We performed a comparison between Jira Align and Microsoft Azure DevOps based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Agile Planning Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like Jira's structured project plan, with tasks and subtasks. Jira can use various external plugins. Third-party providers can add new features to the solution. If I need some functionality, I can usually find an app for it. They have thousands."
"The product has good visualization capabilities and helps to see the different dimensions of a plan."
"Being able to do PI planning using the program levels is most valuable. I find that the program-level reporting is most useful."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"It's easy to set up."
"Jira Align's most valuable feature is the view of strategic control reports for high-level directors."
"Jira Align is an intuitive tool that features a roadmap view...The initial setup was straightforward...Jira Align is definitely worth the money."
"I've had no issues with Align's stability."
"I think the most usable thing is that you can follow the whole progress of the development process. This makes it very useful for us."
"Azure DevOps' collaborative features are good, and it integrates well with other tools in the software development process, like quality testing, documentation, and agile development."
"This is an all-in-one, one-stop shop, nothing comes close."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it saves time."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure DevOps are high-level protection. The protection is very important to the customers to prevent eavesdropping. eavesdropping is when a hacker tries to get into the solution. With this solution is it difficult for them to do it."
"It's a pretty problem-free solution."
"Microsoft Azure DevOps has helped the developers a lot and we are deploying process changes very frequently and simultaneously. A lot of my team members that are developers are updating the code in parallel using Git. Additionally, Microsoft Azure DevOps is providing a very good approval mechanism. Overall it is benefiting by creating efficiency in production deployment and applications, our new releases are running well. The security of secured is good."
"Our technical sales staff and business development people need to know how far the developers are on any product that we're developing. DevOps makes it easier for you to see how far along they are with the work because they have a repository where they store everything. There is a portal where you can see what has been done, what has been tested, what is working, and what isn't. I have a huge dashboard with an overview of what the development team is doing from an executive point of view."
"The synchronization between Jira and Jira Align takes too long."
"Jira Align can improve the visibility of executive teams."
"The solution needs to improve its pricing. It also needs to provide an integrated view of how other tasks are to be tracked. It would be also useful to see the integration of Confluence, Teams, and Slack into the product. I want to be able to communicate directly with others while using the product. I am also not sure if the integration of third-party alternate workflow tools like SAP would be possible."
"There are fewer customization options in Jira Align due to how it was designed."
"Jira Align should reduce the many information fields we need to provide while closing defects."
"One area for improvement is that Jira Align's double menu and multiple menus can be difficult for new users."
"Other companies that are competitors of Jira and Confluence, they are able to create their active directories for the vendors that don't come in internally."
"I would like to see Jira Align merge and integrate better with Jira as a whole. A lot of the time, the data from Jira won't map very well into Jira Align."
"More features can be included."
"Testing is very important. Microsoft Azure DevOps tests very well. However, DevOps teams need to be aware of what they are impacting when someone updates anything on the system."
"We did have some brief performance issues, however, that was due to putting everything on one epic instead of breaking a project up."
"Reporting could be better. We would like to see how many applications are onboarded in DevOps and in which phase they are. We would like to know for how many applications we have done only the repository, but we have not yet done the build pipeline or deploy pipeline. Currently, there is no such report. We have to figure it out ourselves. There is no way to check how many applications are completing their build pipelines, how many applications are completing their deploy pipeline, how many are ready to use, and how many pipelines are working."
"As for room for improvement, more features need to be added to the classic pipeline. The build and release pipelines are present, but there has not been much improvement there."
"The optimization feature in Microsoft Azure DevOps needs improvement. Control over multiple projects could also be improved."
"The UI could be improved."
"When we don't have some permissions, we have to research how to get them."
Jira Align is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 20 reviews while Microsoft Azure DevOps is ranked 1st in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 40 reviews. Jira Align is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Azure DevOps is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Jira Align writes "Creates visibility, has lots of reports, and removes silos". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure DevOps writes "High level protection, scales well, but more customer feedback updates needed". Jira Align is most compared with JIRA Portfolio, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planview AgilePlace, Targetprocess and Rally Software, whereas Microsoft Azure DevOps is most compared with GitLab, Jira, TFS, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management and Rally Software. See our Jira Align vs. Microsoft Azure DevOps report.
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