Azure DevOps Server vs. Jira Software

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure DevOps Server
Score 8.3 out of 10
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AzureDevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server, or TFS) is a test management and application lifecycle management tool, from Microsoft's Visual Studio offerings. To license Azure DevOps Server an Azure DevOps license and a Windows operating system license (e.g. Windows Server) for each machine running Azure DevOps Server.N/A
Jira Software
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
JIRA Software is an application lifecycle management solution for software development teams. It allows users to create, prioritize and track the progress of tasks across multiple team members, and offers a wide range of integrations. It is offered via the cloud and local servers.
$10
per month
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Azure DevOps ServerJira Software
Editions & Modules
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Standard
$7
Per User Per Month
Premium
$14
Per User Per Month
Free
Free
Enterprise
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Azure DevOps ServerJira Software
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Azure DevOps ServerJira Software
Considered Both Products
Azure DevOps Server
Chose Azure DevOps Server
I've used a number of different project management/bug tracking systems over the years. In addition to JIRA, Bugzilla, and Basecamp I've also dealt with in-house bug tracking systems, which were by far the worst as we couldn't keep up with features and browser updates we …
Chose Azure DevOps Server
TFS is more robust; JIRA is more user friendly for management
Chose Azure DevOps Server
JIRA is possible more popular than TFS, but TFS is great for Microsoft Shops.
Chose Azure DevOps Server
TFS gives and edge over JIRA for inbuilt version controlling that TFS has. TFS provides a GIT version control repository that offers centralized TFVC and distributed GIT Version control. Version controlling is a key feature that promoted TFS over JIRA in the implementation of a …
Chose Azure DevOps Server
I've used and currently use Jira, which is a similar software to Azure DevOps Server. Azure DevOps Server is more detailed and comprehensive than Jira. They both offer many of the same features and capabilities but Azure has a better overall interface and is more in-depth. It …
Chose Azure DevOps Server
I was new to the agile methodology when it was first introduced to the Enterprise. Different project teams opted to leverage different project management tools, two of the most common being Jira and DevOps. For someone overcoming a huge learning curve already, I felt that …
Chose Azure DevOps Server
In my opinion, DevOps covers the development process end to end way better than Jira or GitHub. Both competitors are nice in their specific fields but DevOps provides a more comprehensive package in my opinion. It is still crazy to see that the whole suite can be used for free. …
Chose Azure DevOps Server
Because of the microsoft ecosystem and the product is also build on ms services cloud which uses azure internal services so it is easy to integrate.
more reliant support available for the microsoft services because of the well established user community of the product and …
Chose Azure DevOps Server
Overall Atlassian products seem to be less stable. Azure DevOps [Server (formerly Team Foundation Server)] also has Test Center and Build functionality built in. This prevents needing a handful of separate products loosely coupled together to get a comprehensive solution to …
Chose Azure DevOps Server
TFS tool by default comes with a git version control repository which offers centralized TFVC and distributed git version control.
Chose Azure DevOps Server
Microsoft Azure DevOps is the one that integrates everything you can possibly use and provides a solution that eases your developing process. It has a strong support community and well-written documentation. No matter what you do, you will always find the right pipeline. It is …
Chose Azure DevOps Server
Azure DevOps server has quite an upper hand while we compare it with other tools in the market. Its not just a tool in fact its been a complete suit. If we look out at other products available as alternative options to Azure DevOps Server, they are meant for a specific purpose …
Chose Azure DevOps Server
TFS can be used for both version control and also for tracking items.
Chose Azure DevOps Server
Git and GitHub are very popular right now and they are OK. But they do not integrate automated Testing and Building... The Work Item Management of Jira is about as complicated as the one of TFS so we use Trello. The other Source Control Systems are more complex to use because …
Chose Azure DevOps Server
The JIRA integration with Bitbucket is a little nicer for sure, since they're both Atlassian products. Still, the Visual Studio and Azure integration with TFS made this a no-brainer for me.

Price-wise they are similar but you get a lot more with your TFS subscription. For the …
Chose Azure DevOps Server
TFS is less cluttered.
Chose Azure DevOps Server
TFS integrates with all other aspects of ALM out of the box; build, code repositories, testing, etc.
Jira Software
Chose Jira Software
Integration with 3rd party plugins works really well and improves the feature set of JIRA itself. We combine JIRA together with BigBrassBand's git module and bug reports from Usersnap, which help greatly, because of the attached screenshot.
Team Foundation Server was very hard …
Chose Jira Software
Jira Software works for many development environments, has custom workflows, is friendly, stable, robust, and can be integrated with the most recognized DevOps tools on the market.

Chose Jira Software
Each application comes with their advantages. Jira Software is one for the tools famous among our Post Market Surveillance and Engineering teams due to its simple application structure. Provide easy tracking and navigation through the tool which helps with monitoring more …
Chose Jira Software
JIRA Licensing. Better Support.
Chose Jira Software
Jira is easy to use for less technical work professionals, while Azure and GitHub [take] more time to learn how to use effectively. For large firms with multiple business and technology teams collaborating, Jira Software is a great tool for first time Agile users and …
Chose Jira Software
TFS has a feature to put requirements on estimates, but it's really not visual (not for account managers or PMs). It's not easy to use whereas Jira in very easy to use.
Chose Jira Software
Previously I have used TFS and Rally. JIRA is very simple to use and has lots of features compared to these two and other tools available in the market. The ability to integrate other tools is much easier in JIRA. It is also robust, scalable and has a good number of add-ons to …
Chose Jira Software
We tried using TFS for couple of weeks but most of us use to feel that it's very difficult to use compare to JIRA.
Chose Jira Software
TFS was very odd and cumbersome. Hard to understand where everything went and felt too much like a gant chart. Also very tough to get any non IT department to use and figure out. No ability to configure like you can with Jira. Also used homegrown solution which had same issues …
Chose Jira Software
JIRA is the ultimate in project management software. Nothing else out there comes close to a complete solution that is customization the way you want, and integrates with almost every other application out there.
You can write custom reports, you can set up workflows the way you …
Chose Jira Software
I've used Microsoft Team Foundation Server and will never use it again. It does anything you would want if you have a century to configure it. It's also just not very friendly to agile project management or supporting Product Management needs.

Pivotal is a great simple tool for …
Chose Jira Software
From my previous experience JIRA is very close to Team Foundation Server in terms of issue and task tracking and I still like Team Foundation Server better. But we're not working with the Microsoft platform in our organization so JIRA is by far the best for our purposes. We are …
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User Ratings
Azure DevOps ServerJira Software
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(47 ratings)
8.7
(187 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(35 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(3 ratings)
7.0
(28 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
5.3
(3 ratings)
Performance
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8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.4
(10 ratings)
8.8
(23 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.0
(2 ratings)
7.7
(8 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure DevOps ServerJira Software
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Azure DevOps is good to use if you are all-in on the Microsoft Azure stack. It's fully integrated across Azure so it is a point-and-click for most of what you will need to achieve. If you are new to Azure make sure you get some outside experience to help you otherwise it is very easy to overcomplicate things and go down the wrong track, or for you to manually create things that come out of the box.
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Atlassian
The Jira software works well for managing scrum boards and allocating resources to a task. When your Epics and Issues are set up properly, it can give you a good idea of where your team stands and the trajectory of your project. It is not the ideal solution if you need to provide documentation and support to people outside of your product teams or organization. It would benefit from having a public documentation or repository feature.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Reporting Integration- Azure boards provides Kanban and other dashboard, their templates for easy management of project.
  • Project Pipeline- easy integration and development of CI/CD pipelines, helped in testing, releasing project artifacts.
  • Version Control- Integration with Git and code IDE made it easy to share, review our code, fix bugs and do testing.
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Atlassian
  • Running sprints and tracking progress of roadmap, epics, story, task and subtask
  • The user interface is great. It allows tables inside details, have common shortcuts and clean design.
  • Can create custom dashboards and can view data in multiple ways
  • Advanced access rights based on role
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Can add more build templates for specific technology requirements
  • Can have more features in dashboards which can help dev teams stream line their tasks and priorities
  • Can have raise alarm feature in case of any sort of failure in devops pipeline execution
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Atlassian
  • Management of the software is very difficult at times, although has improved.
  • Ability to manage resources is really non-existent, there are some plugins but they are ALL buggy (I've tested them all).
  • Better integration with Trello, would love to see this happen. Right now it's very clumsy.
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
Because we are a Microsoft Gold Partner we utilize most of their software and we have so much invested in Team Foundation Server now it would take a catastrophic amount of time and resources to switch to a different product.
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Atlassian
This is because Jira Software generates a huge profit for an affordable price. Having a tool that makes team management transparent and effective is very valuable.
In addition, the renewal of Jira Software and all Atlassian tools is predictable and clear, as the prices are published on the Atlassian website and there is no pyramid of intermediaries.
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Usability
Microsoft
Azure DevOps Server or TFS is a complete suite in itself. From Developer's machine where the code is developed to the production environment where the code is meant to run it take care of complete flow within itself. It acts as a code repository you can check-in check-out codes using GIT interface. It also acts as a Build and Automation Test tool which can help you to judge sanctity of your code. It further acts as a release manager to deploy your application to the production environment. And all these steps can also be performed without any manual intervention with the option to have approval processes. Hence its a perfect blend of all set of tools and capabilities required to bring code to production.
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Atlassian
JIRA Software is a pretty complex tool. We have a project manager for JIRA who onboarded us, created our board, and taught us the basics. I think it would have been pretty overwhelming to learn without her. JIRA offers so much functionality that I'm not aware of -- I constantly need to Google or ask others about existing features. Also, although they are all under the Atlassian umbrella, I find it difficult to switch between JIRA Software and Confluence.
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Support Rating
Microsoft
I have not had to use the support for Azure DevOps Server. There have never been any issues where I was not able to figure it out or quickly resolve. Our Scrum Master has used support before though, and the service has always been prompt and clear with a customer-focus
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Atlassian
Our JIRA support is handled internally by members of our Product Support team. It is not supported by a 3rd party. Our internal support will always sent out notifications for downtime which is usually done on the weekend unless it is required to fix a bug/issue that is affecting the entire company. Downtime is typically 3-4 hours and then once the maintenance is complete, another broadcast email is sent out informing the user community that the system is now available for use.
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Online Training
Microsoft
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Atlassian
One of their strong points i stheir documentation. Almost all of the basic set up needed within JIRA is available online through atlassian and its easy to find and very precise. The more critical issues need to be addressed as well and hence the rating of 8 instead of a 9.
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Implementation Rating
Microsoft
Do research beforehand and, if possible, do a trial run before implementing into production environment.
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Atlassian
Take your time implementing Jira. Make sure you understand how you want to handle your projects and workflows. Investing more time in the implementation can pay off in a long run. It basically took us 5 days to define and implement correctly, but that meant smooth sailing later on.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
In my opinion, DevOps covers the development process end to end way better than Jira or GitHub. Both competitors are nice in their specific fields but DevOps provides a more comprehensive package in my opinion. It is still crazy to see that the whole suite can be used for free. The productivity increase we realized with DevOps is worth real money!
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Atlassian
Jira Software has more integrations and has more features than many of its competitors. While some of its competitors do have better UI/UX than Jira Software, they have improved this greatly over time. Atlassian also acquired Trello years ago, so that adds better user interfaces to the system. They do also offer a pretty in-depth library of how to customize the platform that others don't.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • It has streamlined the pipeline and project management for our agile effort.
  • It has helped our agile team get organized since that is a new methodology being leveraged within the Enterprise.
  • The calendar has improved visibility into different OOOs across the project team since we all come from different departments across the larger organization.
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Atlassian
  • Jira has positively made our company's daily activities much better organized
  • With Jira we can track progress and follow up on tasks
  • Jira has great reporting tools which aggregate various data and give us a good overview of our teams capacity
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