We performed a comparison between Jira Align and Microsoft Azure DevOps based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Agile Planning Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."What I like about Jira is that I can easily keep tabs on the status of different issues and what the team is working on."
"The tool helps us with better tracking across various departments. Jira Align is highly valuable for organizations due to its flexibility. With my experience as an administrator, I can attest that it can be tailored to meet the diverse needs of any organization. It helps to eliminate the mess created by Excel spreadsheets."
"I found Confluence most valuable."
"It's easy to set up."
"The most valuable feature is that engineers can access the Jira database and just search for the tasks that are assigned to them. They can then update the status on their own in those records that are assigned to them."
"Jira Align has been quite a helpful tool for us because, without it, we would be juggling with all our story points or our backlog items, which would be difficult to manage."
"Defect tracking and dashboards are the most valuable features of Jira Align."
"I've had no issues with Align's stability."
"It's a great product for the CI/CD process."
"I definitely like the pipelines and the ease of management once you're in an enterprise."
"This platform provides a large span of tools and technologies."
"Provides us with user histories."
"The solution is good for everything, including end-to-end planning and its deployment and testing."
"Most of the features are very valuable for us, especially the source code control and task management."
"The most valuable aspect of Azure DevOps for me is its robust version control functionality, which is critical for our workflow."
"I like the cloud infrastructure of Microsoft Azure DevOps."
"AI is utilized worldwide; they could implement the functionality for notifications and other organizational operations in the product."
"The tool must provide better bulk editing features."
"Jira Align fails to provide its users with a complete package in terms of portfolio management."
"I would like to see Jira Align merge and integrate better with Jira as a whole. A lot of the time, the data from Jira won't map very well into Jira Align."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"Lacks sufficient reporting capabilities."
"The product should improve its communication. My English proficiency is not high, but writing in English is another skill that you need. Maybe AI can help here. Because I can see in some other applications, they have AI helpers. So when you write something and you want to do something, it can help. For example, Google Cloud Platform has it. They have a helpdesk for it. When you want to create a cluster, it can help you."
"One of the biggest issues I found in the new version was once we clicked on one of the tasks that were specifically for our group and went to look at the other portfolios in other areas we had to browse all the way back to the beginning. If you click the back button, it would not work, it stayed the same place. Additionally, if you click on page B, but then you wanted to go back to page A it would not go back to page A. You would have to browse back to the portfolio and then find your group again and open it. This was the only issue that I had with it and I am not sure if it is a Jira issue or it was because of the way the site was laid out."
"I can't think of anything I would like to improve, since I don't have complete knowledge of the platform yet. I'm sure that as I gain more experience, I will understand it better. The price could maybe be cheaper, but I'm sure I'll have more ideas as to improvements and additional features once I've used it more."
"As for room for improvement, more features need to be added to the classic pipeline. The build and release pipelines are present, but there has not been much improvement there."
"The ability to integrate Microsoft Azure DevOps with other platforms and Microsoft products can be improved."
"Non-functional testing such as security testing, log testing, and performance testing can be improved with a better visualization."
"Requirements management is an area that can be improved."
"Reporting across multiple projects could be improved."
"We are currently in the process of moving all of our on-prem to the cloud platform. We are trying to make that move and host the majority of our DevOps services in the cloud because the cloud is where most of the things are going nowadays. However, the process of this transfer is not straightforward, and it could be a lot easier. Microsoft hasn't provided the maturity for migration tools. It could be a lot easier in that respect. I want to see them continue to advance the API capabilities. They could add some more robust functionality to the administrative layer within ADO services. There are a lot of configuration elements that you need to take care of at the organization level and the project configuration level from an administrative capacity. When you're dealing with process templates and things of that nature, you have to do them all manually. Being able to automate some of that using scripts or API functionality would be really nice."
"Not all companies use the same methodology which could limit the use of this solution."
Jira Align is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 35 reviews while Microsoft Azure DevOps is ranked 1st in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 124 reviews. Jira Align is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Azure DevOps is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Jira Align writes "Creates visibility, has lots of reports, and removes silos". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure DevOps writes "Good support, helpful management capabilities, and great Kanban boards". Jira Align is most compared with OpenText ValueEdge, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, JIRA Portfolio, Planview AgilePlace and Rally Software, whereas Microsoft Azure DevOps is most compared with GitLab, Jira, TFS, Rally Software and ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management. See our Jira Align vs. Microsoft Azure DevOps report.
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