We performed a comparison between Jira and Kovair ALM Studio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Atlassian, Nutanix and others in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites."It provides very good visibility and traceability. You can clearly see each and every part of a process. It is also user-friendly and robust. It is working well, and there are a lot of add-ons or plug-ins out there that you can use."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is its ability to connect everything together."
"We use Jira mostly for task coordination and assignment. Additionally, scrum methodologies defined work items and bug issues. If we create any bugs all of them are fixed."
"This is our way of communicating with different teams. We are a global company. I am based in San Diego, for example. A lot of the BAs are based in Paris. The development team is based in Minsk. We absolutely need to be in constant communication and on the same page."
"The most valuable feature of Jira is that it's a well-known tool that many people are familiar with."
"Jira has a good reporting system. It also has an API, so we can do all sorts of reporting."
"The features on offer are great. It has everything we need."
"It has an easy UI that can easily plug-in to every level."
"Wide range of adapters/connectors which allow connectivity to any tools."
"We increased our development and testing team velocity, were able to manage traceability, and deliver software faster."
"Lacks field-level permission in the cloud version."
"Sometimes, it is slow and hangs. We faced some stability issues where JIRA was down for a day. Also, we have lost some of our comments made in the JIRA because of downtime."
"End-to-end management from product backlog to test completion could be improved."
"The following definitely need improvement: UI, speed, and mobile app functionality."
"The support could be improved."
"I have to go through a lot of processes to consider it done. I have to log in then change the logins and make it interesting. It's not so good for testing."
"The reporting needs to be better."
"From the project management perspective, I would say there are a lot of different issues that could be tweaked. There can be small improvements with traceability, for example."
"Needs an easier and less heavy UI."
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Jira is ranked 2nd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 257 reviews while Kovair ALM Studio is ranked 22nd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites. Jira is rated 8.2, while Kovair ALM Studio is rated 10.0. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kovair ALM Studio writes "We increased our development and testing team velocity and were able to manage traceability". Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software and Polarion ALM, whereas Kovair ALM Studio is most compared with .
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