Azure DevOps Services vs. IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure DevOps Services
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System) is an agile development product that is an extension of the Microsoft Visual Studio architecture. Azure DevOps includes software development, collaboration, and reporting capabilities.
$2
per GB (first 2GB free)
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery, available on IBM Cloud, allows users to provision an integrated toolchain using customizable, shareable templates with tools from IBM, third parties and open source. Automate builds and tests with Tekton-based delivery pipelines, and control quality with analytics.
$0
Pricing
Azure DevOps ServicesIBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Editions & Modules
Azure Artifacts
$2
per GB (first 2GB free)
Basic Plan
$6
per user per month (first 5 users free)
Azure Pipelines - Self-Hosted
$15
per extra parallel job (1 free parallel job with unlimited minutes)
Azure Pipelines - Microsoft Hosted
$40
per parallel job (1,800 minutes free with 1 free parallel job)
Basic + Test Plan
$52
per user per month
Lite
$0.00
Professional
$35.00
Authorized user per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure DevOps ServicesIBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Azure DevOps ServicesIBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Features
Azure DevOps ServicesIBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Azure DevOps Services
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Ratings
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
8.5
Ratings
11% above category average
Task Management00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Resource Management00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Gantt Charts00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Scheduling00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Document Management00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Email integration00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Change request and Case Management00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Search00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Visual planning tools00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Agile Development
Comparison of Agile Development features of Product A and Product B
Azure DevOps Services
-
Ratings
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
7.6
Ratings
8% below category average
DevOps Tool Integrations00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Code Review00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Code Collaboration00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Velocity Calculation00 Ratings6.80 Ratings
Dependencies and Blockers00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
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Azure DevOps ServicesIBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Small Businesses
GitHub
GitHub
Score 9.0 out of 10
GitLab
GitLab
Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
GitHub
GitHub
Score 9.0 out of 10
Planview AgilePlace
Planview AgilePlace
Score 9.9 out of 10
Enterprises
Perforce P4
Perforce P4
Score 7.7 out of 10
Planview AgilePlace
Planview AgilePlace
Score 9.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure DevOps ServicesIBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(0 ratings)
8.5
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
6.6
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.1
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Azure DevOps ServicesIBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Likelihood to Recommend
ADO is well suited for the visibility of day-to-day tasks and responsibilities as well as things such as Features, user stories, etc. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any scenario where it might not be well suited, as you can customize ADO to your liking to a degree.
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It provides a cloud-based integrated development environment that integrates with other IBM Cloud services to provide a streamlined development workflow. This includes real-time collaboration and code sharing capabilities, making it easy for teams to work together on projects. This feature is very useful for our app to maintain the code
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Pros
  • Flexible Requirements Hierarchy Management: AZDO makes it easy to track items such as features or epics as a flat list, or as a hierarchy in which you can track the parent-child relationship.
  • Fast Data Entry: AZDO was designed to facilitate quick data entry to capture work items quickly, while still enabling detailed capture of acceptance criteria and item properties.
  • Excel Integration: AZDO stands out for its integration with MS Excel, which enables quick updates for bulk items.
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  • It contains the deployment templates which are much more time saving and is of great use.
  • This has the integration of the Cloud applications which makes the work much more convenient.
  • This is flexible when it comes to development, deployment, and delivery.
  • [It] also has a much more reasonable pricing.
  • Provides space for the data storage.
  • [IBM Cloud Developer Tools] also can support many useful tools.
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Cons
  • Need to make the changes so that it doesn't occupy most of the CPU utilization and memory
  • Execution of Bulky SQl Queries leads to either the SQl being out of exception or the VS being unresponsive
  • Integration with Microsoft products is easy, but with non-Microsoft products it is more difficult, and you have to make a lot of configuration changes to integrate
  • With every upgrade of the Visual Studio, like from VS 2010 to VS 2013 , we need to upgrade our hardware/machine, as the VS hardware requirement also increases
  • If code is getting compiled in one visual studio, like in VS 2010, that the same code could possibly give an error when compiled in VS 2013, due to certain changes in keyword, data format, etc., with the VS upgrade
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  • Its price is quite high and this made it unsuitable for us as we cannot afford such high rates.
  • Its Setup takes much longer time and this is frustrating.
  • Its interface needs to be improved and easy even for the Newbies.
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Likelihood to Renew
I don't think our organization will stray from using VSTS/TFS as we are now looking to upgrade to the 2012 version. Since our business is software development and we want to meet the requirements of CMMI to deliver consistent and high quality software, this SDLC management tool is here to stay. In addition, our company uses a lot of Microsoft products, such as Office 365, Asp.net, etc, and since VSTS/TFS has proved itself invaluable to our own processes and is within the Microsoft family of products, we will continue to use VSTS/TFS for a long, long time.
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It's a great platform to develop, run, test and deploy the applications easily. And it makes very easier and secure the implementation of continuous delivery process. For first time and experts also can use this service so easily. Great service provided by the IBM Cloud Continuous Service. There are more services that helps a lot to work on it. Thanks a lot.
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Usability
Azure DevOps is a powerful, complex cloud application. As such there are a number of things it does great and something where there is room for improvement. One of those areas would be in usability. In my opinion it relies too much on search. There is no easy way to view all projects or to group them in a logical way. You need to search for everything.
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Nothing special to say : the UX is clear and simple.
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Support Rating
When we've had issues, both Microsoft support and the user community have been very responsive. DevOps has an active developer community and frankly, you can find most of your questions already asked and answered there. Microsoft also does a better job than most software vendors I've worked with creating detailed and frequently updated documentation.
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In more than a year using the IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery tool, I haven't had any major complaints or problems. However, in the last month, IBM suffered from a couple of problems through several of its services, and for a short period of time, I couldn't deploy successfully my projects. The problem was brief and was quickly fixed.
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Implementation Rating
Was not part of the process.
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No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Jira is fantastic for project management and customer facing portal. It is not good for pure development (no integration with Git, pipeline management, automated testing features). If DevOps were to integrate and adopt the project features of Jira as well as the customer facing interfaces, I feel it would be a complete project management system.
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We chose IBM Cloud Developer Tools for multiple reasons. Cost, current infrastructure vendor list, and Cloud Operations team experience were key driving factors for us. Palo Alto's Prisma Cloud product was slick for sure but we found it more difficult to deploy and integrate with our current environment and applications
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Return on Investment
  • Increased dev team efficiency through more streamlined development processes and task automation.
  • Improved quality of software deployments due to better source control, automated testing, and release management options available in DevOps.
  • Better collaboration between the dev team, business analysts, and agile project managers.
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  • This has made the configuration files much easier to access.
  • Has made the commands more logical as well as easy for use and learning.
  • Contains great AI capabilities
  • The documentation needs improvement.
  • Error received from commands are pretty hard to understand.
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