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Categories and Ranking

Basecamp
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Project Management Software (25th)
JIRA Portfolio
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
59
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (12th)
 

Featured Reviews

Abenazzer Tadesse - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Operations Officer at BeOnline ICT
An easy-to-use project management solution with good stability and scalability
The recent update on the solution has made it a little bit complex. For example, to create a team and a project, there is a separate button that you need to click. Recently they updated it with only one button making it difficult for us to create teams or supply teams other than a project. Hence the solution could be more user-friendly. Additionally, some additional features need to be integrated so it'll be easy for other companies or project managers to manage software projects.
Gus Mtz - PeerSpot reviewer
Subdirector of Support for Production at Servicios Electrónicos Globales -Oficial
Collaborative features improve task management and project tracking
All the business areas are comfortable with JIRA Portfolio. JIRA Portfolio has many features that we have not yet explored or utilized fully, but the power of JIRA Portfolio at this moment for the several areas in the business has been a very comfortable experience. The cloud accessibility and quick task creation capabilities make collaborating with the tool a great feature for working with my team. Users can assign tasks to one or two people who can collaborate and document their work. That feature is amazing in terms of collaboration. While the tool does not currently support meetings, if JIRA Portfolio incorporates meeting functionality in the future, it would greatly enhance the process, especially for tasks requiring teams from different areas.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The ability to network informally is great for communicating with colleagues."
"The ease of use is valuable."
"The app functionality and ease of seeing the different functionalities parsed equally on the screen with consistent menu access to shift between areas."
"Version management is the most valuable feature of JIRA Portfolio."
"JIRA has helped us reduce the rate of unseen or undetectable issues in the future. It has also helped us understand the demand overload across the defense team, including capacity and availability, and how we can leverage different teams to ensure overall success."
"With JIRA, you can do amazing things by developing connectors, embedding features, and adding new fields to create new things."
"It allows me to do the capacity management and it allows me to qualify my ethics, and that's what the capabilities I was searching for in a solution like Jira Portfolio."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The solution is very powerful and the underlying structure of it is well done. The company behind the solution is very open as far as their whole ecosystem is concerned. They also do a lot of work in the training area."
"The documentation is very well done."
"Jira Software Management is very important for the customers because with it I can support IT as well as the financial areas, the implementation process is simple and straightforward, the solution is very stable and reliable, it is highly scalable due to the cloud, and technical support has been great."
 

Cons

"Formalized area to store contact information indexed in a way that can pre-populate other areas would be helpful."
"The product isn't easy to use. It's not very intuitive."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"Another thing could be to have an easy way to manage the Portfolio and have more ways to share and to show graphics and reports"
"The kanban board could also use some more filters. We just had a project where the deployment for Jira didn't have any ETA, and it's a requirement for the client. We accommodate a lot of issues on the board, so the workaround was to create boards by project, not client."
"JIRA Portfolio's configuration management could be improved."
"This solution is not able to be integrated with other solutions because you have to upgrade it and pay for more licensing."
"It's hard for people to learn. It's got kind of a steep learning curve."
"The product presently lacks visualization capabilities"
"We would love to be able to have direct contact with Atlassian."
"The tool is very open, which leads to a lot of error, confusion, and end problems."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I use the free version for personal use."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the pricing an eight."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the pricing a six."
"There are free plugins available, but most of them are at an additional cost. Additionally, other services are an extra cost."
"The pricing of the solution is expensive."
"The product is really not very expensive."
"The pricing continues to get higher."
"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."
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Top Industries

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Construction Company
24%
Security Firm
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Construction Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Marketing Services Firm
7%
 

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Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise33
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for JIRA Portfolio?
I am part of the delivery team and am not exposed to the commercial information. However, from what I understand, JIRA is competitively priced. It is not considered expensive in the market.
What needs improvement with JIRA Portfolio?
The setup process for JIRA Portfolio is complex.
What is your primary use case for JIRA Portfolio?
We are using all the tools of Google, but not as a collaboration. We are using JIRA Portfolio for making the process of authorization in this process, for change control, and for software delivery....
 

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