OpenText Corporation

OpenText ALM Octane

Composite Score

7.9 /10

CX Score

8.3 /10

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What is OpenText ALM Octane?

OpenText™ ALM Octane includes integrated planning, continuous integration, test management, and release management. With these capabilities, Agile teams and DevOps toolchains deliver high-quality software with insight, traceability, analytics-focused end-to-end visibility, and continuous quality.

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Awards & Recognition

OpenText ALM Octane won the following awards in the Software Testing category

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2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Latest Award, 2024

1 Top Rated Capabilities

1 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2024

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2024

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023

2 Top Rated Capabilities

6 Top Rated Features

2023

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2023

2022 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2022

8 Top Rated Capabilities

12 Top Rated Features

2022

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2022

2021 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2021

OpenText ALM Octane Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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87 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

96 Plan to Renew

84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+97 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love OpenText ALM Octane?

0% Negative

6% Neutral

94% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Trustworthy
Respectful
Acts with Integrity

Feature Ratings

Average 81

Test Script Editor

Test Environment Management

Test Planning

Artifact Management

Analytics and Reporting

ALM Integration

Test Data Management

Test Case Generator

Artifact Traceability

Test Run Workflow Manager

Test Coverage Analysis

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 81

Ease of Implementation

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

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OpenText ALM Octane Reviews

Aman K.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2024

Best product and user friendly

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates OpenText ALM Octane from other similar products?

This enables seamless collaboration and data synchronization across the development lifecycle.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Many teams appreciate the Agile-oriented features such as sprint planning

What do you dislike most about this product?

I don't have any dislikes

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I don't have any recoomendations

Pros

Helps Innovate
Performance Enhancing
Efficient Service
Saves Time

Satya K.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

Fabolous Product

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates OpenText ALM Octane from other similar products?

Unique Functionality can be seen with Open Text ALM

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

present data in the workflow

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing as of now

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

to collect more data

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Syed S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2023

One of the Best, Test Management Tool

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates OpenText ALM Octane from other similar products?

Better User-interface than the others in the market. Easy to track the bugs and requirements. Elastic search option to find the data easily

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Its Usability is the foremost reason to like this tool, Everything is well organized which enables easy collaboration with the team, Helps in easy test planning and maintaining resources. Helping to achieve on-time product delivery We can integrate any automation tool to upload results into Octane using Rest APIs

What do you dislike most about this product?

slow in use. hangs sometimes. Takes a while to open. User interface and integration with specific tool sets have to improve Reporting & test execution run history can be improved

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you use micro-focus tools, like HP ALM, and UFT it will be handy and very easy to implement CICT. you can definitely go for it. but we have many alternatives in the market for specific needs.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

OpenText ALM Octane

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2021 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

OpenText ALM Octane Ratings

87 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

96 Plan to Renew

84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+97 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love OpenText ALM Octane?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Test Script Editor Write and modify test scripts in a scripting languge (e.g. VBScript, JavaScript, Python) within a coding editor.

Test Environment Management Provision, monitor, refresh, and tear down test environments. Teams can track all environment resources from a centralized dashboard and repository.

Test Planning Build test cycles and phases, define milestones to coordinate dependencies and releases, and then assign resources to execute the planned tests.

Artifact Management Test artifacts can be readily created, reused, moved, and managed in a structured format, such as folder, heirarchical, and context-driven formats.

Analytics and Reporting Aggregated visual reporting of testing progress, results and insights through real-time, dynamic dashboards with customizable reporting widgets.

ALM Integration Real-time integration with 3rd party ALM and other software delivery tools such as Build, Deploy, Test and Requirements Management.

Test Data Management Secured management and access of test data.

Test Case Generator Automatically generate test cases directly from requirements, the source code, recordings of user actions, and visual and graphical workflows and models.

Artifact Traceability Trace testing artifacts, such as test cases and scripts, forward to test runs and issues that need to be fixed, and backwards to the business process.

Test Run Workflow Manager Script, configure, execute and manage automated testing workflows, including parallel testing. Automation is initiated internally by test management solution.

Test Coverage Analysis Pinpoint the sources of test failures and defects by granularly dissecting test runs, test cases and other testing artifacts and requirements.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

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OpenText ALM Octane Reviews

Aman K.

Best product and user friendly

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Satya K.

Fabolous Product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Syed S.

One of the Best, Test Management Tool

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Test Script Editor

Test Environment Management

Test Planning

Artifact Management

Analytics and Reporting

ALM Integration

Test Data Management

Test Case Generator

Artifact Traceability

Test Run Workflow Manager

Test Coverage Analysis

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Implementation

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration