Atlassian ALM vs OpenText Software Delivery Management comparison

Atlassian and OpenText are both solutions in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category. Atlassian is ranked #17, while OpenText is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.3. Atlassian holds a 2.1% mindshare in ALM, compared to OpenText’s 5.1% mindshare. Additionally, 60% of Atlassian users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 19, 2025

Atlassian ALM and OpenText Software Delivery Management compete in software management. Atlassian ALM is favored for its pricing and customer service advantages, while OpenText Software Delivery Management stands out with its comprehensive feature set, making it appealing for larger investments.

Features: Atlassian ALM provides efficient project tracking and collaboration tools, helping streamline software development. Its integration with JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, and HipChat facilitates team organization and communication. OpenText Software Delivery Management is notable for its extensive integration capabilities, sophisticated delivery management features, and powerful out-of-the-box integration with Agile and DevOps tools, maintaining wide applicability for detailed enterprise management.

Room for Improvement: Atlassian ALM could enhance its feature set to cover broader enterprise needs and improve integration with certain tools like Bitbucket to close functionality gaps. Improving real-time analytics and expanding agile management capabilities might also present opportunities. OpenText Software Delivery Management could simplify its deployment process, enhance the immediacy of customer service responses, and streamline its interface for broader user accessibility to increase its appeal.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Atlassian ALM is praised for its straightforward cloud-based deployment via platforms like AWS and efficient customer service. This ensures fast resolutions and user support. In contrast, OpenText Software Delivery Management requires a more complex, customizable deployment process. Although its customer care is expansive, it sometimes lacks the immediate response efficiency seen with Atlassian.

Pricing and ROI: Atlassian ALM offers budget-friendly solutions with accessible pricing, enabling quicker ROI realization. OpenText Software Delivery Management, with higher upfront costs, targets long-term value through advanced features, appealing to organizations willing to invest more for comprehensive functionalities. Pricing can play a pivotal role in deciding between immediate savings or investing in extensive features.

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Categories and Ranking

Atlassian ALM

Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

17th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

OpenText Software Delivery ...

Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

8th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category, the mindshare of Atlassian ALM is 2.1%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Software Delivery Management is 5.1%, down from 5.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
OpenText Software Delivery Management	5.1%
Atlassian ALM	2.1%
Other	92.8%

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

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Xie Zhifeng

R&D Director, CTO at CSDN

Scrum board feature is highly valuable and handles different user volumes

We have both small-sized and big-sized customers. The small ones generally have around 50 to 200 users. The larger ones, for example, in China, have around 15,000 platform users. So, the number of small companies is high, but the total business value comes from the big companies. Atlassian ALM can handle different user volumes. For customers with more than 500 users, we recommend deploying a high availability (HA) architecture. The solution supports both single-node and HA modes. I would rate the scalability a five out of ten. It could be better in terms of scalability with more users. It could be improved to better handle larger numbers of users. We have clients using Atlassian ALM both in China and globally. We have around 20 clients using this solution.

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GeorgNauerz

Managing Partner at Georg Nauerz Consulting

A stable tool for sprint planning, test management, quality management, and automated testing

I think the area of release management in the tool is an area of concern where improvements are required. In general, the connection between releases and scrum teams needs improvement, as it could be optimized owing to its linkages, making it very uncomfortable as soon as you have strong teams or scrum teams that work with different items over several releases. In future product releases, the solution needs to focus a bit more on the metric part. The product's dashboard is a metric for productivity and process control.

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Pros

"This solution fits very well into our agile product management environment."

"The most valuable feature is the Scrum board."

"The main power of this tool is the integration between the different products of the Atlassian suite. We have good integration with work management with Java. This is the major strength from this provider."

"It’s easy to set up."

"The feature I found most valuable in Micro Focus ALM Octane is its ability to integrate with the CI/CD stack."

"The way testing is closely tied into the product Backlog has made it more intuitive, or easier to manage the relationship between building out an application and testing it. In other tools, that is more segregated. The way it's designed in Octane, people have said it makes more sense to them, and that it's easier for them to understand their data and to maintain and test their solutions."

"Backlog management is the most valuable feature. This was a capability that was missing or difficult to achieve in ALM Quality Center."

"It is a very scalable solution."

"With an Octane project, we have our automation, our requirements, our tests, our pipeline into build-and-deploy, and the ability to identify problem areas. It makes things quicker because it's more along the lines of an automated process."

"A valuable feature is the pipeline, so that we can now connect to Jenkins and then have all the results from testing, from external, in the tool, so that we can see the whole approach from there. Also, We can work with labels so we have better filtering solutions than in ALM. And it's much smarter and leaner to use than ALM."

"We looked at all the market-leading tools, but we did not find anything quite as comprehensive as ALM Octane. When I say comprehensive, it's not just a single tool for Agile planning, backlog management release, sprint planning, etc., but it also has a built-in, comprehensive quality management module. It also has pipelines where we can hook up with our DevOps ecosystem/toolchain."

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Cons

"There is room for improvement in the high-level project management."

"The automation for scheduling software and doing software tests should be simplified because it's complex and too rigid."

"The reports are not really customizable, which is something that they should improve on."

"The biggest problem with ALM Octane is that it's very complex, so it's difficult to use and scale."

"I like their smart analytics; perhaps they should continue to expand and improve there because it's a fantastic start."

"Currently, Micro Focus ALM Octane is considered an old-world tool in the industry and lacks the perception of being a new-age tool among its customers."

"We've only had a few stability issues. Generally, we have issues following any deployment they do, so if they do a deployment on a Sunday, then we may have a couple of issues on a Monday or Tuesday."

"There's a trend in our requests to have the ability to export data, en masse, out of Octane. There are capabilities within Octane to export data, but there are specifics around test suites and requirements and relations, as well as certain attributes, that we would like to be able to export easily out of Octane and into a database or Excel."

"There is an opportunity for them to do a little more with the dashboarding. We still feel that HPE Quality Center/HPE ALM reporting is very powerful. We talked with R&D, and there are some things on their roadmap, but at the same time, their strategy is to connect Octane with visualization tools such as Power BI."

"The reporting is lacking from a requirements matrix and a traceability perspective."

"Globally, I don't see many major points of improvement. It's mostly plenty of little things, and it's weird to me that they are not in the product yet. They are really details, but they're annoying details... Today, in the tool, we've got plenty of assets we can handle, like requirements, user storage, defects, tasks and so on. And to all of those elements, we can add comments. We can add comments to any asset in Octane but not to tasks. It's just impossible to understand why it's not available for the tasks because it's available everywhere else. Similarly, for attachments, you can attach files absolutely everywhere except on automated runs, which is, again, awkward. I don't understand why on this element, in particular, you cannot do it. It's little touches like that."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a community edition available, but if the price were lower for the addons then more people would use the full version."

"For what it does, it's very reasonably priced. I like the licensing model as well, because it's very flexible. You can scale licenses up and down for short periods of time."

"I would say that it is an affordable product. There is an annual service fee, which is one of the additional payments to be made apart from the standard licensing costs attached to the solution."

"The cost of this product is very high."

"It's expensive. HPE products, and now Micro Focus, have always been expensive. The license is not cheap, and it will always be a challenge, particularly for small organizations like ours."

"In my opinion, it's good value for the price that you pay."

"Microsoft is a big challenge for Micro Focus when it comes to pricing because they are much cheaper. But it definitely depends on the complexity of the environment. If it has multiple technologies, at that point, looking at other options and Microsoft would be a feasible approach."

"In terms of pricing, it's comparable to what we had previously. It's not priced at the higher end of the scale by any means. It's priced nicely, in the middle of the market. For what you're getting, it's a very good tool."

"The product is highly priced compared to other tools."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Educational Organization

10%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

24%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	32

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Is Jira better or would you go with Micro Focus ALM Octane?

Hi Netanya, Basically , it all depends on the use cases for your environment and the business needs. Hope the below data may be relevant to you for identifying your needs and deciding on the approp...

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What do you like most about Micro Focus ALM Octane?

The platform's most valuable feature is pipeline integration or continuous integration services.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus ALM Octane?

OpenText ALM Octane is an expensive product. However, it offsets costs by saving time and money, thus creating a balance between expenses and benefits. Our organization with over 1500 users sees sa...

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Overview

How to use Atlassian to manage application lifecycle: Atlassian builds software to pull together all the elements of application lifecycle management. Product management, developers, Q/A, dev ops, and business stake holders all have their own ways of interacting with application lifecycle management and Atlassian splits up the process into a few buckets.

1) Collaborate to plan and envision work

Atlassian's Confluence is a collaboration platform for building and driving consensus. Call stake holders in to give approval, comment on, and share pages and integrate with the rest of the development toolchain.

2) Build and track roadmaps

Atlassian's JIRA Software offers incredibly flexible project management with custom workflows, plugins, and high visibility rollups through JIRA Portfolio. Issues can be embedded right in confluence, or be used to kick off new branches in version control. Keep everyone on the same page with project progress.

3) Track and deploy code

Atlassian's Bitbucket is the world's most robust Git solution. The ability to deploy multiple-nodes with failover, global mirroring for super fast clones, and powerful code review control set it apart from competition. Bitbucket also has a mature plugin and hooks system that allows extensions and connection to a suite of CI software.

4) Support and Iterate

Track support requests, bugs, and route users in the right direction with JIRA Service Desk. With the same custom workflow engine as JIRA Software, a tight integration with the rest of the stack, and a knowledge base function make it a powerful addition to the ALM stack.

5) Tie it together

ChatOps helps tie every part of the ALM together. Get stake holders in the same room to manage a project, teams in the same page to manage their work, or plugin automated members to report on CI status, pull requests, page changes in Confluence, or bug reports. Like every piece of Atlassian's ALM there is a mature API for extending plugins and everything can be hosted behind your own firewall.

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OpenText Software Delivery Management provides application lifecycle management with Agile and Waterfall support. It features intuitive interfaces, CI/CD integration, automated testing, and robust reporting, improving project management efficiency and usability.

Designed to enhance teams' productivity and streamline processes, OpenText Software Delivery Management integrates seamlessly with Agile methodologies. Its comprehensive backlog and requirements management, user stories, and test management make it a complete tool for managing the development lifecycle. The platform aligns with DevOps, providing traceability and extensive customization options. Traceability from requirements to deployments is enhanced, making it easier for teams to track progress. It offers integration with popular tools like Jenkins and JIRA, ensuring a unified approach to continuous delivery and testing management.

What key features does OpenText Software Delivery Management include?

Versatile across browsers with consistent performance.
Seamless CI/CD integration for smooth development processes.
Intuitive interface aiding in efficiency and ease of use.
Comprehensive backlog management ensures organized prioritization.
Automated testing aligns with Agile and DevOps principles.

What benefits can users expect when evaluating OpenText Software Delivery Management?

Enhanced traceability from inception to delivery.
Improved project management efficiency through streamlined processes.
Robust reporting capabilities offering detailed insights.
Increased flexibility in customization enabling tailored experiences.
Predictive analytics for better decision-making.

OpenText Software Delivery Management is implemented across technology-focused industries, supporting Agile processes like requirements management and defect tracking. Organizations use it to standardize development workflows and optimize continuous delivery integration, choosing it for its ability to support both Agile and Waterfall methodologies within application lifecycle management.

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Sample Customers

Facebook, NASA, Cisco, eBay, Redfin, Toyota, Kaiser Permanente, Gilt, CSIRO, Autodesk, The Daily Telegraph, CODE, Illumnia

Orange, Airbus, Haufe Group, Kellogg's, Claro, Bon Secours, World Wide Technology

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