering it has so many great organizational features, like child tasks, different artifacts. It would be great to see it presented more appropriately."
"We want Rally to generate OKRs, to allow teams to record the OKRs, and then the OKRs can be mapped to the epics and there is organizational alignment."
"I think there is a missing link with the development activity. Some developers are pushing in new versions of the code, but you cannot make the link from the user story to a specific application version."
"There are few customisation options. For instance, the workflow for story cards cannot be changed out of the box from the standard (Defined, In-Progress, Completed and Accepted)."
"A lot of the features that we would be looking to add, I am learning may not be within Agile Central, but part of another CA tool set."
"CA Agile Central does not have a workflow tool included."
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