We performed a comparison between Jira and Microsoft Azure Devops based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Overall, users of both products seem to be satisfied with the solutions. Microsoft Azure Devops has slightly higher ratings because it is easy to deploy.
"Everything is tracked in one place."
"The user interface is simple."
"Integrates with other components."
"Its visual display and ease of use are most valuable."
"In Jira, the integrations I have used so far are the repository integration, like when it gets added, or the integration with Confluence, which is good."
"It benefits us because we have globally located teams. Our team members work in different geographies, so the product is a better way to manage progress and see the status of different tasks"
"It's flexible and it can provide a lot of different options, such as dashboards, that you can create and manage."
"The most valuable feature is the Burndown Chart to see work that is outstanding."
"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."
"My team likes the integration that Microsoft Azure DevOps has with GitHub and Microsoft Teams. The solution is well integrated with other Microsoft tools in one place, it is very good."
"Overall, so far we have no major issues to report."
"It is stable, and we have had no issues with it."
"The creation of test plans is valuable and I like the reporting features."
"Detailed logs allow us to pinpoint the exact cause of any issues, making troubleshooting efficient and accurate."
"The simplicity is very good and the customer experience is also great."
"You get a complete solution with Azure DevOps. You can do everything in one place, starting from requirement gathering until you release the product. It is a reliable, scalable, and handy product."
"If I'm comparing it to ALM Octane, the documentation is not as robust as ALM Octane's documentation. So, they can improve on the documentation side."
"When you first start to use the interface, it is confusing."
"They could improve the solution by having a multiple project dashboard to be able to manage many projects KPI's at once, this would really be helpful."
"Its ability to perform true executive-level status reporting could be improved. There are a lot of benefits there, but there are also a lot of things they can and should expand upon."
"Not very intuitive for project admins."
"The solution needs more integrations with Azure DevOps OnPrem."
"Although it covers the overall requirements and measurements, it'll help if they had their own test execution feature."
"The solution can improve by including test management functionality in a native bundle without plugins."
"I think that the integration is to some extent, immature."
"The interface is very bad."
"The ability to integrate Microsoft Azure DevOps with other platforms and Microsoft products can be improved."
"The tutorials for building pipelines are an area that is a bit technical for a beginner."
"There could more integration with other platforms."
"With Microsoft, I would prefer to have more test plans. It's very difficult to find individual test plan module training."
"Improving the metrics that are readily available on the dashboard would be very helpful."
"I think Azure DevOps could improve the traceability or business intelligence about the execution of DevOps processes."
Jira is ranked 1st in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 266 reviews while Microsoft Azure DevOps is ranked 2nd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 127 reviews. Jira is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Azure DevOps is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Jira writes "A great centralized tool that has a good agile framework and is useful for day-to-day planning, task management, and work log efficacy". 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". Jira is most compared with IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software, Polarion ALM and TFS, whereas Microsoft Azure DevOps is most compared with GitLab, TFS, Rally Software, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management and OpenText ALM / Quality Center. See our Jira vs. Microsoft Azure DevOps report.
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