We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure DevOps and Polarion ALM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The features of Azure Repos that we find most impactful are those related to source control management within our DevOps code management processes."
"Setting up Azure DevOps was straightforward. It's easy to use the default templates. Everything is under our control, so it's simple to implement new requirements."
"The most valuable feature is the complete integration between test cases, pipelines, and issue management."
"Microsoft has good integration with its other products, such as Office, Teams, et cetera."
"The solution is easy to implement and easy to use."
"Two of the most valuable features include the integrated project management suite, which consolidates source code and project management in a single location, and its powerful reporting capabilities."
"They have been lately adding features to the services on a regular basis. Every two weeks, they are adding functionality to Azure DevOps Services to match it with what Azure DevOps Server or on-prem would offer. So, we continue to get more robust functionality. My favorite right now is that they are starting to open up the API availability within Azure DevOps Services. Another thing that I like about Azure DevOps is that you can use it with any of the products that are on the market. You can integrate it with Jenkins and other open-source products to complete that fully functional CI, CD, CT, CM, and CS pipeline. It continues to enhance."
"The work items option is incredibly flexible."
"The best feature of Polarion ALM to me is its traceability link."
"The solution offers good integration."
"The features I find the most valuable are requirement tracking and schematics."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Polarion ALM helps us better structure our customer requirements, and we can also validate the specs of our products against those. If anything changes on our side, we see the impact, and we can see the effect If a customer changes requirements."
"Scalability is good...The integration is quite good."
"You can see the work ticket and you can circulate that within the teams. You can define your flows, customize according to your needs, and you can create dashboards and create the reports according to your needs."
"It meets with everybody's needs without having to grab plugins."
"Microsoft could improve Visual Studio by making it easier to find the plugins you need to get your job done. Maybe they could implement an AI search instead of a simple tech search. Sometimes, people come up with a catchy name for something, and you don't know how it's spelled. For example, a developer might come up with a packet wizard and spell weird, like P-A-K-I-T."
"The ability to extend work items was more flexible than it is now. Talking version control, one of our customers had some issues because they found it very difficult to manage more than 1000 repositories for one team project."
"One thing I would note is that it's hard to know what is included or not in the product. Especially when you begin to try and compare it to other solutions. When you go to a site like VersionOne, they tell you Azure DevOps doesn't have this or that, and when you go to Microsoft, it says VersionOne doesn't have this or that. They could do a better job of laying out exactly what is on offer so customers know going in exactly what they'll get."
"Proper Gantt charting should be a feature that is included because as it is now, we have to create it ourselves."
"The solution's roadmap and Gantt charts could be improved."
"I would like to see DevOps have the ability to give us something with a compatibility or traceability matrix."
"Improving the metrics that are readily available on the dashboard would be very helpful."
"I can't think of any specific things at the moment, but I've run into things that I didn't like. I came across something that I wanted to be changed in DevOps, but I can't remember what it was. It was a particular feature I was looking for that I couldn't find."
"The most important thing for them to improve should be platform-independent features. They should also provide extensive pipelines and release pipelines that we can define and we can work on."
"The tool needs to improve its planning. It also needs to add more integrations."
"Technical support needs some improvement."
"The solution's editing capabilities need improvement."
"The user interface is not yet optimized."
"Based on my understanding, the tool's integration capabilities with multiple tools is an area of concern that Polarion needs to focus on more."
"The planning and task management aspects of the solution were not that easy."
"The ease-of-use could be improved a little."
Microsoft Azure DevOps is ranked 1st in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 124 reviews while Polarion ALM is ranked 7th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews. Microsoft Azure DevOps is rated 8.2, while Polarion ALM is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure DevOps writes "Good support, helpful management capabilities, and great Kanban boards". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Polarion ALM writes "Though needing an improvement in reporting and time for extraction of the data, its integration capabilities are good". Microsoft Azure DevOps is most compared with GitLab, Jira, TFS, Rally Software and Codebeamer, whereas Polarion ALM is most compared with Jira, Codebeamer, PTC Integrity, GitLab and Jama Connect. See our Microsoft Azure DevOps vs. Polarion ALM report.
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