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.
"Work management software that has the flexibility to be configured for any company. It's stable, scalable, and offers responsive support."
"The most valuable feature is Jira Align, which is a plugin that helps you to understand the progress that is made against each epic."
"The dynamic communication and the ability to customize it the way we want are the most valuable features."
"We use Jira mostly for task coordination and assignment. Additionally, scrum methodologies defined work items and bug issues. If we create any bugs all of them are fixed."
"It's easy to deploy."
"We do not have a lot of time for investigating new things, but Jira has saved us a great deal of time. It has a nice user interface and we can do a lot of things with it."
"The most valuable feature is that it has different APIs available, with good services, and it is completely by the books."
"In terms of product management, Jira increases productivity and visibility into the product. Those are the top benefits this tool provides to the team. Also, it's accessible to the executives and whoever wants to sign on to Jira to see what's going on."
"An improvement on previous versions because it comes as preconfigured as possible."
"Micro Focus' technical support is good."
"The most useful feature of Micro Focus ALM Octane is the dashboards, they are easy to use."
"It is a very stable tool. The tool has been in the industry for so many years. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The feature I found most valuable in Micro Focus ALM Octane is its ability to integrate with the CI/CD stack."
"It’s easy to set up."
"We like Micro Focus ALM Octane because its performance is okay, and its stability is okay, so we use it a lot. The platform is easy to use."
"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."
"They are not supporting in-house servers anymore and I think I've got until January to port this to something else."
"The automation feature needs to be more user-friendly."
"There is always a bit of a performance problem. It's a bit slow to load the whole data."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"There needs to be more integration and connectivity."
"The initial setup was a bit problematic in terms of getting access to Jira. That goes for a few users, including me."
"The Jira dashboards could be more useful. The dashboards have good widgets but the comparison of data over time or extraction of trends from the data is not easy."
"Jira's collaboration and integration with other apps and tools could be improved."
"The solution should improve by adding scrum board-like functionality."
"I like their smart analytics; perhaps they should continue to expand and improve there because it's a fantastic start."
"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 reporting is lacking from a requirements matrix and a traceability perspective."
"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."
"I have yet to experience the CI/CD part of Micro Focus ALM Octane but as demonstrated by the team who is providing the services, I see that the CI/CD could improve. When we check in the code, for the code snippet that has been checked in by a particular user, you need to open a separate file. When comparing Micro Focus ALM Octane to Jira, they have a separate window in which you can click on the ID and the code is visible in the snippet. It's a two-step process in Micro Focus ALM Octane and it's a single-step process in Jira. It's essential for the developers to think about this difference."
"Documentation is not clear."
"What could be improved in Micro Focus ALM Octane is its integration with Jira."
Jira is ranked 1st in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 57 reviews while OpenText ALM Octane is ranked 5th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 15 reviews. Jira is rated 8.0, while OpenText ALM Octane is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Jira writes "Great reporting with lots of useful dashboards and excellent flexibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText 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 OpenText ALM Octane is most compared with OpenText ALM / Quality Center, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Rally Software, GitLab and TFS. See our Jira vs. OpenText 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.