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    aqua cloud

    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    aqua cloud is an AI-powered test management system designed specifically for regulated industries and big enterprises that aims to help to accelerate audit processes and speed up releases.N/A

    Rally Software

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/ARally Software headquartered in Boulder, Colorado developed the Rally agile software development / ALM platform which was acquired by CA Technologies and rebranded as CA Agile Central. After CA's acquisition by Broadcom the software was once again rebranded as Rally.N/A
    Pricing
    aqua cloudRally Software
    Editions & Modules
    aqua cloud
    Contact Us
    per month per user
    aqua enterprise cloud
    custom price quote
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    aqua cloudRally Software
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details*plus 20% for Maintenance & Support—
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    Community Pulse
    aqua cloudRally Software
    Considered Both Products
    Andagon
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    Broadcom
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    71%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    57%
    Happy with the feature set
    4 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    aqua cloudRally Software
    Test Management
    Comparison of Test Management features of aqua cloud and Rally Software
    Feature
    aqua cloud
    9.3
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Rally Software
    -
    Ratings
    Centralized test management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Map tests to user stories8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Test execution reporting10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Defect management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of aqua cloud and Rally Software
    Feature
    aqua cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Rally Software
    7.8
    4 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Task Management00 Ratings8.84 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings8.84 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings8.84 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings7.84 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings7.33 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management00 Ratings6.73 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings8.33 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
    Visual planning tools00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Agile Development
    Comparison of Agile Development features of aqua cloud and Rally Software
    Feature
    aqua cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Rally Software
    7.3
    4 Ratings
    5% below category average
    DevOps Tool Integrations00 Ratings6.33 Ratings
    Code Review00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Code Collaboration00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Velocity Calculation00 Ratings7.84 Ratings
    Dependencies and Blockers00 Ratings8.34 Ratings
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    Score9.2 out of 10
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    Score7.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    aqua cloudRally Software
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.7
    (20 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.7
    (5 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    aqua cloudRally Software
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Andagon
    1. I used this to do test cases, wherein I got the results with visuals. I explained to clients very well with the visual examples as well. 2. Even I was very new to this tool, it gave me the best company. Even while integrating components as a beginner. 3. Even if I have got any bugs in test cases, it helped me to resolve in a better way. Happy user me! Thanks Aqua ALM.
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    Broadcom
    Rally Software is well suited for large Agile or scrum teams who do sprints and it helps managing sprints and backlogs. It is well suited for organizations who want visibility into work being done and progress. Suitable for tracking is user stories, defects and release planning. Works well with CI CD too. It would not be suitable for small teams or startups. For teams that don't use agile. Teams who want lightweight tools like Jira. Companies with a limited budget.
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    Pros
    Andagon
    • Writing test case and use case
    • Visuals
    • Very easy to create complex logs in the test case
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    Broadcom
    • There are dashboards that provide friendly and useful metrics at the team, program and portfolio levels which help get an easy and quick visual representation of what's going on.
    • Story management made easier, It offers a quick way of quickly entering a number of user stories without losing the overview, by just typing the title and selecting a few attributes directly in the overview screen.
    • Sprint management is seamless in CA Agile Central . It allows you to drag stories from the backlog to the sprints and back again. When a story is dragged into an sprint, it automatically checks the velocity for that sprint and indicates how many more story points can be chipped in. No more manual checking needed by scrum master with respect to allocation and team velocity.
    • Though CA Agile Central has many inbuilt apps, but it also has an App-SDK that allows you to build free app extensions using JavaScript and HTML. So, as per their needs, teams can customize & build various apps & dashboards.
    • Dashboard is an awesome feature which allows you to select and drag panels with all kinds of graphical information about the current sprints and releases.
    • It offers tremendous support for scaled Agile & almost all scaling frameworks are supported specifically tuned to SAFe .
    • CA Agile Central includes several applications but it also integrates well with Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Eclipse, Subversion, IBM, HP, Salesforce.com and many other products to allow users to organize projects to their specifications. So you can still use Jira at a team level & CA Agile Central at the program & portfolio level for efficient tracking & management.
    • The custom tags are very helpful in segregating the user stories based on the project needs. Even though it's a very small feature, it is very effective ( you will realize why specifically if you are using Jira).
    • CA Central Agile enables agile delivery with ease and provides comprehensive features to track time-boxes, Work In Progress items of the forecast increments.
    • Backlog management is hassle free since you can either drag and drop your user stories to the desired position on the backlog, or change a setting and manually enter priorities as a number.
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    Cons
    Andagon
    • I did not find automation of test in this tool, which I did it manually while doing test case
    • Apart from that I did not find anything bad in this tool, looks good
    • NA
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    Broadcom
    • User management is pretty basic and could be better. For example more filters and reports and more ability to do mass updates.
    • The report generator is very, very basic and is not WYSIWYG. It has limited filters to generate reports. Often a Scrum master will need to export data to Excel or a tool like Crystal Reports to get enhanced reporting capability.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Andagon
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    Broadcom
    • To keep connecting my people, platform, and process for faster, smarter, better results.
    • Making the right contribution to the community. Use Agile and Lean processes to manage the work of your team.
    • Once you have tasted the positive result with Rally Software, you don't want to give up and come back to the old school of development pain any more.
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    Usability
    Andagon
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    Broadcom
    Great UI, recent refresh was terrific. Great graphs and metrics, inline editing for updates, and a multitude of views on sprint progress make for a great team collaboration experience. There is also an active community and forums so that if you do need help, it is readily available
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    Reliability and Availability
    Andagon
    No answers on this topic
    Broadcom
    Don’t recall ever being unavailable.
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    Performance
    Andagon
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    Broadcom
    The screens render relatively quickly but many actions that you would expect to require a single click require multiple clicks and pop-up windows. The extra windows and clicks make the product feel ponderous.
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    Support Rating
    Andagon
    No answers on this topic
    Broadcom
    I've had to use support only one time and my issue was eventually resolved but not because of my ticket--because others complained about the functionality taken away so they brought it back. My ticket was never answered or addressed. So I can't really say much for the support factor for Rally.
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    Online Training
    Andagon
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    Broadcom
    It more or less confirmed that we are using it the way they had in mind. We were hoping for a epiphany in terms of how we could use it better.

    They also want to be a go to source for agile processes and have an online resource center. It’s not that great but had a couple of nuggets. It hasn’t really helped us too much and we are not too far off from the classical interpretation of agile.

    I would recommend training, in particular for organizations that multiple on-going projects. The product seems optimized for larger, more complex teams and getting proper training on how to configure, administer and use the system would be beneficial
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    Implementation Rating
    Andagon
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    Broadcom
    Implementation of RALLY services and program satisfaction among various group,... 1) Dev Outcomes: How were our resiliencies, development, learning & practitioners “make them do the work,” but that they ask you to do it “in a way like before. 2) The Ops group: Just wish to make sure any change won't break current production envirements All the stake holders has to be on the same page
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    Alternatives Considered
    Andagon
    I use aqua ALM for test cases. It has got the integration with Jira. Best thing is it will surely very well connect the organization in only one hub. I will perform test case, use cases.It has got open-source & many tools in one platform. Aqua ALM will our organization to manage, plan and to execute the use cases incidents in clear manner, it also fetches the reports which we give input. By this, we will also download the FLOW reports, visual diagrams. Happy clients! They appreciated my project.
    Incentivized
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    Broadcom
    Rally and Asana have comparable features and are both valuable project management tools, but Asana's user interface is well-organized and highly intuitive. It's easy to add tasks and collaborators, edit due dates, indicate progress on tasks, close out projects, etc. However, Rally's interface is somewhat cluttered and difficult to navigate. My team ended up choosing Asana over Rally due to these concerns.
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    Return on Investment
    Andagon
    • Once I was working on my project's use case incident, I wanted the result to get in tree view, but I didnt get. Visuals I got, not which is the one I wanted. Anyways I explained the same to clients. so I would highly like the AQUA team to improve this.
    • I really wanted to appreciate that bug reporting in use case incidents. Very good!
    • In one of the projects I wanted to work in the FLOW DIAGRAM VISUAL. I got the excellent result in this. Thank you again :)
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    Broadcom
    • it helped organizing many of the processes management use to communicate tasks with engineers, and provided detailed charts on the speed/blockage during any iteration
    • with time Rally became the main tool we used to track and report tasks/defects in our projects, but frequent service outages made it very hard to continue consider as a reliable solution
    • too much features is good, but for engineers a few features (User Stories section, iterations, defects, and Kanban boards) are necessary and the rest is just noise
    • Kanban board support is lacking
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    ScreenShots

    aqua cloud Screenshots

    Screenshot of Custom fields to provide additional information and make SDLC more comprehensive and efficientScreenshot of Change tracking in tickets that show when they happened.Product screenshotScreenshot of Activity tracking for teams, with changes in 2 levels:

1) Global (System level)

Displays actions in the system: who reset passwords, changes the roles or licenses, adds a member to a project.

2) Local (Project/folder level)

Tracks who makes changes to the organization and the structure of projects or foldersScreenshot of A customized data-bound report. These contain a broad set of tools to construct report layouts.Screenshot of Role assignment for team members. Enables multiple permissions for them to perform certain tasks.