Compare Microsoft Azure DevOps vs. Rally Software
Microsoft Azure DevOps is ranked 4th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 10 reviews while Rally Software is ranked 3rd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 24 reviews. Microsoft Azure DevOps is rated 8.8, while Rally Software is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure DevOps writes "Good for the staging environment through to the production environment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rally Software writes "Streamlines defining user stories and tracking sprints, but dependency flagging should be easier". Microsoft Azure DevOps is most compared with JIRA, TFS and Micro Focus ALM Octane, whereas Rally Software is most compared with JIRA, TFS and Microsoft Azure DevOps. See our Microsoft Azure DevOps vs. Rally Software report.
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Azure enables us to create a staging environment through to a production environment in an easier way and then get the code and run that. Technical support has been excellent. On that side, Microsoft is very good. The customer support of Microsoft has really improved this past year. On the cloud side also we are very satisfied because it offers very good support. My first impression of DevOps, after using Jira, is that it has a much better, more intuitive, and more user-friendly interface. All of the features related to release management are very good. It's graphical representation and tools are easy to use. The user interface is very friendly. | Reporting is much easier and faster than Micro Focus ALM, with CA AC built on web services... Also, the data is more granular when it comes to tasks, iterations, sprints, and releases. I was able to create epics for our budgeting concerns and it helped me link everything together. Having that view into features and roadmap from product to delivery teams, and where they are going, then execute on. Its ability to scale. Tech support is very responsive, helpful, and available. It helps with getting the alignment between strategy and execution for the product teams, all the way down to the delivery teams. CA Agile Central provides visibility into how teams are meeting business objectives. CA Agile Central helps the entire organization run like one powerful team. |
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The solution could work to improve their reporting. They do very frequent releases, there's a complete change in UI kind of stuff. Sometimes it feels like they change it too often. I would like to see better interoperability with the agile scaling frameworks. Better integration with the Linux operating system would be an improvement for this solution. Non-functional testing such as security testing, log testing, and performance testing can be improved with a better visualization. I would like to see more customization available to the administrator. | One problem I see is that if there is a dependent user story - for example, if my team is working on one thing and there is a dependent user story from another team - we can have a dependency created but we don't know if there is a change of status from the other team. That is something which is very important for Agile Central to look into so that if the other team makes any changes we will be notified as well. I think there is a missing link with the development activity. Some developers are pushing in new versions of the code, but you cannot make the link from the user story to a specific application version. A lot of the features that we would be looking to add, I am learning may not be within Agile Central, but part of another CA tool set. CA Agile Central does not have a workflow tool included. I think there needs to be some simplification. The team-level side can be challenging and complicated. It could improve by being self-organizing: user stories, different hierarchies, and different perspectives. Not just as a single hierarchical structure, but something that can be multidimensional. I would like to see more Kanban support. As it stands, it doesn't seem to have the features or the layouts that the teams really need to be able to execute their tasks. It almost tries to force you into more of a Scrum style. More customization capabilities would be helpful. Providing a little bit more structure around how the system should be set up in terms of the hierarchy structure might be helpful as well. |
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There is a licensing fee of $6/user per month. 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. | It is expensive and may not be worthwhile for a small company. From a price point, it's a cost effective solution for our needs. |
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Views 20,697 Comparisons 17,300 Reviews 10 Average Words per Review 459 Avg. Rating 8.7 | Views 10,312 Comparisons 5,626 Reviews 25 Average Words per Review 584 Avg. Rating 8.3 |
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Also Known As | |
| Azure DevOps, VSTS, Visual Studio Team Services | CA Agile Central, Rally Enterprise, CA Agile Training, CA Agile Coaching, CA Agile Academy, CA Agile Management , CA ALM |
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| Microsoft | CA (A Broadcom Company) |
Overview | |
Azure DevOps Services is a cloud service for collaborating on code development. It provides an integrated set of features that you access through your web browser or IDE client, including the following:
| With Rally Software, you can plan, prioritize, manage, track, and continuously improve your work so that you can deliver the value that your customers need with speed, quality, and efficiency. Our enterprise-class Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) SaaS platform provides visibility into progress, roadblocks, and dependencies across multiple teams, projects, and programs. This allows you to align to your strategic goals and create better business results, and to do it all in a single system of record. |
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Learn more about Microsoft Azure DevOps | Learn more about Rally Software |
Sample Customers | |
| Alaska Airlines, Iberia Airlines, Columbia, Skype | Physicians Mutual, Harvard Pilgrim HealthCare, Editora Abril, Tata Communications, Level 3 Communications, Seagate, TomTom, Philips, Hiscox, Physicians Mutual, MYOB |
Top Industries | |
Software R&D Company32% Comms Service Provider10% Government8% Manufacturing Company7% | Financial Services Firm21% Healthcare Company16% Comms Service Provider15% Manufacturing Company10% Software R&D Company29% Manufacturing Company11% Insurance Company10% Financial Services Firm9% |
Company Size | |
Small Business15% Midsize Enterprise23% Large Enterprise62% | Small Business9% Midsize Enterprise10% Large Enterprise81% Small Business4% Midsize Enterprise2% Large Enterprise94% |
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