We performed a comparison between Jira and Micro Focus Alm Octane based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Jira is a bit ahead of Micro Focus. Our reviewers found Micro Focus to be more complex to install and to have weaker security integrations. Its price point is more pleasing than Jira’s however.
"I have found the most valuable features of Jira to be ticketing, life cycle workflow, definition, and creation. Many of the features are useful."
"The product is good, stable and very cost-effective for small teams."
"It is a very convenient tool. We can organize our sprints through scrum or kanban. There are scrum boards, and there are kanban boards. If you prefer scrum, you can use Jira. If you prefer kanban, you can still use Jira. You can create your kanban boards in a similar way as you create your scrum boards. It is very useful. It also seems to be very popular these days."
"The most valuable feature of Jira is that it's a well-known tool that many people are familiar with."
"We've found the scalability to be good."
"Jira offers tools for managing projects using Agile methodology. I think it is good to encourage the development team to use Jira, so that the organization benefits from the proper execution of projects on time. Basically, it helps our organization to execute in a better way."
"It is user-friendly, and you can manage your project according to the methodology you want. It is also easy to configure."
"We love the bulk edit feature. Jira also integrates well with Bitbucket."
"I like the fact that you can use it on top of Jira."
"The most useful feature of Micro Focus ALM Octane is the dashboards, they are easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Micro Focus ALM Octane is the reports. We are able to do customization."
"The filtering options are very good once you learn them. The document reports are also valuable. You can create reports in Word and PDF formats. That's very useful."
"Current version of the solution is fairly stable."
"The feature I found most valuable in Micro Focus ALM Octane is its ability to integrate with the CI/CD stack."
"Micro Focus' technical support is good."
"The dashboards and metric reporting are valuable features."
"I'm mostly focusing on the requirements traceability with my thesis, the integration could improve for other tools. The companies are not only using Jira. For example, for the test cases or for the documents templates, we are using Polarion and we have been having some integration issues."
"Could be more intuitive."
"In Jira, sometimes developers are not getting alerts when Jira is moving out of the SLA to the product development team."
"We'd like to see Jira have more integration with a development ID."
"It is not user-friendly."
"There are a limited number of gadgets accessible in Jira; thus, additional ones should be supported."
"So at one point in time, they did a huge UI upgrade. At that time, I felt like they had changed something, so it was hard to figure out. Now that we are habituated, it's not an issue now."
"An area for improvement in Jira is that it's not designed for test management. To use it for test management, you need an add-on or several add-ons, e.g. Xray or Zephyr."
"The reporting is lacking from a requirements matrix and a traceability perspective."
"I like their smart analytics; perhaps they should continue to expand and improve there because it's a fantastic start."
"It would help us if ALM Octane got FedRAMP-certified, so our government departments could use the cloud solution. That way our external consultants could access it. We've created a URL to get to it, but if it were FedRAMP-certified and service and had support in the continental United States, that would be better."
"Currently, Micro Focus ALM Octane is considered an old-world tool in the industry and lacks the perception of being a new-age tool among its customers."
"The solution should improve by adding scrum board-like functionality."
"What could be improved in Micro Focus ALM Octane is its integration with Jira."
"Though Micro Focus ALM Octane doesn't have much of a bug, it lacks integration with some solutions. For example, my company has fairly new software, but it can't be integrated with Micro Focus ALM Octane, so integration with other software, particularly with less popular software, could be improved. Micro Focus ALM Octane also requires a lot of resources during its setup, and I find this another area for improvement. An additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of Micro Focus ALM Octane is the ability to customize the interface, especially when doing a manual test."
"The biggest problem with ALM Octane is that it's very complex, so it's difficult to use and scale."
Jira is ranked 1st in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 107 reviews while Micro Focus ALM Octane is ranked 4th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 14 reviews. Jira is rated 8.0, while Micro Focus ALM Octane is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Jira writes "Great for collaboration, very stable, and extracting data is straightforward". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Micro Focus ALM Octane writes "A stable solution used for test management that is perceived to be an outdated tool by its customers". Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, Polarion ALM, Rally Software and TFS, whereas Micro Focus ALM Octane is most compared with Micro Focus ALM Quality Center, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Rally Software, GitLab and TFS. See our Jira vs. Micro Focus ALM Octane report.
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ALM Octane integrates easily out of the box with Jira,
additionally, once you DevSecOps users are onboard to Octane,
they will realize Octane does more, so they can reduce their dependence on Jira.
Several of my customers have come to this realization.
Octane is an Enterprise solution, but Jira is not.