Jira Align vs Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) comparison

Atlassian and Nutanix are both solutions in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category. Atlassian is ranked #14 with an average rating of 7.5, while Nutanix is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.8. Atlassian holds a 2.0% mindshare in ALM, compared to Nutanix’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Atlassian users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of Nutanix users who would recommend it.

Jira Align

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Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM)

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97% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 15, 2026

Jira Align and Nutanix Cloud Manager compete in the enterprise software sector, focusing on agile transformation and cloud management, respectively. Jira Align seems to have the upper hand in strategic alignment and comprehensive planning, while Nutanix Cloud Manager is praised for its ease of use and effective automation.

Features: Jira Align helps with large-scale agile transformations, offering roadmap views, customizable dashboards, and comprehensive reporting suites to enhance team collaboration and strategic alignment. Nutanix Cloud Manager provides a streamlined experience for cloud management, emphasizing automation, centralized management, and seamless integration across multiple clouds and infrastructures.

Room for Improvement: Jira Align faces criticism for its complexity, with users finding navigation and integration with Jira challenging. There’s a need for more intuitive configurations and simplified navigation. Nutanix Cloud Manager's pricing models, documentation clarity, and third-party service integrations require attention, alongside improvements in microservices monitoring and user interface.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Jira Align offers quick deployment in cloud environments, and generally responsive customer service, though documentation limits technical support. Nutanix Cloud Manager is praised for its on-premises and hybrid cloud flexibility, and consistently high-rated customer service with prompt, knowledgeable support and a proactive problem-solving approach.

Pricing and ROI: Jira Align is priced higher, impacting smaller enterprises, with licensing based on user count and feature access. However, it offers strong ROI through productivity and time savings. Nutanix Cloud Manager is seen as cost-effective when considering total cost of ownership and operational efficiency, with its integrated solution suite favorably supporting larger enterprises in cloud transitions.

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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:

ROI

Sentiment score

6.0

Jira Align increased productivity and efficiency despite concerns over cost versus benefits and occasional negative return on investment.

Sentiment score

6.6

Nutanix Cloud Manager boosts ROI by enhancing IT performance, reducing costs, increasing efficiency, and improving infrastructure stability.

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Anything that reduces bandwidth and reduces the brain work that our teams have to do to maintain systems across all environments is time-saving and cost-saving.

Jennifer B.

Vice President at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Quantifying to a 425% three-year return on investment, a 21% higher developer productivity, and 88% less planned downtime.

Vijaykumar Talreja

Global Group CIO, CTO, Cdo & CISO at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees

The biggest return on investment for me when using this product is the fast deployment and the rapid integration and migration without impacting our operations during the migration.

Pedro Suero

IT INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

5.9

Jira Align's customer service is responsive and knowledgeable, though some users note occasional delays due to internal processes.

Sentiment score

8.1

Nutanix Cloud Manager support is praised for quick responses, knowledgeable staff, proactive troubleshooting, and high customer satisfaction.

They have a support knowledge base area on their website, and usually, they are very good at answering questions.

Johan Aleman

Technical Program Manager at Concentrix Catalyst

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There is a feature that allows you to escalate the call.

Adrian Junger

Team Lead, IT Infrastructure at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

The handoff with support and the knowledge of the support engineer is significantly better than experience with other vendors.

reviewer2703348

Citrix & IT Operations Manager, Cloud at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Even when a node goes down, it doesn't impact our infrastructure because it gets load-balanced between the available nodes.

Phani Venkata Sai BKD

Technology Lead at Thomson Reuters

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.5

Jira Align is praised for scalability, seamless Jira integration, flexible licensing, but may challenge non-technical users and non-Jira tool integration.

Sentiment score

7.4

Nutanix Cloud Manager offers scalable, efficient workload management and centralized control for organizations of all sizes without performance issues.

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Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) scales well.

reviewer2703348

Citrix & IT Operations Manager, Cloud at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

The key aspects include mix-match hardware and hyper-converged infrastructure, combining compute, storage, and network in a single platform.

Kumargaurav Kadam

Senior Information Technology Advisor at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

With that, you can do it without any downtime or affecting your current setup.

Gaikwad Nilesh

Assistant Consultant ( Technical Lead) at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.3

Jira Align is praised for stability, minimal downtime, and efficient performance, earning high ratings despite minor integration issues.

Sentiment score

7.9

Nutanix Cloud Manager receives mixed feedback on stability, with praise for reliability and criticism for occasional issues like memory leaks.

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We've never had any downtime related to the Nutanix product itself.

Drew Plaster

Sr. Network Systems Administrator at Moda Health

I would rate the stability a nine out of ten.

reviewer2597016

Sr System Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The stability and reliability of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) have been excellent.

Steve Bennett

Director, Information Technology at a government with 201-500 employees

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Room For Improvement

Jira Align users seek better navigation, integration, customization, reporting, mobile access, clearer documentation, and more AI features.

Nutanix Cloud Manager needs user-friendly design improvements, better pricing clarity, enhanced features, and improved multi-cloud integration.

It is probably better in almost all aspects over Jira; the dashboards are better, the filters or the queries are better, and it is more aligned to Scaled Agile.

reviewer2788377

Agile Coach/SAFe Team Coach at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

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It supports different hardware types without vendor lock-in, which is an advantage over Azure Stack HCI, which may only work with specific vendors such as HP or Dell.

Phani Venkata Sai BKD

Technology Lead at Thomson Reuters

Our primary reason for choosing Nutanix was for mission-critical applications and Kubernetes.

Luis De Marquez

Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Implementing MFA would enhance security and usability.

DhananjaySingh

Manager (cyber security) at Yotta datacenter pvt ltd

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Setup Cost

Jira Align's pricing is often deemed costly, especially for smaller enterprises, affecting adoption decisions despite fair assessments.

Nutanix Cloud Manager is valued for flexible pricing and ROI, though pricing transparency could improve for diverse needs.

It all depends on what sort of Microsoft licensing agreements the company has as to whether one is going to be better than the other.

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Agile Coach/SAFe Team Coach at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

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It's not cheap, but there are savings and return on investment when coming from a non-Nutanix shop.

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Citrix & IT Operations Manager, Cloud at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

In comparison, Nutanix's pricing is significantly higher than that of other setups.

Vipin Kumar Sha

Cloud Engineer at CtrlS Datacenters Ltd

While VMware costs depend on ESXi hypervisor pricing, the AHV hypervisor for Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is free.

Kumargaurav Kadam

Senior Information Technology Advisor at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Valuable Features

Jira Align excels in user-friendly interface, customizable features, and reports, enhancing team collaboration and Agile integration.

Nutanix Cloud Manager offers centralized, user-friendly management, automation, cost-effectiveness, and efficiency for hybrid cloud environments with intuitive interfaces.

We export most of what is in Jira to Power BI so we can run better reports.

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Agile Coach/SAFe Team Coach at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

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It's easy to control resources and govern the resources, and it frees up support to focus on other things without having to help developers.

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Citrix & IT Operations Manager, Cloud at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would approximate the cost savings to be in the 20% to 25% range since we can optimize our resources and avoid the need to purchase more hardware or reuse resources in the infrastructure from one implementation.

Drew Plaster

Sr. Network Systems Administrator at Moda Health

The importance of faster outcomes for their environment is significant; for example, when I delivered the Disaster Recovery solution, we included automation for auto-configuration of VMs and resizing of VMs, which replaced many tasks that were previously done manually.

Raouf Mahfoud Silhadi

Spécialiste VMware at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

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Categories and Ranking

Jira Align

Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

14th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (6th), Value Stream Management Software (1st)

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM)

Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

4th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

125

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Management (2nd), Virtualization Management Tools (2nd), Cloud Cost Management (1st), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (8th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category, the mindshare of Jira Align is 2.0%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is 1.1%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM)	1.1%
Jira Align	2.0%
Other	96.9%

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

Featured Reviews

reviewer2788377

Agile Coach/SAFe Team Coach at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Long-term agile tracking has supported development but reporting has required workarounds

I know Jira as Jira; I have used the cloud and I have used on-premise. It is an issue tracker. My experience has been positive, as it is an okay tool, but I like Azure DevOps better. I assess the dependency management feature as okay, but again, Azure DevOps is better; it is more customizable. I find the scenario planning features are okay, but if you have a good Scrum Master or Agile coach, you can get a lot better insights just by looking at the data. We export most of what is in Jira to Power BI so we can run better reports.

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Phani Venkata Sai BKD

Technology Lead at Thomson Reuters

Manages hybrid infrastructure seamlessly with flexible cluster scaling and comprehensive oversight

The most important aspect of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is that it helps us manage the infrastructure as a hyperconverged infrastructure in HCI mode. If I have different physical servers, I can map them into a cluster and manage the storage together. It provides flexibility to make use of storage in a clustered format instead of using it in an individual storage endpoint. We have the flexibility to have Nutanix-based licensing based on the core model, instead of having a specific cost on the cluster. The costing on a core model gives customers flexibility to add multiple cores to a single physical host and adjust the infrastructure accordingly, and we can scale up the cluster as needed. While other cloud providers, AWS or Azure, are mostly into cloud-based solutions, and Azure has introduced Azure Stack HCI for managing on-premises infrastructure, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) provides flexibility from day one. We can manage both on-premises and Azure solutions using a single pane of glass, eliminating the need to navigate different windows or screens. It provides a comprehensive view of the infrastructure and highlights specific areas through alerts, giving us good visibility of infrastructure conditions.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Healthcare Company

Marketing Services Firm

14%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Construction Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	18
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	19

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	29
Midsize Enterprise	26
Large Enterprise	75

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Jira Align?

When it comes to pricing, the last time we did pricing options, they were pretty comparable; it all depends on what sort of Microsoft licensing agreements the company has as to whether one is going...

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What are the main differences between Jira Align and Azure DevOps?

Feature/Aspect Jira Align Azure DevOps Primary Focus Enterprise agility, SAFe, alignment Team-level Agile, CI/CD, DevOps Scalability Enterprise-level Team to medium-sized organizations Key...

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What needs improvement with AgileCraft?

I think it is probably better in almost all aspects over Jira; the dashboards are better, the filters or the queries are better, and it is more aligned to Scaled Agile. To sum it up, the main room ...

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Which set of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) features do you find to be the most useful?

For me, the features related to cost savings are the best part of NCM. Of course, the whole product is worth using and when it comes to cloud management, there is a reason why it is favored by so m...

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Are the setup process and further maintenance of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) difficult?

When I came into my current organization, NCM was already set up. According to the team that dealt with it, the product was fairly easy to set up. Compared to other products, our IT rates are set u...

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Is Nutanix Cloud Manager’s Intelligent Operations feature effective?

Yes, this is a highly effective feature and the rebranding only made things better as they introduced more improvements. You can benefit from Zero coding task automation Automated optimization Tic...

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Also Known As

AgileCraft

Nutanix Cloud Manager Intelligent Operations, Nutanix Cloud Manager Self-Service, Nutanix Cloud Management Cost Governance, Nutanix Cloud Manager Security Central, Nutanix Software Subscription

Overview

Jira Align offers robust cross-project visibility, managing large initiatives with customizable dashboards and powerful reporting. It integrates with testing tools, supporting strategic planning and agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban.

Jira Align is known for its capacity to enhance collaboration and transparency through agile frameworks. Its roadmaps and dependency tracking aid in aligning business strategies and managing portfolios. Despite navigation complexities, teams find it adaptable with automation features and familiar interfaces. Challenges include integrating with Jira and other tools, improving navigation, and simplifying licensing. Enhancements in mobile accessibility and AI could elevate user experience further.

What are Jira Align's key features?

Roadmap View: Offers strategic visibility into project timelines
Powerful Reporting: Provides detailed insights and customizable reports
Automation Capabilities: Streamlines repetitive tasks and processes
Seamless Collaboration: Facilitates workflows across teams
Dependency Tracking: Ensures alignment and efficient resource management

What benefits and ROI do users expect?

Enhanced Collaboration: Encourages interaction across teams, improving productivity
Scalability: Supports team growth and agile transition
Improved Transparency: Maintains clarity and visibility from strategic planning to execution
Efficiency in Reporting: Customizable reports save time and enhance decision-making

Jira Align is implemented in industries focusing on scaled agile frameworks. It aids in Agile development, strategic roadmaps, and backlog management, supporting both IT service management and operational processes. It connects business strategies to execution, streamlining task tracking and defect management across teams.

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Nutanix Cloud Manager streamlines hybrid cloud management by offering centralized control, automation, and workload optimization across platforms. It improves operational efficiency while reducing IT management complexity.

Nutanix Cloud Manager is designed for comprehensive hybrid cloud governance, providing tools for virtualization, resource allocation, and compliance. Its features include one-click upgrades, dynamic dashboards, and the seamless automation of tasks through X-Play. Users can efficiently manage virtual machines, ensure secure storage, and enhance productivity with predictive monitoring. Self-service capabilities allow users to reserve resources easily, while central management via Prism Pro and automated reports enhance oversight and decision-making. Challenges include UI simplicity, pricing transparency, and licensing efficiency, with users seeking improvements in VM organization, blueprint customization, and collaborative support for hybrid environments.

What important features define Nutanix Cloud Manager?

One-click Upgrades: Simplifies the process of updating and maintaining systems.
Intuitive Interface: Offers a user-friendly experience with a low learning curve.
Prism Pro: Central management for streamlined control over environments.
Dynamic Dashboards: Provides real-time insights and monitoring capabilities.
X-Play Automation: Facilitates seamless and efficient task automation.
Capacity Planning: Assists in optimal resource allocation and future growth planning.
Compliance Monitoring: Ensures adherence to industry standards and policies.
Efficient VM Management: Enhances control and monitoring of virtual machines.
Self-service Capabilities: Empowers users to manage and allocate resources independently.
Cost Governance: Allows organizations to maintain budgetary control and efficiency.

What benefits should be considered when evaluating Nutanix Cloud Manager?

Enhanced Productivity: Streamlines tasks and improves efficiency through automation.
Predictive Monitoring: Proactively addresses potential issues before they impact operations.
Robust Disaster Recovery: Provides reliable solutions to recover data and maintain continuity.
Automated Reports: Generates timely insights for informed decision-making.
Unified Cloud Management: Offers comprehensive control across multiple environments.

Nutanix Cloud Manager finds utility in industries requiring robust hybrid cloud strategies like finance, healthcare, and manufacturing. It excels in centralizing management for secure and compliant operations, optimizing workloads, and providing scalable solutions for resource allocation and compliance monitoring, thus enhancing cloud operations in diverse markets.

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