Product Solutions Resources Partners Pricing Support Talk to an expert Get free trial Login GitLab vs Micro Focus ALM Octane Decision Kit Summary Micro Focus, which purchased the software business unit of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has ALM Octane, that has both on-premise technologies and SaaS-based offerings. ALM Octane is a web-based application lifecycle management platform that enables teams to collaborate easily, manage the product delivery pipeline, and visualize the impact of changes. GitLab enables portfolio planning and management through epics, groups (programs) and milestones to organize and track progress. Regardless of your methodology from Waterfall to DevOps, GitLab’s simple and flexible approach to planning meets the needs of small teams to large enterprises. GitLab helps teams organize, plan, align and track project work to ensure teams are working on the right things at the right time and maintain end to end visibility and traceability of issues throughout the delivery lifecycle from idea to production. Gaps ALM Octane doesn’t include built-in CI/CD, SCM and IDE, therefore integrations with third-party tools are required for the complete software development lifecycle. In contrast, GitLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application. From project planning and source code management to CI/CD, monitoring, and security. Comments/Anecdotes From IT Central Station ALM Octane customer: “When I manage projects that are being created in ALM, I have a standard template, but I don’t have a template for them in Octane. I literally have to create the project from the ground up every time, which for an administrator, is a nightmare solution”. In contrast, Gitlab allows creating projects from template, more details. From IT Central Station ALM Octane customer: “The Requirements Module could be better, to build up a better requirements process. There’s a huge improvement from ALM.NET to Octane, but it’s still not really facilitating all the needs of the product owners, to set up their requirements in Octane”. From TechValid ALM Octane Senior consulted: “The Jenkins dashboard (pipeline overview) is amazing. I have shown customers who have a strong anti-HPE bias and they were blown away by that feature alone”. Resources Micro Focus ALM Octane ALM Octane online help Pricing Feature Comparison FEATURES Issues SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Quickly set the status, assignee or milestone for multiple issues at the same time or easily filter them on any properties. See milestones and issues across projects. Learn more about the Issue Tracker Description Templates SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE By adding a description template to your issues or merge requests, users who create a new issue or merge request can select a template to help them to communicate effectively. Learn more about GitLab Description Templates File Attachments SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Upload file attachments (including images) to issues, merge requests, and epics, to communicate ideas beyond text. Learn more about File Attachments Labels SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Labels provide an easy way to categorize issues, merge requests, or epics based on descriptive titles as ‘bug’, or ‘documentation’. Learn more about GitLab Labels Issue Weights SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE GitLab lets you manage issues using Agile practices by setting the weight of an issue. Read our Issue Weights documentation Milestones SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Create and manage milestones at both the project and group levels, viewing all the issues for the milestone you’re currently working on, representing an Agile program increment or a release. Learn more about Milestones Iterations SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Create and manage iterations at the group level, view all the issues for the iteration you’re currently working on within your group or project, and enable all subgroups and projects to stay in sync on the same cadence. Learn more about Iterations Issue Due Dates SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE In GitLab, you can set a due date for individual issues. This is very convenient if you have small tasks with a specific deadline. Due dates documentation Assignee SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Assign a user to an issue or a merge request, indicating responsibility for it. Documentation Burnup Charts SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE With Milestone and Iteration Burnup Charts, you can better understand scope change during a sprint or while working on a new version of your software. Read our Burnup Charts documentation Burndown Charts SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE GitLab provides Burndown Charts as part of Milestones and Iterations. This allows users to better track progress during a sprint or while working on a new version of their software. Read our Burndown Charts Documentation Drag and Drop Tasks SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Drag and drop tasks in a task list. See the GitLab issue to implement this Issue Board Label Lists SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE An Issue Board is based on its project’s label structure, therefore, it applies the same descriptive labels to indicate placement on the board. GitLab issues can appear on multiple issues and they still have meaning without the context of a particular board. Learn more about labels and Issue Boards Issue Board Configuration SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Associate a board with a milestone, labels, an assignee, and a weight Learn more about configurable Issue Boards DevOps Pipeline SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Able to establish visibility into the end to end DevOps pipeline so the entire team is aware of pipeline status and can contribute to overall success. Requirements Management SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Gather, document, refine, and track approval of business and system requirements. Define traceability between requirements and other requirements, code, or test cases. See direction page for details Satisfy Requirements from CI/CD pipelines SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE This powerful feature uses the GitLab single-application model to allow testing run in the CI/CD pipelines to satisfy your requirements. This automates the cumbersome task of identifying satisfied requirements, and enables your organization to focus on delivering value. See direction page for details Import & Export Requirements SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE To better collaborate with external groups and organizations, requirements can be imported and exported in CSV format. This allows teams to use a single interface for development and testing against requirements. See direction page for details Quality Management SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Define and plan test cases, maintain test execution results and create a backlog of work from failed tests. See direction page for details Create test cases from within GitLab SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Create and view test cases from within GitLab. This allows for seamless collaboration between contributors. See direction page for details Service Desk SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Allow external users to create issues in your GitLab instance without an account and without access to anything except their issue. Manage tickets from the GitLab interface. Learn more about Service Desk Service Desk Custom Branding SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Allow customization of incoming issues and response emails, including the service desk user name to allow for a cohesive branding experience for your customers. Learn more about Service Desk customization Portfolio Management SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Plan and track work at the project and portfolio level. Manage capacity and resources together with Portfolio Management. Learn more about Portfolio Management Wiki based project documentation SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE A separate system for documentation called Wiki, is built right into each GitLab project. Every Wiki is a separate Git repository. Learn more about GitLab Wikis Design Management SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Design Management allows users to upload design assets (such as wireframes and mockups) to GitLab Issues and keep them stored in one single place, giving product designers, managers, and engineers a seamless way to collaborate on design proposals. They can be easily uploaded and are stored in versions. You can start a thread by clicking on the image on the exact location you would like the discussion to be focused on. Documentation GitLab-Figma Plugin SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Our Figma plugin allows you to upload Figma frames and components to GitLab issues. Documentation AD / LDAP integration SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Sync groups, manage SSH-keys, manage permissions, authentication and more. You can manage an entire GitLab instance through the LDAP / AD integration. 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