Alma Suite vs Micro Focus ALM / Quality Center

Likelihood to Recommend

My business is HR consulting. Best benefits: organize freelance consultants by projects and tasks.

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Director in Corporate

Human Resources Company, 11-50 employees

HP ALM is well suited for waterfall projects specifically if the teams are novice. It provides excellent support for project planning, tracking & test management. Top leadership can efficiently track, measure and report on project milestones & key performance indicators. Development teams have access to a wide variety of tools to automate their development, testing, bug tracking, and reporting tasks in one place. Its extensive documentation and tutorials help new users to learn this tool pretty fast. Though for agile teams HP ALM Octane can be explored but its not value for money & did not handle distributed teams well.

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Sourav Singla ,Safe Agilist, CSP, ICP-ACC, CSM, CSPO, SSM, LSSG

Enterprise Agile Coach

Tata Consultancy ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

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Task Management

Mobile Access

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Notifications

Discussions

Internal knowledgebase

Pros

Great for task administration.
Customer service is friendly, pragmatic and always available.
Organize freelance consultants by projects and tasks.

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Verified User

Director in Corporate

Human Resources Company, 11-50 employees

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The traceability between tests and defects allows testers to create defects directly from the test case, including the detailed steps to recreate the defect for the developers. Upon fixing the issue and deploying, testers can rerun the appropriate tests.
Being able to test across multiple environments ensures that visibility into issues, developing regression scripts and other repeatable actions are available for different teams, reducing duplication of effort.
Integration with testing tools such as Selenium, Unified Functional Test, etc. allows for development of automated regression suites to assist in maintaining clean code as it moves through the development lifecycle, especially on mature applications.

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Tina M. Musso

Business Systems Consultant

Wells FargoFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Need to improve in the way it shows project development in time: Gantt chart, schedules, etc.

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Verified User

Director in Corporate

Human Resources Company, 11-50 employees

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HP ALM is little late in adopting the Agile methodology but with the new HP ALM Octane products, organization can easily manage teams and projects which follows that methodology. I would like HP to make an effort to gel this two products capabilities in one product in future.
HP ALM shall invest some more resources in making HP ALM Synchronizer product more robust. HP ALM Synchronizer is a very good tool to synchronize data e.g. Requirements and Defects between HP ALM and other endpoints like Team Foundation Server and JIRA.
HP ALL is still hard to implement if you want to build a true DevOps team. This feature definitely need some improvements for "non-product" oriented organization to adapt it.

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Administrator in Information Technology

Medical Devices Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Usability

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Micro Focus ALM / Quality Center 3.0

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If your needs are to simply track individual defects without flash, this may be the tool for you. If you want a tool which can easily and seamlessly integrate into your corporate intranet, I would look elsewhere.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Automotive Company, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

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Micro Focus ALM / Quality Center 7.1

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It is a great tool, however, it got this rating because there is a lot of learning that takes a lot longer than other tools. There are no mobile versions of ALM even with just a project summary view. I believe ALM is well capable of integration with other analytics tools that can help business solutions prediction based on current and past project data. This is Data held in ALM but with no other use apart from human reading and project progress. ALM looks like a steady platform that I believe can handle more dynamic functionality. You could add an internal communication platform that is not a third party. Limit that communication tool to specific project members.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Better features for project development follow up than Asana and Wrike (previous choices)

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Verified User

Director in Corporate

Human Resources Company, 11-50 employees

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ALM/QC does not stack up too well against other lifecycle management products, in my opinion. ALM/QC does good in certain areas, such as the quick assigning of tasks to be done, but it falls short in too many areas in terms of being a realistic product to use for the different phases and lifecycle of IT processes. There is a notable lack of cohesion among certain functions of ALM/QC, almost as if separate products were purchased and then consolidated into one product.

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Chris Oros

IT Analyst

Duquesne Light Co.Utilities, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

Positive: Internal Communication and Collaboration

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Verified User

Director in Corporate

Human Resources Company, 11-50 employees

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Complete coverage of Test Cycle.
Excellent Test execution and Defect tracking coverage.
No such negative impact. Only thing is, there has not been too much enhancement. It is more or less having the same old features. Not much innovation found over the years.

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Dishank Vishnoi

Senior Consultant

AreteansComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

$100*

* users

Alma Suite Editions & Modules

Edition

Alma Suite Enterprise	$5¹
Alma SuiteEnterprise	$5¹
Alma Suite Unlimited	Quote¹

users

Additional Pricing Details

70% Discount for NGOs 50% for Benefit corporations, Educational Institutions & Health Care. 30% for Companies already working with a Consultant on Cultural Development or related issues.

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Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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Rating Summary

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Feature Rating Comparison

Task Management

Mobile Access

Search

Chat

Notifications

Discussions

Internal knowledgebase

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Micro Focus ALM / Quality Center

Cons

Alma Suite

Micro Focus ALM / Quality Center

Usability

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Micro Focus ALM / Quality Center

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Alma Suite Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Micro Focus ALM / Quality Center Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

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