IBM Rational ALM vs OpenText ALM / Quality Center comparison

IBM Rational ALM
Read 17 IBM Rational ALM reviews
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73% willing to recommend
OpenText ALM / Quality Center
Read 197 OpenText ALM / Quality Center reviews
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90% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between IBM Rational ALM and OpenText ALM / Quality Center 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.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Rational ALM
Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites
10th
Average Rating
7.2
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
OpenText ALM / Quality Center
Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
197
Ranking in other categories
Test Management Tools (1st)
 

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category, the market share of IBM Rational ALM is 1.9% and it increased by 53.1% compared to the previous year. The market share of OpenText ALM / Quality Center is 4.7% and it decreased by 33.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Test Management Tools
14.9%
 

Featured Reviews

AK
Jan 5, 2020
Integration into our pipelines helps to identify pain points and streamline performance
We are a central, systems integration team that provides different solutions to vendors and business partners. We have a lab available on-premises and we work with all of the latest tools available in the market. We integrate them into the pipelines, create new PoCs and use cases, and showcase the…
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BJ
Aug 17, 2022
Useful test automatic linking, high availability, but setup time consuming and can be difficult if you haven't used the tool beforedifficult
Micro Focus ALM Quality Center is high on maintenance to start with. I have been using the solution for over 20 years and I am very familiar with it and have gained a lot of knowledge using this tool. For me, it is very easy to use. However, it's very difficult to train out because of the new features that they rolled out in the last five years. The features make it a bit more difficult to train out, and you need a lot of support to help people use the tool until they get familiar with it. I rate Micro Focus ALM Quality Center a seven out of ten.
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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"At the same time, if you're working from the architect or the designing team you, it's quite easy to manage the resources online."
"It is relatively easy to use and user-friendly once the setup is complete."
"It's easy to use."
"The integration with Git works well."
"The word emulation and importing is good."
"We have something called the GC (global configuration), which is a unique feature compared to any other competitor we have in the ALM space."
"Everyone in a team can work on the same platform and share the same information."
"The cataloging is a very valuable feature. For a lot of enterprises, they end up not knowing which applications do specific features. The cataloging helps with this. It's not that verbose, but it still gives you allowances to put in more detail."
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"I personally found the defect tracking feature very useful in my ongoing project."
"The most valuable Quality Center feature, I find, is the solution's integration with some of our automation tools. For us, the ability to capture and record and the ease of use from a user perspective, are all key."
"ALM Quality Center is a reliable, consolidated product."
"We are able to use Micro Focus ALM Quality Center for test management, defect management, test process, test governance activities, and requirement management. We are able to achieve all of this, the solution is very useful."
"I like that it integrates with the Jira solutions."
"By using QC we broke down silos (of teams), improved the organization of our tests, have a much better view of the testing status, and became much quicker in providing test results with document generation."
"It's basically the way to show the work that we do as QA testers, and to have a historical view of those executions."
"You can do your development from start to finish: starting with the requirements, ending with defects, and testing in-between."
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Cons

"The directory designer manager is uncivil. The design manager is clearly really unstable."
"The reporting functionality needs to be improved."
"IBM Rational ALM should remove the features not used by the customers and keep this product as lightweight as possible."
"The features should be more intuitive. If I'm looking for something, its location should be easy to locate."
"The solution can improve in the development area and the customized applications."
"The stability of this solution can be improved."
"In the next release, we expect a traceability metrics configuration where we can configure the user stories. We also expect them to improve or simplify the query process."
"The interconnectivity between packages is a major support problem and can be improved."
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"The uploading of test scripts can get a little cumbersome and that is a very sensitive task. They could improve on that a lot. It's really important that this gets better as I'm loading close to a thousand test scripts per cycle."
"When it came to JIRA and Agile adoption, that was not really easy to do with ALM. I tried, but I was not able to do much on that... There is room for improvement in the way it connects to and handles Agile projects."
"The downside is that the Quality Center's only been available on Windows for years, but not on Mac."
"The BPT also known as Business Process Testing can sometimes be very time intensive and sometimes might not be very intuitive to someone who is not familiar with BPT."
"There's room for improvement on the reporting side of things and the scheduling, in general, is a bit clunky."
"I'd like to see the concept of teams put into it."
"I would rate it a 10 if it had the template functionality on the web side, had better interfaces between other applications, so that we didn't have dual data entry or have to set up our own migrations."
"If the solution could create a lighter, more flexible tool with more adaptability to new methodologies such as agile, it would be great."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"IBM Rational ALM has both monthly and yearly licensing options."
"The solution is not cheap."
"This product is a little expensive and we had to pay extra to have them set it up for us."
"The price of the solution could be reduced. Many of our customers are not using all the features and this could be why our clients feel the price is too high."
"We have a contract, but I am not aware of the details."
"The solution is priceed high."
"Micro Focus ALM Quality Center is very expensive."
"The solution has the ability to handle a large number of projects and users in an enterprise environment with the correct license."
"If you have more than five users, a concurrent licensing model should be considered."
"For pricing, I recommend to buy a bundled package. Check the HPE site for more details."
"Compared to the market, the price is high."
"Most vendors offer the same pricing, though some vendors offer a cheaper price for their cloud/SaaS solution versus their on-premise. However, cloud/SaaS solutions result in a loss of freedom. E.g., if you want to make a change, most of the time it needs to be validated by the vendor, then you're being charged an addition fee. Sometimes, even if you are rejected, you are charged because it's a risk to the entire environment."
"We have divided our licenses between Micro Focus ALM and ALM Octane. It works for us."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
22%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Educational Organization
55%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Computer Software Company
5%
Manufacturing Company
5%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM Rational ALM?
The solution is customizable.
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What needs improvement with IBM Rational ALM?
We have some special needs. The product does not support our needs perfectly. The GUI is a little bit outdated. There are not many diagrams that help us organize or plan the work for the team. The ...
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What is your primary use case for IBM Rational ALM?
We have three modules. The DOORS module is for requirements. RTC is for storage planning and workflow planning. We also use the module for quality. We use IBM Rational ALM as the main tool to plan ...
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Has anyone tried integrating HP ALM and JIRA ?
HP ALM and Jira can be easily integrated with the aid of a third-party Integration Solution. To help you select the right integration approach and tool, you should first define your integration req...
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What do you like most about Micro Focus ALM Quality Center?
The most valuable feature is the ST Add-In. It's a Microsoft add-in that makes it much easier to upload test cases into Quality Center.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus ALM Quality Center?
It was expensive for us. For the first two weeks, we had to employ people now and then as the system needed to be more accurate. It cost us a lot of money. I rate the solution's pricing as a seven ...
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Also Known As

Rational ALM, MKS
Micro Focus ALM Quality Center, HPE ALM, Quality Center, Quality Center, Micro Focus ALM
 

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Overview

Lifecycle management capabilities built on the open, unifying IBM Rational Jazz platform can help agile and traditional teams: see at-a-glance status, access better data for decisions, manage costs, reuse the most efficient processes across the organization, manage cloud, web, SOA and mobile application design and development. Teams can also gain real-time traceability, manage work across vendors, unify across a diverse set of lifecyle tools, and provide collaborative development for continuous delivery as part of the IBM DevOps solution.
OpenText ALM/Quality Center serves as the single pane of glass for software quality management. It helps you govern application lifecycle management activities and implement rigorous, auditable lifecycle processes.
 

Sample Customers

Tennis Australia, WeCloud AB, Port Otago Limited, Logicalis US, Valmer, The Chevrolet Volt, Ashurst
Airbus Defense and Space, Vodafone, JTI, Xellia, and Banco de Creìdito e Inversiones (Bci)
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