akaWork vs. OpenText ALM Octane

For big applications and projects where different teams work in a different location, it is very helpful for them to keep all the processes in one place and makes it easy to keep track of all team member's processes.

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• Bug-logging and keeping track of the bug status.
• Integration with DevOps to do continuous testing.
• Keeping coordination between development and testing teams.

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• The integration to Synchronizer is very difficult to implement.
• The integration to Jira was very hard to get working.

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Customer support is very good takes minimal time to resolve the issue and always takes feedback seriously to improve the application.

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Micro Focus ALM Octane use at DaVita goes back beyond my starting with them three years ago. They have used it as part of DevOps as well as for performance measurement of software releases in combo with HP Performance Center (a great combination). Jira is well suited to managing bug reports and development processes with Agile and Scrum, but ALM Octane goes above and beyond that.

Incentivized

• Our Performance Measurement team uses ALM all the time for test performance measurement in conjunction with HP Performance Center. We could not have such a robust performance capability without ALM.
• Not being on the management side of it (I am a technical resource for support), I do not have solid information on ROI.

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