Know What’s Changing Before It Changes How You Work
For 13 years, Jira Data Center has been a popular platform for agile teams working in complex software development cycles. With it sunsetting in March of 2029, teams have two options: migrate to Jira Cloud or replace Jira altogether.
Why Replace?
The transition to Jira Cloud is more than a licensing change. It is a forced migration on Atlassian’s timeline that alters how your data is handled and could negatively impact your operating costs.
Get an overview of the many policy changes, along with demos of two key solutions from Perforce with a product mentality that keeps you in control.
What is the Best Jira Data Center Alternative for You?
The answer depends on how you currently use Jira. Perforce offers two alternatives to Jira: P4 Plan for planning and coordination, and ALM for Lifecycle management and compliance.
| If you use Jira to: | Plan & Coordinate Work | Maintain Project Lifecycle Traceability for Compliance | Plan Work & Maintain Lifecycle Governance |
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| Then Choose: | P4 Plan Purpose-built project and product planning for complex development programs. | Perforce ALM Purpose-built application lifecycle management for quality-driven development. | P4 Plan + Perforce ALM Connect planning and execution with complete lifecycle governance. |
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Track Everything in Your Pipeline Without the Lag
When deadlines start slipping and plans stop matching reality, P4 Plan provides the real-time speed and visibility you need across every task, milestone, and dependency — without forcing your entire org into a single view or framework.
P4 Plan supports your on-prem requirements and can connect to Perforce P4 and Perforce ALM to provide deeper traceability and integration across your development environments.
Specialized features:
✅ Let collaborators only see what they need with field-level permissions.
✅ Turn recurring workflows into reusable templates with a built-in Pipeline Editor.
✅ Stay oriented across tasks with purpose-built views for your product backlog and QA.
✅ Model multiple scenarios and resource plans before headcount is confirmed with Placeholder Users.
✅ Extend and automate your workflows with an advanced GraphQL API, SDK, and Webhooks.
Compliance Doesn’t Get a Migration Deadline
If your workflow depends on requirements, test coverage, and traceability — not just issue tracking — Jira was never really built for you. ALM gives regulated and complex development teams a single source of truth, on-premises, with audit-ready traceability built in, not bolted on.
Perforce ALM helps organizations maintain bi-directional visibility across the development lifecycle.
Specialized features:
✅ Automatically link requirements, test cases, and defects for end-to-end traceability.
✅ Quickly generate traceability matrices in a few clicks.
✅ Reuse requirements and test cases across projects while maintaining controlled reviews, approvals, and change history.
✅ Assess downstream impact when a requirement changes, including affected tests and issues.
✅ Create tests directly from requirements and trace results back to verification objectives.
✅ Configure workflow states, transitions, assignment rules, escalation rules, triggers, and approval gates.
✅ Manage product risk with FMEA and impact analysis alongside requirements, tests, and defects.
Choose the Solution That Best Matches Your Needs
Need Better Planning and Execution Visibility?
See how P4 Plan helps teams coordinate complex work, capacity, milestones, and dependencies across Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid workflows.
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Need Traceability, Testing, and Compliance Control?
See how Perforce ALM connects requirements, tests, and defects so teams can improve quality, manage risk, and prepare for audits.
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