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 #7 with an average rating of 8.0. PTC holds a 7.9% 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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92% willing to recommend

Codebeamer

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

Codebeamer and OpenText ALM Octane compete in the application lifecycle management space. Codebeamer appears to have the upper hand in terms of pricing and support, while OpenText ALM Octane excels in advanced project management functionalities for complex projects.

Features: Codebeamer offers effective third-party integrations, comprehensive requirements management, and robust traceability across its platform. OpenText ALM Octane is strong in agile project management, DevOps integration, and advanced analytics and reporting capabilities, suitable for complex, large-scale projects.

Room for Improvement: Codebeamer could enhance its analytics and reporting tools, improve its collaborative features further, and expand its agile project management functionalities. OpenText ALM Octane could boost its pricing model attractiveness, simplify its customization process for novice users, and improve its scalability and flexibility for different deployment models.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenText ALM Octane offers cloud-based deployment for easy scalability and provides extensive training resources to boost customer service. Codebeamer supports both cloud and on-premises deployment, known for personalized support but may face slower deployment compared to OpenText ALM Octane.

Pricing and ROI: Codebeamer's cost-effective setup allows companies to begin without significant financial investment, improving ROI with efficient performance. In contrast, OpenText ALM Octane may require a higher initial investment, yet it potentially provides a superior ROI via its advanced feature set for managing complex projects.

To learn more, read our detailed Codebeamer vs. OpenText ALM Octane Report (Updated: January 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

Codebeamer

Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

10th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

OpenText ALM Octane

Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

7th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (8th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category, the mindshare of Codebeamer is 7.9%, up from 4.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText ALM Octane is 6.2%, up from 5.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

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Christian Wilmers

Process Method and Tool Developer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

Good complexity, easy to set up, and integrates with everything

There are a lot of bits and pieces that need to be improved. It's like a teenager. It's no longer a startup, yet not mature yet. It's still a fairly new tool that lacks maturity right now. For example, if you compared it to Jira, which is more mature, you can see that some things are done better due to the fact that Jira is older. It needs better integration for office documents, et cetera. There could be more user-friendly integration between office documents and requirements. Users might say the UI is complex, however, the solution covers so many items, you need to accept the complexity. It's an in-depth solution. For some people, it may be better to have special setups to set up the GUI to show only specific items to make it simpler. It would be nice to have some sort of mash-up GUI, which is possible in Jira so that we can customize to roles specific to, for example, problem management, testers, et cetera. They should have their own GUI related to their roles.

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GeorgNauerz

Managing Partner at Georg Nauerz Consulting

Makes team collaboration between IT and non-IT users easier with more transparency

The user experience is a lot better than any tool that I have used before. Overall, it is great. It has a smooth interface, which is very user-friendly. It makes it easier to work together and have more transparency and customization, which is very good. There are a lot of features where you can add fields, input individual fields, and input rules, like templated rule-based interaction between entities. The Backlog management is really interesting, because it is all in one place. You don't have a feature here and a feature there, instead you have the Backlog and testing using different backup items, like user storage features and tasks, all in one place. In addition, we are able to write documents, which we can transfer to backup items. Then, we can test them in the same solution without switching tools, or even switching from one part of the tool to another part, because it is all in one place. We use the solution’s Backlog and Team Backlog capabilities. They make our DevOps processes easier through transparency and asset collaboration.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"CodeBeamer provides full traceability, excellent collaboration, regulatory compliance, and instant reporting with its holistic approach from requirement management to testing."

"The solution easily replaces IBM DOORS, which no longer offers maintenance in China."

"It is a stable solution."

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

"One of the most valuable features of Codebeamer is its strong performance."

"Utilizing Codebeamer has helped my organization by saving time in our processes."

"Codebeamer is user-friendly"

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

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"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."

"It is a very stable tool. The tool has been in the industry for so many years. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."

"We like Micro Focus ALM Octane because its performance is okay, and its stability is okay, so we use it a lot. The platform is easy to use."

"People really how easy it is to customize. In some previous tools, that has been very limited, or you had to know how to write code to do some of the customizations, or it was very confusing. Going back to the user interface, they've made the customization of the tool, the workspace settings, very easy for people to figure out and use."

"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."

"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."

"The most valuable feature of Micro Focus ALM Octane is the reports. We are able to do customization."

"Octane creates a gentle approach to Agile-based projects."

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Cons

"It's still a fairly new tool that lacks maturity right now."

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

"It would be helpful if Codebeamer's overall processing and integration with software like Jira could be improved."

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

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

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

"The primary challenge is adapting the standard product to our workflows and specific needs."

"The product's UI is an area of concern where improvements are required."

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"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."

"I think the area of release management in the tool is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"The cluster architecture that we implemented was server to server communication: Octane application to Elasticsearch and Elasticsearch to another Elasticsearch service. Recently, we found this is a security gap. The Octane application is interacting with Elasticsearch server, but that was missing from the requirements and prerequisites in the setup. The Micro Focus team has not given advice on how to implement authentication-based communication between Octane to Elasticsearch, and we found it as a gap later, then our security team asked us to fix that gap. So, there was a lot of time spent on rework."

"Octane, from an administration perspective, is very limited. The application is improving with each release but what is missing is the ability to manage users and workspaces. I would also like "usable" reporting for more than a few workspaces. Also still missing is the ability to copy a workspace or get data in or out, except for limited REST calls."

"The reporting needs to be improved and allow for customization. I want to build my own widgets, but I don't want to use the ones already in the system. I want to build mine from scratch."

"The Requirements Module could be better, to build up a better requirements process. There's a huge improvement from ALM.NET to Octane, but it's still not really facilitating all the needs of the product owners, to set up their requirements in Octane."

"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."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"Codebeamer is not a cheap solution."

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

"There is a conversion fee for changing licenses."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"ALM Octane is very expensive."

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

31%

Computer Software Company

15%

Healthcare Company

Transportation Company

Financial Services Firm

28%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

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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

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.

PTC

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.

OpenText

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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