Micro Focus ALM Octane vs Jira

Micro Focus ALM Octane vs Jira

Micro Focus (HPE Software) ALM Octane
HPE, now MicroFocus, ALM Octane is designed with a user interface
 providing a targeted and simplified user flow and architected using responsive design.

Accessible in any HTML5 supported Web browser, or operating system, including many tablet devices, ALM Octane ensures users get access to what they want,

when they want, and where they want. ALM Octane platform easily integrates with the team’s existing Jenkins/CI system for visibility into the release pipeline, as well as into source code control systems like GIT, allowing for stronger collaboration, and supporting a faster path from manual testing to test automation.

MicroFocus ALM Octane also provides a foundation for common terminology across the application development lifecycle facilitating more closely connected teams.

With many out-of-the-box integrations to common industry and other Software technologies, ALM Octane platform boasts an extensive REST API, documented with Swagger, to allow users to work within the environment they’re most comfortable in, without sacrificing collaboration, governance, and process guidance.

ALM Octane & Jira: Added Value

Agile tool agnostic

• ALM Octane optimized for Enterprise scale.

• Business unit teams have different tools.

• JIRA is a team centric tool.

Additional modules required to implement enterprise wide process and control frameworks.

JIRA not intended to provide e2e insight across your entire SDLC; leaves gaps in traceability, audit and compliance

• ALM Octane seamlessly integrates with JIRA.

Use your existing JIRA investments with ALM Octane to gain an overarching framework of control and insight.

Ask about QC/ALM license swap.

Scaled Agile Framework

• ALM Octane was built for Enterprise needs.

• SAFe support is a key ALM Octane capability.

• ALM Octane is flexible enough to support both

traditional SDLC as well as Agile processes, helping

you transition when needed.

• By synchronizing JIRA with ALM Octane

 you can leverage SAFe framework.

• JIRA requires 3rd party solutions to support an

 enterprise level Agile implementation.

• This is costly and requires 3rd party involvement in

 your key IT transformation processes.

•  Ask about using ALM Octane to implement an

enterprise scale Agile framework. 

ALM Octane & Jira: Added Value

Enterprise Grade Security

• ALM Octane was designed with security at its core.

The default configuration provides

 comprehensive security and applies

the settings to all synchronized

 records even as new projects are added.

• JIRA requires administrative changes to enable

 issue level security.

Once issue level security is enabled, it must be applied to all projects.

Any projects subsequently added to JIRA also require

 this additional setup to be secured

Ask about using ALM Octane to implement a secure

solution for workload management without administrative overhead

ALM Octane & Jira: Added Value 

Scalability

• ALM Octane was architected to support large
 scale deployments.

There are no additional fees for High
 Availability and the system scales seamlessly.

By using JIRA sync, ALM Octane can provide
 full HA for JIRA records too

• Atlassian requires customers to purchase
 “Data Center” for high availability.

License fees for Data Center increase rapidly
 as users increase, e.g. 1,000 JIRA users with
HA support costs an additional US $24,000  PER YEAR

Data Center is a 1 Year Term license, there are
 no perpetual license options

• Ask about using ALM Octane to implement a High
 Availability system without paying additional fees.

ALM Octane & Jira: Added Value 

Audit Compliance

• Audit is a key requirement for many organizations.

• ALM Octane was engineered to deliver full audit and
 compliance reporting in real-time, at any time,
 even to synchronized records.

• JIRA does not and cannot provide full audit compliance.

JIRA audit is designed to track configuration changes,
 not record changes to issues themselves

An issue update (any change) is a KEY activity

• Ask about using ALM Octane to identify who changed what,
 when, and why across your entire enterprise.

ALM Octane CI Pipelines

• ALM Octane Pipelines provide quality based insights about the health of your CI build processes.

• ALM Octane incorporates data from your pipelines into your application delivery process.

Analyze quality, progress, change impact, code coverage and more.

Identify issues before builds are handed over.

• ALM Octane Pipeline can also use records synchronized from JIRA.

To track commits associated with a specific build run

Provide full insight and visibility into end to end processes

• ALM Octane Quality metrics can include JIRA user stories and Epics

• Ask about using ALM Octane to gain a single point of control for insight into your CI system.

 ALM Octane vs. Jira: Benefits

• ALM Octane enables teams to easily and readily understand the current quality of their applications, in real time, without additional software

• Out of the box integration with QC / ALM to support and extend the lifespan of your existing investments

• Full integration with CI servers allows ALM Octane to deliver real-time data on the state and health of your applications, down to the level of any test failures that have been recorded against the latest build of your software

• ALM Octane supports modern test management approaches out of the box as part of the integrated platform, quality is a key component of the present and future of ALM Octane

• JIRA requires additional tools to support test management, for example Zephyr or X-Ray. These tools add additional incremental cost to the JIRA system, require additional vendor / procurement time and effort and may be withdrawn at any time.

The Single Source of Truth

• ALM Octane provides a unified, end to end lifecycle management platform with no dependency on 3rd party components for core lifecycle functionality. From requirements to delivery, ALM Octane manages, track and audits all activities

• ALM Octane is built to support Agile across the enterprise, with tight integrations to PPM and other Agile solutions. ALM Octane consolidates data and provides the “single source of truth” and advanced data analytics.

• Extending far beyond Agile workload management, ALM Octane provides an integrated DevOps platform with full toolchain capabilities for modern product and application lifecycle management at enterprise scale.

• JIRA requires many different modules, connected by plug-ins to provide an end to end solution. To scale to enterprise grade Agile, JIRA requires third party solutions