The Jira Align Alternative Built for SAFe & Lean Portfolio Management

Businessmap supports SAFe natively, alongside LeSS, Flight Levels, OKR-driven planning, and hybrid models, so you're not locked into a single framework as your organization evolves. Deploy at 50–60% lower total cost of ownership than Jira Align.

  • ISO 27001-certified
  • Cloud-hosted on AWS, with dedicated infrastructure options for enterprise
  • AI-powered strategic canvases
WHY TEAMS SWITCH

The friction that sends SAFe-driven organizations looking for alternatives

Running SAFe in 2026 & beyond requires a hybrid approach

Today’s organizations are predominantly hybrid and need more flexibility in how they implement SAFe than what Jira Align's structure allows.

SAFe implementation doesn't have to break the bank

Jira Align is part of the Strategy Collection and requires a Jira Cloud Premium subscription to start with. Businessmap offers you Lean Portfolio Management for a fraction of the cost.

Consulting dependency by design

Deployment commonly takes 3–6 months and is recommended to run through Atlassian-certified consultants.

SAFE-READY

The structure you already know from SAFe, native in Businessmap

Portfolio, Program, and Team Boards

Move straight from strategic whiteboards into portfolio boards and down to team-level boards – no configuration needed to connect the layers. See what every ART is working on, how work rolls up from team to program to strategy, and what's on track, blocked, or falling behind, all in real time.

Portfolio, Program, and Team Boards

Cross-ART Dependency and Risk Visibility

See dependencies and risks across Agile Release Trains through a live-linked hierarchy. Visualize release trains on Businessmap management boards and connect releases to the work happening across teams – no manual configuration needed to keep the picture current.

Cross-ART Dependency and Risk Visibility

End-to-End Value Stream Visualization

See the whole value stream on one whiteboard: strategic themes connect down to portfolio initiatives, initiatives connect to the release trains carrying them, and release trains connect to the team workflows doing the actual work. Nothing sits in a separate report – it's one connected map.

End-to-End Value Stream Visualization

Strategic Themes, Connected to Execution as OKRs

Native OKR and KPI tracking connects strategic themes down to program and team-level work, with automatic progress calculation, so leadership sees whether strategic intent is actually being delivered, not just planned.

Strategic Themes, Connected to Execution as OKRs

PI Planning Support – Roadmaps, Timelines, and Scenario Planning

Plan your Program Increments the way you actually think about them – on portfolio roadmaps, timeline and Gantt views, with scenario planning built right in. No separate roadmapping tool to buy or bolt on.

PI Planning Support – Roadmaps, Timelines, and Scenario Planning

AI Transformation Across Your SAFe Environment

Businessmap becomes the orchestration layer for the AI agents your enterprise uses to get work done. Connect agents to your documentation directly, so they work from the same process knowledge your teams do, and manage access through Businessmap's native MCP server.

AI Transformation Across Your SAFe Environment

FRAMEWORK FLEXIBILITY

Native SAFe support, without the SAFe-only ceiling

Businessmap supports program Increments, cross-team dependency mapping, and portfolio-to-team traceability, while also supporting the frameworks organizations tend to grow into as their agile maturity evolves.
  • SAFe – native support for portfolio, program, and team-level structures
  • LeSS – for organizations scaling Scrum without SAFe's full ceremony overhead
  • Flight Levels – strategic, coordination, and operational board tiers, linked in real time
  • OKR-driven planning – objectives and key results connected directly to execution work, not tracked separately
  • Hybrid Agile-Waterfall – for organizations that can't (or shouldn't) run pure Agile everywhere
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CASE STUDIES

Enterprise teams who scaled agile delivery on Businessmap

G GROB-WERKE Mechanical Engineering · Germany

Businessmap helps us streamline engineering departments across the entire company and manage large innovation programs for the development of our business.

Christian Lisiecki · VP Battery Systems, GROB-WERKE

90%+ higher engineering efficiency
5d → 1d stage-gate reviews
1600+ boards and tasks
C Carrefour Bank Banking · Brazil

The leadership at Carrefour Bank in Brazil started using Businessmap as part of their transformation program to boost efficiency and unify work management methods under one roof in an increasingly volatile world.

250% increase in operational efficiency
35% higher workflow accuracy
25% faster delivery productivity
E Equinor Energy · Norway

Strategic alignment from portfolio goals to daily execution

Alignment between teams and strategic goals
Shared system for projects and priorities
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See your SAFe program running in Businessmap, live

Bring your current Jira Align setup – programs, ARTs, strategic themes. A specialist will map it into Businessmap live and show you exactly what deployment would look like for your organization.
  • Live mapping
  • Direct pricing comparison for your seat count
  • Q&A session
  • Optional NDA – share real data with confidence

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