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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 1, 2025

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

Categories and Ranking

Jira
Ranking in Project Management Software
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
274
Ranking in other categories
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (1st), Application Requirements Management (2nd)
SwiftKanban
Ranking in Project Management Software
47th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Project Management Software category, the mindshare of Jira is 9.2%, up from 8.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SwiftKanban is 0.3%, down from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Saroj Ekka - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers good repository integration, sprint board and easy to set up
There are some features and reports we need that are not there. For example, if I have to find out the capacity of the current sprint by user and compare it with the previous sprint, that visibility isn't there. We can know the capacity and what happened with the whole sprint, but not for an individual person to see where it's falling and how it's tracking. Report and analytics capabilities are important for a product manager. That visibility is important, so we use Jira. Some of the features are there, and I use my own Excels or other data things to compensate for that.
Venu Vashistha - PeerSpot reviewer
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

"The most valuable features of Jira are the dashboards and user interface. The processes within Jira to monitor, maintain and release are beneficial. It is a continuous development solution."
"I like it for team collaboration and task management. I also like its analytics and dashboards."
"We use Jira mostly for task coordination and assignment. Additionally, scrum methodologies defined work items and bug issues. If we create any bugs all of them are fixed."
"The most valuable feature is project management."
"The ordinary user has an interface that is very clear."
"It provides very good visibility and traceability. You can clearly see each and every part of a process. It is also user-friendly and robust. It is working well, and there are a lot of add-ons or plug-ins out there that you can use."
"It is very flexible, so we can do pretty much what we want with it."
"The agile framework works well, and I pretty much live by that. Everything, such as sprint management, is laid out."
"The reporting part is very good."
 

Cons

"JIRA still has their own backtracking tools. It should have a better visibility into HPE UFT. Most people use functional testing tools, like QTP. They need to improve their integration to make it seamless."
"The integration could be better in Jira."
"The reporting part is a little bit difficult for me. It is not so easy. There should be a simpler way to track the efforts of our team. For example, in an Excel sheet, there is a feature for filtering. It would be much better if we can use something like that. Currently, for a complex query, we need to use Jira Query Language. Using Jira Query Language every time is not efficient for me."
"End-to-end management from product backlog to test completion could be improved."
"Jira is raising their prices for the license, which is like a trap because many other providers offer services like Jira but for much cheaper."
"The solution lacks integration with visualization tools like Power BI or Tableau, which would be beneficial for better insights."
"Its search and reporting can be improved. They are already nice, but they can be further improved."
"Some of the customizations are definitely a little challenging."
"Some of the reports could be automated."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't feel that price is an issue."
"It is very cheap if you forego the local instance and stick to the cloud."
"We make use of the solution free of charge."
"I understand JIRA is quite expensive."
"Worth the extra cost."
"Jira and its solution off the shelf are cheap. It is cheap for startups."
"We are using the enterprise license which is nice because it ensures that we always have the latest versions of Jira software."
"The tool's pricing is expensive. The new pricing is indeed quite expensive compared to what it was a few years ago. Last year, when we intended to renew our subscription, we found the pricing considerably higher."
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Top Industries

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Educational Organization
48%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Computer Software Company
6%
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