We performed a comparison between IBM Rational Build Forge and Jenkins based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Build Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Very good reporting features."
"All features are useful. Our customer doesn't have any complaints about the tool. It works pretty well for what they want and what they need to do."
"Has a good interface, is reliable and saves time."
"Jenkins is very user-friendly."
"The solution is scalable and concurrent users have access to the platform."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to connect with different tools and technologies."
"The initial setup is simple."
"GitHub linking is pretty good. We have a deployment application where we can run our tests and add various variables to be passed as assertions to those tests. This is pretty fluid with Jenkins."
"I like the business logs. It's a very useful tool. Client-server communication is also very fast."
"It is very useful for us to be able to collect and manage automatic processing pipelines."
"Its logging can be improved. When something goes wrong, it is not always very easy to find the problem. It is hard to identify whether the problem is because of low memory in the server or some configuration in Rational Build Forge. The error logs are not very detailed, and they should provide more information. It should also have more integration with third-party tools. It would be great to have more integration with third-party tools."
"Not user friendly for the layman."
"UI is quite outdated."
"Support should be provided at no cost, as there is no free support available for any of the free versions."
"The enterprise version is less stable than the open-source version."
"The UI must be more user-friendly."
"It could be cheaper."
"Some kind of SaaS product would be helpful in providing organizational structure."
"We cannot change the ownership of any directory or file or any kind of directory."
"The bug fix speed is very slow."
Earn 20 points
IBM Rational Build Forge is ranked 19th in Build Automation while Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 83 reviews. IBM Rational Build Forge is rated 9.0, while Jenkins is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Rational Build Forge writes "Great reporting features and very functional". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Jenkins writes "A highly-scalable and stable solution that reduces deployment time and produces a significant return on investment". IBM Rational Build Forge is most compared with Bamboo and Digital.ai Release , whereas Jenkins is most compared with GitLab, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, Tekton and Harness. See our IBM Rational Build Forge vs. Jenkins report.
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