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    LoadSpring

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ALoadSpring is a project management solution built specifically for IT teams.N/A

    Pivotal Tracker

    Score5 out of 10
    N/APivotal Tracker is a project management program primarily for software developers. It is built from the ground up to facilitate the agile development cycle, and is optimized for structuring projects in sprints, or “stories.” The solution is now owned and supported by VMware, and is part of the Pivotal / Tanzu product line up.N/A
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    LoadSpringPivotal Tracker
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    LoadSpringPivotal Tracker
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    LoadSpringPivotal Tracker
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    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    78%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    LoadSpringPivotal Tracker
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of LoadSpring and Pivotal Tracker
    Feature
    LoadSpring
    7.4
    1 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Pivotal Tracker
    6.0
    1 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Task Management8.01 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Resource Management8.01 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Gantt Charts7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling9.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Workflow Automation8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team Collaboration8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document Management6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email integration6.01 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Mobile Access6.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of LoadSpring and Pivotal Tracker
    Feature
    LoadSpring
    7.5
    1 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Pivotal Tracker
    -
    Ratings
    Quotes/estimates8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Invoicing7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Agile Development
    Comparison of Agile Development features of LoadSpring and Pivotal Tracker
    Feature
    LoadSpring
    -
    Ratings
    Pivotal Tracker
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    4% above category average
    DevOps Tool Integrations00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Velocity Calculation00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Dependencies and Blockers00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    Enterprises
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    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    LoadSpringPivotal Tracker
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (32 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LoadSpringPivotal Tracker
    Likelihood to Recommend
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    LoadSpring is great for managing licenses so that a user who hasn't been utilizing the software can be placed inactive so the license isn't being occupied. Managing services and applications is great. You can easily change access through the management portion of the service. Uptime is also very good.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    The UI of the Pivotal tracker is really beautiful and amazing, which looks trivial, but we have it open all the time, so it's nice for us. In Pivotal tracker for me its very Easy to create tasks or stories anytime without facing any problems. Pivotal tracker provides us a ton of features to track the tasks and manage a team and the projects. Pivotal tracker allows for a entire team to be on the same page of the tool in regards to where is the project right now, right status of every task, what is being worked on and by whom.
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    Pros
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    • Management of sessions.
    • Account/license management.
    • Reliability.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • It's great for tracking milestones and reporting team velocity per sprint.
    • Maintaining a prioritized backlog that is sharable with different members of your team is relatively simple.
    • There's a free version of the product for up to 3 collaborators working on 2 projects and the starting price for larger packages is relatively low.
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    Cons
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    • Self-service account reactivation.
    • Integration of instructions on a per application level.
    • Built in linked help for companies using the software.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • In-story task management is still a weak point. The ability to @mention users in tasks and mark tasks as 'in-progress' would go a long way.
    • Epics do not span projects. This becomes troublesome when scaling Pivotal Tracker's agile methodology to multiple teams.
    • Splitting stories is often confusing for team members as there is no concept of a 'parent' story with child stories that have split off of it. There are only two levels: Epic & Story.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    VMware by Broadcom
    I love the simplicity, non-configurability, and price/performance of this tool. Hands down my favorite project management tool for agile.
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    Usability
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    VMware by Broadcom
    It was generally easy to use once you got the hang of it. The searching and tagging of tickets was fine, commenting worked well, and release planning was good. However, it wasn't the most intuitive tool in the beginning. The UI is pretty outdated and could have used upgrades over time.
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    Support Rating
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    LoadSpring support is very quick to respond. They have self-service for support which is great for quick fixes on the end-user side of things. They will respond with a good solution and if they need further assistance from an administrator, and they email them so they can assist the end-user with their issue.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    We've never had to request support in the 5 years I have been using it. A solid solution! Everything I have had questions about is on the website. New features are in their newsletter with more details on their website. Often I am using the new features within a few minutes of reading the article.
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    Alternatives Considered
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    LoadSpring has a great up-time compared to our old hosting service. We haven't had many outages and very few issues while running our concurrent sessions. Automated license management has been great so our active licenses stay very low. I wasn't involved with the purchase and migration but I feel this was the better option.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    We have had employees in the past look at Drupal, and other open source project management tools to assist in our needs. Unfortunately each solution took too much time to implement, design and configure that we could not stop the work we were doing for clients to complete a full set up of a project tracker. Thankfully Pivotal is a predefined solution with no configuration needed. Simply input your projects, design your Stories with Tasks and begin your tracking.
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    Return on Investment
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    • Great license manager.
    • Has great up-time for hosting our application.
    • Self service account management is non-existent.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • Time is money with development and a lot of things can fall through the cracks. Having a good system for making sure you're building the most relevant product for customers is really important so it was well worth it for us.
    • The process we used worked for us and it helped us streamline our development which reduced a lot of things falling through the cracks and headaches. I'm sure there are other products that can do the same job just as effectively but Pivotal Tracker worked well for us.
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