We performed a comparison between JIRA Portfolio and OpenText ALM Octane 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."Has good analysis integration capabilities."
"Having an option to view dependencies between projects and teams is great."
"The best features of JIRA are its flexibility and configurability, allowing us to tailor it to our specific needs."
"The product makes it easy to collaborate even though it can use some improvement in that area."
"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."
"The solution has good reporting and is very user-friendly."
"We have found the solution to be stable."
"The tool helps us achieve more within the stipulated timeline and budget."
"It's brought our entire team into a single tool. We're all looking at the same real-time data. Our project management office has been able to set up dashboards for individual teams, and do comparisons by teams, of integration, and cross-team integration, burn-up, burn-down, and cumulative flow..."
"With an Octane project, we have our automation, our requirements, our tests, our pipeline into build-and-deploy, and the ability to identify problem areas. It makes things quicker because it's more along the lines of an automated process."
"The user experience is a lot better than any tool that I have used before. Overall, it is great. It has a smooth interface, which is very user-friendly. It makes it easier to work together and have more transparency and customization, which is very good."
"The integration points are very good. Octane gives us a window not only into our manual testing, but also our automation testing and our performance testing. We can see all results from all three streams of testing in one place."
"People really how easy it is to customize. In some previous tools, that has been very limited, or you had to know how to write code to do some of the customizations, or it was very confusing. Going back to the user interface, they've made the customization of the tool, the workspace settings, very easy for people to figure out and use."
"We like Micro Focus ALM Octane because its performance is okay, and its stability is okay, so we use it a lot. The platform is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Micro Focus ALM Octane is the reports. We are able to do customization."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"n the next version I would like to see better reporting and safer plugins, as well as easier scalability."
"The integration needs to be done with different tools."
"JIRA and Confluence must be linked automatically."
"We are using the on-premise deployment, but it is slower and not as easy to manage as the cloud version."
"The reporting and dashboard capabilities have room for improvement."
"The solution’s pricing could be reduced."
"The query features should improve in JIRA Portfolio. For example, if I would have to create my own queries for looking into something such as what business features we have released last month, or the last three months, I don't know if I can do it. The solution requires a certain level of expertise."
"In the next release, Portfolio should include more metrics and develop their portfolio planning."
"The reporting is lacking from a requirements matrix and a traceability perspective."
"The solution should improve by adding scrum board-like functionality."
"Updating items, sorting, bulk updates—these things could have a bit more flexibility, but it's still possible to do them."
"The biggest problem with ALM Octane is that it's very complex, so it's difficult to use and scale."
"There's a trend in our requests to have the ability to export data, en masse, out of Octane. There are capabilities within Octane to export data, but there are specifics around test suites and requirements and relations, as well as certain attributes, that we would like to be able to export easily out of Octane and into a database or Excel."
"What could be improved in Micro Focus ALM Octane is its integration with Jira."
"When I manage projects that are being created in ALM, I have a standard template, but I don't have a template for them in Octane. I literally have to create the project from the ground up every time, which for an administrator, is a nightmare solution"
"Because JIRA is a leading tool for both development and requirements management - everybody is using JIRA - I'm pretty there will be a use case where people are trying to connect between ALM Octane and JIRA. The back-end configuration of the synchronization with JIRA could be simplified. The architecture is really complicated. We required a lot of machines to build the cluster and the configuration was not really clearly described within the documentation. This may have something to do with the fact that the software is pretty new."
JIRA Portfolio is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 47 reviews while OpenText ALM Octane is ranked 7th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 38 reviews. JIRA Portfolio is rated 8.2, while OpenText ALM Octane is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of JIRA Portfolio writes "Powerful, flexible solution with a bit of a learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText ALM Octane writes "Reporting engine, widgets, and dashboards are a huge plus, and powerful REST interface means we can interact with other tools". JIRA Portfolio is most compared with Jira Align, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, Microsoft Project Server, Adobe Workfront and Microsoft Azure DevOps, whereas OpenText ALM Octane is most compared with Jira, OpenText ALM / Quality Center, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Rally Software and GitLab. See our JIRA Portfolio vs. OpenText ALM Octane report.
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