We performed a comparison between Broadcom Clarity and JIRA Portfolio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Project Management Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Easy to use, visually. The new UX is intuitive."
"It is very intuitive. Even if you do not have training documents or anything, you can start feeling your way around pretty easily."
"Project Management features that are excellent in managing the Project Management Life-cycle, along with other related details like Financials, Resources and flexibility to customize, as per requirement."
"With the new UI, CA is heading in the right direction, and fast. They're adding features, I would say major features, two times a year, which is fast. They're adding features, I would say major features, two times a year, which is fast."
"The app style of the new UI is absolutely fantastic. It's the right way to go. Our users will love it."
"This product is good for resource management and project management. I have managed detailed schedules with great success."
"The reporting tools are superior to what was there before, which was someone crunching through an Excel spreadsheet. I've been able to do status reports through the projects, which has given visibility to my manager, and that's an improvement."
"Transparency and just having the ability to procure information that is pertinent."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The developers can simplify tasks and each one of them can undertake a task and then they continue with development. Our processes are more efficient and easier for our manager and developers to track them. Their work is more organized."
"The product's centralized database creates a single source of data for working groups so no data needs to be reconciled."
"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 product makes it easy to collaborate even though it can use some improvement in that area."
"The tool helps us achieve more within the stipulated timeline and budget."
"Version management is the most valuable feature of JIRA Portfolio."
"Having an option to view dependencies between projects and teams is great."
"The solution could improve the way the workflow is developed. I think they could be more dynamic because they are in a way static. They're very powerful, but they don't have any interaction with end-users."
"They need something so that if we, say, send some sheets to users, or for the scenario where not everybody has access to Clarity, but are part of planning; those people should be able to upload data directly to Clarity."
"they could improve the mobile app. I think right now it only offers time sheet. If they can integrate a lot of other components into it I think that would be helpful for the users."
"In the community, I do not see a lot of answers. A lot of people asking lots of questions, but I am not seeing a lot of answers come through."
"I think user-friendliness is the key. Right now it's really clunky. We're also looking to upgrade, but an upgrade is not going to fix everything. The new UX is good, but there are still a lot of limitations. Once they work through those kinks and get those limitations removed, we'll be able to upgrade."
"Broadcom Clarity PPM could improve by adding advanced reporting in the tool. There are a lot of out-of-the-box reports, but I would like to see more advanced reporting."
"The look and the feel of 14.4 is a bit antiquated."
"It would be good for them to work on the user interface to make it more interactive."
"Portfolio is easy to scale, but we've had some difficulties with it regarding compliance and support."
"The HR aspect of the solution could be improved."
"Requires some effort to insert functionalities and that could be simplified."
"The interface JIRA Portfolio could improve."
"JIRA and Confluence must be linked automatically."
"If I get a feature but there is not a user story, and I want to know which epic it belongs to, it is really hard to figure out."
"The integration needs to be done with different tools."
"JIra is very poor at reporting."
Broadcom Clarity is ranked 6th in Project Management Software with 136 reviews while JIRA Portfolio is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 46 reviews. Broadcom Clarity is rated 8.0, while JIRA Portfolio is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Broadcom Clarity writes "A dynamic solution with a lot of great out-of-the-box calculations, but integration with reporting utilities is a bit painful". On the other hand, the top reviewer of JIRA Portfolio writes "Powerful, flexible solution with a bit of a learning curve". Broadcom Clarity is most compared with Microsoft Project, Jira, Planview Portfolios, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management and Planisware, whereas JIRA Portfolio is most compared with Jira Align, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, Adobe Workfront, Microsoft Project Server and Smartsheet. See our Broadcom Clarity vs. JIRA Portfolio report.
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