Pivotal Tracker Review - why 4.4 stars?

• Automatic Planning: Pivotal Tracker provides automated planning that keeps teams in a synergize rhythm.
• Workspace Management: With this feature, teams can put their projects in order by setting up their perfect space.
• Project History: Pivotal Tracker helps teams to follow the breadcrumb trail. Teams can view everything happening in a project from day one and see how code changes are mapped to product decisions.
• Search: Teams can find what they need with a powerful search syntax. They can also save common searches for later or share them with the team.

• Pivotal Tracker offers optimal integrations
• The software can work well for little projects and startups
• Pivotal Tracker enables teams to work on multiple projects simultaneously

• Pivotal Tracker does not support the estimation of tasks in hours

• Functionality: Pivotal Tracker offers features like automated planning, tracking, notifications, analytics, search, mention and follow, file sharing, tasks, labels, project history, workspaces management, integrations, etc. When compared to its alternatives, Jira and Pivotal Tracker share similar features like planning, workflow management, tracking, and reporting. Jira offers knowledge management which is lacking in Pivotal Tracker. Wrike offers features lacking in most of the alternatives like enterprise project management, agency project management, project portfolio management, resource management. Asana offers features like Timeline, boards, calendar, app integration, goals, automation, workload, which are available in Pivotal Tracker.
• Customers/Industries: Pivotal Tracker targets software development teams in non-profit, education, automobile, electrical, retail, etc. Teams in various industries using Pivotal Tracker are Volkswagen, Sundance, DishNetwork, IDEO, etc. Asana targets teams in marketing, overview, operations, and sales. Wrike targets teams in departments like project management, marketing, creative, professional services, product development, company-wide, etc. Teams in companies like Google, okta, Simens, Dell use Wrike. Jira targets teams in departments like Software, Marketing, HR, Legal, Operations, IT, Finance, incident Response, etc. Teams in companies like Square, Cisco, eBay, Visa, and Pfizer use Jira.
• Cost: According to expert research, Pivotal Tracker is cost-rated 1.4 (where 1-2 is low-cost and 4-5 is high-cost), which means it is a low-cost software amongst its closest alternatives. Pivotal Tracker starts at $10 monthly at a flat rate. Wrike starts at $9.80 per user/month with a free trial and version. Asana starts at $10.99 per user/month billed annually and $13.49 billed monthly with a free trial and version. Jira starts at $7.50 per user/month, and it comes with a free version.
• Cloud-based/On-premise: Pivotal Tracker and its alternatives are cloud-based.
• Popularity: Pivotal Tracker is a software product under a subsidiary to VMware (1998) publicly traded on the NYSE under the VMW symbol. Jira by Atlassian (2002) is publicly-traded on the Nasdaq under the team TEAM symbol. Jira is trusted by over 65,000 customers worldwide. Wrike (2007) is a privately held company and trusted by 20,000+ customers.
• Scalability: Pivotal Tracker and Jira can scale developer teams in startups and small businesses to enterprise businesses.
• Support: Pivotal Tracker and its alternatives share similar support channels like Chat. Jira, Asana, and Wrike offer an email/help desk, FAQs/forum, and a knowledge base lacking in Pivotal Tracker. Jira and Wrike offer Phone support and 24/7 live rep, lacking in Pivotal Tracker and Asana.

• The Startup plan starts at a $10 monthly flat rate.
• The Standard plan comes at $6.50 per collaborator per month.
• The cost information for the Enterprise plan is unavailable.

What is the REAL total cost of implementation? on top of the total cost of licenses which is easy to calculate you need to add the cost of training, customization, data migration, and other "hidden cost". ITQlick pricing score is 2.8 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). You can fine here the REAL total cost breakdown for Pivotal Tracker. You can also find here pricing information from Pivotal Tracker's website.