Microsoft Corporation

Azure DevOps

Composite Score

8.8 /10

CX Score

9.1 /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 Software Testing category

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2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Latest Award, 2024

4 Top Rated Capabilities

2 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2024

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

Service Experience

2024

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023

8 Top Rated Capabilities

8 Top Rated Features

2023

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2023

2022 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2022

5 Top Rated Capabilities

4 Top Rated Features

2022

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Conflict Resolution

2022

2021 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2021

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.

89 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

86 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.

+91 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?

2% Negative

1% Neutral

97% Positive

Pros

Respectful
Fair
Effective Service
Enables Productivity

Feature Ratings

Average 82

Test Planning

Analytics and Reporting

Artifact Traceability

Regulatory Compliance

Audit Log

ALM Integration

Test Environment Management

Test Data Management

Test Coverage Analysis

Artifact Management

Test Run Workflow Manager

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Customization

Vendor Support

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Azure DevOps Reviews

Achyut P.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2024

Test Management, Test Automation

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Azure DevOps from other similar products?

Comprehensive DevOps Toolset: Azure DevOps offers a complete set of tools to support the entire DevOps lifecycle: Azure Repos: Git repositories for source code management, with support for both Git and TFVC (Team Foundation Version Control). Azure Pipelines: CI/CD pipelines for automating builds, testing, and deployments across multiple platforms and cloud providers. Azure Boards: Agile planning tools including backlogs, sprint planning, Kanban boards, and customizable dashboards.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

One of the standout features of Azure DevOps is its comprehensive integration across the entire DevOps lifecycle. This integration encompasses source code management (Azure Repos), continuous integration and continuous deployment (Azure Pipelines), agile planning and project management (Azure Boards), testing and quality assurance (Azure Test Plans), and artifact management (Azure Artifacts). This cohesive toolset allows teams to seamlessly manage and automate their software development processes from planning through to deployment, all within a unified platform.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Customization Limitations: While Azure DevOps offers extensive customization options, some users may find certain aspects less flexible compared to other specialized tools. Customizing workflows, board layouts, or pipeline configurations might require workarounds or additional setup effort.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Explore the Features: Take advantage of Azure DevOps' free tier or trial options to explore its features firsthand. Familiarize yourself with Azure Repos, Pipelines, Boards, Test Plans, and Artifacts to understand how they fit into your DevOps workflows. Evaluate Integration Needs: Assess how well Azure DevOps integrates with your existing toolset. Check the availability and compatibility of integrations with third-party tools and services crucial to your development and operations processes.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Ram S.

Role: Operations
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2024

The best platform primarily used for DevOps.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Azure DevOps from other similar products?

Azure Test Plans for testing, and Azure Artifacts for package management. Unlike many competitors, it offers both cloud-hosted Azure and on-premises options.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

This integration ensures that all necessary tools and services are available in a unified platform, which significantly simplifies project management, development, testing, deployment, and monitoring.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Till now everything is good.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Utilize Microsoft's extensive documentation and tutorials to get up to speed. Consider taking online courses or certification programs that cover Azure DevOps to build a strong foundational understanding.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Katrina M.

Role: Human Resources
Industry: Not for Profit
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2024

Helpful and Fuctional

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Azure DevOps from other similar products?

Easy to use mechanisms

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

the different platforms for the workplace, something for the whole team to use.

What do you dislike most about this product?

chat for help feature

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Very easy to use!

Pros

Respectful
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

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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

Azure DevOps Ratings

89 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+91 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

Test Planning Build test cycles and phases, define milestones to coordinate dependencies and releases, and then assign resources to execute the planned tests.

Analytics and Reporting Aggregated visual reporting of testing progress, results and insights through real-time, dynamic dashboards with customizable reporting widgets.

Artifact Traceability Trace testing artifacts, such as test cases and scripts, forward to test runs and issues that need to be fixed, and backwards to the business process.

Regulatory Compliance Templated test cases for regulatory requirements and industry guidelines (e.g. GAMPS, SOX, HIPAA, OWASP, ISO)

Audit Log Complete record of all changes made to entities within the test management solution. Teams can monitor and trace every change.

ALM Integration Real-time integration with 3rd party ALM and other software delivery tools such as Build, Deploy, Test and Requirements Management.

Test Environment Management Provision, monitor, refresh, and tear down test environments. Teams can track all environment resources from a centralized dashboard and repository.

Test Data Management Secured management and access of test data.

Test Coverage Analysis Pinpoint the sources of test failures and defects by granularly dissecting test runs, test cases and other testing artifacts and requirements.

Artifact Management Test artifacts can be readily created, reused, moved, and managed in a structured format, such as folder, heirarchical, and context-driven formats.

Test Run Workflow Manager Script, configure, execute and manage automated testing workflows, including parallel testing. Automation is initiated internally by test management solution.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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Azure DevOps Reviews

Achyut P.

Test Management, Test Automation

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Ram S.

The best platform primarily used for DevOps.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Katrina M.

Helpful and Fuctional

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

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