We performed a comparison between Codebeamer 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 traceability is so simple that I don't need to do any additional configurations related to traceability."
"There is a lot of complexity involved, meaning it can do many things, which can be quite useful."
"The platform provided the flexibility to expand our business processes, accommodating or altering them to suit the requirements of a changing environment."
"CodeBeamer provides full traceability, excellent collaboration, regulatory compliance, and instant reporting with its holistic approach from requirement management to testing."
"One of the most valuable features of Codebeamer is its strong performance."
"The solution easily replaces IBM DOORS, which no longer offers maintenance in China."
"Since implementing this solution we have better communication and information exchange with customers."
"You can track the metrics in the Agile dashboard very easily."
"Most of my work is keeping track of what's been going on and identifying what is blocking future work. What I like about this solution is you can create a consolidated customized dashboard out of your files to identify what's been going on and identify who has how much data assigned to them."
"Jira as a structure has Confluence for documentation, and for what it is offering it is a strong suit with Atlassian."
"The integration of other open source tools with Jira is very useful. It allows us to create documents and transcriptions, making it versatile beyond software development."
"Jira has a useful user interface and overall is easy to understand and learn."
"It's easy to understand, and easy to navigate."
"JIRA stores history of changes, which helps a lot to track who, when, and why the issue was modified."
"In our organization, we use Jira for project management and usually use the Scrum project type. We might adjust the workflows and stages to better suit our needs, but we mostly use the default functionalities it offers to manage our projects."
"The solution has been very stable overall."
"During migrations from other platforms to CodeBeamer, there have been instances where we encountered issues that required redoing certain tasks."
"The product's UI is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"We would like to see more industry-specific features that are tailored to the vertical markets."
"Usability needs to be improved."
"The solution has a very small market share in China. It's almost like a startup."
"The search and replace feature within the tool itself could be improved."
"I would like to see more, easily trackable reports."
"It's still a fairly new tool that lacks maturity right now."
"Users can be confused about how to use this tool as it's very complex."
"I'm really new to Jira and I haven't used all of the features. However, it is quite difficult to use and manipulate. It was a little complicated for me and I don't know if it's difficult globally for others, but I had a difficult time understanding it at first. I used it for issues, epics, stories, tasks, and sub-tasks. For first-time users, Jira could be made better to help them understand."
"The solution needs more integrations with Azure DevOps OnPrem."
"Having more seamless integration with Confluence would really help us track our product management activity and other product details in one place."
"Jira required a significant amount of system resources, particularly for larger organizations with extensive workflows and numerous projects."
"Could offer an improved user experience."
"I would like integrated requirements management, so we do not have to buy plug-ins for JIRA, since it was hard to get requirements management for it."
"I don't know whether there is a Jira problem or a test risk problem, however, sometimes, we face issues on fetching the reports."
Codebeamer is ranked 9th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 10 reviews while Jira is ranked 1st in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 266 reviews. Codebeamer is rated 7.8, while Jira is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Codebeamer writes "Has good technical support services, but the migration process needs improvement". 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". Codebeamer is most compared with PTC Integrity, Polarion ALM, Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational ALM and Jama Connect, whereas Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software and Planisware. See our Codebeamer vs. Jira report.
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