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Microsoft Azure DevOps vs UrbanCode Deploy comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 7, 2025

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Azure DevOps
Ranking in Release Automation
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
137
Ranking in other categories
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (2nd), Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (1st)
UrbanCode Deploy
Ranking in Release Automation
8th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
27
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Release Automation category, the mindshare of Microsoft Azure DevOps is 27.1%, down from 34.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of UrbanCode Deploy is 4.6%, down from 5.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Release Automation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Azure DevOps27.1%
UrbanCode Deploy4.6%
Other68.3%
Release Automation
 

Featured Reviews

Bharadwaj Deepak Mohapatra - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at ENTERPRISE SYSTEM SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Have built reliable end-to-end pipelines and streamlined cloud provisioning through consistent collaboration practices
I am currently working with open-source tools such as Jenkins for my main CI/CD pipeline, and for enterprise clients, I am using Microsoft Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline. For other clients, I have also implemented CI/CD YAML pipelines through GitLab CI/CD workflow and GitHub Actions. I am creating the end-to-end CI/CD pipeline from development to deployment and monitoring all of this. Azure Boards is easier than Jira for my understanding because there are very easy points to manage the Agile methodology which we work on. Because it is a GUI, sometimes the process may take a few minutes more than the CLI process since the backend is running the exact CLI, but we are commanding through the GUI. There is definitely a time lag, but it is more secure. Microsoft Azure DevOps pipelines work very seamlessly rather than other CI/CD pipelines, as of my understanding. The downside is that the process may take more time when deploying some clusters, Kubernetes, Azure AKS service, or some vast microservice architecture deployments. There may be a little bit of lag I feel, though I cannot tell very strictly that this is a disadvantage, but sometimes it takes a little more time than other cloud infrastructures. All the major things are done by GUI, which is somewhat a little slow. However, if considering automations, process, monitoring, and provisioning, then it is the best cloud service across all the other service providers. Our implementation is a hybrid cloud. Microsoft Azure DevOps is definitely easily scalable. I have worked on many Kubernetes infrastructures and microservice deployments, and I have seen that replication is very good because it is very easy. The replication process is very straightforward. I definitely advocate for using less code because it is very time-consuming. If using GCP or Amazon Web Service, there is more interaction related to work over the CLI process. In terms of Microsoft Azure DevOps, there are many things done by the GUI, which is the best part.
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DevOps Engineer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
A handy interface that includes buttons or drag-and-drop options for all functionality
Our company uses the solution for standard, blue-green, and complex deployments. We have 250 users throughout our company.  The solution handles complex deployments very efficiently.  The user interface includes buttons or drag-and-drop options for all functionality. It is easy to create component…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable features of this solution are the CI/CD pipeline, and the testing automation."
"Everything that's related to the pipeline has been very good."
"You can have test cases in DevOps but not in JIRA, and DevOps has advantages in terms of executing those test cases."
"Microsoft Azure DevOps has helped the developers a lot and we are deploying process changes very frequently and simultaneously. A lot of my team members that are developers are updating the code in parallel using Git. Additionally, Microsoft Azure DevOps is providing a very good approval mechanism. Overall it is benefiting by creating efficiency in production deployment and applications, our new releases are running well. The security of secured is good."
"The most valuable feature is the complete integration between test cases, pipelines, and issue management."
"You get a complete solution with Azure DevOps; you can do everything in one place, starting from requirement gathering until you release the product, and it is a reliable, scalable, and handy product."
"The most valuable feature is that it's fully integrated, where we have a single place to do everything that we need."
"I think the Azure methodology and all those DevOps features in the dashboard are very effective in our environment."
"The most valuable feature is the snapshot functionality, which allows us to access previous versions of the artifacts."
"It reduced more than 70% of our manual effort when it automated deployment of both UNIX and Windows-based applications using UrbanCode Deploy."
"Our biggest ROI is increased productivity which we experienced within the first year."
"The solution handles complex deployments very efficiently."
"Centralization of our deployment process Unification of our nonprod and production deployment process"
"Coming from where we were and getting to where we are was just never could have been done without uDeploy and it's just incredibly powerful for us."
"It has automated the deployment of tasks to different environments which we were previously only able to do manually."
"Automated deployment forces the organization to standardize runtimes, development output and handling of platform provisioning."
 

Cons

"Refreshing the browser is needed when a data is updated."
"It would be great if I could integrate with a human resource type of software that could control timesheets."
"One area of Microsoft Azure DevOps that has room for improvement is business service level metrics and visibility, which we were trying to achieve but couldn't."
"Incorporating security tools directly into DevOps is crucial, as many existing DevOps solutions lack robust security features."
"I would like there to be more seamless integration with GitHub. Azure DevOps seems to be targeted towards enterprises and GitHub is the ugly sister, so to speak, that you come about in the enterprise."
"We are currently in the process of moving all of our on-prem to the cloud platform. We are trying to make that move and host the majority of our DevOps services in the cloud because the cloud is where most of the things are going nowadays. However, the process of this transfer is not straightforward, and it could be a lot easier. Microsoft hasn't provided the maturity for migration tools. It could be a lot easier in that respect. I want to see them continue to advance the API capabilities. They could add some more robust functionality to the administrative layer within ADO services. There are a lot of configuration elements that you need to take care of at the organization level and the project configuration level from an administrative capacity. When you're dealing with process templates and things of that nature, you have to do them all manually. Being able to automate some of that using scripts or API functionality would be really nice."
"The UI could be improved."
"I would give it a higher rating, but there are a couple of things that tick me off."
"WebSphere deployments, for some reason, don’t work out-of-the-box."
"Sometimes the tool gets hung while running a plan."
"In our implementation, we created 16 PMR for this product. 15 of them were solved."
"The reporting functionality is limited and it is difficult to retrieve information from the database due to the table structure."
"I think that the IBM support team needs to be more proactive in their responses to PMR tickets raised by customers."
"I'm really not that satisfied with the stability of UrbanCode Deploy."
"There have been a lot of broken stoppages in uDeploy 6.1.2, particularly in the upgrade."
"We're running version 4.8.4, which isn't the latest version. This version lacks reporting, which may be improved in the latest version."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive."
"We purchase the solution on an annual basis."
"We pay a monthly license for Microsoft Azure DevOps."
"Licensing cost per user is approximately $11 to $15. We have about 400 users, but not all are active. We have around 200 to 300 active users."
"There is a licensing fee of $6/user per month."
"As a Microsoft Partner, you get a discount on the pricing. Licensing costs are around $80 a month for DevOps, but for Azure, it is about $200 a month."
"I don't have a problem with the pricing."
"There are additional costs for some functionality, such as increased scalability."
"Considering COVID-19, the price is too high."
"The licensing fees for this solution are based on the number of servers that are being deployed and the number of agents that you have."
"The cost of the solution is high but it offers great ROI."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
31%
Insurance Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
Marketing Services Firm
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business43
Midsize Enterprise28
Large Enterprise68
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise21
 

Questions from the Community

Which is better - Jira or Microsoft Azure DevOps?
Jira is a great centralized tool for just about everything, from local team management to keeping track of products and work logs. It is easy to implement and navigate, and it is stable and scalabl...
Which is better - TFS or Azure DevOps?
TFS and Azure DevOps are different in many ways. TFS was designed for admins, and only offers incremental improvements. In addition, TFS seems complicated to use and I don’t think it has a very fri...
What do you like most about Microsoft Azure DevOps?
Valuable features for project management and tracking in Azure DevOps include a portal displaying test results, check-in/check-out activity, and developer/tester productivity.
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Also Known As

Azure DevOps, VSTS, Visual Studio Team Services, MS Azure DevOps
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Sample Customers

Alaska Airlines, Iberia Airlines, Columbia, Skype
As policy, IBM does not release customer names on non-IBM web sites.  However, public DevOps and UrbanCode Deploy case studies can be found here. IBM's UrbanCode Deploy customers span Small-Medium Businesses to Fortune 500 companies across all industries worldwide.
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