We performed a comparison between Asana and JIRA Portfolio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Project Management Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The general UI shows progress and data analytics for all projects in progress."
"It is pretty comprehensive when it comes to the different views that it gives you. It gives you a Gantt chart view, calendar view, board view, and list view. It is kind of helpful to have different types of views and see how it views your different tasks. I appreciate being able to do that. The biggest thing is that it is extremely user friendly. Asana is pretty intuitive. Someone who is not tech-savvy can kind of catch on quickly. It is better than other tools like Smartsheet. Some of the other tools like Microsoft Project and Excel are great tools, but you have to invest a lot of time to learn them, which is not the case with Asana."
"The tool has a lot of integrations."
"The ability to share projects and tasks among team members appears to be the most valuable feature."
"It is very good for managing the timeline. I'm a quality manager, and I have different testing projects running with different work breakdown structures. Asana makes it very easy to implement and monitor the plans. It is easy to move the tasks and complete them, break them down, and assign them to people."
"The solution appears to be quite stable."
"The solution scales well."
"It is stable and easy to set up."
"Portfolio's best feature is integration with other JIRA products."
"Jira Portfolio is useful for tracking time and hours. It's easy to manage, create tickets, and change the status of delivery reports. It's not complicated."
"Portfolio's most valuable features are that it's user-friendly and customer-centric."
"The most valuable features of the JIRA Portfolio are the ease of use, many developers are familiar with it."
"The workflows are the most valuable feature of the solution, whether for tasks, bugs, or chain requests from the site. I also like the solution's GUI, which is easy to navigate for everyone."
"The customized workflows we can define are very valuable. JIRA's private projects is very useful as well. There are also a lot of plugins that they provide."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Has many functionalities including good supervision and workflows."
"The mobile application of Asana has to be improved a lot because no one wants to do a complete project management task on mobile."
"There could be some improvements in terms of how projects or day-to-day work is organized. One of the challenges when it comes to rolling out to an enterprise is the way the projects are organized. It has a kind of setup where you have different projects and tasks, but it is not as organized as Smartsheet when it comes to organizing projects or different teams. It can get really cluttered really fast. JIRA has another suite to submit the support tickets. It would be good if Asana could branch out to incorporate some kind of workflow. It is great for collaboration and recording work, but there isn't any workflow. It would be useful if they can map out a workflow of who approves what. This is kind of a big ask, and it is not geared towards that."
"There just needs to be a bit more direction on how to use it at the outset."
"Some customizations and functions are still not available, however, so far, they haven't been a deal killer."
"You need to have an action plan, otherwise, it won't be as effective."
"The calendar view in Asana has shortcomings and can be improved."
"It would be great if Asana could create a library for each project within the interface."
"The solution can be difficult for new users to use because of the interface."
"It would be nice if it could provide an end-to-end solution for a project."
"Some key features like integration, big data warehousing and data modeling need work."
"Their interface is a little unique and I think that's partly because the core of the product has morphed into several sub-products, but the underlying architecture has stayed the same on all of them in that it was originally a help desk ticketing system. It's a very tech-focused product and that's fair given its origins, but if they really want to expand their community of users, then they're going to have to move beyond that a little bit and polish it up."
"The solution’s pricing could be reduced."
"The workflow needs improvement."
"The product could do with more flexible reporting."
"An improvement would be if Portfolio were integrated with Office 365."
"Another thing could be to have an easy way to manage the Portfolio and have more ways to share and to show graphics and reports"
Asana is ranked 3rd in Project Management Software with 43 reviews while JIRA Portfolio is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 47 reviews. Asana is rated 8.4, while JIRA Portfolio is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Asana writes "Stands out with portfolios, easy setup, and real-time information, but needs big improvement when it comes to workflows, automation, and dashboards". On the other hand, the top reviewer of JIRA Portfolio writes "Powerful, flexible solution with a bit of a learning curve". Asana is most compared with Microsoft Project, Wrike, Microsoft Azure DevOps, monday.com and Jira, whereas JIRA Portfolio is most compared with Jira Align, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, Microsoft Project Server, Adobe Workfront and Planview AgilePlace. See our Asana vs. JIRA Portfolio report.
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