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Jira Align vs ServiceNow DevOps comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Jira Align
Ranking in Value Stream Management Software
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
43
Ranking in other categories
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (12th), Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (5th)
ServiceNow DevOps
Ranking in Value Stream Management Software
3rd
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Value Stream Management Software category, the mindshare of Jira Align is 16.9%, down from 38.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ServiceNow DevOps is 8.5%, up from 4.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Value Stream Management Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Jira Align16.9%
ServiceNow DevOps8.5%
Other74.6%
Value Stream Management Software
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2788377 - PeerSpot reviewer
Agile Coach/SAFe Team Coach at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Long-term agile tracking has supported development but reporting has required workarounds
I know Jira as Jira; I have used the cloud and I have used on-premise. It is an issue tracker. My experience has been positive, as it is an okay tool, but I like Azure DevOps better. I assess the dependency management feature as okay, but again, Azure DevOps is better; it is more customizable. I find the scenario planning features are okay, but if you have a good Scrum Master or Agile coach, you can get a lot better insights just by looking at the data. We export most of what is in Jira to Power BI so we can run better reports.
AA
Category Manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Automation has reduced operational workload and supports multi-tenant service integration
There are two things I would improve in ServiceNow DevOps in the future. First, we are integrating it with AI solutions that we have. Secondly, in the multi-tenant environment, we are trying to do packages of services to be able to sell to customers directly only pieces of the services. We are not trying to integrate each time and communicate each time as we change the customer or have a new customer. We are trying to make a portfolio, try and buy, and then directly a buy environment implemented automatically and integrated with the customer. This is something that we are implementing now. More than a year ago since I worked with ServiceNow Discovery. ServiceNow DevOps is a good integration tool. The only thing is I have to spend time to do it, but that is my job.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"With us, we could actually see what's happening in the organization, the silos disappeared, and people can see deliverables and objectives more clearly."
"The linking of PI Objectives with different features was one of the cool things, and it had features, epics, and stories out of the box."
"The most valuable feature of Jira Align is the overall team vision."
"The most valuable feature is that engineers can access the Jira database and just search for the tasks that are assigned to them, and they can then update the status on their own in those records that are assigned to them."
"The tool helps us with better tracking across various departments. Jira Align is highly valuable for organizations due to its flexibility. With my experience as an administrator, I can attest that it can be tailored to meet the diverse needs of any organization. It helps to eliminate the mess created by Excel spreadsheets."
"The interface of Jira Align is very easy to use and manage"
"The tool helps us to stick with the timeline and budget of our projects. It also helps me to identify dependencies and red flags and intervene wherever possible. I have found the key metrics tab also useful."
"Jira is great for small and enterprise organizations and I highly recommend it for startups."
"ServiceNow DevOps has helped to streamline operations; for example, we have been investing in automation tasks in our solution, reducing operational costs around 33% of the initial costing for some customers, automating around 25% of the operational tasks, and achieving automated resolution for 25% of the incidents while getting correlation of different incidents around 98% of the full stack events."
"It is a very stable and reliable product."
"The API part of the solution is very easy to integrate with CI/CD tools, which helps our company achieve our goals related to the integration part."
"I have found the ease of CACD integration to be the most valuable feature."
"It's very user-friendly. It has a reporting side that is very automated. There are a lot of things that you can automate using that tool."
"We use it for a lot of things, and it is really good for our use cases. We use it for our help desk and knowledge management, which is really good. When it comes to modules, it has an incident module, which is really good for us in terms of tracking our cases and incidents. Its change management module is really good, and it also has customization capabilities."
"We use the solution for our entire internal idea simulator, with new feature functionality, ID, and product management development."
"It is a very capable and significant product that we utilize within the company, and it has absolutely improved the way our organization functions."
 

Cons

"The synchronization between Jira and Jira Align takes too long and that is something that they could work on."
"Deployment was very complex."
"We decided not to go with AgileCraft because of the expense of doing it."
"Someone who is new to Jira or doesn't have many years of working experience in Jira Align gets easily lost because everything looks the same in the product."
"Jira Align fails to provide its users with a complete package in terms of portfolio management."
"One aspect that could be improved is that a ticket is declared as completed only when it is in the last column of the Jira board, regardless of the state it's in so that completed tickets don't get picked up because it goes by column rather than status."
"Jira Align's cost needs improvement."
"One of the biggest issues I found in the new version was once we clicked on one of the tasks that were specifically for our group and went to look at the other portfolios in other areas we had to browse all the way back to the beginning. If you click the back button, it would not work, it stayed the same place. Additionally, if you click on page B, but then you wanted to go back to page A it would not go back to page A. You would have to browse back to the portfolio and then find your group again and open it. This was the only issue that I had with it and I am not sure if it is a Jira issue or it was because of the way the site was laid out."
"Technical support is bad and this is an area which needs improvement. It's easier for me to figure out the solution by Googling and checking out certain forums."
"The roles for the ServiceNow administration side could be improved. I think they could be more specific or add the descriptions for the different roles."
"When it comes to DevOps, there are better solutions such as Atlassian and Azure DevOps."
"Its performance is really bad. When you're on the hosted cloud, it gives you the time it takes for a transaction to happen, and it takes anything from 20 seconds to a minute, which is a really long time. Something that is really annoying in this solution is that when you click on the Back button to go back, you don't go back to the previous screen. You go back all the way to the homepage. It is really annoying and painful. Its UI is also pretty dated. It is very customizable, but the customization seems to be clunky. We have a separate team that owns the ServiceNow implementation. They control how it is customized. Its customizations are pretty extensive, and it takes us a while to get them done, which is painful. That could be because of our internal team, as opposed to the product itself. When it comes to DevOps, there are better solutions such as Atlassian and Azure DevOps. ServiceNow DevOps is an ITIL product that is trying to be something else. DevOps is not its prime purpose, even though it is capable of doing that. Trying to be too many things by one platform is not a good idea. They should focus on the ITIL space and not get into all other spaces."
"Pricing is our biggest concern with the solution."
"From a documentation point of view, there are certain areas of concern, and improvements are to be made to make the documentation part clearer and crisper."
"From more of a business perspective, the pricing could be better because I have tried to sell the performance analytics side, but it's very expensive, so the company decided not to purchase it."
"The pricing and licensing of ServiceNow DevOps is always too high for me."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Jira Align has price packages for different purposes."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate Jira Align a seven out of ten."
"I would rate this solution a nine out of ten for pricing. The price of the solution depends on the number of people using it and the projects you are working on."
"The tool is moderately expensive."
"The pricing and licensing costs are rated lower, around six mainly due to significant increases in licensing costs that were not well-received by users."
"Jira Align is quite expensive for small-to-medium companies, but it's quite reasonable for larger ones."
"Jira Align is an expensive solution."
"At our company, we were concerned about the cost of Jira Align, which is expensive"
"Though it is an expensive solution, it is an affordable one, in my opinion."
"It's very expensive, so some organizations can't afford the additional license."
"We consider the pricing to be inordinately expensive and may deter others from choosing the solution"
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
8%
Media Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Insurance Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business18
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise17
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Jira Align?
I joined the company because they had a large project, and as a startup company, they needed to scale up efficiently. My task was to review the current baseline, assess the team's capabilities, and...
What needs improvement with Jira Align?
The platform's communication features could be more robust for better team integration.
What is your primary use case for Jira Align?
We use Jira Align for business strategies, collaboration, and reporting. The solution allows us to manage the various products and features delivered on that platform.
What needs improvement with ServiceNow DevOps?
There are two things I would improve in ServiceNow DevOps in the future. First, we are integrating it with AI solutions that we have. Secondly, in the multi-tenant environment, we are trying to do ...
What is your primary use case for ServiceNow DevOps?
I have integrated ServiceNow DevOps with Git, Jenkins, or Jira in my development process for several customers. We integrate directly with the tools in some cases, and in other cases we use somethi...
What advice do you have for others considering ServiceNow DevOps?
I will send feedback. I will try to provide more information, but I need to know the website where I can check the number of products at this moment. I was testing different ticketing tools. We hav...
 

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