We performed a comparison between Helix ALM and Jira based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Requirements Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of Helix ALM are traceability and flexibility."
"The tool offers high stability."
"Helix ALM enables users to build, make efficient and effective decisions, and use least-cost methods for maximum benefit, as fast as possible. They allow you to see and visualize your configuration."
"The layout, workflow, automation, and metrics are helpful in Jira."
"Integrates with other components."
"I like seeing which tickets are open and what our response rate is. They have a lot of good metrics in their system to see what's going on."
"This solution assists us with being able to quickly and easily start sprints and keep accurate track of them, including billing using a time-tracking add-on."
"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 aspect of this solution is its ability to connect everything together."
"Transparency of development projects, as well as approval processes for some business projects, has improved massively."
"In general, the GUI is nice."
"The accountability and the equivalent to using, acting, editing, working with Word, and also importing and exporting from Word needs improvement."
"Helix ALM should be able to integrate with other systems better. Helix ALM should also have an easier user interface, and the solution needs to have drag-and-drop tools included in it."
"It would be great to see Perforce's strategy is for implementing intelligence into the process via AI or ML. It's not clearly defined, at least not to my knowledge."
"We'd like to use it with non-Agile projects in the future, however, right now, it is a very Agile-focused product."
"It would be ideal if Jira had future functionalities to integrate more easily with various aspects of code reviews."
"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."
"A lot of the user interface could be updated."
"Whenever you edit a story, whatever you have changed takes a bit of time to save."
"It would be very useful to have drag and drop time tracking."
"I would love to have more features to make nice documents, like Release Notes or a feature overview, right from JIRA."
"The only thing that JIRA doesn't for us is release management in a way that I can create a list of versions easily."
Helix ALM is ranked 7th in Application Requirements Management with 7 reviews while Jira is ranked 2nd in Application Requirements Management with 254 reviews. Helix ALM is rated 6.4, while Jira is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Helix ALM writes "Helix ALM is insanely configurable, with great traceability, and flexibility". On the other hand, 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". Helix ALM is most compared with IBM Rational DOORS, IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation, Polarion Requirements, Tricentis qTest and SmartBear TestComplete, whereas Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software and Polarion ALM. See our Helix ALM vs. Jira report.
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