Jira Align Standard vs Jira Align Enterprise
Asked by Roman Mural:

What is the global difference between Jira Align Standard and Jira Align Enterprise?

What is the global difference? Can you please tell me whether it is worth taking Jira Align?

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Explain the difference between these items:  
Epic Financials  
Value Engineering  
Visioning \& Ideation  
Personas  
Lean Canvas  
Enhancement Portal  
Mind Maps  
Program Meetings  
Advanced Kanban  
Transformation Management  
Portolio \& Epic Balancing  
Portfolio Financials  
Portfolio Meetings  
Invest Horizons  
Value Streams  
Bottom-up Forecasting  
Resource Management  
Skills Management  
Pro \& Enterprise Reports Pack  
Included Team Tool Connectors  
Capabilities  
Goals  
Strategies  
Products  
Org Structures  
Product Rooms  
Portfolio Rooms  
Strategy Rooms  
Maturity Assessments  
Results Trending  

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That's the difference between Jira Align Standard and Jira Align Enterprise, maybe someone can explain the difference in more detail?

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I will be very grateful!


Answers:
author: Tina Behers
body: [@Roman](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5313229)

The short answer is: Standard does not all for the use of strategy, portfolio financials, forecasting, Resource management, Product management, and more advanced transformation support... Easy way to consider "standard" is it supports what SAFe refers to as "Essential Safe" for work management only.

Epic Financials. - The budget, forecast and actual spend for a portfolio epic

**[Value Engineering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_engineering)**

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**Visioning \& Ideation** - Vision - company, portfolio or product vision creation - Ideation - portal to collect ideas or bugs

**[Personas](http://%20What are Personas? | IxDF - The Interaction Design Foundation The Interaction Design Foundation https://www.interaction-design.org ? literature ? topics)**

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**Lean Canvas** - 1 page business/portfolio plan

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**Enhancement Portal** - see ideation above

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**Mind Maps** - Jira Align has built in mid maps for visually creating WBS/backlog

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**Program Meetings** - Do not exist

**Advanced Kanban** - Full kanban capabilitlies in Jira Align

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**Transformation Management** - ability to manage your transformation plans, learning, knowledge articles and standards in Jira Align

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**Portolio \& Epic Balancing** - a report used to balance the value \& spend across Epics within a single portfolio

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**Portfolio Financials** - Financial plan, forecast \& actuals for a portfolio

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**Portfolio Meetings** - Do not exist

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I**nvest Horizons** - time boundary for investment (i.e. 1 year, 6 moths, 3 months, etc.)

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**[Value Streams](https://scaledagileframework.com/development-value-streams/)**

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**Bottom-up Forecasting -**A foreacsting method available in Jira Align that build from the indidviual \& team level.

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**Resource Management -**a process to ensure you have the needed people to do work.. or meet business objectives.

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**Skills Management**ability toi have userrs selct their skills froma set list and rank their skill level..

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**Pro \& Enterprise Reports Pack** - Advanced reports for portfolio, strategy, product and enterprise management across execution, resources and financials

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**Included Team Tool Connectors** - Standrad allows connection to 1 and only 1 instance of Jira - enterprise allows you to connect to multiple Jira instances to roll up information.

**Capabilities** - a work object in a "Full SAFE' WBS

**Goals** - intermediate goals towards progress on a strategic item

**Strategies** - Comapny strategy....

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**Products** - the thing your company builds and sells for revenue

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**Org Structures** - Allows you to mimic your HR reporting organizational structure in Jira align to slice reports by organizational unit.

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**Product Rooms** - Consolidated view of a specific product or product suite - views span, work execution, dependencies, risks and releases.

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**Portfolio Rooms** - Consolidated view of a portfolio across Resources, execution, and financials

**Strategy Rooms** - Consolidated view of the enterprise plan for a specific time period across one or more portfolios.

**Maturity Assessments** - Custom assessments that can be run from with in Jira Align to measure your organizations incremental progress in agile practices

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**Results Trending** - trend reports on work execution, program \& team predictability.  


author: Summer Hogan
body: Hi [@Roman Mural](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5313229) - I don't know about all those features listed above, but there is an Atlassian.com article [here](https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/align/pricing) that may answer some of your questions. Since your question is so in depth, I would click the "Get in touch" button at the top of the article and get in touch with a product specialist.