We performed a comparison between IBM Rational ALM and Jira based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Everyone in a team can work on the same platform and share the same information."
"One of the key advantages of IBM Rational ALM is its workflow capabilities, which enable seamless collaboration between development and production teams and ensure that all stakeholders are aware of the progress and readiness of the solution. Additionally, the solution is good for integration."
"The word emulation and importing is good."
"The solution is customizable."
"I would rate the stability of this product a nine out of ten."
"IBM Rational ALM is a very good tool. I like the management and traceability features and the test management tool. The latter is not linked with the stories and fixed management. It is really useful, and we can create test plans. We can also test some metrics related to QA."
"It's easy to use."
"The integration with Git works well."
"This product provides you a good view of the status of your projects."
"You no longer need to email people. You can mention them right in Jira and have conversations there."
"Jira queries can be used for different types of deployment automation processes."
"Reporting: It gives a nice report of my backlog and what my team has currently spent its efforts on."
"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."
"We have the best community to support any problems that we have."
"The most valuable feature is Jira Align, which is a plugin that helps you to understand the progress that is made against each epic."
"It has an easy UI that can easily plug-in to every level."
"The reporting functionality needs to be improved."
"IBM Rational ALM should remove the features not used by the customers and keep this product as lightweight as possible."
"There is not enough beginner support material in the form of FAQs or simple training to help you get started."
"The solution can improve in the development area and the customized applications."
"I think nowadays people are getting into Jira and other tools. What is happening is, this solution is becoming more traditional, whereas Jira and other tools are more attractive for the new users to learn and start using because of the graphical interfaces."
"The GUI is a little bit outdated."
"Of course it would be related to customer experience. The solution is not user friendly at all. It needs an expert to use it, although the reporting feature was okay."
"In the next release, we expect a traceability metrics configuration where we can configure the user stories. We also expect them to improve or simplify the query process."
"I think that there is some ease of use that could be brought in to improve certain things."
"The support could be improved."
"The following definitely need improvement: UI, speed, and mobile app functionality."
"Whenever you edit a story, whatever you have changed takes a bit of time to save."
"I wish the whole workflow process was easier to set up. You put the requirements in and then you send it to the developer. They get a notification. Then they go into Jira."
"This solution could be improved by including a different model for the overall planning perspective. There's a Jira portfolio that we aren't using. The only challenge we're facing is that we cannot see the overall planning."
"A more organized hierarchy is important. Reporting and JQL create issues for me. They do not completely cover the reporting part that I need to report in terms of my capacity to plan. In the same token, there is no record at this very moment to provide me with one export with epics story points, tasks, or issues and their sub-tasks at the same time."
"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."
IBM Rational ALM is ranked 11th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews while Jira is ranked 1st in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 266 reviews. IBM Rational ALM is rated 7.2, while Jira is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Rational ALM writes "A complex deployment that is not stable, but is cloud-based". 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". IBM Rational ALM is most compared with Codebeamer, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Polarion ALM, PTC Integrity and Atlassian ALM, whereas Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software and Polarion ALM. See our IBM Rational ALM vs. Jira report.
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