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Plan smarter, collaborate better and ship faster with Azure DevOps Services, formerly known as Visual Studio Team Services.
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90 Likeliness to Recommend
98 Plan to Renew
87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+94 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Security Protects
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Helps Innovate
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Azure DevOps Reviews

Vijay S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2025
Powerful and flexible, but has a learning curve.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Azure DevOps from other similar products?
Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker
What do you dislike most about this product?
Steep Learning Curve for New Users
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Continuously assess whether Azure DevOps is meeting your team's evolving needs.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
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Braden L.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Media
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2025
Reliable DevOps Suite with Integration Challenges.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Azure DevOps from other similar products?
The difference is Azure DevOps deployment flexibility. It’s a cloud SaaS solution but also supports on-premise deployment with Azure DevOps Server. With this cross-cut approach, organizations can still keep confidential data under the control and meet strict regulatory standards without losing out on the latest DevOps tools and practices. Azure DevOps also comes with a number of development languages and platforms available to ensure it can be used by any development team.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The great thing about Azure Pipelines is its modularity and customization capabilities. The feature to create advanced, multi-step pipelines with YAML configuration files, which allows for versioned, automated deployment. Container built and deployed as well as Microsoft-hosted or self-hosted agents give teams the flexibility to customize their CI/CD workflow. That extensibility and the huge marketplace of integrations and extensions are what makes Azure DevOps a powerful solution for automating and streamlining software delivery.
What do you dislike most about this product?
There is also a performance, and occasionally reliability issue that some users are not so happy about. You have seen slow-loading (especially when dealing with large projects or complicated queries on Azure Boards). It also comes with the issue of synchronization issues between different services or build/distribution unexpected errors. These problems, although not all of them, can disrupt processes and need to be grounded or checked frequently, impacting team productivity and project timelines.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Put the effort into training and documentation for your team. Azure DevOps provides many features that can drastically increase productivity, but only if you make the most of them. Engage your team to learn about the platform’s potential and share lessons learned. You may want to nominate Azure DevOps champions within your organization to mentor others. Review and optimize your platform usage frequently, take advantage of upcoming new integrations and capabilities. Recall that successful deployment of Azure DevOps often demands not only technical improvements but also a change in culture toward DevOps methods and attitudes.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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Holden L.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2025
Azure DevOps: Powerful Features
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Azure DevOps from other similar products?
Azure DevOps is different from others because it is deeply integrated with Microsoft. To those teams that already have Azure cloud services, Office 365 or Visual Studio, Azure DevOps has seamless integration and user interfaces. This extension also extends to Microsoft Entra ID identity management for access control and security management across the development lifecycle.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The thing I love most about Azure DevOps is that they offer a complete toolkit for the software development lifecycle. With integration between Azure Boards for project planning, Azure Repos for version control, Azure Pipelines for CI/CD, Azure Test Plans for testing, and Azure Artifacts for package management, you have a more cohesive workflow and collaboration environment. This single source means fewer dissimilar tools and less context switching, increasing productivity.
What do you dislike most about this product?
A part of Azure DevOps that frustrates me is the steep learning curve and the UI. Although the platform is extremely feature and feature packed, going through all the services and settings can be a bit confusing for newbies. This power of multiple choices and options settings can be overwhelming and lead to lost productivity when staff member cannot find the tools or settings, they need for their job.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
For those considering Azure DevOps, I would strongly recommend focusing on a complete evaluation of your current development environment and tools. Look for the most impactful opportunities with Azure DevOps, such as collaboration, repetitive tasks or better insight into project progress. — Start by piloting a platform that gives your team a sense of the platform’s functionality and workflow before expanding it to the whole organization. This will enable you to recognize any potential issues and adapt the tool accordingly.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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