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We performed a comparison between JIRA Portfolio and RationalPlan based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The graphics and the resolution of the work are very good.""The initial setup is simple.""The most valuable feature of the JIRA Portfolio is for managing teams of 10 or more. It can track the program level and portfolio. There are plenty of beneficial features, such as the hierarchy-level view, customization, and structure plugin.""Jira Portfolio is useful for tracking time and hours. It's easy to manage, create tickets, and change the status of delivery reports. It's not complicated.""The solution is very stable.""The solution is stable and reliable.""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 feature that we like the most is that JIRA enables modules. Atlassian provides a lot of products around JIRA, such as compliance for the documentation, BitBucket for the Git version. We are new to these products developed by Atlassian, but they can integrate very easily. Generally, when an editor is developing a solution, they think about integrating with JIRA. When we are looking for any other solution, they plan to easily integrate with JIRA."

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"Support is top-notch whenever help is needed."

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Cons
"JIra is very poor at reporting.""With Jira, an issue that arises is the length of time it takes to show certain data.""It's got kind of a steep learning curve.""The kanban board could also use some more filters. We just had a project where the deployment for Jira didn't have any ETA, and it's a requirement for the client. We accommodate a lot of issues on the board, so the workaround was to create boards by project, not client.""n the next version I would like to see better reporting and safer plugins, as well as easier scalability.""This solution is not able to be integrated with other solutions because you have to upgrade it and pay for more licensing.""It would be nice if it could provide an end-to-end solution for a project.""Another thing could be to have an easy way to manage the Portfolio and have more ways to share and to show graphics and reports"

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"We use the desktop version of RationalPlan, and It seems some desktop software has the ability to share a document as a web view. This would be a nice feature allowing us to share our plans with clients without needing additional software. This may be something that is offered in the RationalPlan cloud plan."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "This solution has a comparable pricing in comparison to other similar products on the market."
  • "The pricing of the solution is expensive."
  • "We only have nine people using it so we have a standard cost of $150 dollar per year. There are only additional costs if you exceed the limit of users, then you start paying by user. The cost is significantly higher."
  • "The pricing continues to get higher."
  • "The product is really not very expensive."
  • "We pay our fees annually, although monthly payments are also available."
  • "The price could be improved."
  • "We have a license to use JIRA Portfolio, we are not using the free version."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:I use it to plan and schedule the things I take care of. I can create and share a document if I want to discuss new ideas with my team remotely.
    Top Answer:I rate the pricing a six out of ten on a scale where one is cheap and ten is expensive.
    Top Answer: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.
    Top Answer:Support is top-notch whenever help is needed.
    Top Answer:The solution offers extremely fair pricing for features similar to or better than many others.
    Top Answer:We use the desktop version of RationalPlan, and It seems some desktop software has the ability to share a document as a web view. This would be a nice feature allowing us to share our plans with… more »
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    Overview

    Jira Portfolio is an agile roadmapping tool designed to help teams build plans, envision the big picture, track progress, and share the process with stakeholders.

    Jira Portfolio is planned based. A plan in Portfolio is a complete view of the tasks, teams, and release dates for your Jira projects.

    Once you start to create a plan, there are three main factors you need to define: 

    • Scope: A list of tasks that need to be carried out in order to complete the plan.
    • Teams: Who will be implementing the work? With the correct data in place, Portfolio can estimate how long it will take for the team to complete their tasks.
    • Releases: Your scheduled release date.

    With Jira Portfolio, you can create a visual timeline to gain visibility across each of your teams and projects in a single place from a granular level and review cross-team and cross-project dependencies to prevent bottlenecks. This visibility can help you plan realistic release dates and manage your team’s capacity. The solution allows you to try out different scenarios with your roadmap and resources to help guide your decision making. Once you have a solid plan, you can easily integrate with Jira Software and commit your changes.

    Jira Portfolio allows managers to easily add team members. The tool’s powerful scheduling algorithm assigns tasks to teams while taking priorities and dependencies into account so it can create a realistic forecast for project completion. 

    Jira Portfolio Benefits

    Some of the top benefits of using Jira Portfolio include:

    • Roadmaps and roadmaps dependencies: Roadmaps list details about the tasks that need to be executed in order to complete a project, as well as predictions for when they will be completed, which teams are in charge of the task, and a list of resources they require. By setting dependencies on your team’s roadmaps, unnecessary bottlenecks are avoided.  
    • Integration with Jira: Jira Portfolio is dynamically integrated with your Jira Software project data and constantly pulls your latest data from Jira Software, allowing you to plan your projects with updated information.
    • Envision scenarios: Create what-if scenarios and save them to Jira if you decide to adopt them.
    • Reporting: Share capacity reports and more to allow team members and stakeholders to gain visibility and insights into the process.
    • Task completion estimation methods: Estimate how long a specific task will take and compare these estimations with the actual time to completion to help assess team performance and efficiency and improve the accuracy of estimation calculations over time. 

    Reviews from Real Users

    Jira Portfolio stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its roadmap creation tools and its flexibility.

    Meeta L., a lead product manager at a tech vendor, says, “The valuable features of the JIRA Portfolio are the customization it provides which is very useful and the Agile project management capability.”

    Juan P., a senior IT project manager at Avantica, writes, “Portfolio helps us increase the visibility of projects' status and management with remote workers who make up most of the company.”

    RationalPlan is a project management software designed to help project managers and teams to manage projects by creating consistent project plans, allocating resources and analyzing workload, tracking work progress, estimating project costs and managing budgets.

    It offers several deployment solutions to cover different needs. There are several On Premise products that get installed on the customers hardware architecture but RationalPlan can also be used as a Cloud service.

    Enterprise companies means a big number of users with more or less knowledge about managing work, tasks, projects or resources. RationalPlan is well designed: easy to use and practical for the entry personnel but powerful for team leaders, managers and executives.

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    Sample Customers
    Rosetta Stone, Sprint, UBS, Workday, Expedia, J.P. Morgan
    James Cook University, NASA, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Teleflex, Garmin, University of Missouri, BEA, Eurocoating, Adidas Group, Termoemcali, Solid Power
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company33%
    Manufacturing Company15%
    Educational Organization11%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Government7%
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    Company Size
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    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise22%
    Large Enterprise55%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise75%
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    JIRA Portfolio is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 47 reviews while RationalPlan is ranked 20th in Project Management Software with 1 review. JIRA Portfolio is rated 8.2, while RationalPlan is rated 10.0. 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 RationalPlan writes "Easy to understand with fair pricing and lots of unique features". JIRA Portfolio is most compared with Jira Align, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, Microsoft Project Server, Adobe Workfront and Microsoft Azure DevOps, whereas RationalPlan is most compared with .

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