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Updated 13th October 2025
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TECHNICAL MANAGER
<50M USD, IT ServicesFAVORABLE
“Powerful end to end devops platform with strong CICD capabilities, but requires planning and leaning to use effectively”
Overall, my experience with azure devOps has been very positive. It provides a unified platform for planning, development ci/cd and monitoring, which has significantly improved collaboration between development and operations teams. Azure boards and pipelines work reliably and integrate well with other Microsoft and third-party tools. However, the initial setup and permission management can feel complex for the new users and some advanced features have a learning curve. Once configured properly, it becomes a stable and scalable solution for managing end to end application lifecycles.
ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT
500M - 1B USD, BankingCRITICAL
“Seamless SDLC Experience Balanced by Migration Dependency and Troubleshooting Difficulties”
We have been using ADO in our organization for more than 10 years now and it offers an end-to-end solution for the entire software development lifecycle. It is a highly integrated and scalable platform that works exceptionally well for our SDLC. Its CICD workflow works really great and can be easily integrated with other Microsoft products. However, its vast feature set can lead to a steep learning curve and complexity for smaller teams. It's a one-stop-shop, combining Agile planning and tracking, version control, CI/CD automation, and Test plans and artifacts into a single platform.
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Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement. Microsoft Security helps protect people and data against cyberthreats to give peace of mind.
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Public
Year Founded
1975
Head office location
Redmond, Washington, United States
Number of employees
10000+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
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What I like most about Azure DevOps is its end-to-end integration across the DevOps lifecycle. The tight integration between Azure repos, pipelines, boards and Test plans makes it easy to manage code, automate builds and deployments, and track work item is on place. The flexibility to integration cloud and on - prem environments, along with strong security and role - based access control, makes it suitable for enterprise- scale projects.
We are getting an all in one solution and no need to purchase different solutions for different tasks in the SDLC lifecycle.
There are a number of possibilities within the platform, the amount of information you can provide, the ways and formats you can provide it and the categorisation either by steps/departments/business units. A great environment for developing certain projects your business wishes to complete and keep a detailed track of.
One of the main drawbacks of azure Devops is its complexity, especially for first time users. Additionally, troubleshooting failed pipelines can be time - consuming because error messages are sometimes generic and lack clear guidance.
The deep integration with Azure and other Microsoft products can create a dependency, making it challenging to migrate away from the platforms. Also, troubleshooting failures in complex CI/CD pipelines can sometimes be difficult without a deep understanding.
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Director, Front Office Technology
We are finishing up our migration from our on-prem data center to Azure and at the same time building out our DevOps capabilities (which we are only partly through). I'm looking to outsource and potentially near shore operations of two areas. First, our DBA function. We have an existing organization that worked great to support our DBA operations needs 24x7 however as we've been migrating DBs to Azure SQL they are unable to effectively support us. So on the DBA side I'm looking for a managed service group that can provide proper Azure SQL dba and instance operation level support. On the DevOps side, we are not quite a far along our journey, however, we are moving more workloads into platforms like Azure DevOps, CheckMarx, Sonatype, APIM, and I'm sure as we continue to build our capabilities we will be adding more tools into the mix. Similarly I'd like to outsource operations of the CI/CD platform. We've had good luck so far with some nearshore development help down in South America, great talent and the timezone difference has been much better than APAC. Would love any thoughts, general or specific on if people have had success outsourcing these areas, if not why not, and if so any thoughts on direction here? Senior Vice President - Advanced Engineering & Data Analytics
See Full DiscussionYes,I have and will be able to help. Ping me offline for a discussion session
IT Analyst
How do organisations consolidate data from your Human Resources and Financial systems, where you have separate systems (like us)?
We use SAP SuccessFactors for HR, and Oracle Fusion for Financials. We need to extract and combine data from both for enterprise reporting purposes - Power BI dashboard.
There are many options to extract the data from these systems, from simple csv file export, to use of Fusion Analytics Warehouse and SAP Analytics Cloud with Power BI connectors and/or putting the data into a Data Warehouse (an option we are considering).
I'm interested in what other organisations are doing as a practical solution.IT Manager
See Full DiscussionDear Rosie,
the answer is...it depends ;-)
Here some advises and reccomendations I can share from my experience.
1. Power BI itself can merge different data sources by nature. Just check if the connector is available.
2. What kind of refresh frequency are you talking about?
3. If you are thinking of a daily refresh start from import mode, direct mode is more complex and implies native query optimization.
4. which data size are you talking about? Pro license have limited size model (I think 1Gb which for normal cases it's enough)
4.Anyway, direct mode doesn't work with csv, it requires a RDBMS
5. consider the usage of dataflow to pull data from each source and shape them
6. than use them in a Power BI combined semantic model
7. model your data as star schema! That's is definetively a must do! It prevents many performance issues, improves data model usability and clearnees
8. consider also Microsoft Fabric which simplifies data transformation and incremental data loading
9. anyway start first with just Power BI
10. have your own data strategy! Start experimenting but try to envision your landing world ;-)
Hope this will help.
Regards,
Antonio
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- TECHNICAL MANAGER<50M USDIT ServicesReview Source
Powerful end to end devops platform with strong CICD capabilities, but requires planning and leaning to use effectively
Overall, my experience with azure devOps has been very positive. It provides a unified platform for planning, development ci/cd and monitoring, which has significantly improved collaboration between development and operations teams. Azure boards and pipelines work reliably and integrate well with other Microsoft and third-party tools. However, the initial setup and permission management can feel complex for the new users and some advanced features have a learning curve. Once configured properly, it becomes a stable and scalable solution for managing end to end application lifecycles. - ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT50M-1B USDBankingReview Source
Seamless SDLC Experience Balanced by Migration Dependency and Troubleshooting Difficulties
We have been using ADO in our organization for more than 10 years now and it offers an end-to-end solution for the entire software development lifecycle. It is a highly integrated and scalable platform that works exceptionally well for our SDLC. Its CICD workflow works really great and can be easily integrated with other Microsoft products. However, its vast feature set can lead to a steep learning curve and complexity for smaller teams. It's a one-stop-shop, combining Agile planning and tracking, version control, CI/CD automation, and Test plans and artifacts into a single platform. - MANAGER1B-10B USDMiscellaneousReview Source
Multiple Formats and Categorisation Options Enhance Project Development and Management
Overall, Azure DevOps is a great tool to keep a nice and tidy track of developments within any kind of system within the business ERP. It works standalone, which is great, and provides absolute adaptability - as in, to enhance and keep a tidy track of all the processes outside the system - mostly, in developing a specific system. It is extremely versatile in the way it gives numerous contributors the chance to add comments/observations/solutions to 1 unified project. - IT ASSOCIATE50M-1B USDIT ServicesReview Source
The Role of Azure DevOps in Modern Enterprises
Azure DevOps provides a bunch of benefits to the multifaceted demands of modern software development teams. This tool is designed to optimise different stages of the development cycle in a quality manner. Its capabilities, integration, scalability, and extensive features make this the right choice for any organization. Process is in a deployable state, which enhances operational efficiency and software reliability. - SENIOR SERVICENOW CONSULTANT<50M USDIT ServicesReview Source
Azure DevOps Combines Agile Planning and Development
Good thing about Azure DevOps is it works on both cloud as well as on-prem. Its scalable . We use to combile our Agile planning , Repository like Github into one platform. We are moving towards Azure alot now due to introduction of workflow data fabric into ServiceNow . Integration have been very easy.
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