ActiveCollab vs JIRA | TrustRadius

Likelihood to Recommend

Intuitive and flexible to use all kinds of extension components. Simple and pleasant, it has amazing features and is highly secure.When they lack animation and explosiveness at the user level, it expires due to the rich user experiences offered by today's website.ActiveCollab is a safe investment when talking about dynamics and production in projects, also in the management of the fair of the working group.

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Daniel Pacheco

Consultor ADF

Innova4JProgram Development, 201-500 employees

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We use Atlassian JIRA for development projects. It seems to work well for us for this. We run around 50 projects at any one time in the system. Users don't typically need any specialized training as it is pretty intuitive to work with. We have it integrated with Active Directory for credential and user management. It would probably be a good idea to determine just how many projects and how many items you can reasonably manage.

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Clinton Jones

Director of Solution Management for Finance

WinshuttleComputer Software, 201-500 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

ActiveCollab

7.3

JIRA

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Task Management

8.8

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Resource Management

7.3

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Gantt Charts

5.9

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Scheduling

6.6

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Workflow Automation

7.0

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Team Collaboration

8.4

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Support for Agile Methodology

6.8

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Support for Waterfall Methodology

7.0

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Document Management

9.0

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Email integration

8.0

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Mobile Access

6.6

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Timesheet Tracking

8.5

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Change request and Case Management

5.0

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Budget and Expense Management

6.8

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ActiveCollab

6.0

JIRA

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Quotes/estimates

5.4

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Invoicing

5.9

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Project & financial reporting

7.8

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Integration with accounting software

4.8

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Pros

Daily notifications to the mail about upcoming tasks and expired, if any.
Preparation of financial reports and tasks for specific projects. You can form for individual tasks, employees and other criteria.
The availability of the gantt chart greatly simplifies the process of building the project, as it is an effective tool that helps to see the order of tasks to be performed.

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Иван Шайхисламов

CEO

Remeslo Branding agencyDesign, 1-10 employees

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It's a great way to segment projects
It's a great way to track issues by project
It's a great way to capture all the critical attributes of a request being made of engineering

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Clinton Jones

Director of Solution Management for Finance

WinshuttleComputer Software, 201-500 employees

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Cons

I would like to supplement the mobile application with the functionality that the service has in the desktop version, for more efficient work.
Sorting projects and tasks is not always convenient, I would like to customize it for myself.

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Иван Шайхисламов

CEO

Remeslo Branding agencyDesign, 1-10 employees

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The 10mb attachment limitation is sometimes annoying especially if you attach video
It would be cool if there was tight(er) and easy (easier) integration with things like Zendesk, SharePoint and Yammer, I am not sure that we have actually invested the effort to do this integration but i am sure if it was easy as flipping a switch it would have been done.
Sometimes the application misbehaves, I can't tell if this is infrastructure or what, usually this occurs when I am in a browser other than Chrome
I am not aware of a mobile app for it but if there is one that would be cool

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Clinton Jones

Director of Solution Management for Finance

WinshuttleComputer Software, 201-500 employees

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JIRA 5.4

Based on 33 answers

I do not make decisions at my new company, so it's out of my hands. I will say that we're in dire need of a new Project Tracking suite, but I'm not sure how interested they'd be in building something from the ground up. But, if discussions turn to blowing up our current solution and going in another direction, I will be recommending JIRA, and offering to take lead in it's implementation.

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Adam James

Vice President of Operations

Akamai TechnologiesInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Usability

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JIRA 8.2

Based on 25 answers

I would give it a 10 but it doesn't read my mind yet

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Tracy Walton

Technical Solutions Leader

Towers WatsonHuman Resources, 10,001+ employees

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Support

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JIRA 8.4

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Atlassian's support is lake any other support of a big company, slow and demanding. Initial consultant assigned to look at your issue doesn't have too much knowledge and he/she may waste your time until it is escalated and people with more knowledge about the system will take a look at the problem and provide a fix/workaround.

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Cristian Bodnarasec

Senior Software Development Manager

eSiliconSemiconductors, 501-1000 employees

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Implementation

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JIRA 9.0

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Take your time implementing Jira. Make sure you understand how you want to handle your projects and workflows. Investing more time in the implementation can pay off in a long run. It basically took us 5 days to define and implement correctly, but that meant smooth sailing later on.

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Bo Acimovic

Director E-Commerce

Clover Technologies GroupRenewables & Environment, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

ActiveCollab has all the functions that are in these services, unlike them. Not everywhere there is a diagram of gantt. And somewhere the interface is very rewarded and in general looks obsolete.

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Иван Шайхисламов

CEO

Remeslo Branding agencyDesign, 1-10 employees

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What appealed to us with JIRA at first sight is pricing per user. It may sound funny, but for us this was better than pricing per number of projects. Most of our projects are ongoing. Once an initial development is done, we continue maintaining the software and keep track of tasks. So we have a steady number of people but are not sure about the number of projects we might have.

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Bo Acimovic

Director E-Commerce

Clover Technologies GroupRenewables & Environment, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

We began to finish projects on time, which undoubtedly will influence the return of customers

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Иван Шайхисламов

CEO

Remeslo Branding agencyDesign, 1-10 employees

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Better communication between development and support tiers. - Positive
ACCOUNTABILITY!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Positive
Consolidation of spreadsheets, emails, word docs, etc. That we used before JIRA to track incidents and initiatives. - Positive
Once the business flow is formalized through a tool such as JIRA, corporate politics rears it's head angrier than ever. - Negative, though not a fault of the JIRA solution singularly.

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Adam James

Vice President of Operations

Akamai TechnologiesInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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ActiveCollab

JIRA

Feature Rating Comparison

Task Management

Resource Management

Gantt Charts

Scheduling

Workflow Automation

Team Collaboration

Support for Agile Methodology

Support for Waterfall Methodology

Document Management

Email integration

Mobile Access

Timesheet Tracking

Change request and Case Management

Budget and Expense Management

Quotes/estimates

Invoicing

Project & financial reporting

Integration with accounting software

Pros

ActiveCollab

JIRA

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ActiveCollab

JIRA

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JIRA

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JIRA

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JIRA

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ActiveCollab

JIRA

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

ActiveCollab Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

SaaS Edition

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General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

JIRA Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

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