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Azure DevOps

Composite Score

9.0 /10

CX Score

9.3 /10

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What is Azure DevOps?

Plan smarter, collaborate better and ship faster with Azure DevOps Services, formerly known as Visual Studio Team Services.

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Awards & Recognition

Azure DevOps won the following awards in the Application Lifecycle Management category

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2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Latest Award, 2024

10 Top Rated Capabilities

9 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2024

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

Service Experience
Product Impact

2024

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023

11 Top Rated Capabilities

11 Top Rated Features

2023

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2023

2022 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2022

10 Top Rated Capabilities

11 Top Rated Features

2022

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022

Strategy and Innovation
Product Impact

2022

Azure DevOps Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

90 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+94 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Azure DevOps?

1% Negative

3% Neutral

96% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Enables Productivity
Security Protects
Helps Innovate

Feature Ratings

Average 85

Agile Work Management

Automation

Analytics and Reporting

Bug Tracking & Issue Mgmt

Traceability

Workflow Management

Resource Planning

Artifact Management

ALM Integration

Managed Artifact Repository

Visual Analysis Design

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 84

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

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Azure DevOps Reviews

Willy H.

Role: Finance
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

The tool is ok for companies that need Microsoft

Likeliness to Recommend

6 /10

What differentiates Azure DevOps from other similar products?

Lesa usefull

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Compatibility

What do you dislike most about this product?

Too static

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Use another tool

Pros

Effective Service
Caring
Respectful
Over Delivered

Cons

Less Friendly Negotiation

Ashwin M.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2023

Great agile project management tool

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Azure DevOps from other similar products?

The best Agile project management tool I have used. It is straightforward to manage scrum projects for creating user stories, epics, and initiatives. It is User-friendly, and it is available with minimal investment. We can easily set up the Dashboard Controls and Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) configurations.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

What I appreciate about Azure DevOps is its seamless integration of tools and services throughout the software development lifecycle. It provides a comprehensive and cohesive platform that enables efficient collaboration.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Here are the two things which i didn't like about Azure DevOps: Complexity: Some users find Azure DevOps to be complex and overwhelming, particularly for smaller teams or projects that do not require all of the features and capabilities offered by the toolset. Learning Curve: Azure DevOps has a significant learning curve, particularly for users unfamiliar with Microsoft technologies or Agile methodologies.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

When working on any IT project you need to work with a team of multiple departments and you can easily manage it via Azure Boards on the same portal you can also keep your code as it has its GIT which is Azure Repos. Azure DevOps also provides you the facility for triggers, email notifications, and seamless integration of 3rd party services and software.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Sahil R.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2023

Great Project Management tool

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Azure DevOps from other similar products?

This platform provides awesome functionalities to manage the Git Repositories for the source code and manage the deployment pipelines to deploy the stuff. It also provides to manage the Nuget packages with the Artifacts feature.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Azure DevOps integrates with Azure Cloud Services, such as Azure Boards, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, and Azure Artifacts, providing a seamless experience for managing the entire software development lifecycle.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Some users find Azure DevOps to be complex and overwhelming, particularly for smaller teams or projects that do not require all of the features and capabilities offered by the toolset.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The project management features are solid, and I particularly like the ability to create and track work items and assign tasks to team members. The code management features are also robust, with support for Git and other version control systems.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2021 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2020 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2019 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2018 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Azure DevOps Ratings

90 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+94 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Azure DevOps?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Agile Work Management Multiple backlogs, backlog grooming, sprint planning, prioritization, and estimation, and a multi-level agile artifact hierarchy (Epics, User Stories, etc.)

Automation Manual activities such as traceability, test generation, artifact state changes, integrations, and artifact creation can be automated to streamline ALM work.

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Bug Tracking & Issue Mgmt Supports the ability to create tests and acceptance criteria and assign, prioritize, track, and resolve tests,related bugs, and issues.

Traceability ALM artifacts can be traced from ideation to requirements, design, develop, test, and implementation.

Workflow Management Custom workflows can be created, managed, and monitored for artifacts, processes and practices to govern and streamline ALM work.

Resource Planning Assigning resources to activities and estimates to manage workloads, support project management, and ensure completion of work related to ALM artifacts, including dashboards to manage multiple teams

Artifact Management ALM artifacts can be readily created, reused, moved, and managed through baselines, reviews, approvals, releases, and audits for projects and products.

ALM Integration Integrate artifacts across ALM phases such as requirements, analysis, design, development, and testing, either internally or through an API.

Managed Artifact Repository Artifacts are stored in version controlled repository that supports check out, update, check-in, and collaboration across multiple types and workspaces.

Visual Analysis Design Can create and manage context diagrams, business process models, use cases, data flow diagrams, sequence diagrams, data models, and UI mockups, etc.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

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Azure DevOps Reviews

Willy H.

The tool is ok for companies that need Microsoft

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Ashwin M.

Great agile project management tool

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Sahil R.

Great Project Management tool

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Bug Tracking & Issue Mgmt

Traceability

Workflow Management

Resource Planning

Artifact Management

ALM Integration

Managed Artifact Repository

Visual Analysis Design

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Quality of Features

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Ease of IT Administration

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Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

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