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IBM Maximo vs JIRA Service Management comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

IBM Maximo
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
24
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) (1st), Billing Software (4th)
JIRA Service Management
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
87
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (2nd), IT Service Management (ITSM) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

IBM Maximo and JIRA Service Management aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. IBM Maximo is designed for Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and holds a mindshare of 23.5%, down 25.7% compared to last year.
JIRA Service Management, on the other hand, focuses on IT Service Management (ITSM), holds 8.8% mindshare, down 11.9% since last year.
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
IBM Maximo23.5%
Oracle Enterprise Asset Management9.3%
IFS Cloud Platform8.9%
Other58.300000000000004%
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)
IT Service Management (ITSM) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
JIRA Service Management8.8%
ServiceNow21.5%
BMC Helix ITSM8.1%
Other61.6%
IT Service Management (ITSM)
 

Featured Reviews

Omar Samy - PeerSpot reviewer
Improved resource management and streamlined operations enhance organizational efficiency
IBM Maximo could be improved if they added a comprehensive finance module, as that would make it a more complete standalone application. Currently, if you need specific finance software, you need to purchase something such as SAP and integrate it with IBM Maximo. Coverage in this area would help reduce dependency on additional software. Regarding finance features, I would want to see payment capabilities added to IBM Maximo, particularly for factories making payments with providers and collections. This feature isn't adequately covered in IBM Maximo. Additionally, enhanced finance reporting and managing GL would be beneficial. IBM Maximo covers GL but only at a surface level. It doesn't provide deep account analysis.
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 ability to configure and integrate it with other solutions for ERP."
"I have found Work Order management the most valuable feature. Additionally, it is a very robust and powerful solution."
"Work order management and scalability enables the businesses' needs to be met."
"They have a real strength of tracking the asset itself along with the condition of the asset, the maintenance of the asset and who has access to the asset, etc."
"Provides great flexibility."
"Reliable, very configurable, and it's all integrated in the same database."
"​Maximo is very stable. We really do not have problem with stability.​"
"The Preventive Maintenance feature, especially in its inspection routines and KPI abilities, is valuable."
"Everyone knows how to use it, so there's no need to teach new members."
"This is a flexible tool for logging and tracking issues efficiently."
"The tool is scalable."
"I like the history, the dimensioning, and how I can configure a space based on my preferences or the project circumstances."
"Jira gets the basics right in terms of the product backlog and a scrum board teams can use to manage sprint backlogs."
"We have an Agile environment and using Jira makes it easy to adhere to Agile best practices."
"The automation feature in JIRA Service Management is beneficial, and that's yet to be available in ServiceNow. ServiceNow doesn't have the flexibility to automate processes."
"Easy to use and user-friendly."
 

Cons

"There are always ways to improve and make things better."
"The latest version is slow due to the power it requires."
"Could use some alignment regarding some standards and the tracking of the IT assets. Even though they have all of the information (i.e. where are the assets, who owns the asset, etc.), they were not mapping it to different cyber standards."
"The interface is not very easy or user-friendly and is in need of improvement."
"Initial setup is a longer process because Maximo is bigger and has more processes."
"Areas for improvement would be the user interface and support for Arabic. They could also be more customer-oriented."
"On a scale of one to ten, where ten is easy and one is difficult, I rate the setup process a two since it is very complicated."
"It's quite reliable, but new versions often are not too stable. They bring in enhancements but they break other stuff."
"An AI feature that enables automation and alerts for users can be an improvement."
"In-built chat is missing in JIRA Service Management."
"The interface could always be updated and improved."
"There is no notification regarding language upgrades."
"There is room for improvement in the user interface and the queues."
"​SaaS version for large organizations (more than 2000 users) is not available."
"From the customer side, it's not friendly used compared to other competitors, like ServiceNow or BMC. It's also not fully ITSM management if you compare it with ServiceNow or BMC. They have a full model of ITSM. In BMC they have TrueSight, they have Discovery, which helps IT to discover IT equipment with a serial number, with the specs, capacity of the server."
"I'd like to update the dashboard so that more features are available."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Explore the possibility of using DB2. You will avoid the cost of SQL Server or Oracle licenses."
"You pay for what you get. There are lots of options depending on how you would like to implement Maximo."
"The price of IBM Maximo could reduce, it is expensive."
"$USD700 per agent user."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is low and ten is high, I rate the pricing a nine. The price is very high."
"IBM Maximo offers a licensing application, and you have to comply with the license."
"I do not know about the price of the solution. However, this has been an expensive project overall."
"The concurrent user license is much more effective in management and cost-wise, as it is more suitable for maintenance management."
"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 the solution is becoming expensive and it should be reduced."
"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."
"On a scale of one to five, with one being really high and five being good, I would rate the price of this solution as a four."
"It is one of the premium products on the market, but it is very costly, especially in the Indian market."
"For the people like us, the lower the price, the better. But when compared to other competitors, I think it's Jira's price is okay."
"We need a license because we have a higher number than the free part."
"Costs are about $50 per user per year. JIRA is sold in user tiers of 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 2000, 10,000, and unlimited users. It is bad when you have 51 users then the price is based on that 100 user tier. Users at 100 will be the most cost effective."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
12%
Government
12%
Energy/Utilities Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise10
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business30
Midsize Enterprise23
Large Enterprise33
 

Also Known As

Maximo
JIRA Service Desk
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V., DTE Energy, Swedish Match, Projetech, Fingrid, East Coast
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