Compare Microsoft Azure DevOps vs. Rally Software
Microsoft Azure DevOps is ranked 2nd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 10 reviews while Rally Software is ranked 6th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 5 reviews. Microsoft Azure DevOps is rated 8.8, while Rally Software is rated 8.8. 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 "Built on web services which can be used to pull reports and metrics without SQL queries". Microsoft Azure DevOps is most compared with JIRA, TFS and Ansible, 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. |
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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. |
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Views 31,817 Comparisons 26,210 Reviews 10 Average Words per Review 467 Avg. Rating 8.7 | Views 9,844 Comparisons 5,885 Reviews 5 Average Words per Review 425 Avg. Rating 8.8 |
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| 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 | Broadcom |
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 Company37% Comms Service Provider10% Insurance Company6% Government6% | Financial Services Firm21% Healthcare Company16% Comms Service Provider15% Manufacturing Company10% Software R&D Company39% Manufacturing Company8% Insurance Company8% Comms Service Provider8% |
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