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We did not use a different solution previously.
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reviewer1544295
Assurance Manager at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I've used other solutions in tandem, and I have been an administrator for them. For example, I've used Jira and Confluence products, which is Atlassian. I've also used Remedy, but I'm not sure if they're still in the project management. I have also managed HP Performance Center and Tricentis. I've actually been administrating these for the last two years for this company.
I also use UCD, which is another very similar product. It does a lot of the same things and is also agnostic, just like Azure DevOps. You can use both of these with any of the products that are on the market.
We have been part of the Microsoft Compliance journey through its rebranding to the integration into Microsoft Studio. In addition to Azure DevOps, we also utilize Jira, including both Jira Cloud and on-premises versions, as well as other project management tools like Monday.com and Asana, catering to various customer preferences and requirements.
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reviewer1827075
Service Delivery Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have used Amazon AWS previously.
When I compare when Microsoft Azure with Amazon AWS. The two of them offer the same features. You have the storage, performance, connectivity, et cetera. However, on the hybrid, Microsoft Azure DevOps is a lot better than Amazon AWS because you can emulate it perfectly. The hop counts matter, which is how many times one communication connects on its travels from one device to another.
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Muziwandile Mnambathi
Software Engineer at Mercedes-Benz AG
In my previous jobs, yes, we did use different tools. We had a separate team for DevOps team. There was even a "deployment specialist" who dictated deployment times and windows, which could be quite restrictive. So, switching to Azure DevOps has been a massive improvement.
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I previously used SharePoint and Microsoft decided the direction of SharePoint to be less workflow-oriented and less list-oriented and more as a document store. As their roadmap moved away from work management, I've moved over into the TFS/Azure DevOps world.
I was a Microsoft employee. There was some natural tendency to just go with the Microsoft tool, however, it wasn't a hard, fast requirement when we just looked at the feature sets and stuff.
View full review »Before Azure DevOps, we used various tools like Jira. We decided to switch to Azure DevOps to have all services unified in one place, simplifying management. The main advantage is having everything centralized.
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reviewer1490121
Director at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Previously, I was working with Jira.
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reviewer1688595
Software Engineering Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The company previously used TeamCity, and I have used Jenkins in the past, the grandfather of everything. Azure DevOps is nicer. Jenkins is very configurable, but a pain. I like Azure a lot more and I think this or something like it, GitHub Actions, for example, is the future.
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reviewer1045596
Project Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees
I used to work as an engineering manager, a scrum master, and as part of a technical team. JIRA is my preferred tool for this.
JIRA is a more robust and mature tool. However, as you are aware, JIRA is more modular and requires integration with other parts. DevOps, on the other hand, has everything in one, it combines source code control, release management, and task tracking.
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reviewer1357245
Director | Information Technology / Quality Engineering at a performing arts with 1,001-5,000 employees
We previously used Jira, however, we have not switched over completely to Azure DevOps. We now use both.
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reviewer1553925
Software & Cyber Section Manager at a aerospace/defense firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
We also use Jira. I myself do not use Jira, however, it is used by other teams and colleagues within our organization.
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AsifSharif
President & CEO at Modern Requirements
I am using a mismatch of tools from HP and Atlassian, but they did not give us an integrated toolchain. Microsoft Azure does it exceptionally well.
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Mohammad Ranjbar
Product Owner at Day Insurance
I've used Atlassian products like Jira, Confluence, and HipChat, but I prefer Azure DevOps and the Microsoft ecosystem.
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Carole Pepe
Agile Coach at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
I have some experience using Jira.
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reviewer1589883
IT Project Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
I used Jira while working with a vendor that we had here for one of our projects. They brought that tool from their practice. We were doing that because we had not yet moved to DevOps. After they rolled it out at the organization level, the mandate was to stop using Jira and switch over to Azure DevOps. There are a lot of benefits to Azure DevOps over Jira, but Jira is the one that has a lot of market share on that side.
View full review »We have used Jira and TFS. Microsoft Azure DevOps is very useful in terms of management. We are trained to be the users of the DevOps services, but with Jira and TFS, we also had to manage the server, which we didn't want. We wanted to eliminate this kind of effort and just wanted to publish our own developments without having to manage the server.
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Thomas Clay
Senior .NET Engineer at Advance Storage Products
I've used JIRA and a number of different systems going back almost 20 years. We were doing our development using Microsoft tools, and it just made sense to use what they integrate with. Azure DevOps is the perfect environment because we're using Microsoft technology for other stuff. It is always going to have slight favoritism towards the other Microsoft tools.
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Anthony Gregg
Technical Engineer (Retail Group) at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
We've been pretty much on the Microsoft products. We used to use Team Foundation Server, which was a Microsoft product. Before that, it used to be Visual Source Safe. We also used to be on PVCS, SVN and CVS.
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reviewer2288430
Data Scientist at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have experience with using GitLab. Comparing GitLab and Azure DevOps, GitLab excels in functionality and offers excellent integration capabilities with Azure DevOps. However, Azure DevOps has a more user-friendly UI. The choice between the two depends on specific project needs and preferences.
We didn't use any solution before.
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TyroneMoodley
CTO at Southernsoft Technologies
I also use Jira alongside Azure DevOps. I use both of them.
I find DevOps easier to use and better laid out. I find Jira difficult and confusing.
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reviewer2337807
DevOps engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Deploying GitLab or Jenkins is much easier and involves fewer requirements. Integration with various tools is readily available, especially with Jenkins Blue Ocean, which offers extensive enterprise integrations. When it comes to Azure DevOps, integration with non-Microsoft tools may pose challenges.
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Wesley De John
Group Product Manager – Billing and Payments at MultiChoice Group
We also use Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect. For business process modeling where you are linking different objects in the modeling domains, Sparx is the most appropriate tool. You cannot model business processes in Azure DevOps.
Azure DevOps is more appropriate as a delivery tool for building out the feature roadmap and defining user stories, tasks, features, etc. It is well suited for taking the data and building it into a delivery pipeline. These two tools don't speak well together. A solution was developed to integrate these two, but it doesn't work very well.
I used IBM where I worked previously but didn't have a lot of experience with it.
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reviewer933660
Vice President at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Prior to Microsoft Azure DevOps, we were using Jira and, before this, KFS.
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MarkSpence
Project Manager at Shell Exploration & Production Co.
Previously, I used Microsoft Project. We chose to use Microsoft Azure DevOps because I needed something that my stakeholders could access.
View full review »For ticketing, we use ServiceNow. Both solve the same problem in that regard. And for code repositories, we use GitHub. So, it's not an all-in-one solution like Azure DevOps, which has a lot of features bundled together.
Since Azure DevOps offers everything in one place, it feels more convenient. It does a bit of everything. So it's a good option because it replaces various individual tools and provides all their services in one package.
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SeniorOwnder67
Owner and Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
I use Jira as well as TFS.
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DemisewAbera
DevOps Engineer at Simprints
I used Google Cloud on one of my previous projects but currently, we are using the on-premise solution. So we are hosting everything locally on-premises. We do not have any current cloud provider for the business as a whole. We are using AWS for security and backup for the production environment but mostly we rely on the on-premise solutions at the moment.
We use the S3 compute instance of AWS only. We do not use any other AWS services. We just use VM's that we create on the S3 instance.
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Elber Aguilar
CIO at i cloud seven
Previously we used Visual Studio but then we changed some of our repositories for our projects to the cloud and now we use Microsoft Azure DevOps.
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reviewer1506549
Director of Strategy at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Previously, we were using Jira. Now that DevOps is running, I find that for what I am doing, does the same things as Jira. The main difference is in naming convention and layout.
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Hamid Nia
Software Architect at EML
We also currently use AWS, however, I prefer Microsoft's solution as it's a bit easier to use overall.
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IrvingGreen
Senior Director at Cloud Technovation
I have experience with Amazon Web Services. As the Azure product has matured a lot in the last two to three years, it deserves its market share at the moment. We were using other products, like Visual Studio, a web service which is an old name for Visual DevOps. We were also using things like Team Foundation Server (TFS). We were just using some of the older tech.
View full review »Prior to this, we used Team Foundation Server versions 2017 and 2018 on-premise, and it was a stable solution.
We also used the Atlassian stack, including Jira, Bamboo, and Confluence, all on-premise. The problem is that the on-premise version has an expiry. We moved to a cloud solution because it is easy to support, easy to upgrade, and easy to stage our products. It is distributed between our offices, as we have development teams split into different locations around the country. The cloud-based solution is the best way to integrate our development effort.
I have also worked with HP ALM/Quality Center in the past.
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reviewer1650696
Manager of Information Technology Services at a government with 501-1,000 employees
Microsoft Azure DevOps just provides better integration than Jenkins does. I've been in this industry for 27 years. The whole ecosystem and the fact that most of the developers are already using Visual Studio make Microsoft Azure DevOps a good option, along with the entire integration from the project management side, to the development side, to the repository side, and to the deployment side.
View full review »Previously, I used TeamCity, Jenkins, I used Chef, and many other technologies.
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reviewer1390839
Senior Project Manager at a marketing services firm with 10,001+ employees
I have some experience with Jira from Atlassian, although I have worked with Microsoft Team Foundation Server from the beginning.
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User678
Works at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
I've been using Microsoft based solutions, like VST and then like before that DSS. It was a natural progression from VSTS into Azure DevOps.
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reviewer1260639
Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
We didn't previously use a different solution. That's why we looked for an automation tool. We switched to DevOps mostly due to the fact that our development team was utilizing DevOps as part of their own Agile operations. A number of teams were also already sort of experienced. There are a number of individuals in the company who were experienced that way, and we had homegrown support in some ways when we launched it. It just made sense to go with DevOps as opposed to bringing in something new.
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KulbhushanMayer
Co Founder and Technical Architect at Think NYX Technologies LLP
I have also worked with similar tools such as GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, and then Jira.
Because I am a consultant, I work with multiple tools and the choice is that of my client.
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Ove Holmberg
Enterprise Agile Coach at Knowit Require
I have used JIRA for several years, and although I am impressed with the interface in Azure DevOps, JIRA still has better integration with other tools.
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AndreasSemousu
Technical Sales Manager at Skhomo Technologies
Before we started using DevOps, we were using Microsoft Team Foundation Server, which allowed the whole team to share work and collaborate. DevOps does that and a little more.
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reviewer1662489
National Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I also use Micro Focus. For older style waterfall projects, it's best to go with Micro Focus probably, barring pricing and other consideration. However, in an agile environment, a Microsoft Azure-based product such as DevOps is great due to the pipeline and the whole integration end-to-end is just better.
I'm also familiar with Jira, which has better features in various areas. The problem is it moves so fast and new versions are always coming out and it can be hard to keep up.
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ITSysManageri867986
IT System Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We did not previously use a different solution.
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reviewer1411899
Consulting services manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
I do not personally have experience with other products, although the company has some experience with Jira.
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reviewer1701294
Vice President at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We were using Jira, but we switched to DevOps. It was a strategic decision to reduce the complexity of the toolchains. We wanted a Microsoft solution, so we chose Azure DevOps.
View full review »I have also used Jira. We have more control over Jira than Azure DevOps, but we are using Azure DevOps for our technical side because our VMs and build pipelines are on Azure. So, it is better for us to use one solution rather than using multiple solutions.
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reviewer1517448
Consultant at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
I have experience with Azure Bicep and Paraform.
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reviewer1411698
Senior Business Analyst │ Microsoft Power BI & Power BI App Development at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Previously, we were using Microsoft Excel. We decided to use Microsoft Azure DevOps because it allowed us to assign tasks and get a notification.
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Software1701
Software Architect Consultant at a tech consulting company with self employed
We did not use another solution prior to this one. However, I use other tools in conjunction with Azure DevOps. One of these is Jenkins, for CICD, and I also use the Atlassian Suite.
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Claudiu Cretu
Head of .NET Department at Evozon
I was previously using Jira.
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reviewer1518666
Project Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
I have worked with other DevOps tools previously. I've worked with Jira and Polarion in the past. I haven't necessarily worked with them together or consecutively. It all depends on individual project requirements.
That said, I am not using Polarion anymore.
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hugodpereira
Computer engineering student at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees
Previously, I just used GitHub, so just Version Control for code and not much more.
I used also their integrated development environments including Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio. These solutions are built by Microsoft.
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reviewer1663731
Process Manager at a marketing services firm with 501-1,000 employees
We are using Azure, and TFS now. We are also planning to migrate to AWS as well.
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Chetan Kousadikar
Senior Software Engineer at Xylem
We did not use a different solution before using this product.
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Shadab Pagadi
Senior Consultant at CMEx
I have used several tools in the past including Zephyr and the Rational Quality Manager.
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Wilson Gonzalez
DevOps Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We used to use another solution, but I don't remember which one. We switched because of a big contract that our company had with Azure. We were going to have our servers with Azure, and it looked like they reviewed the pricing and made the change.
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reviewer1567974
Especialista Devops at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I have only used Azure DevOps.
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