Apptio Targetprocess vs. Azure DevOps Services

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Apptio Targetprocess
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Targetprocess from Apptio, an IBM Company, is a platform for enterprise agile planning (EAP) and strategic portfolio management (SPM) solutions that allows business and technology planners at all levels to dynamically plan and manage work, resources, investments, programs, and portfolios while ensuring continuous alignment to the enterprise strategy in a single source of truth.N/A
Azure DevOps Services
Score 8.6 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)
Pricing
Apptio TargetprocessAzure DevOps Services
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Apptio TargetprocessAzure DevOps Services
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Apptio TargetprocessAzure DevOps Services
Considered Both Products
Apptio Targetprocess
Chose Apptio Targetprocess
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Azure DevOps Services

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Apptio TargetprocessAzure DevOps Services
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Apptio Targetprocess
7.5
14 Ratings
6% above category average
Azure DevOps Services
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Ratings
Task Management8.413 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Management7.813 Ratings00 Ratings
Gantt Charts7.79 Ratings00 Ratings
Scheduling7.69 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology8.213 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology7.311 Ratings00 Ratings
Document Management6.88 Ratings00 Ratings
Email integration6.79 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access6.47 Ratings00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking7.78 Ratings00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management6.16 Ratings00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management8.16 Ratings00 Ratings
Search8.012 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual planning tools7.812 Ratings00 Ratings
Agile Development
Comparison of Agile Development features of Product A and Product B
Apptio Targetprocess
7.3
12 Ratings
4% below category average
Azure DevOps Services
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Ratings
DevOps Tool Integrations7.210 Ratings00 Ratings
Code Review6.85 Ratings00 Ratings
Code Collaboration6.85 Ratings00 Ratings
Velocity Calculation7.710 Ratings00 Ratings
Dependencies and Blockers7.911 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Apptio TargetprocessAzure DevOps Services
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(22 ratings)
8.8
(66 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.9
(2 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
7.0
(5 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(4 ratings)
8.1
(11 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Apptio TargetprocessAzure DevOps Services
Likelihood to Recommend
Apptio, an IBM Company
Apptio Targetprocess is well suited to track work and progress of that work. In addition it is easy to tie that work to OKRs. Cost and hours rollup across the work hierarchy works well. Our users like the flexibility of Targetprocess and the ability to develop their own views and reports Scenarios where it is less appropriate is to do executive level reporting and develop reports that can pull in all of our time data since there is a 300k record limit
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Microsoft
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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Pros
Apptio, an IBM Company
  • Extremely flexible: We are able to setup work for different groups in ways that work best for them.
  • Fantastic support group: They are extremely knowledgeable and helpful. I enjoy working with them.
  • Automation: Their automation capabilities have saved us a lot of time.
  • Customizing screens: We can go into code for the different entities, move fields around or hide them, add tabs or additional sections as needed to make for a streamlined user experience.
  • Reporting: Their reporting is flexible and phenomenal. There are so many different ways to pull data and the interface is easy to use.
  • Their user guide is well built and extremely helpful.
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Microsoft
  • 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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Cons
Apptio, an IBM Company
  • Every feature in this amazing application is of unique importance and also quite friendly in nature that doesn’t consume a lot of time and energy as well.
  • For me, there is nothing to take care of in this specific application only sometimes it shows errors while updating but that’s not a big deal.
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Microsoft
  • Column sorting when in filtered states.
  • A way to show cross-team dependencies.
  • A customized "From" field for notifications. Sometimes when a mail comes from Azure DevOps the teams do not realize that I am sending it
  • A way to do online poker that doesn't require a plug-in.
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Likelihood to Renew
Apptio, an IBM Company
Targetprocess is the most flexible application for tracking work among teams that we have found. This power comes from near limitless ability to customize your views on the work tracked in the system, and from the myriad reporting options to draw metrics and stats out of the data there. Custom fields, processes, and mashups all add to this flexibility and appeal.
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Microsoft
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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Usability
Apptio, an IBM Company
The UI is intuitive and consistent. The complexity of the app means there is a steep learning curve though, but it is well worth putting in the effort to get the most out of the tool. We have some team members who are learning new ways of doing things after 1-2 years of working in Targetprocess.
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Microsoft
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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Reliability and Availability
Apptio, an IBM Company
Some minor outages are experienced, though these tend to pass within an hour usually and work can continue
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Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Performance
Apptio, an IBM Company
Reports are fast loading, considering they can refresh in a second or less and we have 7 years of work tracked in over 40k entities. Pages can load slowly when the views are very busy, but not frustratingly. I am a console user most of my career and generally prefer it over webUI interfaces, but Targetprocess won me over from the beginning and I spend half my day using it now.
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Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Apptio, an IBM Company
TargetProcess' support is one of its strengths. The support team is very responsive and helpful when there is a problem but they're also proactive in providing good release notes and engaging with the community through a voting scheme to influence the priority of new features.
The team also releases new versions frequently with new features but with no knock-ons to currently working features.
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Microsoft
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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Implementation Rating
Apptio, an IBM Company
You should take some time to get everyone to agree how the system should be setup before work starts being tracked in Targetprocess, this avoids difficult and disruptive changes to processes or plugins later when everyone relies on it daily.
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Microsoft
Was not part of the process.
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Alternatives Considered
Apptio, an IBM Company
Apptio Targetprocess outshone the competition on several benchmarks. The most important for our team was ease of administration, ease of configuration, cost of licenses, and ability to leverage the tool in multiple areas (not just project management or engineering). Apptio Targetprocess ranked top in each category, with anonymous scoring from members across the selection team.
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Microsoft
Microsoft Planner is used by project managers and IT service managers across our organization for task tracking and running their team meetings. Azure DevOps works better than Planner for software development teams but might possibly be too complex for non-software teams or more business-focused projects. We also use ServiceNow for IT service management and this tool provides better analysis and tracking of IT incidents, as Azure DevOps is more suited to development and project work for dev teams.
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Scalability
Apptio, an IBM Company
We use the hosted version of Targetprocess and have never run into limitations or degraded performance due to scalability. Excellent performance over 7 years!
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Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Apptio, an IBM Company
  • Lower administrative burden on product teams. The "team" nature of resource manager saves a significant amount of admin time for our Product teams when managing resources and their alignment
  • Lean processes for labor management. Simplifying time entry to very few tasks, and enabling time entry at a team level streamlines the representation of work and cuts back on wasted time churning through admin activities
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Microsoft
  • It provides a great IDE to make things easier, clear, and compact. It has always been a positive ROI
  • It's worth the money. I don't think any other software could replace the VS. It has helped us a lot to making things ready on time
  • The only thing I dislike is that it takes a lot of memory space when in an idle state
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ScreenShots

Apptio Targetprocess Screenshots

Screenshot of Resource Management: Reduces risk by dynamically managing resources, capacity, and demandScreenshot of Program Management: To deliver value throughout a strategic portfolioScreenshot of Portfolio Budgeting: Shifting from project to product fundingScreenshot of Strategic Planning: Continuously links work, labor, and investments to business strategy