Atlassian ALM vs OpenText Software Delivery Management comparison

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Atlassian and OpenText are both solutions in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category. Atlassian is ranked #16 with an average rating of 7.0, while OpenText is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.0. Atlassian holds a 2.4% mindshare in ALM, compared to OpenText’s 7.0% mindshare. Additionally, 71% of Atlassian users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

Atlassian ALM and OpenText Software Delivery Management are competitors in application lifecycle management. OpenText is preferred by large enterprises due to its comprehensive features, while Atlassian offers a cost-effective option for smaller teams.

Features: Atlassian ALM excels in seamless integration with third-party tools, team collaboration, and flexible workflow customization. OpenText Software Delivery Management offers advanced release management, scalability, and high customization capabilities suitable for enterprise environments.

Room for Improvement: Atlassian ALM could enhance its scalability and requirement management features to better align with larger enterprise needs. The structure for managing document types and requirement reuse can also be refined. OpenText Software Delivery Management, while robust, can benefit from simplifying its user interface and deployment complexity, reducing the need for expert assistance, and improving cost-efficiency for mid-sized companies.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Atlassian ALM allows for a swift deployment process with extensive online resources, making it ideal for rapid implementations. OpenText, in contrast, offers a more customizable deployment but tends to require more time and expert support.

Pricing and ROI: Atlassian ALM is attractive due to its low entry cost, suitable for small teams aiming for a quick ROI. OpenText Software Delivery Management, despite a higher initial investment, is justified by its extensive features and potential for substantial long-term ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Atlassian ALM vs. OpenText Software Delivery Management Report (Updated: September 2026).

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Atlassian ALM

Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

16th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

OpenText Software Delivery ...

Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

6th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (9th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category, the mindshare of Atlassian ALM is 2.4%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Software Delivery Management is 7.0%, up from 5.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
OpenText Software Delivery Management	7.0%
Atlassian ALM	2.4%
Other	90.6%

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

Featured Reviews

BRIANJOHNSON2

Independant Consultant at B&H Designs Ltd

Long-term testing workflows have improved integration of test planning and defect tracking

The deployment depends on whether you are deploying it on your computer or across the program. Cloud-based system deployment takes some time, as it depends on your rights to your computer. I would rate the deployment as a seven on a scale of one to ten. It took a couple of hours to get it right. The IT department deploys it.

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Peter-Paul Eijkenboom

Senior Test Automation Specialist at APG

Generating audit evidence effortlessly saves time and money

OpenText ALM Octane is a new product with full development ongoing, where new ideas are launched regularly. Its ability to generate audit evidence with a single click is a significant advantage, as it saves considerable time and money compared to manual processes. This efficiency is especially valuable for audits required by financial regulators.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"If you can spend the little effort to configure Jira to support your more complex requirements management, then you can concentrate everything in one tool."

"This solution fits very well into our agile product management environment."

"The main power of this tool is the integration between the different products of the Atlassian suite, and we have good integration with work management and software build automation (Bamboo), which is the major strength from this provider."

"As a general purpose tool, JIRA and Confluence are still ahead of the competition."

"In Bitbucket, the reviews are pretty good."

"The most valuable feature is the Scrum board."

"The interface between the repository and test plan stands out as valuable, and I appreciate building the tests and scenarios in Test Lab and the ability to link defects throughout the system, which Atlassian ALM does better than any other testing products."

"The Atlassian ALM suite consists at least of JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket and HipChat - just the tools you need for organizing your teams in a very efficient way."

"On the user side, what I like a lot is the reporting capabilities. There's no tool, to my knowledge, that gets anywhere close to Octane at the moment when it comes to the reporting capabilities. I can do everything with the reporting. There's nothing missing. I have all the options. I can create graphs, including graphs of several types and looks."

"The most useful feature of Micro Focus ALM Octane is the dashboards, they are easy to use."

"The enterprise view for application management has been great."

"Octane works well with the Jira portfolio to track the project with two methods: Agile and Waterfall. We can track all the testing in Waterfall or Agile and synchronize it with Agile tools."

"The most valuable feature of ALM Octane is an easy implementation of Agile projects."

"The benefits I've mentioned can be reflected as monetary benefits, which I would estimate at 35 percent annually."

"It's a good product."

"The most valuable feature of Micro Focus ALM Octane is the reports. We are able to do customization."

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Cons

"However, it is not really scalable, so if you want to use it for anything larger or plan to use it for product portfolios, then it starts to be problematic."

"Frankly it's a really daunting exercise - challenging, problematic and very flaky."

"All Atlassian products are based on JAVA which makes it a bit difficult to trace problems if you don't have much JAVA skilled staff around."

"The automation for scheduling software and doing software tests should be simplified because it's complex and too rigid."

"The solution is stable but at times, the performance is poor. It takes time to load and the response time is not up to the mark."

"There is room for improvement in the high-level project management."

"For project management, the scheduling of the project tasks should be simplified because it's complex and too rigid using the Atlassian Portfolio."

"Confluence is just a super-inadequate tool for editing documents."

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"It could use just some small improvements. I would like additional features, like planning features, user story mapping, or connection to collaboration tools."

"The tool's price is high, making it an area where improvement is high."

"The limitation of Octane is that we can't do a release outside of the sprint. We can only plan the release in the sprint. With Agile and JIRA tools, we can plan the release outside the sprint and do a global release of all the projects from the sprint."

"The reporting side of ALM Octane could do with a few areas of improvement. There is not enough flexibility in the way that we can cut up the data to report on certain things."

"The elements in filtering need to be improved, meaning the number of filters I can use in widgets or in the grid views in parallel. There's a limitation which bothers a lot of our users. Filtering in text, or having a complex filter is limited. In a given field, for example, I can use a filter only once. I cannot say, 'Include the values 1, 2, and 3, and exclude value 17.' This is not possible but we have requested it often."

"The cluster architecture that we implemented was server to server communication: Octane application to Elasticsearch and Elasticsearch to another Elasticsearch service. Recently, we found this is a security gap. The Octane application is interacting with Elasticsearch server, but that was missing from the requirements and prerequisites in the setup. The Micro Focus team has not given advice on how to implement authentication-based communication between Octane to Elasticsearch, and we found it as a gap later, then our security team asked us to fix that gap. So, there was a lot of time spent on rework."

"Security and security management, meaning the integration of the security, could be enhanced."

"I have yet to experience the CI/CD part of Micro Focus ALM Octane but as demonstrated by the team who is providing the services, I see that the CI/CD could improve. When we check in the code, for the code snippet that has been checked in by a particular user, you need to open a separate file. When comparing Micro Focus ALM Octane to Jira, they have a separate window in which you can click on the ID and the code is visible in the snippet. It's a two-step process in Micro Focus ALM Octane and it's a single-step process in Jira. It's essential for the developers to think about this difference."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a community edition available, but if the price were lower for the addons then more people would use the full version."

"I would say that it is an affordable product. There is an annual service fee, which is one of the additional payments to be made apart from the standard licensing costs attached to the solution."

"Microsoft is a big challenge for Micro Focus when it comes to pricing because they are much cheaper. But it definitely depends on the complexity of the environment. If it has multiple technologies, at that point, looking at other options and Microsoft would be a feasible approach."

"I rate the tool's pricing an eight on a scale from one to ten, where ten is very expensive."

"For what it does, it's very reasonably priced. I like the licensing model as well, because it's very flexible. You can scale licenses up and down for short periods of time."

"It will be as expensive as ALM.NET, if not more expensive. But here's a good tip: If you have ALM.NET, you are able to share your licenses from ALM.NET to Octane. You just have to define a dedicated number of licenses on ALM.NET and then you can share them with ALM Octane, with some configuration effort. This is something that you have to take into account, that there is a possibility of such license sharing that could decrease your costs. Compared to open-source tools, the price the ALM Octane is definitely higher, in terms of the licensing cost."

"The comparison is always with Jira, so the pricing of Octane is a bit on the higher side. But if you look at what you have to add to Jira, on the plug-in side, to have the same abilities you have with Octane, you're more or less even, or even ahead with Octane."

"If you compare the price with the functionality, it is pretty much the same as other solutions. If you compare it to Jira, for instance, it has a lot more functionality. You don't need any plug-ins, but it's also more expensive. Once you start adding your different plug-ins to Jira, you'll probably end up with the same amount or more. There is also a yearly support cost, which is usually 25% of the initial cost of the license."

"Pricing is the weakest point. It is expensive, but the tool has plenty of features. The main problem we have is that the pricing is very high compared to some other solutions."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Outsourcing Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Outsourcing Company

Construction Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	2

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	34

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Atlassian ALM?

Atlassian ALM is too expensive. The pricing is very expensive.

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What needs improvement with Atlassian ALM?

I am still not satisfied with the requirements area of Atlassian ALM. Atlassian ALM has four parts: test plan, Test Lab, requirements, and reporting. The requirements portion continues to be an are...

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What is your primary use case for Atlassian ALM?

I have been using Atlassian ALM for twenty-five years. It used to be called Quality Center, and I first used it in 2000 and 2001. The company changed, but the product remained. Atlassian ALM has no...

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Is Jira better or would you go with Micro Focus ALM Octane?

Hi Netanya, Basically , it all depends on the use cases for your environment and the business needs. Hope the below data may be relevant to you for identifying your needs and deciding on the approp...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus ALM Octane?

OpenText ALM Octane is an expensive product. However, it offsets costs by saving time and money, thus creating a balance between expenses and benefits. Our organization with over 1500 users sees sa...

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What needs improvement with Micro Focus ALM Octane?

There is room for improvement in OpenText ALM Octane's flexibility. While it aims to be as flexible as possible for a large enterprise application, sometimes there are limitations that may not meet...

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Micro Focus ALM Octane, Micro Focus Octane

Overview

Atlassian ALM offers agile application lifecycle management, supporting teams through from development to testing while integrating seamlessly with tools like JIRA, Confluence, and Bitbucket.

Designed for software development teams and adaptable for others like service desks and sales, Atlassian ALM provides seamless integration across the full software development cycle. Users value its task management and documentation abilities, facilitated by linked tools such as JIRA for custom fields and project organization, Bitbucket for task management, and automated workflows with Bamboo. Some challenges include JIRA's complexity and setup difficulties, with enhancements needed in requirements management and traceability. Identity management complexities pose additional challenges for large enterprises, and its JAVA-based infrastructure requires skilled personnel. Integration improvements are sought, as well as better Confluence editing capabilities for document management.

What features make Atlassian ALM valuable?

JIRA Custom Fields: Offers flexibility in customizing workflows and fields for specific project needs.
Confluence Documentation: Provides robust capabilities for creating and organizing project documents.
Bamboo Automation: Streamlines workflow automation and integration.
Bitbucket Task Management: Facilitates efficient task handling and integration with JIRA.
HipChat Integration: Supports team discussions and collaboration.

What benefits do users find in Atlassian ALM?

Efficient Project Organization: Centralizes task management and documentation.
Integration Strength: Seamless combination of multiple tools enhances functionality.
Flexibility: Adaptable structure supports various team requirements.
Hosting and Plugins: Offers options and adaptability to meet different needs.

In software development and related fields, Atlassian ALM is widely used for agile lifecycle management, with teams leveraging its tools for comprehensive development cycles. It's implemented in regulated environments and compatible with additional extensions such as JIRA for managing complex requirements, though scalability may be a concern for larger systems.

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OpenText Software Delivery Management provides application lifecycle management with Agile and Waterfall support. It features intuitive interfaces, CI/CD integration, automated testing, and robust reporting, improving project management efficiency and usability.

Designed to enhance teams' productivity and streamline processes, OpenText Software Delivery Management integrates seamlessly with Agile methodologies. Its comprehensive backlog and requirements management, user stories, and test management make it a complete tool for managing the development lifecycle. The platform aligns with DevOps, providing traceability and extensive customization options. Traceability from requirements to deployments is enhanced, making it easier for teams to track progress. It offers integration with popular tools like Jenkins and JIRA, ensuring a unified approach to continuous delivery and testing management.

What key features does OpenText Software Delivery Management include?

Versatile across browsers with consistent performance.
Seamless CI/CD integration for smooth development processes.
Intuitive interface aiding in efficiency and ease of use.
Comprehensive backlog management ensures organized prioritization.
Automated testing aligns with Agile and DevOps principles.

What benefits can users expect when evaluating OpenText Software Delivery Management?

Enhanced traceability from inception to delivery.
Improved project management efficiency through streamlined processes.
Robust reporting capabilities offering detailed insights.
Increased flexibility in customization enabling tailored experiences.
Predictive analytics for better decision-making.

OpenText Software Delivery Management is implemented across technology-focused industries, supporting Agile processes like requirements management and defect tracking. Organizations use it to standardize development workflows and optimize continuous delivery integration, choosing it for its ability to support both Agile and Waterfall methodologies within application lifecycle management.

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Sample Customers

Facebook, NASA, Cisco, eBay, Redfin, Toyota, Kaiser Permanente, Gilt, CSIRO, Autodesk, The Daily Telegraph, CODE, Illumnia

Orange, Airbus, Haufe Group, Kellogg's, Claro, Bon Secours, World Wide Technology

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