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Digital.ai Agility vs TFS comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Digital.ai Agility
Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites
16th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Release Automation (18th), Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (11th), Value Stream Management Software (9th)
TFS
Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
99
Ranking in other categories
Test Management Tools (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category, the mindshare of Digital.ai Agility is 1.9%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TFS is 4.2%, down from 6.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites
 

Featured Reviews

Debbie Brey - PeerSpot reviewer
A scalable, full-package solution with a tech support team that bends over backwards to help
There is room for improvement in getting the analytics portion of the solution more integrated with the rest of it. The feature I would like to see is already in their newer licensing structure, and that's the live integration between Agility, Jira and Azure DevOps. That's the piece that I think is really valuable.
Pmurki@Micron.Com Praveen - PeerSpot reviewer
Version control is excellent and good for code review, branching, merging strategies and more
I've worked with TFS for source control and Agile project management. We also used TFS for seamless team collaboration and tracking.  I used TFS for a couple of years. Now, we use Azure DevOps. It's a wonderful tool for source control and CI/CD pipelines It's a really valuable tool for…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"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."
"It can generate reports showing a burndown chart, burnup chart, and the planned vs actual velocity."
"It allows my clients to have one central tool to manage their agile projects."
"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."
"This solution enables us to link all items usefully, in the way we use Agile."
"We use TFS for forecast management."
"TFS allows me to handle automated builds and release management quite easily."
"Work item management integration with source control."
"The most valuable features are test case writing and bug tracking."
"I like its MTM (Microsoft Test Manager) section which gives us options to create various test plans and add test cases into it."
"Microsoft's technical team is supportive."
"A notable feature of TFS is its ease of creating user stories and tasks, which simplifies the process of adding and editing them."
 

Cons

"There is room for improvement in getting the analytics portion of the solution more integrated with the rest of it."
"Improve how to create and track releases. Currently, I have to create child projects."
"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."
"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."
"It was not supporting some plugins. We wanted to migrate data that we were already using."
"The machine learning features are a new capability but could be improved. This is being worked by Digital.ai currently. Multicolor simulation, specifically, could be improved."
"Since the TFS was an on-prem solution, the private network accessibility was restricted."
"I would like to see the reporting features expanded so that I can see details on the users connected to all of the projects."
"There are many things that I cannot do, and I have a lot of bugs."
"It would be better if we could bring it out on the cloud."
"They have room for improvement in merging the source code changes for multiple developers across files. It is very good at highlighting the changes that the source code automatically does not know how to handle, but it's not very good at reporting the ones that it did automatically. There are times when we have source code that gets merged, and we lose the changes that we expected to happen. It can get a little confusing at times. They can just do a little bit better on the merging of changes for multiple developers."
"Merging branches is definitely one of the more challenging aspects for people new to TFS."
"As an end-user, I expect the solution's performance to be faster while staying as stable as possible."
"The interface can be improved and made more user-friendly."
 

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."
"TFS is not cheap."
"If running TFS on-premise is expensive, maybe you could consider moving to the Cloud and use the Visual Studio Team Services."
"It's just as expensive as HPE ALM, without many of the features, best used for development tool only to avoid higher costs."
"You will need to obtain server and account licenses."
"We pay subscription fees on a yearly basis and the price is reasonable."
"TFS is expensive, and the licensing costs are yearly. I rate the tool's pricing an eight out of ten."
"The pricing is reasonable at this time."
"The tool's licensing costs are yearly."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
18%
Insurance Company
17%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Educational Organization
36%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

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Questions from the Community

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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 improvements. In addition, TFS seems complicated to use and I don’t think it has a very fri...
What do you like most about TFS?
Microsoft's technical team is supportive.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TFS?
While I do not know the exact pricing, TFS is likely more expensive than GitLab.
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

VersionOne Lifecycle, VersionOne, CollabNet VersionOne, Digital.ai Continuum
Team Foundation Server
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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