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Digital.ai Agility vs Jira vs Microsoft Azure DevOps comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category, the mindshare of Digital.ai Agility is 2.6%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jira is 11.5%, down from 21.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Azure DevOps is 10.0%, down from 17.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Jira11.5%
Microsoft Azure DevOps10.0%
Digital.ai Agility2.6%
Other75.9%
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites
 

Featured Reviews

Abhishek Kumar Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Workload Automation at nab
Automating dashboards has saved time and now supports prompt-driven task workflows
My main use case for Digital.ai Agility is learning to create a dashboard and prompt engineering. I am trying to automate my tasks by automating the dashboard The best feature Digital.ai Agility offers me so far is that I write a prompt and receive the result for that. I see the time saving with…
Akhil Viswam - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Agile workflows have streamlined sprint planning and tracking for faster feature delivery
Jira has a very good interface and it is very easy to manage sprints, tasks, and epics. The main feature is the hierarchy, as features can be converted into epics and topics, allowing bigger tasks to be partitioned into smaller ones. The hierarchy feature in Jira helps the team significantly compared to other tools that have been used, such as Trello, which is mainly useful only for a waterfall model. For modern Agile practices, Jira is the most adapted tool in the industry. Another valuable feature is that Jira APIs have been used for data science projects to analyze tasks and get insights. This has also been very helpful in the project.
Bharadwaj Deepak Mohapatra - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at ENTERPRISE SYSTEM SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Have built reliable end-to-end pipelines and streamlined cloud provisioning through consistent collaboration practices
I am currently working with open-source tools such as Jenkins for my main CI/CD pipeline, and for enterprise clients, I am using Microsoft Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline. For other clients, I have also implemented CI/CD YAML pipelines through GitLab CI/CD workflow and GitHub Actions. I am creating the end-to-end CI/CD pipeline from development to deployment and monitoring all of this. Azure Boards is easier than Jira for my understanding because there are very easy points to manage the Agile methodology which we work on. Because it is a GUI, sometimes the process may take a few minutes more than the CLI process since the backend is running the exact CLI, but we are commanding through the GUI. There is definitely a time lag, but it is more secure. Microsoft Azure DevOps pipelines work very seamlessly rather than other CI/CD pipelines, as of my understanding. The downside is that the process may take more time when deploying some clusters, Kubernetes, Azure AKS service, or some vast microservice architecture deployments. There may be a little bit of lag I feel, though I cannot tell very strictly that this is a disadvantage, but sometimes it takes a little more time than other cloud infrastructures. All the major things are done by GUI, which is somewhat a little slow. However, if considering automations, process, monitoring, and provisioning, then it is the best cloud service across all the other service providers. Our implementation is a hybrid cloud. Microsoft Azure DevOps is definitely easily scalable. I have worked on many Kubernetes infrastructures and microservice deployments, and I have seen that replication is very good because it is very easy. The replication process is very straightforward. I definitely advocate for using less code because it is very time-consuming. If using GCP or Amazon Web Service, there is more interaction related to work over the CLI process. In terms of Microsoft Azure DevOps, there are many things done by the GUI, which is the best part.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"With some of the other tools, you have to buy 20 different plugins to get to the same capability that comes with the basic Agility capability."
"Agility is highly flexible. It can do much more than what our client is doing with it. They use it in a defined way. Some at that company have a much broader knowledge of agile and SAFe, but they're given applications and a mandated way to work. We had to work within their parameters and provide an accurate transition so the data would be mapped and pushed through."
"You can use Digital.ai Agility for automating your tasks and creating your dashboard."
"I prefer Agility out of the three applications we work with because it has the most flexibility and can work at a higher level."
"Digital.ai Agility helped our organization define the Enterprise Value Streams, and in the tool you can derive all user stories, features, and epics from the top-level portfolio items and value streams so any work that is done must contribute to the value streams, otherwise it should be questioned why that effort is being executed."
"The solution is excellent for collaboration; from the agility point of view, they have very good sprint functionality, allowing you to set up sprints effectively."
"For visualization capabilities, the automation capabilities make it possible to support the different personas. The features and capabilities are excellent and come with excellent support."
"VersionOne delivers a total ALM solution for whether you are operating a single team, like Scrum and Kanban for IT operations, or implementing an agile enterprise approach, like SAFe."
"One of the key benefits is that it's a single repository for all your SDLC."
"When combining Jira with Bitbucket, you have the possibility to ensure continuous integration and other functions which is highly appreciated by our software development team."
"What I really like about Jira is that it ticks off all the boxes for any agile project. It's easy to set up, easy to use, and it has excellent notification features. Jira is the top choice for anyone working on agile projects like ours."
"We have found the structure, functionality, and how Jira handles the tickets most valuable."
"The two features that have been most valuable have been backlog management and sprint planning and tracking."
"The timeline management is great."
"Workflow administration is an easy process, especially with respect to defects."
"The solution helps a lot with scrums, is great for development, and the documentation is quite good."
"Allows for source control and CI/CD pipelines while linking back to the work items on the Kanban board."
"I think the Azure methodology and all those DevOps features in the dashboard are very effective in our environment."
"What I like the most is the DevOps Boards; it's easy to create a hierarchical project structure, assign tasks to people, and then track their tasks."
"The most valuable features are continuous integration and deployment, and simplicity."
"Typically the sprints themselves and managing the tasks have essentially eliminated our need for reporting."
"Azure services like serverless technology make it quicker and faster to deploy .NET applications, for example, and similarly, the Azure Portal is faster to put in services with specific functionality, making these kinds of features quicker to deploy and great for putting in functionalities that are specific."
"The features of Azure Repos that we find most impactful are those related to source control management within our DevOps code management processes."
"Their technical support is pretty good."
 

Cons

"In my work as a contractor, it's always frustrating when a client has multiple software applications that don't talk to each other and they all perform the same function."
"The user interface can be improved by adding Save, Edit, Add, Cancel, and Return buttons to the popup windows that are displayed when you click on a child item."
"The user interface can be improved by adding Save button to the popup windows that are displayed when you click on a child item."
"There is room for improvement in getting the analytics portion of the solution more integrated with the rest of it."
"In my work as a contractor, it's always frustrating when a client has multiple software applications that don't talk to each other and they all perform the same function. That presents a huge challenge between their IT groups."
"Improve how to create and track releases. Currently, I have to create child projects."
"The response from Digital.ai Agility is a little bit slow and could be faster."
"There is room for improvement in getting the analytics portion of the solution more integrated with the rest of it."
"I don't know whether there is a Jira problem or a test risk problem, however, sometimes, we face issues on fetching the reports."
"If I'm comparing it to ALM Octane, the documentation is not as robust as ALM Octane's documentation. So, they can improve on the documentation side."
"Atlassian has multiple tools and it becomes difficult for a customer to process everything differently."
"The reporting capabilities, specifically customized reports, should be improved. The out-of-box reports don't meet our needs. We are big into customizing our reports, and being able to do ad hoc reporting would be good."
"I would like to see more integration available with more tools."
"The user interface and views on different devices should be improved."
"There are some features and reports we need that are not there. For example, if I have to find out the capacity of the current sprint by user and compare it with the previous sprint, that visibility isn't there."
"Its ability to perform true executive-level status reporting could be improved. There are a lot of benefits there, but there are also a lot of things they can and should expand upon."
"Better integration with the Linux operating system would be an improvement for this solution."
"Azure has not yet advanced to the performance level of the other major competitors and is missing integration with important technologies."
"I would like to see new features added."
"Compared to JIRA, I think Azure DevOps is missing some management elements, like some reporting features. It would be helpful if some things were clearer when we're adding attributes. For instance, sometimes we want to add some categories or attributes, and it's not so easy."
"There are certain areas in Azure DevOps that are better in other products."
"Improving the metrics that are readily available on the dashboard would be very helpful."
"I would like to automate notifications on sprint planning."
"The solution could work to improve their reporting."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"You get what you pay for. Don't let your development teams dictate what the portfolio management team should use as the main tool."
"Comparing the pricing to other products, I think this solution is in the middle."
"JIRA's pricing is very economical. I would say that JIRA is a great deal more economical than Microsoft."
"I rate the tool's pricing a five out of ten. It's paid yearly."
"It is not too expensive. It is just comparative to other tools like Microsoft Teams."
"For very small companies, if you have less than 10 individuals, it is $10 a year for each of the products. When we were a part of the enterprise and had more than 10 people using it, or before they came up with this solution for small companies, it was $2,500 a year for the license for Jira and Confluence, and I believe something like $600 a year to perpetuate the license. I can't remember if it was $600 or $2,500 annually. It was for up to 25 people at the time, and this was in the early 2000s and mid 2000s."
"We have a corporate license, and it is probably based on the number of people."
"The tool's pricing is expensive. The new pricing is indeed quite expensive compared to what it was a few years ago. Last year, when we intended to renew our subscription, we found the pricing considerably higher."
"I understand JIRA is quite expensive."
"The tool's pricing is reasonable."
"The price of this solution is fair."
"For Microsoft, it can get expensive when you need heavy-duty machines."
"The price of the solution is expensive."
"We do not pay licenses for this solution."
"With Azure, you have to pay for every user."
"We have an MPN subscription for Microsoft Azure DevOps, and it's all included."
"There are other solutions available that are open source and free, such as GitLab."
"The solution is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
15%
Insurance Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Transportation Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
7%
Government
6%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business108
Midsize Enterprise58
Large Enterprise151
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business43
Midsize Enterprise28
Large Enterprise68
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Digital.ai Agility?
It was not supporting some plugins. We wanted to migrate data that we were already using. The migration of data and g...
What is your primary use case for Digital.ai Agility?
We were explaining how to set up the project itself, which describes the main use cases for Digital.ai Agility. This ...
What advice do you have for others considering Digital.ai Agility?
Digital.ai Agility has a bigger reach because it has many good integration points. It can be a one-stop solution for ...
Is Jira better or would you go with Micro Focus ALM Octane?
Hi Netanya, Basically , it all depends on the use cases for your environment and the business needs. Hope the below d...
Which is better - Jira or Microsoft Azure DevOps?
Jira is a great centralized tool for just about everything, from local team management to keeping track of products a...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Jira?
Jira itself is fairly priced for the features it provides, but pricing is a bit higher than some alternatives, mostly...
Which is better - TFS or Azure DevOps?
TFS and Azure DevOps are different in many ways. TFS was designed for admins, and only offers incremental improvement...
What do you like most about Microsoft Azure DevOps?
Valuable features for project management and tracking in Azure DevOps include a portal displaying test results, check...
Microsoft Azure DevOps: what is your experience regarding pricing and costs ?
Pricing experience is limited, as I am a user of this product and not involved in the pricing aspects. There has defi...
 

Also Known As

VersionOne Lifecycle, VersionOne, CollabNet VersionOne, Digital.ai Continuum
Jira Software
Azure DevOps, VSTS, Visual Studio Team Services, MS Azure DevOps
 

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