We performed a comparison between Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management and Jira 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 is the most valuable feature."
"I think one of the most powerful features in Jira is the customization of fields and workflow."
"It's very flexible. I can define workflows and custom fields and dependencies between issues and projects. And every project can have a custom configuration with my fields, my names for fields, my validations, and my workflows. It's very customizable."
"I like that Jira allows you to customize the flow for an agile process and adapt it to your own flow."
"We like team collaboration and cross-functional collaboration."
"A most valuable feature involves the ability to customize the entries and to update them quickly."
"Jira has been a good l tool for collaborating across large groups of people. The JQL feature is powerful and easy to use."
"The ability to change and rewrite tasks is valuable. You can add a lot of columns, change the owners and the change the components."
"I've never had a bug or a bug message that I needed to open a ticket for."
"The user-experience, enhanced performance, and in-hand governance can be improved."
"I have noticed a problem with Jira in the Philippines. In the Philippines, there are only a few companies that offer local support, which is alarming."
"The release of a MailServer feature within Jira would be beneficial."
"it would be helpful to have a better tutorial for learning and to have a better understanding of what the features are and what they do."
"In terms of improvement, I think Jira (Jira Agile, specifically) can be made more user-friendly. Most of the time, when people are somewhat used to the process, they find it easy to work with. But the thing is, if I want to create a sprint, I'd like the ability for it to come out like a kind of board or something like that. For example, they could offer something like a wizard for users who want to quickly create a sprint on the spot with a few clicks. I think that could be useful."
"We have gone through several version changes and some of those changes have not been intuitive. There was a learning curve and we had some complaints internally about the changes, such as the new interface."
"There is always a bit of a performance problem. It's a bit slow to load the whole data."
"The initial setup was a bit problematic in terms of getting access to Jira. That goes for a few users, including me."
"Jira required a significant amount of system resources, particularly for larger organizations with extensive workflows and numerous projects."
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Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management is ranked 14th in Project Portfolio Management with 4 reviews while Jira is ranked 1st in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 266 reviews. Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management is rated 7.6, while Jira is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management writes "Helps us to implement and understand the status of our projects". On the other hand, 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". Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management is most compared with ARIS BPA, LeanIX, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Alfabet FastLane and Broadcom Clarity , whereas Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software and Polarion ALM. See our Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management vs. Jira report.
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