Azure DevOps is a full-fledged and robust service with a comprehensive suite of technologies designed and streamlined to empower teams to manage their work with agility and full visibility across products and projects. Define, track, and layout work with Kanban boards, backlogs, custom dashboards, and reporting capabilities using Azure Boards. Keep development efforts transparent and on schedule with GitHub. Explore analytics with visuals and turn data into insights with Power BI, all in one service.
Azure DevOps can be accessed and utilized in two ways. You can work in the cloud using Azure DevOps Services or on-premises using Azure DevOps Server. The cloud offering, Azure DevOps Services, provides a scalable, reliable, and globally available hosted service. It is backed by a 99.9% SLA, monitored by Microsoft’s 24/7 operations team, and available in local data centres around the world. The on-premises offering, Azure DevOps Server, is built on a SQL Server back end. Usually, clients choose the on-premises version when they need their data to stay within their network or when they want access to SQL Server reporting services that integrate with Azure DevOps Server data and tools. Azure DevOps also supports adding extensions and integrating with other popular services, such as Campfire, Slack, Trello, UserVoice, GitHub and more, and developing your custom extensions.