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"The cataloging is a very valuable feature. For a lot of enterprises, they end up not knowing which applications do specific features. The cataloging helps with this. It's not that verbose, but it still gives you allowances to put in more detail." "It is relatively easy to use and user-friendly once the setup is complete." "It helped us contain critical things, like source code and several documents, which is very important to us." "At the same time, if you're working from the architect or the designing team you, it's quite easy to manage the resources online." "The most valuable feature is the reporting of the CPU usage on the dashboard." "You can customize the board according to your needs." | "The most valuable feature is the way the libraries are structured so that they were not folder driven." |
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"The features should be more intuitive. If I'm looking for something, its location should be easy to locate." "There is not enough beginner support material in the form of FAQs or simple training to help you get started." "Of course it would be related to customer experience. The solution is not user friendly at all. It needs an expert to use it, although the reporting feature was okay." "The directory designer manager is uncivil. The design manager is clearly really unstable." "The stability of this solution can be improved." "The reporting functionality needs to be improved." | "It doesn't allow you to connect to multiple different tracking tools." |
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Information Not Available | "Pricing is probably in the middle, it's not the cheapest but it's not the most expensive." |
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Views 1,830 Comparisons 1,367 Reviews 6 Average Words per Review 554 Rating 7.2 | Views 1,119 Comparisons 812 Reviews 1 Average Words per Review 739 Rating 8.0 |
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Rational ALM, MKS | |
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IBM | PractiTest |
Overview | |
Lifecycle management capabilities built on the open, unifying IBM Rational Jazz platform can help agile and traditional teams: see at-a-glance status, access better data for decisions, manage costs, reuse the most efficient processes across the organization, manage cloud, web, SOA and mobile application design and development. Teams can also gain real-time traceability, manage work across vendors, unify across a diverse set of lifecyle tools, and provide collaborative development for continuous delivery as part of the IBM DevOps solution. | Manage your QA and Testing process, controlling your testing tasks while getting complete visibility into your results, and most importantly releasing your products in a professional way Professional end to end QA management for your manual and automation testing.
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Sample Customers | |
Tennis Australia, WeCloud AB, Port Otago Limited, Logicalis US, Valmer, The Chevrolet Volt, Ashurst | Canonical, SAS, Amobee, Play Buzz, Abbott, Aternity, Zerto, Freeman |
Top Industries | |
Computer Software Company32% Manufacturing Company16% Comms Service Provider11% Energy/Utilities Company6% | Computer Software Company31% Comms Service Provider14% Manufacturing Company14% Financial Services Firm9% |
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Small Business25% Midsize Enterprise13% Large Enterprise63% | Small Business29% Midsize Enterprise57% Large Enterprise14% |
IBM Rational ALM is ranked 6th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 6 reviews while PractiTest is ranked 15th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 1 review. IBM Rational ALM is rated 7.2, while PractiTest is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Rational ALM writes "Helped with time management, improved our resource utility, and helped assure on-time completion". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PractiTest writes "Flexible and intuitive with easy reporting, and good support that is instantly available through chat". IBM Rational ALM is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, PTC Integrity, TFS and codeBeamer ALM, whereas PractiTest is most compared with TestRail by Gurock, Tricentis qTest, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Zephyr Enterprise and Tricentis Tosca.
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