We performed a comparison between Broadcom Clarity and Jira 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."Within the SaaS environment (since CA is supporting it), it has been extremely stable and reliable."
"Clarity PPM's strongest features are project and resource management."
"The interfaces for project management, portfolio management, and reporting services are always helpful."
"Visibility to where we are on projects. It tells someone where we are; if we're in trouble or not."
"The reporting tools are superior to what was there before, which was someone crunching through an Excel spreadsheet. I've been able to do status reports through the projects, which has given visibility to my manager, and that's an improvement."
"The most useful feature for me as an implementer of Broadcom Clarity PPM is its extensibility. The tool is pretty extensible, and I haven't had any issues with it in terms of it getting used for multiple scenarios and for multiple clients where there's a need for high customization. Broadcom Clarity PPM is a very, very customizable tool, so you can pretty much implement any business process on it with no issues."
"It is very stable. We are on demand. With on demand, those guys keep it running."
"Project Management features that are excellent in managing the Project Management Life-cycle, along with other related details like Financials, Resources and flexibility to customize, as per requirement."
"The initial setup was pretty straightforward."
"It's an open-sourced product that is easy to customize."
"When we run the Jenkins pipeline, the build is already automatically connected to Jira. We've been able to integrate the ecosystem we created using this automation tool."
"The most valuable feature is that it has different APIs available, with good services, and it is completely by the books."
"The monitoring, flexibility and tracking are really good in Jira."
"It allows you to do a lot of stuff, and the functionality is pretty rich. It integrates well with other products, like GitLab, that we are currently intensely using at the company."
"You no longer need to email people. You can mention them right in Jira and have conversations there."
"Jira can track projects, time management of assignments, and keep everything on schedule. The performance of the solution is good."
"In the community, I do not see a lot of answers. A lot of people asking lots of questions, but I am not seeing a lot of answers come through."
"The Work Breakdown Structure in the Tasks: I should be able to drag and drop to a level three instead of just stuck at level two."
"Financials are okay, but there's a lot of room for improvement in financials.Financial plans, if those could be made so that you're not always grouping your financial data by predefined attributes, that would be helpful for us."
"The Latin American support could be better due to the language barrier."
"The look and the feel of 14.4 is a bit antiquated."
"One of the limitations would be mapping our current agile processes in the same tool set without obviously integrating to a different type of tool set within the same portfolio."
"They need something so that if we, say, send some sheets to users, or for the scenario where not everybody has access to Clarity, but are part of planning; those people should be able to upload data directly to Clarity."
"CA Communities need a lot of improvement."
"If I'm comparing it to ALM Octane, the documentation is not as robust as ALM Octane's documentation. So, they can improve on the documentation side."
"My main concern is the administration of projects, especially user groups, and this requires root access rights but there is no concept of layered admin rights."
"Ease of administration and customization. It is really clunky in this area."
"Lacks some common building block approaches to certain things."
"A lot of features, such as time tracking, are only available through the marketplace. If multiple users are working on a user story, we aren't able to pull out the reports. So, there are many things that they aren't offering. They are available only through the marketplace. That's not good for a product."
"Scripts should be more readily available for implementing projects."
"If Jira would be interested in offering a SharePoint version, it would be beneficial."
"The features are not intuitive. It would be good if there were templates."
Broadcom Clarity is ranked 6th in Project Management Software with 136 reviews while Jira is ranked 5th in Project Management Software with 254 reviews. Broadcom Clarity is rated 8.0, while Jira is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Broadcom Clarity writes "A dynamic solution with a lot of great out-of-the-box calculations, but integration with reporting utilities is a bit painful". 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". Broadcom Clarity is most compared with Microsoft Project, Planview Portfolios, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Smartsheet and monday.com, whereas Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software and Polarion ALM. See our Broadcom Clarity vs. Jira report.
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