IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery vs. Pivotal Tracker

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Score 9.9 out of 10
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IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery, available on IBM Cloud, allows users to provision an integrated toolchain using customizable, shareable templates with tools from IBM, third parties and open source. Automate builds and tests with Tekton-based delivery pipelines, and control quality with analytics.
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Pivotal Tracker
Score 7.2 out of 10
N/A
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
Pricing
IBM Cloud Continuous DeliveryPivotal Tracker
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$0.00
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$35.00
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IBM Cloud Continuous DeliveryPivotal Tracker
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Chose IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Best fit for IBM Cloud and IBM Hybrid cloud strategy. Very well suited for RedHat Openshift and cloud-native build packs. Complementary solution for Enterprise Java workloads transformation and modernization journey such as java microservices development lifecycle and also …
Chose IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
We chose IBM Cloud Developer Tools for multiple reasons. Cost, current infrastructure vendor list, and Cloud Operations team experience were key driving factors for us. Palo Alto's Prisma Cloud product was slick for sure but we found it more difficult to deploy and integrate …
Chose IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
IBM Cloud developer tools had good support for mobile and web based applications and seemed relatively easy to integrate to our applications. We have other IBM tools so it had a slight edge over others when we compared.
Chose IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Google Cloud AI provides better speech-to-text integration for applications in which the word recognition ability is far good.
Chose IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
IBM Cloud Developer Tools stack up against Visual Studios and other integration suites, with an agnostic approach. IBM Cloud Developer tools integrate seamlessly with your existing stack to augment and accelerate data science and analytics projects at large. Tools are designed …
Chose IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
This is recommended over other applications as it has a continuous delivery for non-mission critical applications also which has simple proof of concepts and this is reliable. Also, the integration to different platforms along with cloud implementation is an add-on. The ease of …
Chose IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
IBM Cloud Developer Tools is way easier than Jenkins and most of the features Jenkins has are not useful for us and the features we wanted were absent ButIBM Cloud Developer Tools saved our lives and is perfect in all aspects as we can easily develop and deploy. The only thing …
Chose IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Both competitors listed work in a similar manner; you can automate the deployment of servers using configuration files and the command line. The difference is that Ansible and Terraform are provider-agnostic, meaning you can use them for other hosting providers as well (AWS, …
Chose IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Mainly, AWS offers 5G services which are futuristic. AWS has More products than IBM Cloud & it offers High Parallel Performance & Computing. Better global coverage than IBM Cloud & Rigid SLAs with credit compensation

Coming to Microsoft Azure, its user interface is very easy to …
Chose IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Eclipse with IBM Cloud Foundry and Kubernets we used to develop application in on premises and deployed into the cloud. And we created containers, created many projects and deployed into the cloud by using Continuous Delivery in IBM Cloud. Great service and great support. IBM …
Chose IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
There's not really a technical background on the decision of using IBM Cloud Continuous delivery. Our CTO assisted to a conference where IBM was promoting their services and offering a free tier. As in that instance the company was starting, every free tier offering was well …
Chose IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
CI/CD is much more user friendly than Jenkins.
It better integrates to IBM Cloud features.
On the other side, Jenkins deployed in a VM or better, on a K8S cluster is a less expensive solution.
Chose IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
I find IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery service way easier to set up compared to Travis CI. The visual interface helps you navigate throughout the service effortlessly. I used Travis CI 2 years ago, although it wasn't complicated, I took more time to create and set up an instance …
Pivotal Tracker
Chose Pivotal Tracker
JIRA is very user friendly. It's ideal for people new to the software development lifecycle and the tracking of the work. They have simply nailed the intuitiveness. Pivotal Tracker might be the better long-term tool because of the flexibility that comes with it. But as …
Chose Pivotal Tracker
I have used a number of systems like Pivotal Tracker over the last 15 years. I have had several occasions to use Wrike separate from and alongside Pivotal Tracker. Wrike was more difficult to use and seems to either be locked down by permissions, so I had to "fight" to do my …
Chose Pivotal Tracker
The only thing that PT compares to is Salesforce and we now utilize both platforms - Salesforce is a bit more organized in its automated task flow and allows us to connect our other platforms to it for efficient data transfer and data consistency.
Chose Pivotal Tracker
I haven't used dev-specific tools other than Pivotal Tracker but it's useful because it is built for a specific use case. The simplicity of an Asana or Trello is great and they have their advantages, but the additional functionality mentioned was worthwhile and a compelling …
Chose Pivotal Tracker
It's not necessarily a matter of better vs. worse when it comes to all of these different tools. They all serve a different purpose to different sized teams. I found Pivotal Tracker and monday.com to be a matter of preference while serving a similar purpose. Good for smaller …
Chose Pivotal Tracker
Pivotal Tracker keeps users 'close' to the software project(s) by allowing users to understand, in plain words, the tasks and expectations of each software release, whereas other tools are either way too close to the source code or require an extensive amount of maintenance. …
Chose Pivotal Tracker
JIRA allows teams to tailor the application workflow to meet their needs, while "opinionated" Pivotal Tracker enforces a consistent workflow approach on all team members. While I, personally, may prefer to have a system configured to my particular habits and desires as a …
Chose Pivotal Tracker
We selected Pivotal Tracker because it is highly opinionated about the process. It worked quite well for what we were expecting from it. Other software we tried were much more flexible, so we could implement our own process there.
Chose Pivotal Tracker
Pivotal Tracker, Asana and Trello all have free versions making them ideal for smaller companies to try out. All of them blast Kannan boards and issue tracking capabilities. While Trello and Asana are great products in themselves, Pivotal Tracker edges them out with its wealth …
Chose Pivotal Tracker
I've used Jira ages ago, and it was still a young product in its initial iterations. The UI was a clunky and was missing a lot of ease with drag and drop for individual stories, uploads, etc. Management of users was useable, but not as ideal as it could be.
Chose Pivotal Tracker

We selected Pivotal Tracker because of its simple, elegant workflow. This is the ideal; it's where we want to be. So we continue to improve, and as we get better, we get more out of the software.

The other software products we evaluated were too complex, and we found that …

Chose Pivotal Tracker
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 …
Chose Pivotal Tracker
We were using JIRA and found it lacking in their UI and some of their services, especially communication. PT communicates much easier with simple links to tasks for execution and QA review.

Basecamp is just really a super note taking and asset depot. I would not consider true …
Chose Pivotal Tracker
Compared to other task management tools, Pivotal Tracker has the best blend of functionality and cost. When you need something simpler than Jira, and not solely focused on code or UI related tasks like BugHerd, and have a more direct approach to completing tasks than Trello - I …
Chose Pivotal Tracker
Pivotal Tracker, for better or worse, provides a more structured and rigid workflow than most. That makes it easy to get started, but if you have your own workflow you want to integrate into it, it could mean it'll take longer to get used to or customize. It's still more …
Chose Pivotal Tracker
Our team has evaluated Basecamp, Trello, and others but overall preferred the simple and flexible layout of Pivotal Tracker.
Chose Pivotal Tracker
Our organization actually does not exclusively use Pivotal. We also have teams on solutions like Trello and LeanKit. It's all preference, those who buy into all the agile features that pivotal provides, love it. Those who do not need all the overhead, simply use a different …
Chose Pivotal Tracker
Rally is too complicated - there are far too many fields that all have the same meaning. It's a better agile tool in my opinion since it it was designed purely as an agile tool, but since the CA technologies acquisition, the tool has become more complicated and there are far …
Chose Pivotal Tracker
Compared to Rally the tool seems more accessible because or the suite of apps available. It also feels more polished and stable than Rally. It definitely has more tools and features but again it can be overkill for a smaller team or project.
Chose Pivotal Tracker
Overall I have found that I prefer using Pivotal over all the competitors I've tried. There are certain aspects of the other products which I do like but as a whole Pivotal does a better job. My one request is that I feel it is very much a web app and the other products have …
Chose Pivotal Tracker
I have also used Trello and Jira. A small company with only a couple of projects may be best suited with Trello due to its cost and simplicity, whereas Jira may be better suited for a large company that can afford a dedicated Jira manager, due to its complex configurations and …
Chose Pivotal Tracker
Jira is very complex, while tracker is more straightforward to use. Tracker requires less micromanagement and upkeep.
Asana is pretty but not useful for product and engineering build. It is more geared towards design projects.
Chose Pivotal Tracker
For teams less than a dozen or so, Jira is total overkill. PT is just the right amount of complexity for our company.
Features
IBM Cloud Continuous DeliveryPivotal Tracker
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
8.5
Ratings
11% above category average
Pivotal Tracker
-
Ratings
Task Management8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Management8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Gantt Charts8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Scheduling8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology7.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Document Management8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Email integration8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Search9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual planning tools9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Agile Development
Comparison of Agile Development features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
7.6
Ratings
8% below category average
Pivotal Tracker
-
Ratings
DevOps Tool Integrations8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Code Review7.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Code Collaboration7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Velocity Calculation6.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Dependencies and Blockers7.20 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
IBM Cloud Continuous DeliveryPivotal Tracker
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
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8.0
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Likelihood to Renew
9.1
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10.0
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Usability
8.2
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6.0
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Support Rating
7.0
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8.0
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User Testimonials
IBM Cloud Continuous DeliveryPivotal Tracker
Likelihood to Recommend
It provides a cloud-based integrated development environment that integrates with other IBM Cloud services to provide a streamlined development workflow. This includes real-time collaboration and code sharing capabilities, making it easy for teams to work together on projects. This feature is very useful for our app to maintain the code
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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
  • It contains the deployment templates which are much more time saving and is of great use.
  • This has the integration of the Cloud applications which makes the work much more convenient.
  • This is flexible when it comes to development, deployment, and delivery.
  • [It] also has a much more reasonable pricing.
  • Provides space for the data storage.
  • [IBM Cloud Developer Tools] also can support many useful tools.
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  • Pivotal Tracker helps our team visualize our projects in the form of stories (virtual cards) moving through our workflow. This encourages us to break down projects into manageable chunks and have important conversations about deliverables and scope.
  • The forced-prioritization allows our team to have a shared understanding about what is most important and make collective decisions about what our team will work on next.
  • By dividing future iterations by our team's velocity, Pivotal Tracker accurately predicts when we will complete future work.
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Cons
  • Its price is quite high and this made it unsuitable for us as we cannot afford such high rates.
  • Its Setup takes much longer time and this is frustrating.
  • Its interface needs to be improved and easy even for the Newbies.
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  • Used to have a newsfeed-type feature with all the updates from the previous day. They removed it. I liked getting a snapchat of what changed from before.
  • When signing up for email alerts, can be inundated with emails for every change to the status of a story.
  • Communication on stories through the comment section can be a little difficult, and not very organized.
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Likelihood to Renew
It's a great platform to develop, run, test and deploy the applications easily. And it makes very easier and secure the implementation of continuous delivery process. For first time and experts also can use this service so easily. Great service provided by the IBM Cloud Continuous Service. There are more services that helps a lot to work on it. Thanks a lot.
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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
Nothing special to say : the UX is clear and simple.
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It works good enough. I didn't have many problems with that. The user interface is a bit confusing though. The team took some time to understand where some configurations were.
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Support Rating
In more than a year using the IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery tool, I haven't had any major complaints or problems. However, in the last month, IBM suffered from a couple of problems through several of its services, and for a short period of time, I couldn't deploy successfully my projects. The problem was brief and was quickly fixed.
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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
We chose IBM Cloud Developer Tools for multiple reasons. Cost, current infrastructure vendor list, and Cloud Operations team experience were key driving factors for us. Palo Alto's Prisma Cloud product was slick for sure but we found it more difficult to deploy and integrate with our current environment and applications
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Pivotal Tracker, Asana and Trello all have free versions making them ideal for smaller companies to try out. All of them blast Kannan boards and issue tracking capabilities. While Trello and Asana are great products in themselves, Pivotal Tracker edges them out with its wealth of features including trackability of epics, burndowns, better reporting, and analytics. JIRA, on the other hand, is way more customizable, has more reporting capabilities and more features than Pivotal Tracker but is more expensive too. At the end of the day, it comes down to what you're looking for in an agile project management tool as well as how much you're willing to pay for it.
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Return on Investment
  • This has made the configuration files much easier to access.
  • Has made the commands more logical as well as easy for use and learning.
  • Contains great AI capabilities
  • The documentation needs improvement.
  • Error received from commands are pretty hard to understand.
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  • Pivotal Tracker has been a cost-effective solution for what we need. It has allowed our ROI to be greater than if we went with another system.
  • Learning curve; with this easy to use tool, it has been a shorter learning curve for new hires to find what they need to accomplish their task.
  • Flexibility; we are right now stuck at 4 levels of classification; project; Story, Task, Comments. If we were able to expand on this, we would be able to role this out faster to other departments within our business.
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