We performed a comparison between Codebeamer and Rally Software based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The traceability is so simple that I don't need to do any additional configurations related to traceability."
"You can track the metrics in the Agile dashboard very easily."
"It is a stable solution."
"Codebeamer's API-based integration and many other integration aspects with other solutions are very powerful."
"One of the most valuable features of Codebeamer is its strong performance."
"There is a lot of complexity involved, meaning it can do many things, which can be quite useful."
"The solution easily replaces IBM DOORS, which no longer offers maintenance in China."
"The platform provided the flexibility to expand our business processes, accommodating or altering them to suit the requirements of a changing environment."
"The reporting, and being able to roll that up across the verticals, was an important selling point for us."
"When it comes to the valuable features of Rally Software, it excels at burn-down charts, burn-up charts, and road mapping once it's set up. I particularly appreciated the new feature for releases and road mapping, which worked exceptionally well."
"What I like the most about Agile Central is that it is the only system I need to have full control and visibility of our entire body of work plus the activities and processes required to deliver it."
"The Defect feature. In one view you can see all your defects and you can push them into the different releases."
"It helps with getting the alignment between strategy and execution for the product teams, all the way down to the delivery teams."
"It helps me evaluate teams' historical performance using velocity charts."
"We use the roadmap features, and we're getting better at using dates to use the roadmap so that we can see if we're on target for work."
"We've actually used it for virtual PI planning. We have teams in different locations, and we actually virtually do PI planning, big-room planning, using the tools."
"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."
"We would like to see more industry-specific features that are tailored to the vertical markets."
"Usability needs to be improved."
"Certain areas in Codebeamer could be improved, like addressing small issues, glitches, or bugs."
"During migrations from other platforms to CodeBeamer, there have been instances where we encountered issues that required redoing certain tasks."
"The search and replace feature within the tool itself could be improved."
"The product's UI is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The navigation within the tool sometimes is a little tricky for me. I'm sure with more use, more practice, I'll become accustomed to it, but some of the things just aren't intuitive."
"We did submit an enhancement request. I think a lot of teams that do very large scale products have the same issue. They just do not realize it would help them."
"One problem I see is that if there is a dependent user story - for example, if my team is working on one thing and there is a dependent user story from another team - we can have a dependency created but we don't know if there is a change of status from the other team. That is something which is very important for Agile Central to look into so that if the other team makes any changes we will be notified as well."
"We would like more meaningful, customizable dashboards."
"The stronger CA can get on dependency mapping the better. That's the biggest hiccup. As you're setting up your features, they should make it easier to flag the dependencies, either across features or across projects. Then you're more set up for success."
"I wish there was a view, like the Kanban view, where you could see the parent, and see all the children visually, so you could drag and drop where you want it to go. Something like that might help."
"In Rally Software, the connection with GitLab and GitHub needs improvement."
"More importantly, we are seeing internal challenges from Atlassian because of their highly integrated suite that enables further automation and centralization of activities that are also highly necessary – messaging notifications cued off builds, collaboration on Solution Architecture Documentation, etc."
Codebeamer is ranked 9th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 10 reviews while Rally Software is ranked 8th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 116 reviews. Codebeamer is rated 7.8, while Rally Software is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Codebeamer writes "Has good technical support services, but the migration process needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rally Software writes "A solution that enables users to accurately estimate the time required for building large software projects". Codebeamer is most compared with PTC Integrity, Polarion ALM, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Jira, whereas Rally Software is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, TFS, Jira Align and IBM Rational ALM. See our Codebeamer vs. Rally Software report.
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