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

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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

Rohan B.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted Sep 2021

Great product for product management and bug track

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates OpenText ALM Octane from other similar products?

Interactive UI with user friendly interface Well-structured folder system for all projects. Easy to import data from Excel files. Easy for Defect linking

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

1. ALM/QC has a very useful function of sending an email directly to an assignee when they are selected. This is a time-saver so that you don't have to follow up with your own email every time you assign a ticket. 2. Tracking the history of changes made whenever someone modifies a ticket is a big plus for ALM/QC. 3. Ease in attaching items and linking tickets to other tickets allows for quick UI navigation. 4. Test Case creation to execution and corresponding logging and artifacts uploading.

What do you dislike most about this product?

1. There is room for integration improvement with other tracking tools. 2. Automate Backlog/Project items notification to all team members. 3. You can not run scrum meetings with distributed teams like you can do in AgileCraft. Also support for retrospectives is not up to the mark. 4. It is highly dependent on internet explorer. Support for other browsers like chrome and Firefox is not there.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It's very useful, helps in reducing manual efforts. Also, Strongly recommend to the people who are working in agile and want to keep their all the tasks on track.

Pros

Trustworthy
Effective Service
Respectful
Generous Negotitation

Anshul S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2021

Easy to use but not cost effextive

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates OpenText ALM Octane from other similar products?

The key feature is the usability. It is fast to learn and easy to use. It's very intuitive to work with. Most of the important functions are available via a few clicks, compared to other tools where I have to open a sub-menu and then a sub-menu and another sub-menu, and then press a button.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Reusability

What do you dislike most about this product?

The elements in filtering need to be improved, They don't support all IDEs also. this has to be improved

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Give it a try

Pros

Transparent
Security Protects
Trustworthy
Effective Service

Cons

Less Performance Enhancing

Mayank S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Banking
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2021

Good Platform For Bug Tracking

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates OpenText ALM Octane from other similar products?

The user experience is better than any tool that I have used. Overall, it is great. It has a smooth interface, which is very user-friendly.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Testing. we use it for both mobile testing and browser testing. The interface is user-friendly.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The reporting needs to be improved and allow for customization.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Micro Focus ALM Octane natively supports waterfall, hybrid, and agile software development at an enterprise scale.

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Effective Service

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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

Rohan B.

Great product for product management and bug track

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Anshul S.

Easy to use but not cost effextive

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Mayank S.

Good Platform For Bug Tracking

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