Atlassian Jira vs. IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Atlassian Jira
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Atlassian Jira is a project management tool, featuring an interactive timeline for mapping work items, dependencies, and releases, Scrum boards for agile teams, and out-of-the-box reports and dashboards.
$9
per month per user
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery, available on IBM Cloud, allows users to provision an integrated toolchain using customizable, shareable templates with tools from IBM, third parties and open source. Automate builds and tests with Tekton-based delivery pipelines, and control quality with analytics.
$0
Pricing
Atlassian JiraIBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Editions & Modules
Standard
$9
per month per user
Premium
$17
per month per user
Enterprise
Contact Sales
per year
Lite
$0.00
Professional
$35.00
Authorized user per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Atlassian JiraIBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsHigher volume teams may qualify buyers for a discount.
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Community Pulse
Atlassian JiraIBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Features
Atlassian JiraIBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Atlassian Jira
9.5
Ratings
22% above category average
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
8.5
Ratings
11% above category average
Task Management9.70 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Resource Management9.40 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Gantt Charts9.30 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Scheduling10.00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Workflow Automation10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Team Collaboration10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology8.70 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology9.00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Document Management8.90 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Email integration9.50 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Mobile Access9.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking10.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Change request and Case Management10.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management9.30 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Search00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Visual planning tools00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
Atlassian Jira
9.8
Ratings
26% above category average
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
-
Ratings
Quotes/estimates9.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Invoicing9.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Project & financial reporting10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with accounting software10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Agile Development
Comparison of Agile Development features of Product A and Product B
Atlassian Jira
-
Ratings
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
7.6
Ratings
8% below category average
DevOps Tool Integrations00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Code Review00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Code Collaboration00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Velocity Calculation00 Ratings6.80 Ratings
Dependencies and Blockers00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
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User Ratings
Atlassian JiraIBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Likelihood to Recommend
9.6
(0 ratings)
8.5
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.4
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Availability
5.3
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.7
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Atlassian JiraIBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Likelihood to Recommend
Jira facilitates software development, bug tracking, and sprints. It's ideal for structured workflows, issue management, and customer communication. However, more straightforward tools might be more efficient for highly creative, unstructured tasks or tiny, agile teams with quick visual overviews. Jira's complexity can be overkill for basic task lists.
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It provides a cloud-based integrated development environment that integrates with other IBM Cloud services to provide a streamlined development workflow. This includes real-time collaboration and code sharing capabilities, making it easy for teams to work together on projects. This feature is very useful for our app to maintain the code
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Pros
  • As a developer, it is easy to create, track and manage tickets efficiently.
  • Customizable issue types (eg: Bug, Task, Story, Epic) allow teams to categorize and priorizate work.
  • Great text editor and markdown support for detailed issue descriptions.
  • Assign issues to team members, set due dates and define priorities.
  • Integration with Jenkins, GitHub and other CI/CD tools to automate builds and deployments.
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  • It contains the deployment templates which are much more time saving and is of great use.
  • This has the integration of the Cloud applications which makes the work much more convenient.
  • This is flexible when it comes to development, deployment, and delivery.
  • [It] also has a much more reasonable pricing.
  • Provides space for the data storage.
  • [IBM Cloud Developer Tools] also can support many useful tools.
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Cons
  • The interface is not intuitive to learn for new users
  • JQL is similarly challenging for newbies
  • It's possible to accidentally move issues from one sprint to another without realizing your mistake
  • Certain issue attributes aren't available in certain view (e.g. story points from the epic overview)
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  • Its price is quite high and this made it unsuitable for us as we cannot afford such high rates.
  • Its Setup takes much longer time and this is frustrating.
  • Its interface needs to be improved and easy even for the Newbies.
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Likelihood to Renew
JIRA is highly integrated into our organization. Nearly every department uses it, and many have multiple JIRA projects set up to track different types of work. We rolled out JIRA in a staged manner, but it continued to be adopted by more and more people and departments because it continues to show results. I expect we will continue to renew our JIRA license for years to come
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It's a great platform to develop, run, test and deploy the applications easily. And it makes very easier and secure the implementation of continuous delivery process. For first time and experts also can use this service so easily. Great service provided by the IBM Cloud Continuous Service. There are more services that helps a lot to work on it. Thanks a lot.
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Usability
Atlassian Jira is relatively easy to use, but there are several ways to configure it, which can make it more complicated if you configure it incorrectly. Keeping the customizations and complexity limited to being the project would be suggested to ensure you don't lose in-built Atlassian Jira features, then change the configuration as you find things aren't meeting your exact needs.
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Nothing special to say : the UX is clear and simple.
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Reliability and Availability
Did not face any issues and whenever they plan maintanance they update all of us very well in advance also so in that view we are good with the product stability.
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Performance
Performance is really good though it holds lot of data it loads quickly especially search operation also get the results very quickly as needed hence its good
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Support Rating
I have not had a chance to contact JIRA's customer support. It does offer extensive documentation, although it often feels too technical for me. There is also a JIRA training app that lets you take little lessons and quizzes on different areas (e.g., JIRA basics, agile). I did find it a helpful way to teach myself.
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In more than a year using the IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery tool, I haven't had any major complaints or problems. However, in the last month, IBM suffered from a couple of problems through several of its services, and for a short period of time, I couldn't deploy successfully my projects. The problem was brief and was quickly fixed.
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In-Person Training
Had received training from our own internal user so it was good and also very easy to understand topics and many tasks in the UI are self explanatory and we can do by our own
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Online Training
One of their strong points i stheir documentation. Almost all of the basic set up needed within JIRA is available online through atlassian and its easy to find and very precise. The more critical issues need to be addressed as well and hence the rating of 8 instead of a 9.
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Implementation Rating
Take your time implementing Jira. Make sure you understand how you want to handle your projects and workflows. Investing more time in the implementation can pay off in a long run. It basically took us 5 days to define and implement correctly, but that meant smooth sailing later on.
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Alternatives Considered
Jira is more feature-rich than Trello and also has better integration with other tools. Trello is a lot more focused on work tracking, while Jira can do a lot more than that. Both can also be combined, although they're often considered mutually exclusive alternatives—I've seen cases where companies choose to use either one or the other, but I haven't met an actual case of a company using both.
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We chose IBM Cloud Developer Tools for multiple reasons. Cost, current infrastructure vendor list, and Cloud Operations team experience were key driving factors for us. Palo Alto's Prisma Cloud product was slick for sure but we found it more difficult to deploy and integrate with our current environment and applications
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Scalability
Atlassian Jira is highly stable and good with its performance and its has all the required scalability features as business needs
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Return on Investment
  • JIRA has increased the teams' productivity and efficiency; the sprint timelines have improved by 15-20%.
  • JIRA's integration with tools like Bitbucket and Confluence has improved functional collaboration, leading to faster decision-making and issue resolution by approximately 10-15%.
  • Additional functionality requires additional third-party plugins, which require additional costs; the requirements of these plugins increase the costs by approximately 15%.
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  • This has made the configuration files much easier to access.
  • Has made the commands more logical as well as easy for use and learning.
  • Contains great AI capabilities
  • The documentation needs improvement.
  • Error received from commands are pretty hard to understand.
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