Codebeamer vs Rally Software comparison

"It is a stable solution."

"One of the most valuable features of Codebeamer is its strong performance."

"You can track the metrics in the Agile dashboard very easily."

"CodeBeamer provides full traceability, excellent collaboration, regulatory compliance, and instant reporting with its holistic approach from requirement management to testing."

"The solution easily replaces IBM DOORS, which no longer offers maintenance in China."

"Codebeamer's API-based integration and many other integration aspects with other solutions are very powerful."

"The platform provided the flexibility to expand our business processes, accommodating or altering them to suit the requirements of a changing environment."

"There is a lot of complexity involved, meaning it can do many things, which can be quite useful."

"Agile Central allows us to log one hundred percent of the work we do and it allows for no hidden work, so teams can't go under the radar with what they're working on."

"The Defect feature. In one view you can see all your defects and you can push them into the different releases."

"If teams are tracking correctly and entering their information correctly, it's really easy to see where you're at, within your release, and whether you're on track or not."

"Reporting is much easier and faster than Micro Focus ALM, with CA AC built on web services... Also, the data is more granular when it comes to tasks, iterations, sprints, and releases."

"CA Agile Central helps the entire organization run like one powerful team."

"When it comes to the valuable features of Rally Software, it excels at burn-down charts, burn-up charts, and road mapping once it's set up. I particularly appreciated the new feature for releases and road mapping, which worked exceptionally well."

"It's a good platform to keep track of all the user stories across all projects. So rather than having one off Excel spreadsheets with all of the requirements, it is a good place to have all of that."

"The most valuable feature is actually creating a field within there for architectural review. So when teams are struggling or have questions on the architecture or strategy that they take, they can actually flag that particular story, release, or project. Those can then be reviewed by the architecture team and the teams actually get additional information on how to course-correct, build on the architecture that we're trying to build throughout the organization, and get over road blocks much quicker."

"The solution has a very small market share in China. It's almost like a startup."

"It's still a fairly new tool that lacks maturity right now."

"Usability needs to be improved."

"During migrations from other platforms to CodeBeamer, there have been instances where we encountered issues that required redoing certain tasks."

"I would like to see more, easily trackable reports."

"Certain areas in Codebeamer could be improved, like addressing small issues, glitches, or bugs."

"It would be helpful if Codebeamer's overall processing and integration with software like Jira could be improved."

"The search and replace feature within the tool itself could be improved."

"Customization features may not be exposed or unavailable, so people may be looking for them. So, customization is an area people have told me is more desirable."

"One problem I see is that if there is a dependent user story - for example, if my team is working on one thing and there is a dependent user story from another team - we can have a dependency created but we don't know if there is a change of status from the other team. That is something which is very important for Agile Central to look into so that if the other team makes any changes we will be notified as well."

"I wish there was a view, like the Kanban view, where you could see the parent, and see all the children visually, so you could drag and drop where you want it to go. Something like that might help."

"It could improve by being self-organizing: user stories, different hierarchies, and different perspectives. Not just as a single hierarchical structure, but something that can be multidimensional."

"More customization capabilities would be helpful. Providing a little bit more structure around how the system should be set up in terms of the hierarchy structure might be helpful as well."

"I'd like the ability to customize reports without having to incur Professional Services, or having to write my own code GitHub and then implement that as a custom report. That's untenable. It's not sustainable."

"I think there needs to be some simplification. The team-level side can be challenging and complicated."

"What I don't like about it is that it is really hard to find old work to reference information and use the reporting section of the application in terms of trying to analyze trends. If I am trying to find out which interfaces took this long and I want to compare and measure improvement from one quarter to another quarter, the reporting mechanism within Rally is very troublesome. They have an Excel plugin that you're supposed to use, but you literally have to pull the raw data out before you can do the analysis. You can't do it within Rally, and if you can, it is a secret, and I don't know how to do it. It should have better, easier, and user-friendly reporting without having to use the Excel add-in. It is very clunky. There is a lot of data in there, but it is not organized in such a way that makes it intuitive. You really have to kind of look for where do you put your documentation or dates. Some customization is available, but it is not plug-and-play like Jira. When I switched from TFS to Jira, I just went and started using Jira, whereas with Rally, you kind of have to really get in and figure out what you need to do before you set stuff up, or you're going to get yourself stuck. You can just start using Jira and be successful."

"Codebeamer is not a cheap solution."

"They're not the most expensive product on the market, but they're not the cheapest either — I'd say codeBeamer ALM is moderately priced."

"Pricing is good when compared to similar ALM solutions."

"It is reasonably priced and in accordance with the industry standards."

"Frankly, pricing is expensive and needs to be carefully planned for when budgeting."

"We are always looking for a discount, if the solution was less expensive it would be a benefit."

"Rally Software costs $50 a month, and for a base account, that price is acceptable."

"From a price point, it's a cost effective solution for our needs."

"The license costs are fairly high as compared to some of the other solutions out there."

"It is expensive and may not be worthwhile for a small company."

"I understand it's a little more expensive. That is why many people prefer Jira."