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 / Overview with predefined [Box] types Starting BigPicture 7.10, the Program manager is renamed ‘Overview’. |
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| Unlimited configuration of [Box] types. Create new [Box] types. Think of [Boxes] as high-level, custom containers/parent items, such as portfolios, phases, ARTs. They behave depending on how you program them. [Boxes] are available in BigPicture version 8, and the corresponding BigPicture Enterprise ver. 4, and later. |
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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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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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Select the geographic location of your data server
GDPR in the European Union and various US regulators may require that you store your data in a home country or region. The feature will be available soon. Read more |
available for Cloud hosting |
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Project Management methodologies |
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| SAFe, LeSS, AgilePM, PMBoK, PRiNCE, an more | |
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| Scalable agile | |
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| Project management (Waterfall, Hybrid, Agile) | |
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| PPM (Project Portfolio Management) | |
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Adjust BigPicture to the realities of your organization
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thanks to configurable [Boxes]. You can add custom [Box] types. |
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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 | 3.3/4 | 3.7/4 |
| Developer | SoftwarePlant, Atlassian Top Vendor | |
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.
Jun 2020
Context menus are coming to BigPicture and BigGantt. Change statuses from ‘In progress’ to ‘Done’ by right-clicking a task or project. See context menus in action.
May 2020
Atlassian launches ‘Apps for every team’ campaign (#appsforeveryteam) to spread the word about the Atlassian Marketplace and inform Atlassian customers on how apps and integrations can help enhance and extend their Atlassian experience. BigPicture is featured in the ‘Software teams’ category, but we would add ‘Business’ and ‘Design’ categories as well :) More
May 2020
Books stay alive ;) Rynder Roy Klomp showcases BigPicture in his new ‘Jira More’ book, available from Amazon. Project management and Portfolio management is where BP flourishes (Chapter 1 of the book).
May 2020
Are you on Jira Cloud and governed by GDPR or under a US privacy regulator? You’ll soon be able to select where (geographically) your BigPicture data is stored. Read more.
Upcoming events
See you at:
- European SAFe Summit in The Hague, Jun 10-11, 2020
- catworkx Midsummer Day, Hamburg, Jun 23-24, 2020
- Global SAFe Summit in Denver, Sep 23-24, 2020
