Item: Azure DevOps Services
Rating: 9
Author: Maria Sousa

Overall Satisfaction with Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We're implementing entire product workflows with Azure DevOps: building, testing, staging and deploying. It's the perfect companion for Visual Studio and Git, so everyone just loves using it. It's a dream come true not having to switch to different front-ends to get our job done throughout the day, while keeping an amazing user experience.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Unified environment for all DevOps tasks and procedures
Amazing User Experience within a beautiful UI
Great marketplace extensions collection

Cons

Code merging has room for improvement
Such a broad set of features can become confusing for the novice user

Return on Investment

We've reduced task switching to a minimum, allowing our teams to keep focus on their jobs
We're having great results from Azure DevOps Testing capabilities, allowing us to ship better products faster

Alternatives Considered

Azure DevOps is a complete DevOps suite with such a broad feature set it's very hard to find a competent competitor that does the same job in a similar fashion.

Other Software Used

Microsoft SQL Server, Elasticsearch, Microsoft Power BI

Likelihood to Recommend

It's a great way to normalize DevOps wokflows, allowing you to replace lots of different tools and get the job done with a unified package. Testing support is second to none. If you're just focusing on development with version control, than Visual Studio packed with Git will probably cover all your needs.

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