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Jira

Composite Score

8.9 /10

CX Score

9.2 /10

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What is Jira?

JIRA Software is built for every member of your software team to plan, track, and release great software.

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Awards & Recognition

Jira won the following awards in the Project Management - Enterprise category

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0 Top Rated Capabilities

6 Top Rated Features

2025

Product Impact

2025

1 Top Rated Capabilities

2 Top Rated Features

2024

1 Top Rated Capabilities

4 Top Rated Features

2023

1 Top Rated Capabilities

6 Top Rated Features

2022

Jira Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

90 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

98 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+93 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Jira?

1% Negative

4% Neutral

95% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Respectful
Performance Enhancing
Helps Innovate

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Collaboration

Workflow Management

Planning and Scheduling

Dependency and Milestone Tracking

Hierarchical Task Management

Document Management

Reporting

Resource Management

Retainer Management

Time & Expense Tracking

Project Invoicing and Accounting Integration

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Ease of IT Administration

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Vendor Support

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Jira Reviews

Amit B.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2024

Fantastic product!

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Jira from other similar products?

It is fully customizable, has several integrations. It has customizable workflows, seamless collaboration capabilities. Its user-friendly interface simplifies task tracking, issue management, and agile development processes, helps me to efficiently plan, track, and deliver projects. And the cost is also reasonable.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

jira provides you to track the progress of the sprint/milestone. user can easily create the bug and defines the prioriity , severity of the ticket in it. user can add the description as well as the attachment for the same. User can use filters for search of the old tickets , users can see the open issues , reported issues, active sprints etc in the jira software.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It is not suitable for medium sized teams because of the cost. It is free for up to 10 users in a team, but if there's like 13 members in a team, you have to pay for each member. So it is suitable only if you are a small team or a corporate. Also sometimes there are crashes when having lots of automation rules, but that's not something critical. What I also don't like is that there are several different versions of the software and it is sometimes hard to find a solution or a tutorial for specific things as in your version it may not work as described.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Keeps track of all the tasks assigned to team and the status tracking is also easy in JIRA. Can easily check for updates in the task and notification emails are sent from JIRA if there are any changes or comments added in the tasks.

Pros

Reliable
Efficient Service
Altruistic
Generous Negotitation

Cons

Under Delivered

Michael A.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2024

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Santosh P.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2024

Best Tool for Project Management.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Jira from other similar products?

Using Jira software, we can manage the project through the agile technique.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

We can assign the related user stories to the employees and can complete the development of the project in chunks and teams can choose the available parts of the work to do from list which is created based on the story points.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Not at the moment everything seems to be fantastic..

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I don't want to give any suggestions right now.

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Includes Product Enhancements

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Jira Ratings

90 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

98 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+93 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Jira?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Collaboration Includes ability to view, share and direct work between co-workers in real or near real-time.

Workflow Management Includes ability to support flexible and comprehensive workflow-based capabilities.

Planning and Scheduling Includes milestones, tasks and resource assignments (can also include WBS and CPM).

Dependency and Milestone Tracking Ability to define project development stages and task dependencies while setting milestones to mark specific points in a project

Hierarchical Task Management Ability to create both templates and unique projects and support tasks that can be divided into sub-tasks and delegated

Document Management Includes features such as check-in/check-out and versioning controls on documents and artifacts.

Reporting Straightforward data storage with ability to create reports easily. Able to easily modify and build dashboards for real-time updates on KPI's and timelines.

Resource Management Includes resource allocation, expense tracking, and resource planning.

Retainer Management Manage the ongoing and recurring work you do for clients, including tasks and billing.

Time & Expense Tracking Ability to track time for planning and estimating

Project Invoicing and Accounting Integration Create invoice that automatically syncs into accounting software to simplify the billing and invoicing process.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

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Jira Reviews

Amit B.

Fantastic product!

Likeliness to Recommend

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Michael A.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Santosh P.

Best Tool for Project Management.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

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Hierarchical Task Management

Document Management

Reporting

Resource Management

Retainer Management

Time & Expense Tracking

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Ease of Data Integration

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