Codebeamer vs OpenText ALM Octane comparison

PTC and OpenText are both solutions in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category. PTC is ranked #10 with an average rating of 7.4, while OpenText is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.0. PTC holds a 7.4% mindshare in ALM, compared to OpenText’s 6.2% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of PTC users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

Codebeamer

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90% willing to recommend

OpenText ALM Octane

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3,226 Comparison Views

92% willing to recommend

Codebeamer

OpenText ALM Octane

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Codebeamer and OpenText ALM Octane 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.

To learn more, read our detailed Codebeamer vs. OpenText ALM Octane Report (Updated: October 2024).

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Codebeamer vs. OpenText ALM Octane

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Categories and Ranking

Codebeamer

Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

10th

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

OpenText ALM Octane

Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

8th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (8th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category, the mindshare of Codebeamer is 7.4%, up from 4.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText ALM Octane is 6.2%, up from 5.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

Featured Reviews

Gaurav Kandurwar

Solutions Architect at Capgemini

Has good technical support services, but the migration process needs improvement

In my current company, we previously used multiple tools for requirement management, test management, and tracking, such as Arvines, a hardware list for test management, and Jira for tracking purposes. However, these tools were part of a segregated environment, and management decided to upgrade them due to their outdated functionalities. Consequently, my team and I evaluated various tools for requirement management and chose CodeBeamer for its flexibility. We found it is more adaptable to our organization's needs and processes, making it a suitable choice for our migration efforts. During the evaluation process, we considered features compatibility with our business processes and flexibility to accommodate changes. This aspect was crucial to minimizing adjustment time and ensuring a smooth transition to the new tool.

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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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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

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

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

"It is a stable solution."

"Codebeamer is user-friendly"

"The traceability is so simple that I don't need to do any additional configurations related to traceability."

"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."

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"The most useful feature of Micro Focus ALM Octane is the dashboards, they are easy to use."

"The integration points are very good. Octane gives us a window not only into our manual testing, but also our automation testing and our performance testing. We can see all results from all three streams of testing in one place."

"I like the fact that you can use it on top of Jira."

"The interface is user-friendly."

"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."

"Octane works well with the Jira portfolio to track the project with two methods: Agile and Waterfall. We can track all the testing in Waterfall or Agile and synchronize it with Agile tools."

"An improvement on previous versions because it comes as preconfigured as possible."

"The integration capability of ALM Octane was very straightforward. We had a supporting team, and they provided us with detailed documentation."

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Cons

"Usability needs to be improved."

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

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

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

"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."

"We would like to see more industry-specific features that are tailored to the vertical markets."

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

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"I have yet to experience the CI/CD part of Micro Focus ALM Octane but as demonstrated by the team who is providing the services, I see that the CI/CD could improve. When we check in the code, for the code snippet that has been checked in by a particular user, you need to open a separate file. When comparing Micro Focus ALM Octane to Jira, they have a separate window in which you can click on the ID and the code is visible in the snippet. It's a two-step process in Micro Focus ALM Octane and it's a single-step process in Jira. It's essential for the developers to think about this difference."

"Though Micro Focus ALM Octane doesn't have much of a bug, it lacks integration with some solutions. For example, my company has fairly new software, but it can't be integrated with Micro Focus ALM Octane, so integration with other software, particularly with less popular software, could be improved. Micro Focus ALM Octane also requires a lot of resources during its setup, and I find this another area for improvement. An additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of Micro Focus ALM Octane is the ability to customize the interface, especially when doing a manual test."

"I would like to see the mobile testing improved so that we can simply select a mobile device, then specify what parameters we want, and the testing will be run based on that."

"We have some requests to beef up the manual testing abilities and the ability to report on testing progress. All the basics are there, but there's an issue of maintainability. For example... once you plan a test and it creates a run, more particularly a suite run, you can't edit the suite run afterward... That that is not realistic with how people work. Mistakes are made and people are humans and we change our minds about things. So the tool needs to allow for a bit more flexibility in that testing area, as well as some better widgets to report on progress."

"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."

"The limitation of Octane is that we can't do a release outside of the sprint. We can only plan the release in the sprint. With Agile and JIRA tools, we can plan the release outside the sprint and do a global release of all the projects from the sprint."

"Documentation is not clear."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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's pretty pricey, one of the most expensive ones on the market... The value depends on if you use all the features that it has. It comes with a lot of features. The difference between the license structure of ALM and Octane versus JIRA, is that you get everything with ALM and Octane... For JIRA, you buy the pieces one piece at a time."

"I rate the tool's pricing an eight on a scale from one to ten, where ten is very expensive."

"ALM Octane is very expensive."

"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 rate the product price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive. The product is neither cheap nor expensive."

"If you compare the price with the functionality, it is pretty much the same as other solutions. If you compare it to Jira, for instance, it has a lot more functionality. You don't need any plug-ins, but it's also more expensive. Once you start adding your different plug-ins to Jira, you'll probably end up with the same amount or more. There is also a yearly support cost, which is usually 25% of the initial cost of the license."

"Pricing is the weakest point. It is expensive, but the tool has plenty of features. The main problem we have is that the pricing is very high compared to some other solutions."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

31%

Computer Software Company

15%

Healthcare Company

Transportation Company

Financial Services Firm

28%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about codeBeamer ALM?

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

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for codeBeamer ALM?

As I am not involved in purchasing the product, it is difficult for me to comment on the product's pricing model.

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What needs improvement with codeBeamer ALM?

Codebeamer is not completely compatible with our internal network setup, which could be improved.

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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?

The tool's price is extremely high. When I was using Micro Focus, there were ten licenses, costing around 1,38,000, which was outrageous.

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Also Known As

codeBeamer ALM

Micro Focus ALM Octane, Micro Focus Octane

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Overview

codeBeamer ALM is a market-leading Application Lifecycle Management platform. It is holistically integrated, and is packed with features that help you develop better products faster. Scale, monitor, control, and report on your entire development lifecycle conveniently, and comply with safety-critical regulations. Cut development time and costs.

OpenText ALM Octane helps organizations implement a “quality everywhere” approach and improve Agile and DevOps development and testing processes to improve the flow of work across the software delivery value stream. You can tightly align quality efforts from development to release, employ a broad range of tests anchored by automation, and continuously monitor and improve for increased throughput. OpenText fosters an open approach so that quality is visible, traceable, and continuously improved. By synchronizing quality and testing with Agile and DevOps processes, risks are mitigated early in the software delivery value stream – speeding the way for faster delivery and improved customer satisfaction.

ALM Octane facilitates a tailored and scalable approach for large enterprises. You can deploy your way and minimize infrastructure needs with deployment options spanning on-premises, SaaS, and public cloud (Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure Marketplaces). Similarly, various licensing options can tailor the features to meet specific needs with support for thousands of concurrent users in geographically disperse locations.

Sample Customers

Medtronic, Align Technology, Daimler, Samsung, Harman, Dassault

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

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