Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
LinearB
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
LinearB is a tool for software development organizations that allows for improved productivity based on objective data driven insights. Founded in 2018, Los Angeles-based LinearB promises a fresh approach to software development project management and metrics, for example helping developer teams correlate project issues with data from their code, Git, projects, and more. LinearB promises to bring context to the metrics, helping engineering leaders understand what is happening across a…
$0
per month
Rally Software
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
Rally 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
ServiceNow App Engine
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
ServiceNow App Engine aims to bring creator workflow apps to production quickly for mission-critical tasks. Design with best-practice guidance and templates within a holistic low-code dev experience.N/A
Pricing
LinearBRally SoftwareServiceNow App Engine
Editions & Modules
Free
$0
(8 devs included)
Pro
$10
Per dev per month to start
Enterprise
$45
Per dev per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LinearBRally SoftwareServiceNow App Engine
Free Trial
YesNoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
LinearB
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Ratings
Rally Software
7.8
4 Ratings
4% above category average
ServiceNow App Engine
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Ratings
Task Management00 Ratings8.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Management00 Ratings8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Scheduling00 Ratings8.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings8.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings7.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Document Management00 Ratings7.34 Ratings00 Ratings
Email integration00 Ratings8.54 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings7.33 Ratings00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management00 Ratings6.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
Search00 Ratings7.34 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual planning tools00 Ratings8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Agile Development
Comparison of Agile Development features of Product A and Product B
LinearB
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Ratings
Rally Software
7.3
4 Ratings
8% below category average
ServiceNow App Engine
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Ratings
DevOps Tool Integrations00 Ratings6.33 Ratings00 Ratings
Code Review00 Ratings6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Code Collaboration00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Velocity Calculation00 Ratings7.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Dependencies and Blockers00 Ratings8.34 Ratings00 Ratings
Low-Code Development
Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Product A and Product B
LinearB
-
Ratings
Rally Software
-
Ratings
ServiceNow App Engine
8.2
10 Ratings
3% below category average
Visual Modeling00 Ratings00 Ratings7.510 Ratings
Drag-and-drop Interfaces00 Ratings00 Ratings8.49 Ratings
Platform Security00 Ratings00 Ratings8.510 Ratings
Platform User Management00 Ratings00 Ratings8.310 Ratings
Reusability00 Ratings00 Ratings8.59 Ratings
Platform Scalability00 Ratings00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
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User Ratings
LinearBRally SoftwareServiceNow App Engine
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.7
(20 ratings)
6.8
(7 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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9.0
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Usability
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8.0
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7.6
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Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
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7.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
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Support Rating
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5.7
(5 ratings)
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Online Training
-
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7.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
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8.0
(2 ratings)
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Configurability
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7.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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9.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
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7.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
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8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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10.0
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9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
LinearBRally SoftwareServiceNow App Engine
Likelihood to Recommend
LinearB, Inc.
It gives you an amazing dashboard with graphs and data that helps in analyzing our work. Through cycle metric tracking, the throughput of your teams is great as compared to agile metrics such as Scrum Velocity.
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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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ServiceNow
Well suited - for someone who enjoys minimal coding with maximum throughput. For organisations who look for IT solutions basis customer a priority. Very well suited for creating tickets for incidents, changes etc Not well suited - for small scale organisations where the customers are less and managing them is easy
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Pros
LinearB, Inc.
No answers on this topic
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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ServiceNow
  • Workflows
  • Notifications
  • Management
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Cons
LinearB, Inc.
  • Tracking work based on Kanban methodology has some glitches and is not fully supported in linear.
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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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ServiceNow
  • Not much for this tool, just the deep setting to new users.
  • Managing multiple project data.
  • Huge amount of data migration to new user.
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Likelihood to Renew
LinearB, Inc.
No answers on this topic
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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ServiceNow
There are limited use cases where we are just using the service now app engine as of now
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Usability
LinearB, Inc.
No answers on this topic
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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ServiceNow
Since people can handle the tool without any development background, this was really helpful and can be adopted by anyone, as reusability functions and drag-and-drop features are very easy. Many in-built features and functionality for integrating other applications are handy and adaptable.
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Reliability and Availability
LinearB, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Broadcom
Don’t recall ever being unavailable.
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ServiceNow
Almost 100% available on time
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Performance
LinearB, Inc.
No answers on this topic
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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ServiceNow
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Support Rating
LinearB, Inc.
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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ServiceNow
They tried their best to resolve our queries every time we contacted them about any technical support
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Online Training
LinearB, Inc.
No answers on this topic
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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ServiceNow
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Implementation Rating
LinearB, Inc.
No answers on this topic
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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ServiceNow
App engine can be used just to process the minimal amount of the data which is being received from the user. We are service now catalogue items or any other data technology.
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Alternatives Considered
LinearB, Inc.
No answers on this topic
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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ServiceNow
ServiceNow App Engine is best among all the competitors. Its integration is best with Outlook and ERP, its SLA management is best, and very organized filters are very useful. Categorization of tickets is something that is very useful. It's very easy to search the tasks/order with limited keywords and very easy to customize. The best part is we can simply reply on mails using ServiceNow App Engine and keep a proper log of the tickets.
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Scalability
LinearB, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Broadcom
No answers on this topic
ServiceNow
It is scalable but not reliable
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Return on Investment
LinearB, Inc.
No answers on this topic
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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ServiceNow
  • We have managed to close the un applied cash item from 56% to 89% in a given five working days period by using ServiceNow App Engine
  • By automating and entire money laundering process, we have managed to provide the background check data as quickly as within a day, which was actually taking weeks Same reports when we were doing the things manually.
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