HOW DO ENTERPRISES LEVERAGE AZURE DEVOPS?

DevOps is formed of two terms: Development (Dev) and Operations (Ops). Therefore, DevOps is defined by the blend of people, processes, and technology to continually provide value to the customers. When it comes to teams, DevOps isolates the roles like development, IT operations, quality engineering, and security. These roles coordinate and collaborate to bring out better and reliable products.

Azure DevOps server happens to be a successor to Team Foundation Server which can be used for on-premise operations.

When it comes to large enterprises, it is easy to see how the management of the projects could be difficult. The basic difficulties include:

1. The changing requirements and ad hoc requests.
2. The team members working remotely from various physical locations.
3. Difficult collaborations because of usage of different technologies.

To work with the above-mentioned challenges and also have cost-effective measures enterprises need optimized business functions.

Various organizations develop various tools and technology to reduce the time for marketing or streamlining the functions for making user focus applications. But in recent times the process of software development has tremendously changed.

Azure DevOps is an entirely integrated Azure service that has been built with emerging DevOps principles as its main focus. This helps enterprises of all shapes and sizes to scale and manage the development deployment and continuous delivery pipelines.

There are various Azure DevOps tools that you can use for enhancing the existing business workflow:

1. AZURE PIPELINES:

With Azure Pipelines, it is possible to create, test and deploy the applications with CI/CD. The platform is compatible with any language, platform, or cloud which includes GitHub, or any other Git provider.

2. AZURE TEST PLANS:

Azure test plans provide solutions through which testing and shipment of the digital solutions can be made possible with manual and exploratory testing tools.

3. AZURE ARTIFACTS:

With just one click, it is possible to create, share and host the packages with the project team and addition of artifacts to the CI/CD pipelines.

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4. AZURE REPOS:

Azure Repos enables cloud-hosted private Git repos and provides collaboration for better development of code with pull requests and enhanced file management.

5. AZURE BOARDS:

Azure boards provide agile tools to enhance planning, tracking, and discussion of work across various teams.

6. AZURE DEVOPS MARKETPLACE:

Your organization can gain access to the extensions which include Slack to SonarCloud with thousand of other applications and services provided by the Microsoft community.

1. Elimination of delay in processing the approvals.
2. Reduction in User Acceptance Testing attempts.
3. Elimination of development corrections.
4. Saves time on the creation of Trace analysis
5. Enhanced productivity
6. Reduction in compliance report efforts.

1. RAPID APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT:

2. ENHANCED CUSTOMER AND END-USER EXPERIENCE:

3. IMPROVED COLLABORATION AND COMMUNICATION AT THE WORKPLACE:

4. INCREASED INNOVATION:

5. QUICK PROBLEM-SOLVING CAPABILITIES:

If you are a company that works with the development of enterprise applications, then you should definitely consider opting for Azure DevOps. It comes with an excellent feature set and functionality through a single platform.

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