We performed a comparison between JIRA Portfolio and Polarion ALM 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."The initial setup is simple."
"The valuable features of the JIRA Portfolio are the customization it provides which is very useful and the Agile project management capability."
"JIRA Portfolio has many wonderful features."
"The solution is very powerful and the underlying structure of it is well done. The company behind the solution is very open as far as their whole ecosystem is concerned. They also do a lot of work in the training area."
"Portfolio's most valuable features are that it's user-friendly and customer-centric."
"Having an option to view dependencies between projects and teams is great."
"We have found the solution to be stable."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The technical support is quite good."
"The best feature of Polarion ALM to me is its traceability link."
"Polarion ALM has some valuable tools for managing our targets and requirements. I think that's its best feature."
"Polarion ALM helps us better structure our customer requirements, and we can also validate the specs of our products against those. If anything changes on our side, we see the impact, and we can see the effect If a customer changes requirements."
"The features I find the most valuable are requirement tracking and schematics."
"The HR aspect of the solution could be improved."
"Their interface is a little unique and I think that's partly because the core of the product has morphed into several sub-products, but the underlying architecture has stayed the same on all of them in that it was originally a help desk ticketing system. It's a very tech-focused product and that's fair given its origins, but if they really want to expand their community of users, then they're going to have to move beyond that a little bit and polish it up."
"The query features should improve in JIRA Portfolio. For example, if I would have to create my own queries for looking into something such as what business features we have released last month, or the last three months, I don't know if I can do it. The solution requires a certain level of expertise."
"If you want to generate a report for individual usage, it's difficult."
"There should be an integration of efforts between the cloud service providers' side and JIRA Portfolio."
"Jira has room for improvement in terms of managing various projects and linking requirements centrally under one project. They could include some add-ons that enable you to link all the requirements and put them into a centralized place. That central place should be restricted to a limited set of users with privileges based on user groups with those rights."
"In the next release, Portfolio should include more metrics and develop their portfolio planning."
"An improvement would be if Portfolio were integrated with Office 365."
"The solution can be improved by making it more user-friendly, and a server-based application rather than client based."
"We use PTC Windchill, and Polarion ALM doesn't have native integration, so we had to purchase the connector to integrate it with Polarion ALM. We still haven't implemented it."
"One of Polarion's shortcomings would be planning. It can handle plans, but the planning feature is very basic."
"As Polarion ALM is a development-oriented tool, easy support or easy access is provided by default, but if I want to use detailed features, I need to write the script, particularly the VM script, and this is its area for improvement. I want Polarion ALM to have a graphical user interface that doesn't need scripting. In the next release of the tool, I'd like for it to not require scripting and programming because needing to run script language is time-consuming."
"The configuration aspect of the solution is not easy. A person needs a lot of programming knowledge in order to successfully handle the job."
JIRA Portfolio is ranked 5th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 15 reviews while Polarion ALM is ranked 8th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 5 reviews. JIRA Portfolio is rated 8.4, while Polarion ALM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of JIRA Portfolio writes "Great roadmapping, reasonably priced, and good support services". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Polarion ALM writes "It incorporates almost all engineering tasks we need to do for one project". JIRA Portfolio is most compared with Jira Align, Smartsheet, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project Server and Planview Portfolios, whereas Polarion ALM is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, codeBeamer ALM, PTC Integrity and GitLab. See our JIRA Portfolio vs. Polarion ALM report.
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