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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Teams

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Teams combines video conferencing software with team collaboration tools. The communications platform allows MS Office users to conduct conference calls and share files via SharePoint, and join or initiate a group chat.

    $4.80

    per month per user

    OpenText ALM/Quality Center

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AOpenTextâ„¢ ALM/Quality Center, formerly from Micro Focus, serves as the single pane of glass for software quality management. It helps users to govern application lifecycle management activities and implement rigorous, auditable lifecycle processes.N/A
    Pricing
    Microsoft TeamsOpenText ALM/Quality Center
    Editions & Modules
    Microsoft Teams Essentials
    $4.80
    per month per user
    Microsoft Teams Enterprise
    $5.25
    per month (paid yearly) per user
    Microsoft Teams Enterprise
    $5.25
    per month per user
    Microsoft 365 Business Basic
    $7.20
    per month per user
    Microsoft 365 Business Standard
    $15
    per month per user
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    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft TeamsOpenText ALM/Quality Center
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscounts are available for non profit organizations.—
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    Microsoft TeamsOpenText ALM/Quality Center
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    OpenText
    Chose OpenText ALM/Quality Center
    Among a number of other tools used in our business, ALM is best for:
    • Long-term projects.
    • Waterfall projects.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
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    83%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    225 Answers
    80%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
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    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Microsoft TeamsOpenText ALM/Quality Center
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Microsoft Teams and OpenText ALM/Quality Center
    Feature
    Microsoft Teams
    8.2
    241 Ratings
    6% above category average
    OpenText ALM/Quality Center
    -
    Ratings
    Task Management8.1179 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts8.196 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling8.3208 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow Automation8.4126 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access8.2229 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search7.6212 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual planning tools8.4143 Ratings00 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Microsoft Teams and OpenText ALM/Quality Center
    Feature
    Microsoft Teams
    8.0
    251 Ratings
    1% above category average
    OpenText ALM/Quality Center
    -
    Ratings
    Chat9.0250 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications8.5249 Ratings00 Ratings
    Discussions8.7235 Ratings00 Ratings
    Surveys8.2146 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase8.6157 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting6.547 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts5.743 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook9.1155 Ratings00 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Microsoft Teams and OpenText ALM/Quality Center
    Feature
    Microsoft Teams
    8.2
    236 Ratings
    2% above category average
    OpenText ALM/Quality Center
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    Ratings
    Versioning8.6168 Ratings00 Ratings
    Video files8.4202 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audio files8.8200 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document collaboration8.9216 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access control8.6198 Ratings00 Ratings
    Advanced security features8.5158 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive5.353 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device sync8.6172 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Flock
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Polarion ALM
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Troop Messenger
    Score9.8 out of 10
    PTC Windchill RV&S
    Score2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
    IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management
    Score5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft TeamsOpenText ALM/Quality Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (329 ratings)
    7.1
    (31 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (114 ratings)
    3.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (114 ratings)
    7.4
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    6.3
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    7.0
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft TeamsOpenText ALM/Quality Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    It's amazing as a daily driver for team communication, and document search/store. Also, if you're doing a lot of LONG meetings and have trouble remembering details, the AI summarization is amazing and convenient. It just works. I'm not saying I always do this, of course, but if I need to 'skim' instead of really digging into every detail from a meeting, the AI-generated summary is generally good enough that I can get away with it.
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    OpenText
    For an organisation that has completely adopted SAFe structure including naming terminology, it is less appropriate and apart from that. It can suit any organisation out there, and it can solve all your problems one way or another by customising it. It is a robust and highly scalable solution to support all the business needs. It improves a lot of productivity and visibility.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • All in one communication for Teams.
    • High quality and reliable both audio and video meetings.
    • Well organized and clear instant chat.
    • Excellent security features.
    • Beautiful integration with 3rd party tools and systems.
    • Perfect compatibility with windows ,android and iOS.
    • Allow meetings recordings for later us or sharing with teams that missed the live.
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    OpenText
    • If you have a mix of automation & manual test suites, HPALM is the best tool to manage that. It definitely integrates very well with HP automation tools like HP Unified Functional Testing and HP LoadRunner. Automated Suites can be executed, reports can be maintained automatically. It also classifies which test suites are manual & which are automated & managers can see the progress happening in moving from manual to automated suites. In HPA ALM all the functional test suites, performance test suites, security suites can be defined, managed & tracked in one place.
    • It is a wonderful tool for test management. Whether you want to create test cases, or import it, from execution to snapshot capturing, it supports all activities very well. The linking of defects to test runs is excellent. Any changes in mandatory fields or status of the defect triggers an e-mail and sent automatically to the user that the defect is assigned to.
    • It also supports devops implementation by interacting with development tool sets such as Jenkins & GIT. It also bring in team collaboration by supporting collaboration tools like Slack and Hubot.
    • This tool can integrate to any environment, any source control management tool bringing in changes and creates that trace-ability and links between source control changes to requirements to tests across the sdlc life-cycle.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • The webinars feature has some missing functionally such as the ability for all users to use the Q&A feature (only those with a Microsoft Teams account can use it now), the ability to upload documents for attendees to easily access and download, and the ability for presenters and organizers to easily chat amongst themselves throughout the webinar.
    • The "Channels" organization hierarchy could be more clear. If you have several channels set up, it can get clunky and hard to find the specific channel you are looking for.
    • The MS Planner tool lacks functionality and organization. You cannot assign more than one person to a task and it's confusing when you try to share tasks with people - it would be nice if they were automatically added to someone's calendar.
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    OpenText
    • The requirements module is not as user friendly as other applications, such as Blue Bird. Managing requirements is usually done in another tool. However, having the requirements in ALM is important to ensure traceability to tests and defects.
    • Reporting across multiple ALM repositories is not supported within the tool. Only graphs are included within ALM functionality. Due to size considerations, one or two projects is not a good solution. Alternatively, we have started leveraging the template functionality within ALM and are integrating with a third party reporting tool to work around this issue.
    • NET (not Octane) requires a package for deployment to machines without administrative rights. Every time there is a change, a new package must be created, which increases the time to deploy. It also forces us to wait until multiple patches have been provided before updating production.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Teams is included with our Office 365 subscription and we have no intention of migrating off of Office 365 and Microsoft products. Since Microsoft Teams is included for free with our Office 365 subscription, and since we enjoy all the features, benefits, and functionality, there is no question that our team will continue to use the product
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    OpenText
    I like the ease to use and its reliable.
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    If you have the full Microsoft Office suite, it works really well because it's integrated well within its ecosystem, but if not, it can be annoying because it tries to open a shared file in the web versions of the file equivalents. The web version is also a bit slow, and the login is very difficult to handle if you have multiple Microsoft or Outlook accounts.
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    OpenText
    Because it lets me track the test cases with detailed scenarios and is clearly separated in folders. Also the defect filter helps me filter only the ones that have been assigned to a particular area of interest. The availability of reports lets me see the essentials fields which I might be missing the data on and helps me to work on these instead of having to go through everything.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
    Rare, but outages do happen
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    OpenText
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    Performance
    Microsoft
    Sometimes about once a week I get a message that says "Sorry, there seems to be something wrong". But it goes away in a few minutes.
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    OpenText
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    The overall support provided by Microsoft for Microsoft Teams has been quite good but there is still some room for improvements. Microsoft needs to proactively work on fixing the open bugs in order to provide a seamless experience to the users. But over the service and experience provided by the Microsoft team have been quite satisfactory.
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    OpenText
    It is a great tool, however, it got this rating because there is a lot of learning that takes a lot longer than other tools. There are no mobile versions of ALM even with just a project summary view. I believe ALM is well capable of integration with other analytics tools that can help business solutions prediction based on current and past project data. This is Data held in ALM but with no other use apart from human reading and project progress. ALM looks like a steady platform that I believe can handle more dynamic functionality. You could add an internal communication platform that is not a third party. Limit that communication tool to specific project members.
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    I find everything I need for my day-to-day work.
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    OpenText
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Teams offers a much more integrated experience between their chat and video call function compared to Google Chat and Slack. Both other tools are much better for internal communications are they have simpler UI without other features. Whereas Microsoft Teams can be used for more critical conversations, particularly between external companies, and has been very useful in sales conversations which is what we chose it for when speaking to companies that work exclusively through Microsoft.
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    OpenText
    We have other tools in our organization like Atlassian JIRA and Microsoft Team Foundation Server, which are very capable tools but very narrow in their approach and feature set and does not come even close to the some of the core capabilities of HP ALM. HP ALM is the "System of Record" in our organization. It gives visibility for an artifact throughout the delivery chain, which cut downs unnecessary bottlenecks and noise during releases.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Microsoft
    Honestly, this tool is worth every penny. Yes, it's not free and you pay for the quality of services and the license. But the ROI and the benefits are all there. Also, the renewal, negotiation, and contract terms are all very well explained by our Microsoft account manager, and she's a charm.
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Microsoft
    It does not appear to have a limit to how many teams and employees we can have using it
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    OpenText
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    Professional Services
    Microsoft
    I used Skype for Business to take calls, hold conferences, and provide remote assistance to users. Microsoft Teams, on the other hand, is superior to Skype for Business in my opinion. My job entails a lot of screen sharing.
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Personally, I would say that by using Microsoft Teams, it upped my collaboration with my colleagues by around 50% or around more than half of what I usually did prior to using it.
    • I had 100% show rate and attendance on all of my meetings in the past 6 months.
    • If I may add, I also have been chattier & collaborative towards my colleagues in past 3 months particularly the month of December when we had huge traffic at work. I would estimate this behavior to have been increased by around 60% than what I usually incur during normal operating days.
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    OpenText
    • ALM/QC has allowed for quick, traceable turnaround on relatively simple tasks
    • ALM/QC allows us to achieve our business objective of always being able to refer to a documented ticket for work being done.
    • ALM/QC navigation is not the easiest, so this aspect of the product has caused great frustration among new users.
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