We performed a comparison between JIRA Portfolio and OpenText ALM Octane based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Agile Planning Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I think the solution's most important and valuable feature is its ability to track the issues."
"The tool helps us achieve more within the stipulated timeline and budget."
"The customized workflows we can define are very valuable. JIRA's private projects is very useful as well. There are also a lot of plugins that they provide."
"The most valuable features of the JIRA Portfolio are the ease of use, many developers are familiar with it."
"Portfolio helps us increase the visibility of projects' status and management with remote workers who make up most of the company."
"In a PC environment, it is quite stable."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard where we can see all of our projects and apply filters to shortlist those projects."
"The documentation is very well done."
"I like the fact that you can use it on top of Jira."
"The way testing is closely tied into the product Backlog has made it more intuitive, or easier to manage the relationship between building out an application and testing it. In other tools, that is more segregated. The way it's designed in Octane, people have said it makes more sense to them, and that it's easier for them to understand their data and to maintain and test their solutions."
"The user experience is a lot better than any tool that I have used before. Overall, it is great. It has a smooth interface, which is very user-friendly. It makes it easier to work together and have more transparency and customization, which is very good."
"The defect management gives us full-fledged capabilities for handling defects, including capturing the details of the defects and even screenshotting the defect cases. The defect management is comprehensive."
"The key feature is the usability. It is fast to learn and easy to use. It's very intuitive to work with. Most of the important functions are available via a few clicks, compared to other tools where I have to open a sub-menu and then a sub-menu and another sub-menu, and then press a button."
"Octane creates a gentle approach to Agile-based projects."
"An improvement on previous versions because it comes as preconfigured as possible."
"Octane works well with the Jira portfolio to track the project with two methods: Agile and Waterfall. We can track all the testing in Waterfall or Agile and synchronize it with Agile tools."
"We are using the on-premise deployment, but it is slower and not as easy to manage as the cloud version."
"JIRA and Confluence must be linked automatically."
"If I get a feature but there is not a user story, and I want to know which epic it belongs to, it is really hard to figure out."
"It's got kind of a steep learning curve."
"There is room for improvement in terms of scalability."
"JIRA Portfolio could improve new implementation because if I want integration for the complete wide frame tools it cannot provide any wide frame tools."
"We would love to be able to have direct contact with Atlassian. Currently, they are not working directly with West African countries. We are considering using JIRA Align, but when we contact them, they say that as we are in West Africa, they don't directly work with West Africa."
"We are based in India; I would like the product to integrate local pricing. We earn in rupees but spend in dollars. Its pricing could also be lowered."
"What could be improved in Micro Focus ALM Octane is its integration with Jira."
"Technical support can be slow."
"Development of extensions or connections to GitHub actions could be better. Better integration with Azure DevOps would also help."
"I think the area of release management in the tool is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The limitation of Octane is that we can't do a release outside of the sprint. We can only plan the release in the sprint. With Agile and JIRA tools, we can plan the release outside the sprint and do a global release of all the projects from the sprint."
"We've only had a few stability issues. Generally, we have issues following any deployment they do, so if they do a deployment on a Sunday, then we may have a couple of issues on a Monday or Tuesday."
"I like their smart analytics; perhaps they should continue to expand and improve there because it's a fantastic start."
"The reporting needs to be improved and allow for customization. I want to build my own widgets, but I don't want to use the ones already in the system. I want to build mine from scratch."
JIRA Portfolio is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 46 reviews while OpenText ALM Octane is ranked 6th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 38 reviews. JIRA Portfolio is rated 8.0, while OpenText ALM Octane is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of JIRA Portfolio writes "Powerful, flexible solution with a bit of a learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText ALM Octane writes "Reporting engine, widgets, and dashboards are a huge plus, and powerful REST interface means we can interact with other tools". JIRA Portfolio is most compared with Jira Align, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, Adobe Workfront, Microsoft Project Server and Microsoft Azure DevOps, whereas OpenText ALM Octane is most compared with Jira, OpenText ALM / Quality Center, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Rally Software and GitLab. See our JIRA Portfolio vs. OpenText ALM Octane report.
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