We performed a comparison between GitLab and JIRA Portfolio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Agile Planning Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."GitLab's best features are maintenance, branch integration, and development infrastructure."
"The most valuable features of Gitlab are integration with CIE and the ability to rapidly deploy solutions, projects, and applications. It is very easy to use, and there are no complaints."
"The initial setup of GitLab is pretty simple, with no complications."
"I find the features and version control history to be most valuable for our development workflow. These aspects provide us with a clear view of changes and help us manage requests efficiently."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is its convenience. I am able to trace back most of my changes up to a far distance in time and it helps me to analyze and see the older version of the code."
"I have found the most valuable features of GitLab are the GitClone, GitPush, GitPull, GitMatch, GitMit, GitCommit, and GitStatus."
"CI/CD is valuable for me."
"I like that you can use GitLab as a double-sided solution for both DevOps and version management. It's a good product for working in these two areas, and the user interface makes it easy to understand."
"The initial setup is simple."
"Portfolio helps us increase the visibility of projects' status and management with remote workers who make up most of the company."
"Portfolio's most valuable features are that it's user-friendly and customer-centric."
"The most valuable features of Jira are the dashboards where we see all the features lined up with the release dates in the portfolio view, it is very good."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The valuable features of the JIRA Portfolio are the customization it provides which is very useful and the Agile project management capability."
"The most valuable feature of the JIRA Portfolio is the many features it provides, such as code integration, documentation, roadmap, and Eclipse. The solution is useful for product managers."
"In general, the valuable features of the tool are its capabilities concerning dependency reports and task status."
"For as long as I have used GitLab, I haven't encountered any major limitations. However, I think that perhaps the search functionality could be better."
"The solution does not have many built-in functions or variables so scripting is required."
"The pricing model of GitLab is an issue for me."
"It could have more security integrations and the ability to check the vulnerability of the code. I don't think it is a responsibility of Gitlab, but it would be nice to have more options to integrate with."
"I rate the support from GitLab a four out of five."
"GitLab would be improved with the addition of templates for deployment on local PCs."
"The integration and storage capabilities could be better."
"GitLab doesn't have AWS integration. It would be better to have integration with other container management environments beyond Kubernetes. It has very good integration with Kubernetes, but it doesn't have good integration with, for example, AWS, ETS, etc."
"The product could do with more flexible reporting."
"JIra is very poor at reporting."
"JIRA Portfolio's configuration management could be improved."
"The initial setup could use improvement."
"The workflow needs improvement."
"The team-centric view is slightly weaker in JIRA compared to its competitors, especially considering how I can evaluate how each resource has been placed, not just in one project but across JIRA."
"The automation in JIRA Portfolio could improve, it takes some time. We have to do some other tactics to have the same integration. Manually integrating something will take more work than if it was automated, but the automation scripting in the solution is not simple."
"Some key features like integration, big data warehousing and data modeling need work."
GitLab is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 70 reviews while JIRA Portfolio is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 50 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while JIRA Portfolio is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of JIRA Portfolio writes "Powerful, flexible solution with a bit of a learning curve". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton, whereas JIRA Portfolio is most compared with Jira Align, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, Microsoft Project Server, Adobe Workfront and Planview Portfolios. See our GitLab vs. JIRA Portfolio report.
See our list of best Enterprise Agile Planning Tools vendors.
We monitor all Enterprise Agile Planning Tools reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.
