We performed a comparison between GitLab and Jira Align based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Agile Planning Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It scales well."
"Key features allow creation of well-presented Wiki that includes ideas, development, and domains."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is the automatic merging of code."
"The most valuable features of Gitlab are integration with CIE and the ability to rapidly deploy solutions, projects, and applications. It is very easy to use, and there are no complaints."
"The scalability is good."
"The important feature is the entire process of versioning source code maintenance and easy deployment. It is a necessity for the CI/CD pipeline."
"It is very flexible and easy because you can store data on cloud."
"The solution is stable."
"Velocity and reporting provide good visibility, burndown charts, and particularly velocity measurement."
"The tool enabled everyone to see the status of each environment."
"Jira is one of the most widely used tools in the market, and it has a vast amount of data already stored in it. Jira Align is crucial in orchestrating this data and providing valuable views and insights. However, it's essential for tools like Jira Align to offer configurable features. While complete customization might not always be feasible for enterprise-level tools, configurable features allow organizations to drive transformation accordingly."
"Some of the most valuable features are the configurations and dashboards."
"The most valuable features of Jira Align are its product roadmap and reporting."
"Jira Align is an easy-to-use and user-friendly solution."
"It's easy to set up."
"The tool helps us with better tracking across various departments. Jira Align is highly valuable for organizations due to its flexibility. With my experience as an administrator, I can attest that it can be tailored to meet the diverse needs of any organization. It helps to eliminate the mess created by Excel spreadsheets."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly. We do most of our operations through the website interface but it could be better."
"The pricing model of GitLab is an issue for me."
"The documentation could be improved to help newcomers better understand things like creating new branches."
"We are having a few problems integrating with Jira at the moment, which is something that our IT department is investigating."
"Their RBAC is role-based access, which is fine but not very good."
"The only thing our company is really waiting on in terms of features is the development of metrics."
"This solution could be improved by adding modifications such as slack notifications."
"There is room for improvement in GitLab Agents."
"AI is utilized worldwide; they could implement the functionality for notifications and other organizational operations in the product."
"Jira Align's setup process could be more straightforward, and they could make training and educational documentation more accessible."
"There are fewer customization options in Jira Align due to how it was designed."
"The product needs to improve its configurations."
"The product should improve its communication. My English proficiency is not high, but writing in English is another skill that you need. Maybe AI can help here. Because I can see in some other applications, they have AI helpers. So when you write something and you want to do something, it can help. For example, Google Cloud Platform has it. They have a helpdesk for it. When you want to create a cluster, it can help you."
"I don't know if Jira provides training for people who want to be certified with the solution, so that is one of the problems."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"In my company, we found the solution to have many issues regarding its ability to handle claims and other processes since the solution is not available on a single window."
GitLab is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 70 reviews while Jira Align is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 35 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Jira Align is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Jira Align writes "Creates visibility, has lots of reports, and removes silos". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, SonarQube and Tekton, whereas Jira Align is most compared with OpenText ValueEdge, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, JIRA Portfolio, Planview AgilePlace and Polarion ALM. See our GitLab vs. Jira Align report.
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