We performed a comparison between Jira and RationalPlan based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about monday.com, Microsoft, Asana and others in Project Management Software."Kanban board: The board is easy to use and visually impressive to non-IT users, who found it easy to relate to."
"Jira is very user friendly, easy to install, and easy to access."
"The initial setup was pretty straightforward."
"JIRA stores history of changes, which helps a lot to track who, when, and why the issue was modified."
"The task management aspect of Jira is pretty pure. They have a lot of great plugins that really expand your options."
"It has enabled us to keep track of features or projects. Previously, we used to manually keep track in Office. We now have a centralized repository for all the information."
"The sprint tracking is really helpful and very convenient."
"A very comprehensive product; easy to set up and is very user-friendly."
"Support is top-notch whenever help is needed."
"The reporting tool and the approval tool need work."
"The history with Jira is that it is a bit complex for many users."
"I think that there is some ease of use that could be brought in to improve certain things."
"It's also difficult to migrate through, things don't always tie-up. It's not easy to use."
"Jira's collaboration and integration with other apps and tools could be improved."
"I am not sure if Jira can be integrated with our ERP. We have our ERP for the cost estimates or measurements. It would be nice if we can check or view a plan with the real cost. Currently, we have to do a double check of costs. It would be better to be able to integrate it with Jira."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of integration with SVN, and auto-sync with the build release number."
"If I'm comparing it to ALM Octane, the documentation is not as robust as ALM Octane's documentation. So, they can improve on the documentation side."
"We use the desktop version of RationalPlan, and It seems some desktop software has the ability to share a document as a web view. This would be a nice feature allowing us to share our plans with clients without needing additional software. This may be something that is offered in the RationalPlan cloud plan."
Jira is ranked 5th in Project Management Software with 243 reviews while RationalPlan is ranked 20th in Project Management Software with 1 review. Jira is rated 8.0, while RationalPlan 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 RationalPlan writes "Easy to understand with fair pricing and lots of unique features". Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Polarion ALM and Rally Software, whereas RationalPlan is most compared with .
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