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Cortex vs JIRA Service Management comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

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

Categories and Ranking

Cortex
Ranking in IT Service Management (ITSM)
20th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.2
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
JIRA Service Management
Ranking in IT Service Management (ITSM)
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
86
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (2nd)
 

Featured Reviews

NikhilSharma1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides comprehensive network visibility and helps us identify threats efficiently
The product could be improved in several areas. The complexity and confusion regarding product variants, such as XDR, Forexiant, and Forexon, must be addressed. There is also a need for clearer differentiation between features and capabilities within Cortex's suite, as the overlap between XDR and XIM can be confusing. Improvements in the user interface and more intuitive KQL query handling could also enhance usability. Additionally, better support for various deployment scenarios and cost management options would be beneficial.
Karim Yousef - PeerSpot reviewer
Efficiently track and document projects with seamless tool integration
We are a management warehouse that provides services to different customers in different sectors. Primarily, we serve the banking sector and the military sector. We manage all the software delivery projects through tools such as JIRA Service Management or TFS Confluence is a great tool for…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution's most valuable feature is writing playbooks."
"It was easy to integrate Cortex with existing infrastructure and other tech tools."
"The solution's stability is generally good."
"I think one of the most valuable things is that it's all integrated."
"One of the best features is that I can share tickets with team members, at which point any team member is able to pick one up and work on it."
"Jira gets the basics right in terms of the product backlog and a scrum board teams can use to manage sprint backlogs."
"The initial setup is easy and straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Jira is that it is free of cost, which is a significant advantage."
"We have found the issue type feature particularly valuable, as it provides an out-of-the-box solution that aligns with our needs."
"Provides excellent management features."
"The SLA, speed, the comments from agents' side, and the dashboard for agents are the most valuable features."
 

Cons

"The complexity and confusion regarding product variants, such as XDR, Forexiant, and Forexon, must be addressed."
"It's quite lagging and not very fast."
"It would be more beneficial to integrate threat intelligence in Cortex."
"The performance in cloud service management could be improved."
"The support we received was not fully provided at that time."
"The reporting function of this solution, particularly the filters in the portal, could be improved."
"The pricing could be better."
"I feel that Atlassian isn't really interested in fixing everything because if they did, the partners that are developing the fixes and features would not have a place in the market."
"The search function could be improved. We have to search a certain way. There is no generic search; it is more object-oriented search."
"It would be beneficial if we could turn comments into subtasks or other JIRA tickets directly."
"The product does not have the capability to sort queued tickets by product. This would be useful in making workflows more efficient."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's cheaper compared to its competitors."
"Cortex XDR is a costly solution."
"Cortex is an expensive solution."
"Right now, there are only two of us who are both agents on the help desk and developers. We might be on the free version because we're less than three agents or users. I'm looking at Zephyr tests, which have a $10 a month flat rate, so right now, it is $10 a month. There are lots of add-ons. They do a free version, a standard version, and a premium version. In the last company, we started on $50 a month. By the time I left, we were paying $4,500 a month. That was mainly because we had 100 users on Confluence. I bought an add-on for Jira software for which we had 10 users, and that was $5 per user per month. It was costing me $500 a month, whereas it should only be $50 a month. I don't know if licensing fee has changed. I'd like our whole company to use it, but the big problem is the licensing because the Confluence side is what is really useful, but if I add 30 users to Confluence and then buy an extension for Jira software, I've got to pay for 30 licenses, even though I've only got two users in Jira software. It is the one big disadvantage of cloud software. You always have to pay for the number of seats regardless of which product you are on. This will probably severely limit how many people would use it because I'm not going to start paying $10 per user per month for a Jira software add-on when there are only two people using it."
"It is one of the premium products on the market, but it is very costly, especially in the Indian market."
"It costs around $150 to $200 per user."
"I would suggest to always buy licenses through an Atlassian partner, so you can also rely on their expertise."
"It is a cheaply priced product."
"The license we use is on a yearly basis. As a Solution Partner, we were using the free one and were using the free plugins. We were also giving our own plugins to the Atlassian Solution Partners for free. We don't pay anything to Atlassian."
"It depends on the number of users but it starts at $20 per month per user. I would rate them a three out of five for pricing."
"The price of JIRA Service Management could be reduced."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
 

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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Cortex?
It would be more beneficial to integrate threat intelligence in Cortex.
What is your primary use case for Cortex?
With Cortex, we can automate the analysis of all the alerts. We use it to automate any kind of activity.
 

Also Known As

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JIRA Service Desk
 

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Sample Customers

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