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Digital.ai Agility vs JIRA Portfolio comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Digital.ai Agility
Ranking in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools
9th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (14th), Release Automation (11th), Value Stream Management Software (5th)
JIRA Portfolio
Ranking in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
57
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Enterprise Agile Planning Tools category, the mindshare of Digital.ai Agility is 0.8%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of JIRA Portfolio is 1.2%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Debbie Brey - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 18, 2022
A scalable, full-package solution with a tech support team that bends over backwards to help
My team is currently using this solution as our backlog management tool. We have both an on-prem version and a public cloud. We have some traditional software development teams that are using the on-prem version. For our cloud version, right now we have non-software teams that are experimenting…
Gary Craven - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 4, 2024
Powerful, flexible solution with a bit of a learning curve
The weakness of the solution is that the interface is a little nonstandard, meaning it's very flexible. It's got a lot of power and gives the user the ability to combine different projects into the portfolio and move user stories between projects and link them. What I have found in a couple of organizations that I've used it with, is that the uptake tends to be a little slow because it's got a bit of a learning curve. It can dump data out to Excel and those programs, but it also has a big ecosystem of plugins and add-ons that you can get. I guess it has some strength in that regard, but if you're going to run it on-prem, you have to have people that are pretty well-versed in the program and have the time and capabilities to handle integration and make sure they're adding those modules correctly. Their interface is a little unique and I think that's partly because the core of the product has morphed into several sub-products, but the underlying architecture has stayed the same on all of them in that it was originally a help desk ticketing system. Now they are moving into these new use cases, including systems development, business projects, business processes, and redevelopment projects, but there is a problem with the nomenclature that they use, and some of the documentation is a little techy for moving it into those more business-focused use cases. It's a very tech-focused product and that's fair given its origins, but if they really want to expand their community of users, then they're going to have to move beyond that a little bit and polish it up.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"For visualization capabilities, the automation capabilities make it possible to support the different personas. The features and capabilities are excellent and come with excellent support."
"It allows my clients to have one central tool to manage their agile projects."
"With some of the other tools, you have to buy 20 different plugins to get to the same capability that comes with the basic Agility capability."
"Agility is highly flexible. It can do much more than what our client is doing with it. They use it in a defined way. Some at that company have a much broader knowledge of agile and SAFe, but they're given applications and a mandated way to work. We had to work within their parameters and provide an accurate transition so the data would be mapped and pushed through."
"It can generate reports showing a burndown chart, burnup chart, and the planned vs actual velocity."
"Has many functionalities including good supervision and workflows."
"The solution is simple to use."
"Jira Portfolio is useful for tracking time and hours. It's easy to manage, create tickets, and change the status of delivery reports. It's not complicated."
"The solution's tracking capabilities helped ensure we had full visibility into planned work and scheduled work."
"JIRA Portfolio has many wonderful features."
"Managing product development and managing inter-team communications are also valuable features."
"The graphics and the resolution of the work are very good."
"The solution helps you organize projects"
 

Cons

"In my work as a contractor, it's always frustrating when a client has multiple software applications that don't talk to each other and they all perform the same function. That presents a huge challenge between their IT groups."
"The machine learning features are a new capability but could be improved. This is being worked by Digital.ai currently. Multicolor simulation, specifically, could be improved."
"The user interface can be improved by adding Save, Edit, Add, Cancel, and Return buttons to the popup windows that are displayed when you click on a child item."
"Improve how to create and track releases. Currently, I have to create child projects."
"There is room for improvement in getting the analytics portion of the solution more integrated with the rest of it."
"We are using the on-premise deployment, but it is slower and not as easy to manage as the cloud version."
"It's got kind of a steep learning curve."
"JIRA Portfolio could improve new implementation because if I want integration for the complete wide frame tools it cannot provide any wide frame tools."
"The workflow needs improvement."
"An improvement would be if Portfolio were integrated with Office 365."
"Our major team does not control or manage JIRA server well since sometimes there is trouble using the solution, which is a problem. The solution's speed needs to be improved."
"In the next release, Portfolio should include more metrics and develop their portfolio planning."
"The query features should improve in JIRA Portfolio. For example, if I would have to create my own queries for looking into something such as what business features we have released last month, or the last three months, I don't know if I can do it. The solution requires a certain level of expertise."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Comparing the pricing to other products, I think this solution is in the middle."
"You get what you pay for. Don't let your development teams dictate what the portfolio management team should use as the main tool."
"The pricing continues to get higher."
"The solution is offered at a high cost"
"When we first got the tool, it cost 3,000 euros a year for unlimited users, which was a great deal. But the prices kept going up over the years. I'm not involved with pricing anymore, but I heard they increased a lot, so we decided to stop using it."
"There are free plugins available, but most of them are at an additional cost. Additionally, other services are an extra cost."
"The price is reasonable"
"We only have nine people using it so we have a standard cost of $150 dollar per year. There are only additional costs if you exceed the limit of users, then you start paying by user. The cost is significantly higher."
"The price could be improved."
"Given the solution’s significant functionality, benefits, and value, you get more than you pay for."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
19%
Insurance Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about JIRA Portfolio?
The solution's tracking capabilities helped ensure we had full visibility into planned work and scheduled work.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for JIRA Portfolio?
When we first got the tool, it cost 3,000 euros a year for unlimited users, which was a great deal. But the prices kept going up over the years. I'm not involved with pricing anymore, but I heard t...
What needs improvement with JIRA Portfolio?
The tool needs to improve its speed and response time.
 

Also Known As

VersionOne Lifecycle, VersionOne, CollabNet VersionOne, Digital.ai Continuum
Portfolio for JIRA
 

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Sample Customers

Siemens Health Services (HS), Cerner Corporation, Aaron's, Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, Kelley Blue Book, AOL, Axway, Tideworks, bwin Interactive Entertainment, AG, Intergraph, Eos Group, PeopleCube, Liquid Machines
Rosetta Stone, Sprint, UBS, Workday, Expedia, J.P. Morgan
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