BigPicture Enterprise addresses the needs of large-scale organizations; it enhances the way projects and portfolios are managed by delivering high-level PPM features. The ‘BPE’, as we call it in SoftwarePlant, adds enterprise-level reporting, ‘see tasks across all programs’ sort of features and more. Let’s enumerate what does the Enterprise extension add on top of the regular BigPicture.
Table 1: BigPicture vs. BigPicture Enterprise
Note: BigPicture Enterprise cannot live alone. So you choose between ‘Jira + BigPicture’ suite and ‘Jira + BigPicture + BigPicture Enterprise’ one.
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| Program manager |  |
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Add custom action buttons
These could be additional links to your programs or program manager tiles. Using customizable URL’s, you could also integrate your company intranet or external systems with BigPicture programs. |
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| Scope | |
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| Roadmap | |
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| An overlay with pie/bar charts reporting on the progress of iterations | |
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| An overlay with pie/bar charts reporting on the progress of Program Increments | |
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| Gantt chart | |
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| Resources | |
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Observe tasks from all programs (in a single view)
∼ cross-program resources planning and reporting |
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| Board | |
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Synchronize Program Increment (PI) #
with a custom field of your choice residing in Jira issue detail view. Set this 2-way synchronization for all teams (Shared), specific teams (Team specific), or disable the sync at all. |
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| An overlay with pie/bar charts reporting on the progress of iterations | |
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| An overlay with pie/bar charts reporting on the progress of Program Increments | |
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| Risks | |
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| Teams | |
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Integration with Tempo
Synchronize BigPicture’s Workload Plans, Holiday Plans, Teams, and Skills with their counterparts in Tempo Timesheets, Planner, Budgets. |
available for Server and Data Center hostings |
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Reports
Use five predefined progress measuring drill-down/drill-through reports. Choose their format: bar/pie charts, spreadsheet-like reports. |
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| Add new multi-level drill-down and drill-through reports. Customize the grid of the Reports module. | |
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Metrics
Project-level custom fields. Label your programs (projects) using custom text, textarea, combo box, and date fields. Set the layout of this program describing page. |
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Configurable menu view
Customize the BigPicture plugin’s drop-down menu – the one that integrates with Jira’s main menu. |
available for Server and Data Center hostings |
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Project Management methodologies |
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Agile
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| Scaled Agile Framework program level | |
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| SAFe’s solution level | |
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| SAFe’s portfolio level | |
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Waterfall, Hybrid
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Business, technical data & Pricing |
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| Hosting types | Cloud, Server, Data Center | |
| Works with | Jira Software, Jira Core, Jira Service Desk | |
| Jira Server, 100 users, Atlassian Marketplace | $2000/instance (50% of that to renew) pricing |
$2000/instance (50% of that to renew) pricing |
| Jira Cloud, 1000 users tier, Atlassian Marketplace | $0.91/user/month | $0.91/user/month |
| User rating (stars), Atlassian Marketplace | 3.2/4 | 3.6/4 |
| Developer | SoftwarePlant, Atlassian Top Vendor | |
Legend
What features does the Enterprise edition bring
on top of the ‘regular’ BigPicture? In 5 minutes.
Check the ‘Meet (regular) BigPicture’ video.
Who uses what
Roughly 20% of BigPicture license holders have the Enterprise extension added on top. When looking at user counts, however, we assume that 50% of the 3 million individuals who use BigPicture every day have access to the Enterprise edition. It’s because blue-chips, and large companies with a distributed workforce, rely on BPE heavily.
Source: Scaled Agile, Inc. newsletter
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See you in:
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