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Pros
"Transparency of development projects, as well as approval processes for some business projects, has improved massively.""The ability to change and rewrite tasks is valuable. You can add a lot of columns, change the owners and the change the components.""Offers great multiple reporting charts.""Work management software that has the flexibility to be configured for any company. It's stable, scalable, and offers responsive support.""Kanban board: The board is easy to use and visually impressive to non-IT users, who found it easy to relate to.""Jira is designed for issue tracking, making the process much easier than traditional methods like paper-based tracking. It is number one for agile management.""The burndown chart is also helpful when it comes to reporting and allows us to know where we are going, especially during development.""The layout, workflow, automation, and metrics are helpful in Jira."

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"The most valuable feature is the way the libraries are structured so that they were not folder driven."

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"An area for improvement in Jira is that it's not designed for test management. To use it for test management, you need an add-on or several add-ons, e.g. Xray or Zephyr.""The automation feature needs to be more user-friendly.""I find the dashboard to be Jira's most problematic feature.""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.""From a very software-centric or a lead developer standpoint, there should be the ability to work at multiple levels. You have epic stories and use cases or epic stories and tasks. It would be nice to be able to have multiple levels of stories and multiple levels of epics work with it. It's lacking a little bit there, and this is the big thing for me because it makes it difficult to do a real sprint when you're limited to one story per epic. It's really hard to isolate tasks at multiple levels to match the type of use cases you normally do. That's the biggest difficulty. Other than that, they've been improving year to year, and every version seems to have a level of improvement.""It can have a more high-level view of portfolios. It has quite detailed views, but I would like a high-level view of portfolios. We want to integrate Jira with Microsoft Active Directory, and I don't know how easy or hard it is going to be. I don't know if Jira supports this. We are starting that integration in the last quarter of this year. I hope to find all the required tools for this integration.""There needs to be easier integration with third-parties — personally, this is the biggest issue for me.""If Jira would be interested in offering a SharePoint version, it would be beneficial."

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"It doesn't allow you to connect to multiple different tracking tools."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It is very cheap if you forego the local instance and stick to the cloud."
  • "The licensing model is annoying. They nickel and dime you."
  • "It does not cost that much."
  • "Almost everybody uses JIRA nowadays because it is the most cost-effective solution."
  • "I understand JIRA is quite expensive."
  • "We feel that the product is a good value for the cost."
  • "Licensing is on a monthly basis, and it is based on what you use."
  • "To try this solution, use their cloud offering to get familiar. After that, it's in my view worth the money."
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  • "Pricing is probably in the middle, it's not the cheapest but it's not the most expensive."
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    Overview

    Jira is a powerful cloud- and subscription-based application lifecycle and issue management solution. It is designed to aid users both in project management and in resolving any issues that arise at any point in the software development process. It is especially concerned with easing the ability of developers to collaborate. 

    Jira Benefits

    Some of the ways that organizations can benefit by choosing to deploy Jira include:

    • DevOps lifecycle visibility and planning. Jira provides application developers with tools that enable them to track and visualize where they are in the development process. This means that a DevOps team can measure their progress at all times. Jira’s roadmapping feature also enables a DevOps team to work more efficiently by setting goals for their projects, keeping them on track. Additionally, they are able to track whether they are meeting the goals that they set for their projects.
    • Regular product updates. Atlassian is constantly updating Jira so that it is continuously evolving into an ever more powerful and user-friendly solution. Users can be sure that the product that they are using is always being tweaked so as to provide them with the best possible project management solution. 
    • Flexibility. Jira enables users to customize their workflows and dashboard so that the solution is operating in a way that best matches their needs. Jira can also integrate with more than 3,000 other applications and integrations. Organizations can use it to expand their project management and DevOps capabilities in many different ways. 

    Jira Features

    • Security capabilities. Jira is equipped with a number of useful security features. It gives administrators the ability to restrict access to certain tools so that only users who are authorized to complete certain tasks have access to the tools related to the completion of that task. Users can also set default permissions so that only particular users can work on new projects or particular projects.
    • Real-time notification feature. Users can set Jira so that it offers them notifications that contain critical information in real time. It can send users email notifications when pressing issues have been updated. They can also set it to notify them about tasks that may be due, or other similar events.

    • Activity log. Jira has the ability to track any and all changes that are taking place within the software framework. Users can keep a close eye on everything that is going on. This promotes a high level of visibility and can be leveraged to aid developers in their collaboration efforts. 

    Reviews from Real Users

    Jira is a powerful solution that stands out when compared to many of its competitors. Two major advantages it offers are its workflow engine and its highly customizable dashboard. 

    Bharath R., the tool implementation and project management lead at a financial services firm, writes, “I feel the strongest feature of Jira is its workflow engine. It empowers us to automate our workflows within our organization. It's the one characteristic of Jira which I think can help any organization, be it in any domain.”

    Uday J., a staff engineer at a computer company, says, “Another thing that I like a lot about Jira is that in the dashboard, you can plug the modules that you want. You can enable certain sections. For example, you can show trend history, open Jira tickets, etc. Some of the managers have created a dashboard for each engineer.” 

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    Professional end to end QA management for your manual and automation testing. 
    • Create your manual tests and organize them based on cycles, sprints, etc.
    • Seamlessly integrate your manual testing with your automation and CI processes.
    • Reuse tests and correlate results across different releases and products.
    • Release your products with confidence and control.


    Sample Customers
    Square, Nasa, eBay, Cisco, SalesForce, Adobe, BNP Paribas, BMW and LinkedIn, Pfizer, Citi.
    Canonical, SAS, Amobee, Play Buzz, Abbott, Aternity, Zerto, Freeman
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company24%
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Insurance Company8%
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    Educational Organization42%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Computer Software Company7%
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    Computer Software Company15%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Healthcare Company8%
    Company Size
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    Small Business32%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise48%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise47%
    Large Enterprise43%
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise57%
    Large Enterprise14%
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    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise68%
    Buyer's Guide
    Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites
    March 2024
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    767,667 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Jira is ranked 2nd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 254 reviews while PractiTest is ranked 20th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites. Jira is rated 8.0, while PractiTest is rated 8.8. 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 PractiTest writes "Offers one click graphical dashboard reports and advanced customization". Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software and Polarion ALM, whereas PractiTest is most compared with TestRail, Zephyr Enterprise and Microsoft Azure DevOps.

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