Aha! Roadmaps vs. OpenText LiquidOffice

• Aha! is the all around product management tool. You need something once you build out a product management role and grow beyond a small scrum team with one or two products. JIRA, Pivotal, and project management tools don't cut it for aligning [engineering] with product initiatives once the backlog starts to scale.
• On the other hand, there are several unfinished features that my peers all admit to having to work around: Capacity Planning, Salesforce Integration, Roadmap Display Flexibility, User Feedback, etc. This year has been all about reporting in terms of feature releases. As Aha! grows, they will fill in these other areas, so stay tuned.

OpenText LiquidOffice would be most suitable if you engage or already use the large array of OpenText information management solutions; as integrations would be swift. From my experience LiquidOffice has been a successful investment to provide secure eForms from authenticated users. The PDF standalone forms are flexible enough to be opened on any browser or PDF viewer. It is a superb solution to collect and validate information from your audiences.

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• Work breakdown - it allows teams to do initiatives, capabilities features and stories all in the same product release.
• Roadmapping - allows for simple combined visual plan of work breakdown across multiple initiatives.
• Customization - allows different levels of work breakdowns to be available on different projects.
• Integration with Rally and other tools.

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• The WYSIWYG form builder has highly configurable web forms
• It processes even third-party external web forms
• It integrates well with OpenText Core to improve customer interactions.

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• Notes - There's not a great place to leave lots of notes or instructions, almost like a Confluence page. Although not required, it would be nice to have this built in.
• Learning curve - As with most new tools, there's a bit of a learning curve to become proficient.

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• Need more training and support items for the ever increasing features that it has
• Tech support - Difficult to initialize

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I think Aha! works really in general, it offers a very comprehensive and well-structured platform that supports strategic product management at scale. Although there is a learning curve for new users and a few areas to be improved. Overall, it is highly usable for experienced product teams who need a robust roadmap tool.

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OpenText LiquidOffice's is very easy to pick up and is also very easy to learn, requiring very little input from our internal IT support team. Most users pick it up very quickly and rarely ask questions on how to use it, which i feel is testament to pretty good usability.

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We've always had excellent support whenever we need help from the company or need questions answered regarding the setup and installation of the product. Tickets are answered in a timely fashion and there's minimal back and forth to get issues resolved, which are rare.

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The support from Opentext is commendable. I got valuable assistance from their agent while seeking to understand leveraging the complex WYSIWYG form builder.

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productboard was used in the organization when I arrived, but after assessing productboard, I felt it was too lightweight for our ambitious product goals. It's also critical, especially in a startup, that we focus our limited capacity on the work that matters most. Aha! far and away had superior capabilities in defining strategy directly in the product and associating all of our work to the strategy. Aha! is a serious product management tool and I found productboard to be more of a simple backlog management tool.

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Against GoogleForms - Just its security and data privacy/restriction & access support is very good compared to GoogleForms. Hence the OpenText LiquidOffice Against Typeform - Ease of use and turnaround time for complex business rule based forms

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• It has been able to deliver a good overall view of all the items we have going on in ADO.
• We are in the process of transforming from waterfall to agile development and to be able to see an overall picture of the work items is invaluable.

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• Pretty high form interaction rate
• Hard to determine where a users is dropping off
• Proved too limited in context of event submissions

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