DDN A³I vs. StoriesOnBoard

Well suited for large data repositories, like video storage, data lake, etc. Wide and deep and does not take up multiple racks. Easily grows with your needs as one can drop in more disks when needed, as you grow.

Incentivized

As mentioned earlier, we also use StoriesOnBoard to create other processes (customer and employee journey). We use the swim lanes to differentiate between measures, tools and processes and working with them is very easy and understandable for this purpose.

Less easy is the use of context, i.e. when one part of a story map depends on another story map. This cannot be avoided (at least for us) to avoid creating redundancy (and the risk of creating different stages). At appropriate places, we refer to the other map in the title.

• Large storage array
• Fibre channel storage using RAID arrays
• Each SFA can grow with one master and up to 4 slaves
• Up to PB or more of storage

Incentivized

• User role management
• Jira integration
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Filtering by personas

• The Disk array appliances load disks from the top
• Cabler management is more than 4 feet long. Hard to find a rack it really fits in.
• Interconnects between units need to be more seamless and easier to understand.

Incentivized

• Switching the view to a vertical mode (easier to scroll).
• Better availability of information on user story mapping.
• Possibility to link to activities and steps from other maps (Context).

StoriesOnBoard works really well; all features are well thought through. It could look a bit fresher, although the new updated dashboard is already much better than it was.

IBM is close to the Platinum level but DDN comes in large and cheaper but with a bit less features.

Incentivized

The only other competitor we looked at was cardboardit.com. Both had solid functionality, but StoriesOnBoard was more user-friendly and quick to learn and use in our opinion.

• ROI is that it seems very economical for massive video camera storage.
• Dedicate a rack to it.
• Best if all units are next to each other but do not have to be.

Incentivized

• StoriesOnBoard (and story mapping in general) creates a low-cost visual method of aligning on high-level business and technical requirements early in a project and provides an ongoing reference as the project progresses. Having this alignment is critical for the later stages of the project.