We performed a comparison between IBM Rational ALM and Jira based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The tools for requirement capture we have found very useful."
"The planning feature is rich with Scrum concepts: Sprint, Sprint retrospective, the rules in the Scrum framework."
"The word emulation and importing is good."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting of the CPU usage on the dashboard."
"Everyone in a team can work on the same platform and share the same information."
"I would rate the stability of this product a nine out of ten."
"It's easy to use."
"We have something called the GC (global configuration), which is a unique feature compared to any other competitor we have in the ALM space."
"The layout, workflow, automation, and metrics are helpful in Jira."
"JIRA's technical support is absolutely fantabulous. I had used it in the past when I was working at my previous organization. And when we wanted to link it with a framework, they helped us out with the API we were looking for."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of replication of tickets."
"The ability to design your own workflows is a great feature."
"We do not have a lot of time for investigating new things, but Jira has saved us a great deal of time. It has a nice user interface and we can do a lot of things with it."
"The most valuable features of this solution are workflow and reporting."
"Work management software that has the flexibility to be configured for any company. It's stable, scalable, and offers responsive support."
"It benefits us because we have globally located teams. Our team members work in different geographies, so the product is a better way to manage progress and see the status of different tasks"
"The GUI is a little bit outdated."
"The directory designer manager is uncivil. The design manager is clearly really unstable."
"IBM Rational ALM should remove the features not used by the customers and keep this product as lightweight as possible."
"I think nowadays people are getting into Jira and other tools. What is happening is, this solution is becoming more traditional, whereas Jira and other tools are more attractive for the new users to learn and start using because of the graphical interfaces."
"The reporting functionality needs to be improved."
"The solution can improve in the development area and the customized applications."
"The features should be more intuitive. If I'm looking for something, its location should be easy to locate."
"The stability of this solution can be improved."
"We'd like to see Jira have more integration with a development ID."
"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."
"The plugin management needs a lot of work."
"Jira can improve by making user management better. It is not easy to have visibility of who has the right to do what. Only the administrator has this visibility but there should be the option for other users too."
"When we use the plugin in Jira so, there are two different systems which we are working on, Jira and the X-ray plugin. The X-ray plugin should be incorporated into Jira because we have to fetch two reports. One report is faxed through Jira, and one can be faxed through X-ray. So there needs to be clarity about which the Jira team should reflect."
"JIRA still has their own backtracking tools. It should have a better visibility into HPE UFT. Most people use functional testing tools, like QTP. They need to improve their integration to make it seamless."
"I have had problems with performance and unresponsiveness. All of a sudden, the performance slowed down, and I had a number of users that could not use the tool."
"It lacks features to cover all testing aspects, so we often integrate it with other plugins or tools like X-ray."
IBM Rational ALM is ranked 11th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews while Jira is ranked 1st in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 266 reviews. IBM Rational ALM is rated 7.2, while Jira is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Rational ALM writes "A complex deployment that is not stable, but is cloud-based". 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". IBM Rational ALM is most compared with Codebeamer, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Polarion ALM, PTC Integrity and Atlassian ALM, whereas Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software and Polarion ALM. See our IBM Rational ALM vs. Jira report.
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