We performed a comparison between IBM Rational ALM and Microsoft Azure DevOps based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I would rate the stability of this product a nine out of ten."
"One of the key advantages of IBM Rational ALM is its workflow capabilities, which enable seamless collaboration between development and production teams and ensure that all stakeholders are aware of the progress and readiness of the solution. Additionally, the solution is good for integration."
"It helped us contain critical things, like source code and several documents, which is very important to us."
"IBM Rational ALM is a very good tool. I like the management and traceability features and the test management tool. The latter is not linked with the stories and fixed management. It is really useful, and we can create test plans. We can also test some metrics related to QA."
"It is relatively easy to use and user-friendly once the setup is complete."
"The tools for requirement capture we have found very useful."
"You can customize the board according to your needs."
"We have something called the GC (global configuration), which is a unique feature compared to any other competitor we have in the ALM space."
"The features of Azure Repos that we find most impactful are those related to source control management within our DevOps code management processes."
"The reports have been most valuable. We have created some dashboards allowing us to be able to check our teams, their progress, and mission plans."
"Stable and scalable solution for work planning and code collaboration. It's fast, and it offers a good user experience."
"Some of the valuable features are the functionality and the wide range of capabilities."
"The extensibility of the work item forms and customizations as well as the backend API to query the data, et cetera, and manipulate the data programmatically are all very valuable aspects of the product."
"Azure DevOps is effective for repository management and code collaboration. We can create branches, differentiate between code versions, save and review code later, get PR approvals, and more. All these features are valuable."
"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."
"Our technical sales staff and business development people need to know how far the developers are on any product that we're developing. DevOps makes it easier for you to see how far along they are with the work because they have a repository where they store everything. There is a portal where you can see what has been done, what has been tested, what is working, and what isn't. I have a huge dashboard with an overview of what the development team is doing from an executive point of view."
"The solution can improve in the development area and the customized applications."
"The interconnectivity between packages is a major support problem and can be improved."
"There is not enough beginner support material in the form of FAQs or simple training to help you get started."
"The product must be more user-friendly."
"In the next release, we expect a traceability metrics configuration where we can configure the user stories. We also expect them to improve or simplify the query process."
"The directory designer manager is uncivil. The design manager is clearly really unstable."
"The GUI is a little bit outdated."
"Some improvements to the user interface (UI) would be helpful, such as exposing more services to make it easier to customize to the needs of each customer."
"It would be very useful if it had better integration with Microsoft Word because we would like to be able to define the priority requirement document and add it to different stages of the backlog."
"Incorporating security tools directly into DevOps is crucial, as many existing DevOps solutions lack robust security features."
"Another area is the Azure monitoring agent for Citrix machines. There's room for improvement there too."
"Reporting could be better. We would like to see how many applications are onboarded in DevOps and in which phase they are. We would like to know for how many applications we have done only the repository, but we have not yet done the build pipeline or deploy pipeline. Currently, there is no such report. We have to figure it out ourselves. There is no way to check how many applications are completing their build pipelines, how many applications are completing their deploy pipeline, how many are ready to use, and how many pipelines are working."
"Integration and plugins for other tools could better. Like if you want to integrate the DevOps with other tools that are in the market. This could be for the engineering tools to check code quality, application security tools, and DevOps dashboard tools."
"The optimization feature in Microsoft Azure DevOps needs improvement. Control over multiple projects could also be improved."
"When you compare with Jira, there is a lack of progress features."
"Project management could be improved."
IBM Rational ALM is ranked 11th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews while Microsoft Azure DevOps is ranked 2nd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 127 reviews. IBM Rational ALM is rated 7.2, while Microsoft Azure DevOps is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Rational ALM writes "A complex deployment that is not stable, but is cloud-based". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure DevOps writes "Allows us to deploy code to production without releasing certain features immediately and agile project management capabilities offer resource-leveling". IBM Rational ALM is most compared with Jira, Codebeamer, Polarion ALM, PTC Integrity and Atlassian ALM, whereas Microsoft Azure DevOps is most compared with GitLab, Jira, TFS, Rally Software and ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management. See our IBM Rational ALM vs. Microsoft Azure DevOps report.
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