Cutover Reviews

Cutover is an exceptional collaborative platform that has enabled me and my team members to work together seamlessly while building comprehensive, organized, and easy-to-follow runbooks. Its intuitive structure has improved coordination, visibility, and accountability across all our stakeholders, making complex operational and disaster recovery activities significantly easier to manage. Over the years, Cutover has consistently demonstrated its value as the leading solution for disaster recovery planning and execution, providing a centralized, real-time workspace that helps my team members stay aligned and execute critical recovery activities with confidence.

One of Cutover's greatest strengths is the ability to provide visibility into execution and outcomes, allowing us to review results, analyze performance, and identify areas for improvement following each exercise or event. This continuous feedback loop has helped us enhance our procedures, increase efficiency, and strengthen our overall operational readiness.

By combining collaboration, organization, accountability, and post-execution insights, Cutover has become an invaluable tool for our disaster recovery and operational planning efforts. It has significantly improved our ability to execute complex activities with confidence while driving continuous process improvement across our organization.

Cutover has positively impacted my organization through its collaboration capabilities, workflow management, and operational transparency. It has transformed the way our organization builds and manages comprehensive runbooks, streamlining the entire process from assigning appropriate resources and responsibility to aligning tasks with the overall execution timeline, ensuring that all activities are properly coordinated and that my teams clearly understand their roles throughout the process.

One of the strengths of using Cutover in my organization is the ability to provide visibility into execution and outcomes. The platform has allowed us to review results, analyze performance, and identify areas for improvement following each exercise or event. This continuous feedback loop has helped us enhance our procedures, increase efficiency, and strengthen our overall operational readiness.

The best features Cutover offers are collaboration, organization, accountability, and post-execution insights. I also value the intuitive user-friendly interface, real-time workspace, and the centralized capability of runbooks.

The runbooks feature helps my team by enabling us to create runbooks while collaborating together in different projects, making complex operational and disaster recovery activities significantly easier to manage.

The centralized real-time workspace in Cutover helps my team members stay aligned and execute critical recovery activities with confidence.

Although there is not much to dislike about Cutover over the years, I honestly see that it has proven to be a superior product, but the self-service integration capabilities have not always been as turnkey as expected.

Currently, there are limitations around managing multiple self-hosted data source integrations. Administrative capabilities such as user impersonation and emulating user actions would significantly improve troubleshooting, support, and user experience management for the platform administrators.

For non-technical users, the learning curve can be a bit steep, but thanks to customer support, they are able to guide them and walk them through.

I have been using Cutover for the past four years.

Cutover is very stable, as we have experienced no downtime, and the performance has always been very reliable.

Cutover has been able to scale well as my organization grows drastically, particularly in managing complex operations, multiple teams, and business-critical workflows seamlessly.

For me, customer support has been very beneficial, especially during the learning curve, as they provided all the guidance we needed and were very responsive and knowledgeable.

I would rate customer support a nine out of ten.

We switched from Jira.

The reason we switched from PagerDuty to Cutover is that it offers a more structured approach to workflow orchestration, process standardization, and real-time operational visibility.

We valued Cutover's ability to help our teams coordinate activities, manage dependencies, and follow repeatable processes, which made it an attractive option for my organization, especially because we were seeking to improve efficiency and reduce operational complexity at that time.

For my case, it was very easy to deploy Cutover in our AWS environment with the guidance of customer support throughout the setup and configuration process.

My experience with the configuration process was very smooth, and I would say we never ran into any issues because customer support was readily available. The platform provided a structured approach to setting up workflows and defining processes, as well as aligning solutions with our organization's business requirements.

Cutover has delivered a very positive return on investment by improving our operational efficiency, reducing manual coordination, and streamlining complex business processes in my organization. The main benefits for us include fewer manual handoffs, more consistent processes, and reduced risk of costly operational delays.

My experience with the metering and billing was positive, as the licensing arrangements and commercial terms were clearly communicated, making everything manageable.

I value the transparency in pricing, and I would say it is very manageable.

Before choosing Cutover, we evaluated Veeam Data Platform and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

I would rate Cutover a five out of five, as it has been an exceptional platform.

I chose a five for my rating because over the years, Cutover has consistently demonstrated its value as a leading solution for disaster recovery planning and execution.

I am very confident in Cutover's approach to AI governance and security, particularly when it comes to protecting our sensitive data and our customer's data, maintaining transparency, and supporting compliance requirements.

My experience with Cutover's AI capabilities has been very positive, and it has met our expectations. It has particularly supported complex enterprise operations, workflow coordination, and critical process management very easily, helping my team organize information, improve visibility, and make more informed decisions.

Cutover supports enterprise workflows that operate alongside AWS-based environments, which has been very helpful in helping my team coordinate activities and maintain visibility across complex technology operations.

My advice for others looking into using Cutover is that it is a great tool, and I highly recommend it because it has been very useful in managing consistency and repeatability. We are able to expand our operations and introduce additional workflows because it is very scalable. It has improved collaboration between my team members while also reducing the manual effort involved in coordinating complex activities. Therefore, any organization seeking to enhance accountability, coordination, and team collaboration should consider Cutover.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Cutover is primarily used in my organization for automation purposes, mainly through the Cutover page.

In my organization, Cutover was used as a migration tool for automating many tasks that would have been executed manually, such as running a script, executing the script, and firing the commands to migrate from on-premises to AWS cloud. Cutover served as an automation tool between these processes. All tasks were integrated into the Cutover page as runbooks, and execution happened directly with just one click on the Cutover page. Everything executes automatically in the back end. That is the main use case for automation.

During migration, we used to install the agent on on-premises services. If I were to do that manually for one server, it would take approximately one to one and a half hours to install the agent on the on-premises services, which already has all the infrastructure set up. When I integrated with CMF, which is another orchestration service from AWS called Cloud Migration Factory, and integrated it with the Cutover page or Cutover runbooks, the task became completed within five minutes. It takes a little time to integrate with CMF or AWS services with Cutover, but once that integration is complete, it gets finished within five minutes. The time reduction is significant; if done manually, it would take one and a half hours, around eighty to ninety minutes. Now, that task is completed within five minutes. That is the main use case.

From my experience with Cutover for migrations, whatever inputs were fed, such as input data, it provided approximately what was expected. It shows what is happening in the back end and what output is anticipated. Cutover has great accuracy and output for artificial intelligence-related tasks.

Cutover is a very productive tool, specifically for what I used it for, which is migration.

The best feature Cutover offers, from my experience, is that any kind of task or service can be integrated to execute any kind of task.

One thing I find especially useful is the visual runbooks feature, which has a very useful user interface. I just have to click on the buttons, and a lot of tasks in the back end are executed. Many AWS cloud services, CyberArks, and cloud service providers, along with a lot of inbuilt tools in the organization, were integrated. This is the main great feature of Cutover.

Another useful feature is that Cutover can easily integrate with AWS Lambda functions, step functions, storage, and CyberArks, where credentials can be retrieved and any kind of authentication, authorization credentials, permissions, and other services can be accessed. These were integrated to enable task admins or system admins to easily fire commands and call API calls. It is very useful for calling back-end APIs specifically.

Cutover has positively impacted my organization by helping create customized runbooks for migration and has assisted with a lot of things. From a productivity perspective, I saved around seventy to eighty percent of the time where I used to do one task manually. When I used Cutover, it improved productivity by seventy to eighty percent in the migration activities.

From what I have experienced with Cutover, it is a fantastic and very productive tool for things like disaster recovery, migration, or repetitive API tasks. All these things can be automated and save a lot of time. However, Cutover is available only at the enterprise level and is not available for startups or as an open-source tool. If Cutover were available to small teams who want to use it for disaster recovery or migration purposes on a small scale, not at the enterprise level, that would be great. If there were a free or limited version of Cutover for startups, it would spread awareness of what Cutover is across the IT industry and help IT admins or organizations understand how it can benefit them from a business perspective.

The user interface I have used in the last twenty-one months is very good, but it could be a little more feature-rich. There are a very small number of features available in the user interface, such as user management, runbook management, and runbook creation. These are the kinds of features that could be improved with respect to the Cutover user interface. Also, regarding documentation, from what I have used online or in Google searches, I find there is limited documentation regarding how to install it locally. If a startup or small-scale organization wants to use Cutover for disaster recovery, migration, or automation, there is a lack of documentation available online. That is something that can be improved with respect to Cutover.

Cutover has been used for around twenty-one months, which is almost two years.

Cutover's scalability is good. It delivered on our service level objective or service level expectation as per the service reliability terms. It is highly scalable and available.

Customer support for Cutover is good. As enterprise users, immediate support is received. Wherever issues are encountered or tickets are raised, assistance is received from their teams. Whenever blockades are faced, Cutover team helps find solutions for needs, and it is great.

This is the first time Cutover has been used. When I joined the bank, services were being migrated, and the architect introduced this tool, Cutover. This has been the first use case with Cutover for around twenty-one months, which is almost two years.

There were not many options; Cutover was the one option used for automation purposes. That is the only one that was proceeded with.

Cutover should definitely be used as an automation tool, a migration tool, or a disaster recovery tool. The integration only has to happen in the back end one time, and if the integration is done, it just needs to be fired, and within a fraction of a second or minute, all tasks, business context, or business processes will be executed within a few minutes, depending on the task. Cutover would definitely be recommended to others for use as an automation tool for tasks like migration or any kind of day-to-day activities.

Cutover is the best artificial intelligence-enabled tool that can be used for automation, migration, and disaster recovery. I would really recommend others use it for runbooks, such as runbook templating and creating repetitive tasks. It will save a lot of time and increase productivity for teams. If Cutover could be made available as an open-source tool with limited users for small-scale industries or startups, it would be greatly beneficial for automation in small industries and organizations.

Regarding governance and security, while not that familiar with the governance and security perspective, I think it is very good. I believe they maintain guardrails, governance, and artificial intelligence security. As we are in the era of artificial intelligence and generative artificial intelligence, I think governance and security are being managed very well with Cutover from that perspective. My overall rating for this product is nine out of ten.

Private Cloud

Other

I have been using Cutover for over five years. The main use case for Cutover is shifting between tools and the data center. Cutover is a complex base which we executed for shifting between data centers. We performed a very manual process for migration and some setup for AWS workload, keeping business continuity as the priority. We created a connector between the private data center and AWS cloud, and we started shifting the workload in real time in the production environment, starting from one percent to reach 100% of the cutover, and then we shut down all the inventory or servers which were running in the AWS.

Cutover has positively impacted my organization by largely reducing cycle time. Cutover improved my organization's cycles by making things more efficient in terms of compressing the cutover timelines. We achieved around 30% time savings and efficiency after using Cutover.

The best feature Cutover offers is probably the guidance of the strategy. When I mention strategy, I am referring to Cutover's planning part, which includes timelines and responsibilities of POCs, logging the risk with each piece of task, and also monitoring in real time.

As of now, I believe that if an offline survey were provided, I could think of improvements for Cutover. I do not have anything regarding needed improvements or any other suggestions for Cutover at this time.

I have been working in my current field for over three years.

Cutover helped make that process smoother compared to the manual way we did it before by providing automation and predicting the impact. At the same time, we had a prediction mechanism which was very helpful.

I chose nine as my rating for Cutover because it did largely fetch all the aspects.

I purchased Cutover through the AWS Marketplace. My advice for others looking into using Cutover is to adopt it at the initial time of the migration plan rather than putting it in at the last moment to fill the gaps. I gave Cutover a rating of 9 out of 10.

Hybrid Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)