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Categories and Ranking

JIRA Portfolio
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
59
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Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (12th)
SwiftKanban
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Project Management Software (29th)
 

Featured Reviews

Neeraj Chaudhari - PeerSpot reviewer
Delivery Leader : Digital Productivity Studio at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Aligns with agile frameworks for streamlined project management
User experience should be more intuitive. Currently, it's not that intuitive. Additionally, a lot of querying and customization is needed for reporting. If there could be some templates out of the box, it would be helpful. Making the report creation process faster and easier with drag-and-drop features would be beneficial.
Venu Vashistha - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Good reporting, quick configurations, and helpful support
It's a cloud-based setup, so there's no challenge in getting everything up and running. The downtime should be minimal. I'd rate the process nine out of ten in terms of ease of deployment. There is a three-month implementation exercise that we control. We have five people who were part of the implementation and maintenance process. They are admins and web developers.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Portfolio helps us increase the visibility of projects' status and management with remote workers who make up most of the company."
"All of the charts, including the Burndown chart, are very useful for us."
"Having an option to view dependencies between projects and teams is great."
"The most valuable feature of the JIRA Portfolio is for managing teams of 10 or more. It can track the program level and portfolio. There are plenty of beneficial features, such as the hierarchy-level view, customization, and structure plugin."
"The graphics and the resolution of the work are very good."
"The best features of JIRA are its flexibility and configurability, allowing us to tailor it to our specific needs."
"There is significant return on investment as the benefits are numerous; the tool provides tracking for projects and activities, with detailed insights into which team members worked on activities and the time invested in each task."
"Jira Portfolio is highly scalable; you can manage user connectivity and add more licenses within the tool, and it's very simple and easy."
"The reporting part is very good."
 

Cons

"We had to use assistance for the initial setup."
"The query features should improve in JIRA Portfolio. For example, if I would have to create my own queries for looking into something such as what business features we have released last month, or the last three months, I don't know if I can do it. The solution requires a certain level of expertise."
"The product's initial setup phase is complex."
"Learning JIRA is not so easy. There is a learning curve."
"The reporting and dashboard capabilities have room for improvement."
"I think that front-end development is a little bit buggy in some cases. Some of the features take a while to respond and some need to be more clear."
"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."
"It would be really nice if the solution provided a heads-up every time they enhance something or add new features."
"Some of the reports could be automated."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing continues to get higher."
"I rate JIRA Portfolio a five out of ten for its pricing."
"We pay our fees annually, although monthly payments are also available."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the pricing a six."
"The solution is offered at a high cost"
"There are free plugins available, but most of them are at an additional cost. Additionally, other services are an extra cost."
"Portfolio is very expensive, costing on average $2000-3000 per user per month."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the pricing an eight."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Construction Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Construction Company
34%
Comms Service Provider
23%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
5%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
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Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise33
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for JIRA Portfolio?
I am part of the delivery team and am not exposed to the commercial information. However, from what I understand, JIRA is competitively priced. It is not considered expensive in the market.
What needs improvement with JIRA Portfolio?
The setup process for JIRA Portfolio is complex.
What is your primary use case for JIRA Portfolio?
We are using all the tools of Google, but not as a collaboration. We are using JIRA Portfolio for making the process of authorization in this process, for change control, and for software delivery....
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Portfolio for JIRA
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