Pivotal Tracker vs. Skytap

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Pivotal Tracker
Score 5.1 out of 10
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Pivotal 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
Skytap
Score 4.1 out of 10
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Traditional Applications, Now in the Cloud Skytap helps users get business-critical applications out of the data center and into the cloud. The user can run on-premises IBM Power and x86 workloads in their native format on Microsoft Azure or IBM Cloud. With Skytap, there is no need to contemplate embarking on a long, costly migration project to unlock cloud scale, agility, and value-added native cloud services such as advanced analytics, data modeling, cognitive intelligence, and…N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Pivotal TrackerSkytap
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Pivotal TrackerSkytap
Features
Pivotal TrackerSkytap
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Pivotal Tracker
6.0
1 Ratings
23% below category average
Skytap
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Ratings
Task Management3.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Management3.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Scheduling7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Email integration9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Search5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Agile Development
Comparison of Agile Development features of Product A and Product B
Pivotal Tracker
8.0
1 Ratings
1% above category average
Skytap
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DevOps Tool Integrations8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Velocity Calculation7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Dependencies and Blockers9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Pivotal Tracker
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Ratings
Skytap
9.0
1 Ratings
9% above category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Dynamic scaling00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Pre-configured templates00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Monitoring tools00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Security controls00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Automation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Pivotal TrackerSkytap
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(32 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Pivotal TrackerSkytap
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Skytap
It is a shared environment from which multiple team can work on multiple versions for development or testing purpose. User jut have to share a link and other can start working on it. This is very useful when multiple team are working on different user simultaneously. It has a very simple interface
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Pros
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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Skytap
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Cons
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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Skytap
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Skytap
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Usability
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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Skytap
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Support Rating
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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Skytap
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Alternatives Considered
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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Skytap
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Return on Investment
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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Skytap
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