Compare SwiftKanban vs Kanbanery vs Cradle

About SwiftKanban

SwiftKanban can be used by software teams, IT/Ops/DevOps teams, project managers/teams and those in HR, marketing, sales, procurement, construction, insurance, legal and other fields to visualize their team’s processes and improve overall flow, efficiency, and delivery of value to their customers.

SwiftKanban combines Scrum, Kanban, and visual management to offer a powerful tool for lean/agile software development, visual project management, and business collaboration and improvement.

SwiftKanban is also available in Microsoft Teams. You can add SwiftKanban to any of your channels in the Microsoft teams to access your Kanban board and perform several activities using the SwiftKanban commands available in the MS Teams.

SwiftKanban harnesses the power of AI/ML to derive the right perspective and intelligent insights from the existing data. The AI Similarity Recommendation engine in SwiftKanban is based on “semantic/contextual search” which is based on NLP and deep learning (shallow neural network). When you create new cards or modify existing ones in your Kanban Board, SwiftKanban’s powerful AI-based Similarity Recommendation engine can detect similar cards that already exist in your system and show them to you for ideas and solutions that may have already been explored in the past, both within and outside your team.

SwiftKanban connects you with your team using the most popular productivity/ office tools like Outlook, GSuite, and 1000s of others using Zapier, as well as with MS Teams and Slack! We support over 60 popular enterprise-class tools such as TFS/ Azure DevOps, JIRA, CA Agile Central and many others. Use SwiftSync to visualize work across the organization!

SwiftKanban also features a Story Mapping board that offers you a comprehensive visual tool to analyze, brainstorm and breakdown your user’s journey in a specific workflow of their regular work, starting with high-level steps down to the lowest level tasks they must be able to accomplish using your product.
SwiftKanban is available in both SaaS and on-premise models, and comes with a free team edition.

About Kanbanery

It's easy to get started with task board templates, and then tweak them to you heart's desire. If you have many projects with similar characteristics, whether its workflow, task types, or estimation approach, just save it as a custom template and instantly create new project boards to your specifications. Kanbanery allows all of this to be done, better.

About Cradle

Cradle is a multi-user environment to manage the entire lifecycle of multiple projects using user-defined sets of information and a user-defined process. It contains facilities to:

• Capture information from external sources
• Manage the evolution of that information
• Provide full change tracking and automated notification of changes
• Provide full forward traceability and backward coverage analyses
• Manage or reference any volumes of any types of data and documents
• Fully supports requirements management, agile processes (sprints, feature backlogs etc)
• Fully supports MBSE, with SysML, UML, ADARTS, BPM, SASD, architecture modeling, IDEF and other modeling notations - if you want to use them
• Any number of analysis, process, logical, architecture and design models - all linked to needs, goals, objectives, requirements, issues, defects, test plans, test procedures, test cases, test results, validations, verifications
• Manage product requirements and variants
• Manage product and system SBSs, PBSs in multiple configurations
• Fully supports test management, acceptance, and governance
• Full built-in configuration management and control system with formal reviews, baselines, version control, formal change control, audit trail and user-defined workflows
• Publish information into any type(s) of project deliverable documents

Cradle can track every word in every version of every source document through any complexity of process into every version of every formal document published form the tool.

Cradle can integrate with other products as part of your overall toolchain.

Fully customizable and delivered through web-based or non-web UIs deployed as SaaS or in-house in your IT infrastructure.

Features

• API
• Calendar Management
• Dashboard
• Data Export
• Data Import
• Data Visualization
• External Integrations
• Multi-User
• Notifications
• Scheduling

Features

• API
• Calendar Management
• Dashboard
• Data Export
• Data Import
• Data Visualization
• External Integrations
• Multi-User
• Notifications
• Scheduling

Features

• API
• Calendar Management
• Dashboard
• Data Export
• Data Import
• Data Visualization
• External Integrations
• Multi-User
• Notifications
• Scheduling

Summary

• Traceability/dependency: Convert cards from one type to another and add a default/customizable task list per card-type

• Metrics: Scrum, Kanban and other management metrics and reports

• Customization: Powerful board and application configuration as well as filter creation to help daily stand ups, and other interactions

• Integration: Manage document attachments and Excel imports/exports

• Smart Lanes: Map multiple workflows using card attributes

• Support: Extensive Scrum/Scrumban support as well as integration to JIRA, TFS, Git and 35+ other tools

• Intuitive user interface: Move cards across lanes or boards

• Tagging: Facilitate easy tracking of key trends

Summary

• Task Management

• Collaboration

• Email Integration

• File Sharing

• Team Chat

Summary

• User-defined data model (item types and cross-references)

• Full requirements management support

• MBSE support with analysis, logical, architecture and design models

• Parse and load multiple versions of multiple source documents

• Track all changes to items through user-defined workflows

• Built-in configuration management with reviews, baselines, version control and formal change control

• User-defined data entry forms, tailored by user role and types

• User-defined data views, tables, trees, nested tables, pivot tables, matrices, graphs and graphical traceability

• Traceability and coverage analysis with UNIQUE indirect (transitive) traceability

• Publish to user-defined documents, including full tracking of all versions of all formal documents published

Pricing

• Starting from: $7.00/month
• Credit card required: No

• Team: Free for two years
  10 users, 3 boards, 5 card types
  Standard templates
  Basic Metrics
  
  Group: $7 per user per month paid annually
  Everything in Team, plus
  50 users, 20 boards, up to 10 custom card types
  Custom templates
  Advanced reports
  Scrumban features
  Teams
  Data import/export
  
  Enterprise: $15 per user per month paid annually
  Everything in Group, plus
  Unlimited users, unlimited boards, unlimited card types
  Exhaustive analytics
  Dashboards
  API access
  Enterprise boards
  Card hierarchy

Pricing

• Credit card required: No

• Pricing is based on team size, starting at $22 a month. All plans include an unlimited number of projects.

Pricing

FAQs

Does this service integrate with any other apps?

• SwiftKanban can easily be integrated with popular tools such as TFS, JIRA, Rally and 50+ other widely used tools.

Does this service offer guides, tutorials and or customer support?

• Yes, SwiftKanban offers tutorials, demo, webinar, email and on-call support.

Does this service offer an API?

• Yes

Does this service offer multi-user capability (e.g. teams)?

• Yes, SwiftKanban can be used by multiple users at the group and enterprise level.

What platforms does this service support?

• SwiftKanban is available in both, a SaaS and an on-premise model, and comes with a free Team edition as well as Group and Enterprise options.

Who are the main user groups of this service?

• SwiftKanban can be used by software teams, IT/Ops/DevOps teams, project managers/teams and those in HR, marketing, sales, procurement, construction, insurance, legal and other fields to visualize their team’s processes and work and improve overall flow, efficiency, and delivery of value to their customers. SwiftKanban combines Scrum, Kanban, and visual management to offer a powerful tool for lean/agile software development, visual project management, and business collaboration and improvement.

What is this service generally used for?

• SwiftKanban helps organizations and teams visualize their workflow and work on a visual Kanban board. The workflow or value stream through which work must flow to be completed is visualized on the Kanban board, using SwiftKanban’s powerful SmartLanes capability. SwiftKanban’s SmartLanes allow for pretty much any knowledge process to be modeled effectively, whether it is a product/application development process, a DevOps workflow, an IT helpdesk process, an HR recruitment process or an advertising campaign process! Work is visualized as Kanban cards of different colors to identify different work-type of classes of service or priority, as needed.

  Once work is visualized and managed on the Kanban board, SwiftKanban provides many visual and insightful features to help manage and optimize the flow of work (using WIP limits), visualize problems/ bottlenecks (highlighting WIP limit violations, blocked or flagged work items), work that is being ignored or forgotten (waiting or aging work items) and make sure that there is smooth and optimized workflow through the system.

  As teams start to use the Kanban board and process effectively, SwiftKanban provides very useful analytics and animations to help them understand how their process can be improved, their delivery cycle times reduced, and their throughput or velocity increased. All with the goal to boost the overall value and quality delivered to their customer. It helps them forecast with confidence how much they can deliver by when, and provide management and customers great visualization of the team’s performance and commitments.

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FAQs

What platforms does this service support?
• • Windows 8.1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Windows 10 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Windows 11 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit)
  • Windows Server 2016 (64-bit)
  • Windows Server 2019 (64-bit)
  • Microsoft Office:
    • 2010 (SP2, 32-bit and 64-bit)
    • 2013 (SP1, 32-bit and 64-bit)
    • 2016 (32-bit and 64-bit)
    • 2019 (32-bit and 64-bit)
    • Office 365
  • Linux, any variant with kernel version >= 2.6.32 (includes CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, SuSE, Debian)

  Web UIs are zero-thickness clients, support all current browsers (Edge, Chrome, Firefox)

Does this service offer an API?

• Yes, for Windows and Linux.

  Is fully-featured, meaning that it provides full access to all database information and operations, to the same extent as 3SL-supplied tools.

Does this service offer multi-user capability (e.g. teams)?

• Yes, up to 8,192 concurrent users.

  Unlike most tools, Cradle applies locking to individual items in the database, each lock allowing 1 RW access with N simultaneous RO accesses.

Does this service offer guides, tutorials and or customer support?
• • Yes tutorials are provided with Cradle
  • Yes, online guides and a searchable + indexes help system is included with Cradle
  • Customer support is provided from support teams worldwide
What is this service generally used for?
• • Application lifecycle management
  • Requirements management
  • Business process modelling
  • Enterprise architecture
  • Product engineering
  • System and subsystem design
  • Systems engineering
  • Test management
  • Configuration management
  • Contract management
  • Supplier management
  • Acceptance management
  • RIsk management
  • Governance
Who are the main user groups of this service?
• • Business analysts
  • Enterprise architects
  • Process modellers
  • Product engineers
  • Requirements engineers
  • Software engineers
  • Systems engineers
  • Test engineers
What are some applications this service is commonly used in tandem with?
• • Desktop applications
  • Software development tools
  • CAD/CAE/PLM tools
Does this service integrate with any other apps?
• • MS Office
  • Open Office/LibreOffice
  • Collaboration tools
  • PLM tools

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