Aha!
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The World's #1 Product Development Software
How to Replace Aha!Overview
Features
51 features across 18 categories
AI(6)
A purpose-built AI assistant for product development available across Aha! software, designed to support every phase from discovery through delivery—can create text, records, reports, whiteboards, and prototypes
Analyze feedback themes with AI assistant to identify patterns in customer input
Analyze meeting transcripts with AI assistant to extract insights
Accelerate tasks with AI assistant to improve delivery speed
Define user stories with AI assistant to create clear development requirements
Generate wireframes with AI assistant for early product concepts
Application Development(1)
The fastest way to create trusted business applications—product managers can now plan, design, and develop trusted internal tools in less than an hour
Brainstorming & Design(2)
Unleash creativity by diagramming new concepts, creating wireframes, and collaborating on early plans with the team
Create unlimited whiteboards with nearly 100 templates for brainstorming
Collaboration(2)
Collaborate in real time with team members and unlimited guests on whiteboards and documents
Drive alignment with voting tools to get team consensus on concepts
Customer Feedback(1)
Launch polls and collect in-app requests from customers
Customer Research(3)
Create a research center to centralize customer interviews, uncover learnings, and link insights to roadmap plans
Link key quotes, learnings, and insights from research to existing records like initiatives, ideas, and features
Create unlimited studies, conduct unlimited interviews, build a research participant database, and automate interview scheduling
Data Management(1)
Export your data as CSV files or use the robust API as needed
Development Management(3)
Choose scrum, kanban, or SAFe® approach for managing development work
Manage software development by viewing the roadmap, optimizing workload, and shipping more joyfully while connecting product and engineering
Plan sprints and manage team capacity for agile delivery
Documentation & Knowledge Base(4)
Centralize product information by setting up self-serve knowledge bases to share product information, documentation, and user manuals
Import existing documentation from other systems into Aha! Knowledge
Publish multiple knowledge bases for different products or audiences
Add unlimited documents to knowledge bases with AI assistance for drafting
Idea Management(2)
Capture customer feedback, streamline idea management, collect user requests, track voting trends, and prioritize what drives revenue
Create online ideas portals to collect customer feedback and requests
Prioritization(2)
Prioritize features using a scorecard system
Prioritize ideas by potential revenue to focus on high-impact work
Project Management(3)
Keep teams aligned with strategic goals by completing all tasks, streamlining workflows, and increasing visibility
Define and prioritize tasks aligned with strategic goals
Manage team capacity and analyze team productivity
Release Management(1)
Manage release plans and dependencies across product work
Reporting(1)
Report on custom fields and monitor the progress of initiatives in a meaningful way
Risk Management(1)
Track risks and report on agile metrics and project health
Roadmap Planning(2)
Build visual roadmaps, set brilliant strategy, prioritize features, and share visual plans with stakeholders
Create and share beautiful visual roadmaps to communicate product strategy
Security(2)
Data encryption at rest for all stored information
Secure network communications over HTTPS
Strategy(14)
Add budget and revenue projections to your initiatives to make informed decisions based on investment cost or opportunity amounts
Paint a picture of your customers by creating detailed buyer and user personas and link them to actual work
Create in-depth profiles of key competitors, capture critical information, and visualize the competitive landscape on a matrix
Highlight the business goals you plan on achieving—making each one time-bound and measurable
Chart your goals to compare relative value and connect each one to the underlying work to show progress
Determine the major workstreams that will help you realize your goals and define high-level efforts to invest in
Implement the OKR framework to align how your team manages objectives and key results
Set your positioning by describing where your product fits in the market, the problem it solves, and what makes it unique
Use templates such as Lean Canvas, SWOT, Porter's 5 Forces, Segment Profile, and 10Ps Marketing Matrix
Build a SWOT to illuminate successes and areas you can improve
Define your target user groups and create a plan to serve each one
Assess competitors based on product breadth, ability to execute, vision strength, and market awareness
Capture your value proposition, go-to-market plans, and more
Create a vivid picture of where you want to be in the future using your vision statement
Pricing
Aha! Roadmaps Startup
- ✓Complete product management solution
- ✓Link strategy to all product work
- ✓Capture feedback via ideas portals
- ✓Brainstorm with virtual whiteboards
- ✓Prioritize features with a scorecard
- ✓Manage release plans and dependencies
- ✓Create and share beautiful roadmaps
- ✓Enhance work with AI assistant
- ✓Integrate with Jira, Azure DevOps, and 40+ other tools
- ✓Includes Aha! Ideas Essentials
- ✓Includes Aha! Whiteboards Essentials
- ✓Includes Aha! Knowledge Essentials
Aha! Discovery Essentials
- ✓Create unlimited studies
- ✓Conduct unlimited interviews
- ✓Build a research participant database
- ✓Automate interview scheduling
- ✓Analyze meeting transcripts with AI assistant
- ✓Connect insights to the roadmap
Aha! Ideas Advanced
- ✓Comprehensive idea management tool
- ✓Capture feedback via ideas portals
- ✓Streamline your idea review process
- ✓Integrate with Salesforce and Zendesk
- ✓Prioritize ideas by potential revenue
- ✓Analyze feedback themes with AI assistant
- ✓Launch polls and collect in-app requests
- ✓Includes Aha! Whiteboards Essentials
- ✓Includes Aha! Knowledge Essentials
Aha! Whiteboards Essentials
- ✓Create unlimited whiteboards
- ✓Choose from nearly 100 templates
- ✓Brainstorm new ideas
- ✓Use intuitive drawing tools
- ✓Create diagrams and models
- ✓Share with unlimited guests
- ✓Collaborate in real time
- ✓Capture inline comments
Aha! Develop Essentials
- ✓Agile tool that links strategy to delivery
- ✓Align technical work to the product roadmap
- ✓Choose a scrum, kanban, or SAFe® approach
- ✓Define user stories with AI assistant
- ✓Estimate work in story points or time
- ✓Plan sprints and manage capacity
- ✓Track risks and report on agile metrics
- ✓Integrate with GitHub, Azure Pipelines, and 35+ other tools
Aha! Teamwork Essentials
- ✓Flexible project management tool
- ✓Align daily tasks with strategic plans
- ✓Choose an agile way to work
- ✓Define and prioritize tasks
- ✓Manage team capacity
- ✓Track risks and analyze team productivity
- ✓Accelerate tasks with AI assistant
- ✓Integrate with 35+ design and delivery tools
Aha! Knowledge Essentials
- ✓Product information hub
- ✓Centralize product documentation
- ✓Publish multiple knowledge bases
- ✓Choose from 100+ templates
- ✓Draft documents with AI assistant
- ✓Co-create content in real time
- ✓Import existing documentation
- ✓Includes Aha! Whiteboards Essentials
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Buying Aha! saves ~$33,720 over 3 years vs building.
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Integrations
6 known integrations