Microsoft Azure DevOps Reviews

Name: Microsoft Azure DevOps
Brand: Microsoft
Rating: 4 (128 reviews)

Vendor: Microsoft

4.1 out of 5

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What is Microsoft Azure DevOps?

Microsoft Azure DevOps is a cloud service that enables developers to collaborate on code development projects and create and deploy applications quicker than ever before. The service helps unite developers, project managers, and software development experts through a collaborative experience while using the application. For the users' convenience, Azure DevOps offers the user cloud services through Azure DevOps Services or an on-premises service using Azure DevOps Server. In addition, it supports integration with additional services and adding extensions, including the ability for the user to create their own custom extensions.

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Microsoft Azure DevOps is the #1 ranked solution in top Release Automation solutions, #1 ranked solution in top Enterprise Agile Planning Tools, and #2 ranked solution in top Application Lifecycle Management Suites. PeerSpot users give Microsoft Azure DevOps an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. Microsoft Azure DevOps is most commonly compared to GitLab: Microsoft Azure DevOps vs GitLab. Microsoft Azure DevOps is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 69% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 13% of all views.

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Akshat Prakash

Consultant at BP

My company has experienced benefits from using it or from recent updates in Azure Pipelines. For instance, we can manage different code versions from the same repository across different environments. We also use feature flags; the code is deployed, but the feature can be made visible to the end user at a later time. Additionally, as part of the deployment, we integrate automated and regression testing, which stops the deployment if testing fails, thus preventing regression bugs. This saves time and increases productivity by reducing the need for manual testing. Lastly, it integrates with the project management aspects, allowing us to link code deployments with project milestones. Azure DevOps supported our shift towards DevOps culture or practices. We shifted to the cloud environment and started migrating from our data centers about eight or nine years back. It has been a long journey. However, we have used Azure DevOps for almost five to six years in every project. We also use automation testing in Azure, so we have an integrated test suite that allows us to perform functional and regression testing effectively via the Azure DevOps system.

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Jayashree Acharyya

Director at PepsiCo

Microsoft Azure DevOps gives us an end-to-end solution. We could write the epics feature and user stories. From there, we could create the batches in the repository and create a pipeline to deploy. We can also use test plans to test different application scenarios. We are using Microsoft Azure DevOps as an enterprise-level solution. Azure Boards have been good at improving our project tracking and agility. We are using the Azure repository, and it's working well for us. Microsoft Azure DevOps is deployed on the cloud, and we are using a Software as a Service (SaaS) version. I would recommend the solution to other users because of its pricing and because it is an end-to-end platform for everything, including project management. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

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Ali Raza Pirwani

Assistant Vice President at Bank Alfalah Limited

Azure is one of the few project management software solutions that provide a clear view of project standing, and sprint of product backlog as well. As far as my organization is concerned, we use this software for managing the project life cycle where we raise change request forms here and the IT developer provides the solution and from there we can conduct the UAT and sign off for closure. The entire product life cycle is being managed with task assignments so broader and a clear understanding of scope is provided by this software and the organization can better understand its current progress.

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Microsoft Azure DevOps mindshare

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As of September 2024, the mindshare of Microsoft Azure DevOps in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category stands at 23.2%, down from 26.5% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"The solution's most valuable features are backlog management, build release pipeline, and testing."
"Version control practices have been perfect for us. It maintains a detailed history and is integrated with GitHub, which is also a Microsoft product. It is quite a game-changer."
"The CI/CD pipeline setup is more user-friendly. You can manage various stages, and there are over 400+ plugins available for each stage."

Room for Improvement

"Microsoft Azure DevOps doesn't have an ITSM tool compared to its competitors."
"It's too technical sometimes because it's meant for network developers. The CI/CD pipelines are not very easy to manage because it requires a lot of input.So it could be easier to manage."
"There is room for improvement on the UI side, especially with merge requests. If we compare Azure DevOps to GitLab when it comes to branches and PRs (pull requests), GitLab has a better interface."

Pricing

"The solution's deployment and licensing costs are very cheap compared to those of its competitors."
"The costs are moderate and justify the value provided."
"Compared to other tools, Microsoft Azure DevOps is a cheap solution."

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Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

12%

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Learn more about Microsoft Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps provides a variety of unified features that can be accessed through their web browser or IDE client, such as:

Azure Pipelines - Develop and deploy services to support ongoing application integration and delivery. Azure pipelines, which work with almost every project type and most languages, will automatically test code projects in order to make them available to others.
Azure Artifacts - Share packages and integrate package sharing between teams. Packages include NuGet, npm, and Maven, in addition to other private and public sources. Developers can now share and consume packages with other developers from different public registries.
Azure Repos - Offers source control of your code through Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) or Git repositories. Developers can now keep track of any changes that are made in their code over the course of their project.
Azure Test Plans - Offers continuous and manual/exploratory app testing through several tools. Test Suites, or a collection of Test Cases, are grouped together in a container called a Test Plan.
Azure Boards - Provides a suite of Agile tools to track work, support planning, code defects, and general issues while using Kanban and Scrum software. Teams are in need of tools that are flexible and will help them grow. Azure Boards is a service that helps developers manage their software projects.

Benefits of Microsoft Azure DevOps

Microsoft Azure DevOps offers many benefits, including:

A quick setup and easy deployment
An elastic scale
Exceptional security
No-maintenance operations
Effortless collaboration through domains
The ability to create and deploy products faster than traditional software

Reviews from Real Users

Microsoft Azure DevOps stands out among its competitors for a variety of reasons. Two major ones are its ability to forecast how long each task will take and the ability for users to follow the entire development process.

PeerSpot viewers note the effectiveness of this solution. An executive chief operating officer for a cloud provider notes, “We can forecast tasks and the number of hours a task will take and can compare it with how long a task actually takes.”

Carlos H., a product and system director at SPCM, writes, “I think the most usable thing is that you can follow the whole progress of the development process. This makes it very useful for us.”

Microsoft Azure DevOps was previously known as Azure DevOps, VSTS, Visual Studio Team Services, MS Azure DevOps.