Ekso vs. Zephyr Scale

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Ekso
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Countersoft, the team behind the Gemini ALM and bug tracking tool, is becoming Ekso. The company's products focus on IT help desk, bug tracking, test management, and general ALM functionality.
$10
Per User Per Month
Zephyr Scale
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
TM4j is a test management application for Jira, developed by Jira solutions specialist Adaptavist, acquired and now supported by SmartBear since March 2020.
$4.55
per month per user
Pricing
EksoZephyr Scale
Editions & Modules
Gemini Express
$10.00
Per User Per Month
Gemini Enterprise
$850.00
Per 10 Users Per Month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
EksoZephyr Scale
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsFree up to 10 users, $4.55/user/month after that. It gets cheaper as you scale.
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Community Pulse
EksoZephyr Scale
Features
EksoZephyr Scale
Test Management
Comparison of Test Management features of Product A and Product B
Ekso
-
Ratings
Zephyr Scale
7.8
1 Ratings
4% below category average
Centralized test management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Map tests to user stories00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Test execution reporting00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Defect management00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
EksoZephyr Scale
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
EksoZephyr Scale
Likelihood to Recommend
CounterSoft
Gemini is well suited to help track issues and change requests, projects, bugs, time logs, etc. It is less appropriate for reporting needs or general office management needs.
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SmartBear
Jira and Confluence are widely implemented in organizations of various industries so incorporating Zephyr Scale is a very seamless method of adding scalable testing management. Testing visibility and end to end traceability is possible and integrates in Jira. Developers and engineers are able to take advantage of the built-in reports and statistics and even automate testing. The value is greatly reduced for organizations that do not already implement Jira and Confluence as the native integrated compatibility is much of the value
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Pros
CounterSoft
  • Gemini offers flexible framework that allowed IT to build a workflow based process. IT change requests were divided into several buckets: New Change Requests group for business units to submit requests for enhancements and new project ideas, Pending Change Requests for approved projects that are waiting for IT resources, Application Development where we track active projects, Defect Tracking where bugs are tracked during testing and finally Release Management where requests for deployment are tracked.
  • Gemini allows to create custom fields and add them to View, Edit and Add screens. This flexible model allowed us to track additional information on the project such as IT Point of Contact, System Name, Team Name, Testing dates, etc.
  • Gemini has flexible email notification model that allows to keep business customers informed on the project progress. Whenever comment is added by project manager email alerts goes out anyone that is set to watch project progress.
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SmartBear
  • Scalable and compatible with Jira & Confluence
  • Improves testing visibility, data analysis, collaboration with reports & gadgets
  • Easy to retrospectively trace testing with change history
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Cons
CounterSoft
  • It would be useful for Gemini to offer a mobile-friendly version.
  • It would be helpful for Gemini to provide more granular control over email notification options. Currently, we cannot turn off update type emails
  • Gemini could improve homepage design to provide a dashboard for all projects in the system.
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SmartBear
  • Not as valuable if not already using Jira or Confluence
  • Can be overlooked if the user does not set automation
  • Needs better first time tutorials
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Likelihood to Renew
CounterSoft
Gemini's development team continues to improve the product and provides a comprehensive roadmap of upcoming features that makes you want to upgrade as soon as a new version comes out.
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SmartBear
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
CounterSoft
Gemini is more cost-effective than Project Server. It is easy to configure and easy to use
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SmartBear
Zephyr scale is easier to work with and more seamlessly used because it is natively integrated with Jira and Confluence. TestRail cannot provide the same scalable experience and is rather dated and limited in capability. Developers rather use tools that are compatible with each other, and Zephyr scale offers that
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Return on Investment
CounterSoft
  • Gemini helped consolidate and centralize projects tracking and status reporting
  • Gemini helped improve defects tracking and reporting
  • Gemini helped streamline release process management, eliminated approval paperwork by allowing ot use comments as electronic signatures.
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SmartBear
  • Dozens of added testing capability via integrated gadgets
  • Reduced testing and tracking time
  • Faster and clearer testing operations awareness
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