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Jira Align vs ServiceNow DevOps 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

Jira Align
Ranking in Value Stream Management Software
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
41
Ranking in other categories
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (8th), Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (4th)
ServiceNow DevOps
Ranking in Value Stream Management Software
4th
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Value Stream Management Software category, the mindshare of Jira Align is 36.4%, down from 40.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ServiceNow DevOps is 4.5%, up from 4.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Value Stream Management Software
 

Featured Reviews

ShyiamaKishun - PeerSpot reviewer
Has a straightforward setup process and efficient project management features .
Jira Align supports program increment planning by facilitating the planning aspect, including team setup, dependency management, and defining the layout for each step or stage in a project. The platform aids in breaking down targets into parts, aligning with Agile principles, and ensuring a structured layout. The most impactful feature of Jira Align for project management lies in its capabilities related to planning and setting up projects. The platform visually understands targets, offering a clear and detailed layout. We can determine when to speed up the process or access the project. We can address the issues related to planning and development efficiently. It is a great product to use, aiding in project planning and alignment. I recommend it to others and rate it a ten out of ten.
Dinesh Khanna - PeerSpot reviewer
A tool that offers useful templates and is very easy to integrate with CI/CD tools
Initially, I faced some difficulties with the product's initial setup phase. After handling the setup phase for other applications, I don't feel the need to take much time to handle the integration or implementation part attached to the solution. The solution is deployed on the public cloud services offered by Azure. The time needed to take care of the deployment phase of the solution depends on the project and the weightage of an application in an environment. It is important to see how long it takes to handle the deployment process stage by stage. During the product's testing part, it takes time since there is a need to take care of the integration part along with unit testing, functional testing, and performance testing before it is made available specifically for an environment after considering aspects from a security point of view. After the aforementioned aspects are taken care of, the product needs to go for business approvals and then through stages, including the QA stage, before reaching the final stage related to production and deployment. Our organization has more than 20 applications that we manage with the help of the solution, because of which most of the things are automated across the company, and only three or four people are sufficient to handle all the applications.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Being able to do PI planning using the program levels is most valuable. I find that the program-level reporting is most useful."
"Align enables the capture of all capabilities."
"The tool helps us with better tracking across various departments. Jira Align is highly valuable for organizations due to its flexibility. With my experience as an administrator, I can attest that it can be tailored to meet the diverse needs of any organization. It helps to eliminate the mess created by Excel spreadsheets."
"I found Confluence most valuable."
"Jira Align's most valuable features are the roadmap, the program board, and the reports."
"Jira Align's most valuable feature is the view of strategic control reports for high-level directors."
"Defect tracking and dashboards are the most valuable features of Jira Align."
"It's easy to set up."
"I have found the ease of CACD integration to be the most valuable feature."
"It's very user-friendly. It has a reporting side that is very automated. There are a lot of things that you can automate using that tool."
"We use it for a lot of things, and it is really good for our use cases. We use it for our help desk and knowledge management, which is really good. When it comes to modules, it has an incident module, which is really good for us in terms of tracking our cases and incidents. Its change management module is really good, and it also has customization capabilities."
"The API part of the solution is very easy to integrate with CI/CD tools, which helps our company achieve our goals related to the integration part."
 

Cons

"Deployment was very complex."
"The product needs to improve its configurations."
"The framework could be better."
"One of the biggest issues I found in the new version was once we clicked on one of the tasks that were specifically for our group and went to look at the other portfolios in other areas we had to browse all the way back to the beginning. If you click the back button, it would not work, it stayed the same place. Additionally, if you click on page B, but then you wanted to go back to page A it would not go back to page A. You would have to browse back to the portfolio and then find your group again and open it. This was the only issue that I had with it and I am not sure if it is a Jira issue or it was because of the way the site was laid out."
"There is no linkage between the Jira records and the overarching schedule. We maintain the overarching schedule in Microsoft Project, and there is no linkage back and forth with the Jira tasks. They are independent of each other."
"Maybe some of the terms and the connectivity could be improved."
"For future releases of Jira Align, I would suggest making workflows simpler and more user-friendly."
"It would be helpful if they had something for capacity planning that was simpler to understand."
"Its performance is really bad. When you're on the hosted cloud, it gives you the time it takes for a transaction to happen, and it takes anything from 20 seconds to a minute, which is a really long time. Something that is really annoying in this solution is that when you click on the Back button to go back, you don't go back to the previous screen. You go back all the way to the homepage. It is really annoying and painful. Its UI is also pretty dated. It is very customizable, but the customization seems to be clunky. We have a separate team that owns the ServiceNow implementation. They control how it is customized. Its customizations are pretty extensive, and it takes us a while to get them done, which is painful. That could be because of our internal team, as opposed to the product itself. When it comes to DevOps, there are better solutions such as Atlassian and Azure DevOps. ServiceNow DevOps is an ITIL product that is trying to be something else. DevOps is not its prime purpose, even though it is capable of doing that. Trying to be too many things by one platform is not a good idea. They should focus on the ITIL space and not get into all other spaces."
"Pricing is our biggest concern with the solution."
"From a documentation point of view, there are certain areas of concern, and improvements are to be made to make the documentation part clearer and crisper."
"The roles for the ServiceNow administration side could be improved. I think they could be more specific or add the descriptions for the different roles."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"At our company, we were concerned about the cost of Jira Align, which is expensive"
"I would rate this solution a nine out of ten for pricing. The price of the solution depends on the number of people using it and the projects you are working on."
"Jira Align is an expensive solution."
"The software is very good, but the price is expensive. Our licensing costs are on a monthly basis, but there are no additional costs to the standard license fees."
"Jira Align's pricing is reasonable."
"Jira Align has price packages for different purposes."
"The tool is moderately expensive."
"The pricing and licensing costs are rated lower, around six mainly due to significant increases in licensing costs that were not well-received by users."
"It's very expensive, so some organizations can't afford the additional license."
"Though it is an expensive solution, it is an affordable one, in my opinion."
"We consider the pricing to be inordinately expensive and may deter others from choosing the solution"
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
21%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Insurance Company
6%
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Company Size

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Jira Align?
I joined the company because they had a large project, and as a startup company, they needed to scale up efficiently. My task was to review the current baseline, assess the team's capabilities, and...
What needs improvement with Jira Align?
The platform's communication features could be more robust for better team integration.
What is your primary use case for Jira Align?
We use Jira Align for business strategies, collaboration, and reporting. The solution allows us to manage the various products and features delivered on that platform.
What do you like most about ServiceNow DevOps?
The API part of the solution is very easy to integrate with CI/CD tools, which helps our company achieve our goals related to the integration part.
What needs improvement with ServiceNow DevOps?
As of now, our company doesn't see any area where the solution has any shortcomings. From a documentation point of view, there are certain areas of concern, and improvements are to be made to make ...
What is your primary use case for ServiceNow DevOps?
My company is in the process of integrating Azure DevOps with ServiceNow. The solution is mainly used for deployment purposes with change requests whenever there is a need to do production, deploym...
 

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