We performed a comparison between JIRA Portfolio and Polarion ALM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Agile Planning Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Jira's Structure, agile, and Kanban boards are helpful. I also like JQuery, which allows you to fetch the relevant set of data. We use JQuery, JQL, and the Structure board a lot. Kanban boards help us monitor daily tasks, and we review the progress using the burndown charts."
"The most valuable features of Jira are the dashboards where we see all the features lined up with the release dates in the portfolio view, it is very good."
"JIRA has helped us reduce the rate of unseen or undetectable issues in the future. It has also helped us understand the demand overload across the defense team, including capacity and availability, and how we can leverage different teams to ensure overall success."
"Portfolio helps us increase the visibility of projects' status and management with remote workers who make up most of the company."
"Has good analysis integration capabilities."
"The most valuable feature for me is the visualization and organizing of the tasks. We can have a pick, and then we can stick the multiple issues under that, and then we can again have a sort of hierarchical installation, and that's very useful."
"Version management is the most valuable feature of JIRA Portfolio."
"The documentation is very well done."
"It offers good performance."
"The solution offers good integration."
"Polarion ALM's integration is very good and easy to use."
"It meets with everybody's needs without having to grab plugins."
"We had a nice experience with technical support."
"The most valuable feature is the function of the ALM system."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The features I find the most valuable are requirement tracking and schematics."
"The automation in JIRA Portfolio could improve, it takes some time. We have to do some other tactics to have the same integration. Manually integrating something will take more work than if it was automated, but the automation scripting in the solution is not simple."
"Our major team does not control or manage JIRA server well since sometimes there is trouble using the solution, which is a problem. The solution's speed needs to be improved."
"The team-centric view is slightly weaker in JIRA compared to its competitors, especially considering how I can evaluate how each resource has been placed, not just in one project but across JIRA."
"It would be nice if it could provide an end-to-end solution for a project."
"There is room for improvement in terms of scalability."
"We are using the on-premise deployment, but it is slower and not as easy to manage as the cloud version."
"There should be an integration of efforts between the cloud service providers' side and JIRA Portfolio."
"When I want to embed Jira Portfolio in a complete HLI cycle, I'm missing things to evaluate my ethic into my value stream."
"The user interface is not yet optimized."
"Based on my understanding, the tool's integration capabilities with multiple tools is an area of concern that Polarion needs to focus on more."
"The configuration aspect of the solution is not easy. A person needs a lot of programming knowledge in order to successfully handle the job."
"Technical support needs some improvement."
"The solution needs to improve its user experience and graphics."
"The planning and task management aspects of the solution were not that easy."
"One of Polarion's shortcomings would be planning. It can handle plans, but the planning feature is very basic."
"The solution's editing capabilities need improvement."
JIRA Portfolio is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 50 reviews while Polarion ALM is ranked 8th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 17 reviews. JIRA Portfolio is rated 8.2, while Polarion ALM is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of JIRA Portfolio writes "Powerful, flexible solution with a bit of a learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Polarion ALM writes "Though needing an improvement in reporting and time for extraction of the data, its integration capabilities are good". JIRA Portfolio is most compared with Jira Align, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, Microsoft Project Server, Adobe Workfront and Microsoft Azure DevOps, whereas Polarion ALM is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Codebeamer, PTC Integrity and GitLab. See our JIRA Portfolio vs. Polarion ALM report.
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