We performed a comparison between IBM Rational ALM and TFS 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."It helped us contain critical things, like source code and several documents, which is very important to us."
"IBM Rational ALM is a very good tool. I like the management and traceability features and the test management tool. The latter is not linked with the stories and fixed management. It is really useful, and we can create test plans. We can also test some metrics related to QA."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting of the CPU usage on the dashboard."
"One of the key advantages of IBM Rational ALM is its workflow capabilities, which enable seamless collaboration between development and production teams and ensure that all stakeholders are aware of the progress and readiness of the solution. Additionally, the solution is good for integration."
"The cataloging is a very valuable feature. For a lot of enterprises, they end up not knowing which applications do specific features. The cataloging helps with this. It's not that verbose, but it still gives you allowances to put in more detail."
"At the same time, if you're working from the architect or the designing team you, it's quite easy to manage the resources online."
"The integration with Git works well."
"It is relatively easy to use and user-friendly once the setup is complete."
"I like the build management features and the integration with Jenkins and many other tools."
"It's user friendly. We haven't had any issues so far. It's flexible. If we need something, we can always contact the owner in our headquarters to make a configuration."
"I like the Kanban board. It is very useful in terms of seeing who is working on what and what the current status of work is."
"I feel that the test plan and test tools are more manageable in TFS."
"I like its MTM (Microsoft Test Manager) section which gives us options to create various test plans and add test cases into it."
"The most valuable features are related to source code management. Using TFS for source code management and being able to branch and have multiple developers work on the same projects is valuable. We can also branch and merge code back together."
"It has great functionality: work items, backlogs, source code, build releases, and it's easy to use."
"The most valuable features are the dashboard and task-selection capability."
"The directory designer manager is uncivil. The design manager is clearly really unstable."
"The reporting functionality needs to be improved."
"The stability of this solution can be improved."
"Some improvements to the user interface (UI) would be helpful, such as exposing more services to make it easier to customize to the needs of each customer."
"Of course it would be related to customer experience. The solution is not user friendly at all. It needs an expert to use it, although the reporting feature was okay."
"IBM Rational ALM should remove the features not used by the customers and keep this product as lightweight as possible."
"The GUI is a little bit outdated."
"The stability of IBM Rational ALM could be improved."
"I only use 1% of the functionality, so I am not familiar enough to know what needs to be improved."
"I would also like a true command prompt like Git."
"It has been really dated. When you start to work more in an agile environment, it is not really that flexible. They tried to replicate the look and feel of Jira, but it is not quite there. It was nice to use in the past, but it is not as flexible now with the changing development environments and methodologies."
"Since the TFS was an on-prem solution, the private network accessibility was restricted."
"The dashboard and the customization of dashboards is an area they have to work on."
"The tool needs improvement in stability."
"The execution of test cases could stand improvement."
"This solution is quite old and it is already being bundled as Azure DevOps Server."
IBM Rational ALM is ranked 10th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews while TFS is ranked 3rd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 93 reviews. IBM Rational ALM is rated 7.2, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Rational ALM writes "A complex deployment that is not stable, but is cloud-based". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TFS writes "It is helpful for scheduled releases and enforcing rules, but it should be better at merging changes for multiple developers and retaining the historical information". IBM Rational ALM is most compared with Jira, Codebeamer, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Polarion ALM and PTC Integrity, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, Visual Studio Test Professional and OpenText ALM / Quality Center. See our IBM Rational ALM vs. TFS report.
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