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We performed a comparison between Digital.ai Deploy and Microsoft Azure DevOps based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"This product is an innovative market leader in the field of application deployment.""The solution creates a manifest file that caps the bridge between the developer and the system admin.""The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is vendor-agnostic and it has a file called Manifest, which makes it possible for developers, ops people, and system admins to cooperate."

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"Fields can be customized and the reporting is good.""It's a pretty problem-free solution.""Azure Port is considered the most valuable feature.""It is stable, and we have had no issues with it.""Detailed logs allow us to pinpoint the exact cause of any issues, making troubleshooting efficient and accurate.""The most valuable aspect of Azure DevOps for me is its robust version control functionality, which is critical for our workflow.""The integration of the whole cycle is the main strength of the tool. If I want to control the cycle with other tools on the market, I would have to use several tools. However, this is not the case with Azure DevOps or TFS.""Azure DevOps is complete and meets all of your expectations. You can develop your own plugins to customize it however you want, so it's highly flexible. We develop personalized plugins or use ones that other programmers create for the Azure Marketplace."

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Cons
"While it is a flexible product and provides a means of integrating with virtually anything, the company should make a better effort to keep up with new platform integrations.""The solution currently has a bug that causes performance issues. They need to resolve this in a future release.""The tool needs to improve on cloud-native GitOps."

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"We are facing some problems because the capacity can only be measured within a project. It cannot be measured across multiple projects. So, the reporting needs to be enhanced, and there should be more graphs to be able to easily give the upper management insights about all the employees from different departments. It will be helpful for employee management. Currently, the managers over here are using Power BI for insights because the functionality of Azure DevOps Boards is not enough. So, we have to export the data into another visualization tool and get the results.""The solution could be made faster because it can be a little unnerving to browse through too many pages and press too many buttons.""Azure DevOps could be improved with more security plugins, especially for SaaS scanning and vulnerability scans.""While reporting in Azure DevOps is a robust capability, there's always room for enhancement, particularly in providing more granular reports.""This product would be improved if the helpdesk were included.""Its interface could be more user-friendly. It could be simplified for users with no prior knowledge. There should also be better tutorials.""Incorporating security tools directly into DevOps is crucial, as many existing DevOps solutions lack robust security features.""It should be able to handle the different types. There is ecosystems engineering, and there is software applications engineering. There is a need to bring these teams together, but the disciplines don't integrate very well, and so it won't work."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Pricing costs are based on annual subscriptions."
  • "The product’s pricing is acceptable. We get volume discounts."
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  • "It's a good tool, quite rich, it has a lot of features, and quite a lot of analytical capabilities which are built on top of it so that you can see how your projects are going and all that stuff. It's a good tool."
  • "There is a licensing fee of $6/user per month."
  • "The price is cheaper than Jira and some of the other competing tools."
  • "It is the least expensive product in this class."
  • "I find that the pricing is good, and it is competitive with the other vendors in the market."
  • "Microsoft Azure DevOps is free for up to five users and allows you to track a maximum of three projects."
  • "It is a subscription model and I only pay for what I use."
  • "The price of this solution is fair."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The solution creates a manifest file that caps the bridge between the developer and the system admin.
    Top Answer:The product’s pricing is acceptable. We get volume discounts.
    Top Answer:The tool needs to improve on cloud-native GitOps.
    Top Answer:Jira is a great centralized tool for just about everything, from local team management to keeping track of products and work logs. It is easy to implement and navigate, and it is stable and scalable… more »
    Top Answer:TFS and Azure DevOps are different in many ways. TFS was designed for admins, and only offers incremental improvements. In addition, TFS seems complicated to use and I don’t think it has a very… more »
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of the solution is task management.
    Ranking
    14th
    out of 32 in Release Automation
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    570
    Comparisons
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    Average Words per Review
    197
    Rating
    8.0
    1st
    out of 32 in Release Automation
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    19,315
    Comparisons
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    Average Words per Review
    650
    Rating
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    Also Known As
    Deployit, XLDeploy, XebiaLabs XL Deploy
    Azure DevOps, VSTS, Visual Studio Team Services, MS Azure DevOps
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    Overview

    Automate and standardize complex, enterprise-scale application deployments to any environment—from mainframes and middleware to containers and the cloud. Speed up deployments with increased reliability. Enable self-service deployment while maintaining governance and control.

    Microsoft Azure DevOps is a cloud service that enables developers to collaborate on code development projects and create and deploy applications quicker than ever before. The service helps unite developers, project managers, and software development experts through a collaborative experience while using the application. For the users' convenience, Azure DevOps offers the user cloud services through Azure DevOps Services or an on-premises service using Azure DevOps Server. In addition, it supports integration with additional services and adding extensions, including the ability for the user to create their own custom extensions. 

    Azure DevOps provides a variety of unified features that can be accessed through their web browser or IDE client, such as:

    • Azure Pipelines - Develop and deploy services to support ongoing application integration and delivery. Azure pipelines, which work with almost every project type and most languages, will automatically test code projects in order to make them available to others.

    • Azure Artifacts - Share packages and integrate package sharing between teams. Packages include NuGet, npm, and Maven, in addition to other private and public sources. Developers can now share and consume packages with other developers from different public registries.

    • Azure Repos - Offers source control of your code through Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) or Git repositories. Developers can now keep track of any changes that are made in their code over the course of their project.

    • Azure Test Plans - Offers continuous and manual/exploratory app testing through several tools. Test Suites, or a collection of Test Cases, are grouped together in a container called a Test Plan.

    • Azure Boards - Provides a suite of Agile tools to track work, support planning, code defects, and general issues while using Kanban and Scrum software. Teams are in need of tools that are flexible and will help them grow. Azure Boards is a service that helps developers manage their software projects. 

    Benefits of Microsoft Azure DevOps

    Microsoft Azure DevOps offers many benefits, including:

    • A quick setup and easy deployment
    • An elastic scale
    • Exceptional security
    • No-maintenance operations
    • Effortless collaboration through domains
    • The ability to create and deploy products faster than traditional software

    Reviews from Real Users

    Microsoft Azure DevOps stands out among its competitors for a variety of reasons. Two major ones are its ability to forecast how long each task will take and the ability for users to follow the entire development process.

    PeerSpot viewers note the effectiveness of this solution. An executive chief operating officer for a cloud provider notes, “We can forecast tasks and the number of hours a task will take and can compare it with how long a task actually takes.” 

    Carlos H., a product and system director at SPCM, writes, “I think the most usable thing is that you can follow the whole progress of the development process. This makes it very useful for us.”

    Sample Customers
    American Express, Xerox, Fandango, Rabobank, Cable & Wireless, Air France, 3M, GE, Liberty Mutual, EA
    Alaska Airlines, Iberia Airlines, Columbia, Skype
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm37%
    Insurance Company13%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company23%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Energy/Utilities Company11%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company13%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Government9%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business73%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise18%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise81%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise51%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise68%
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    Digital.ai Deploy is ranked 14th in Release Automation with 11 reviews while Microsoft Azure DevOps is ranked 1st in Release Automation with 124 reviews. Digital.ai Deploy is rated 7.4, while Microsoft Azure DevOps is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Digital.ai Deploy writes "Besides for the flash GUI which is a pain, it includes all of the features we were looking for". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure DevOps writes "Good support, helpful management capabilities, and great Kanban boards". Digital.ai Deploy is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, GitLab and Digital.ai Release , whereas Microsoft Azure DevOps is most compared with GitLab, Jira, TFS, Rally Software and ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management.

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