We performed a comparison between Jira and OpenText Project and portfolio Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Project Portfolio Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The dashboard and reports tracking and the setup updates quickly, I am very impressed with those features. Additionally, it is user-friendly."
"Provides good output and is user-friendly."
"The pricing of the product is very good. It's not too expensive"
"Issue linking has enabled teams to trace issues."
"It's easy to use, and it also offers excellent notifications."
"It has an easy UI that can easily plug-in to every level."
"The burndown charts help track projects."
"It also works well with all the integrated tools that you buy."
"Has a powerful workflow engine that allows creation of workflow complexities and processes."
"The portfolio management and the resource management are the key features."
"It is very important that the platform gives us a single place where we can measure progress toward goals, as we have weekly meetings with the CTO. We present these consolidated overviews and dashboards to him so that he has an overview of all the projects and can see the status of all the problems that we have and we are working on."
"The data provided by PPM is trusted and is available almost immediately; without trusted data there is very less scope of any tool to be successful."
"Scenario comparison is the feature most valuable to us and the reason why we decided to choose HPE PPM over other portfolio management products."
"I like the automated calculations, especially on the resource side. When project managers enter their resource requirements into their staffing profiles, they are automatically translated into labor forecast calculations. PPM automates a significant portion of the forecast calculations. Timesheets are also built-in. We automatically process time sheets and bill them accordingly."
"Recent Program Management lifecycle, Program Management aggregation views due to interactive UI (selection of risks, issues, and changes in Program Overview) and “flash look & feel" of this functional chunk, which is different in comparison to other parts of HPE PPM."
"Micro Focus Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) has a very strong workflow engine."
"The solution needs more integrations with Azure DevOps OnPrem."
"The performance and stability are visibly degrading since the database has been growing every year."
"I think that there is some ease of use that could be brought in to improve certain things."
"I would like to see visualization of release planning. I can list the releases and I can give dates to releases, but to show how they are happening on a timeline, I would need to order the Portfolio part. But just for this, it may be too much to use the Portfolio for that."
"Adding applications is very expensive."
"The reporting capabilities, specifically customized reports, should be improved. The out-of-box reports don't meet our needs. We are big into customizing our reports, and being able to do ad hoc reporting would be good."
"The release of a MailServer feature within Jira would be beneficial."
"We'd like to see Jira have more integration with a development ID."
"Reporting; need to be able to provide fancy reporting out of PPM, way it is done in OBIEE etc."
"The solution can sometimes be a little inflexible and a bit caustic."
"There are some limitations when it comes to attaching receipts. For example, if we are going to buy some non-labor-related assets such as hardware, we are not able to attach the receipts in the Financial Management module in version 9.41."
"I was not involved in the initial setup. I know that the project involved a lot of consulting that took a long time."
"Sometimes features in PPM don't work as expected, or our users request a new feature. Typically, our partner vendor can deploy those changes. But there have been a few instances when we had to raise it with Micro Focus because it's beyond the ability of our partner vendor. When we raise the issue with Micro Focus, it sometimes takes time because it needs support from other customers using PPM, not just our bank. It goes through a voting system. Other customers need to vote for the feature. The features that get the most votes will possibly be added."
"The user interface is very, very old and is missing some functions, such as, for example, re-do, follow, and share functions. The UI is not good."
"Portfolio scenarios: This is a very powerful feature. However, it’s limited to analyses."
"I would also like to see improvement in PPM's reporting and alerts. PPM has reporting capabilities, including HTML reports and portlets. But a majority of clients will build their own reporting platforms, or they will use external reporting platforms like Tableau and QlikView."
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Jira is ranked 2nd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 259 reviews while OpenText Project and portfolio Management is ranked 10th in Project Portfolio Management with 24 reviews. Jira is rated 8.2, while OpenText Project and portfolio Management is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Jira writes "A great centralized tool that has a good agile framework and is useful for day-to-day planning, task management, and work log efficacy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText Project and portfolio Management writes "Gives management a cohesive place for tracking business strategies and goals, but cosmetic aspects need work". Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software and Polarion ALM, whereas OpenText Project and portfolio Management is most compared with Planview PPM Pro, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Smartsheet and Teamwork . See our Jira vs. OpenText Project and portfolio Management report.
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