We performed a comparison between Jama Connect 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."The most valuable feature is the user-friendly interface."
"Jama Connect is a good tool for the entire software development cycle."
"I like Jama Connect because it's easy to use and understand. The widgets are great, and linking is straightforward. The solution is not complex compared to its competitors."
"Technical support answers fairly quickly compared to others like IBM or Atlassian. They also offer quite a good knowledge base for advanced cases and how to plan it, etc. via videos that they provide. They are quite useful."
"Provides suitable tools for managing regulatory requirements."
"You can get full traceability with any other system. It also includes a test module, and you build the traceability matrix incrementally throughout the development process."
"It is good at requirements management and test management."
"The most valuable feature is that it has different APIs available, with good services, and it is completely by the books."
"The most valuable feature is managing software development."
"Jira can track projects, time management of assignments, and keep everything on schedule. The performance of the solution is good."
"The agile framework works well, and I pretty much live by that. Everything, such as sprint management, is laid out."
"We can cope with processes easily without adapting the tool, but adapting the tool to processes."
"You no longer need to email people. You can mention them right in Jira and have conversations there."
"The solution offers a lot of plugins."
"The integration is nice. We can integrate with TeamViewer and many more solutions. We need to go into Jira to complete the secure software delivery."
"There are some security concerns with Jama Connect, including two-factor enablement."
"The initial setup could be better, it's complicated."
"The user interface could be modernized and the product lacks project management functionalities."
"I think there's room for improvement, especially with the review process. Reviews should be integrated with requirement evaluation instead of being separate from it. The review should not run parallel to the requirement."
"Test management can be improved. It's not so scalable. The user interface needs to split things into small projects."
"I have inquired about pricing for this solution but have not yet heard anything, so their response time in this regard is something that should be improved."
"I believe one of the weak points is the reporting side. You must export inter-readable reports from Jama if you do not use the system as a repository for your design history file. Jama is great if you keep it in Jama, but reporting out requires some customization to get it right."
"t is rather slow, so the speed of the process and consuming information should be improved. It doesn't have a nice way of viewing information. We would like to see better interfaces for consuming information."
"Jira should allow you to create and develop pipelines easily. In India, we have to purchase them separately or integrate other data tools. All these tools should be in Jira."
"One thing that I don't like about Jira is that when you do an export, it only allows a thousand issues. So the export feature needs to be better."
"If you're not a technical person, it might not be very user-friendly."
"The biggest complaint industry-wide about JIRA is they need to purchase additional extensions, such as reporting automation. If they could provide some additional extensions from the initial purchase it would be a huge benefit."
"There's been the odd amount of JIRA downtime (not self hosted) and sometimes tickets that can't be accessed."
"Test case management could be more user-friendly. When we add or update test cases, there should be a better way to organize them within the dashboard."
"The solution could improve by having its own tool for quality lifecycle management."
"Jira lacks easy capacity calculation compared to TFS, making it harder to know how much work to allocate to each specialist."
Jama Connect is ranked 13th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 9 reviews while Jira is ranked 1st in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 266 reviews. Jama Connect is rated 7.4, while Jira is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Jama Connect writes "Agile, well structured, and has a great review module, which makes the design reviews smooth". 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". Jama Connect is most compared with IBM Rational DOORS, Polarion Requirements, IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Polarion ALM, whereas Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software and Microsoft Project. See our Jama Connect vs. Jira report.
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