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Automic Continuous Delivery Automation [EOL] vs Nolio Release Automation comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Automic Continuous Delivery...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Nolio Release Automation
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
Release Automation (7th)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer895359 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Project Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Automatic installation for complex deployments and environments, with good workflow support
I like that really complex deployments are possible with it. It's very good. You have everything you need. You can design your workflows for your needs. You can do so much more, it's not just an automatic installation tool. It's a real deployment tool. I can do the complete deployment with everything that is possible.
Akhilesh B N - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Delivery Engineer at Barclays Capital
Real-time monitoring and seamless integration enhance deployment efficiency
The main disadvantage I see is the limited awareness of Nolio Release Automation in other organizations. It is a very nice tool, but its market presence is limited. I heard from the organization that the licensing cost was somewhat expensive. Perhaps focusing on marketing efforts would be beneficial. It is a really nice tool, and I am unsure why many organizations are not using Nolio Release Automation. It is one of the greatest tools for continuous deployment, yet its popularity remains limited. Some organizations are not aware of its existence. This might be an area worth researching and potentially developing new marketing strategies.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"I like that really complex deployments are possible with it."
"It gives us good feedback on visualizations and on how our processes have progressed."
"The measurement and the display functions make it easy to report all the statuses up to management, and it has helped our customers with their time, costs, and resources."
"Deployment workflow (WF) can be designed this way, so that it is not necessary to provide all applications (systems) artifacts of which an application consists."
"The IT process automation is the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"The event monitor is very good. You can monitor when the file is created so you can pick up the file once it's done."
"They have gained efficiency that they cannot achieve in any other way."
"We increased our quality and reduced our time costs."
"Deployments have been automated fully and now all the teams follow a single, error-free approach of deployment, which is time saving and seldom faults."
"It has reduced deployment times from nearly a couple of hours to around a couple of minutes, especially on production environments."
"For us, Release Automation is a very critical tool that allows us to reproduce, redeliver, and redeploy all our various code in a timely manner and with minimum number of errors."
"The release time has gone down from a number of days to a few minutes."
"With CA Release Automation, the customers whom I worked with were able to increase the number of deployments, increase the deployment speed, increase the number of concurrent deployments, lower the error rate, and improve the visibility and the reliability of the deployment process."
"Applications that have been on boarded into the Release Automation application have shown a decrease in deployment time and down time for maintenance."
"One standout aspect is its architecture. We can configure multiple instances on a single server using different system names or usernames."
"This is purely an automation tool which has helped us to move from traditional manual deployments to zero-touch deployments."
 

Cons

"Not a perfect ten because the user interface is brand new and it needs improvement."
"The stability of the solution can be improved."
"One of the biggest features I've been asked by my team to put in there is opening more scripting languages to be part of the platform."
"The dashboard should allow you to see the current state of packages in each environment, not only on an individual application basis, but across the entire application platform."
"There is an issue with the stability in the tool. The process of agent will stop, then the monitoring agent can't be recognized because the process is running, but you can talk with the system."
"There are some bugs. For example, during the design of a workflow, important information is lost, it vanishes."
"We're a WebSphere shop so I would like to see more support for WebSphere, only because it's the platform that they seem to want to use the most."
"The first time setup can be very complicated."
"When I started using Nolio around eight months ago, a challenge was the lack of relevant information and related support for learning."
"Of course, we need to test this more, but I want to see much more seamless integration between Release Automation and CA Service Virtualization or DevTest."
"Error handling needs to be improved in some of the action packs."
"I also think that the cost of this product is high."
"The challenge that we've got within our company at the moment is that we're in the process of trying to roll out a cloud. It's trying to understand how Release Automation fits with that because I think it's getting very on-premise focused until now."
"There are some stability issues. Sometimes, the server crashes or throws out of memory."
"It is possible to have a lot of execution servers, but you can’t put them in a balanced pool of servers."
"The automation tool is a very good deployment engine but it's not fitting our release orchestration process so we have to go for another tool to handle the orchestration, integrate the tool with the release automation."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I can save time and money more quickly."
"Customers often complain about the price."
"We increased our quality and reduced our time costs."
"If you have a fixed contract, it has limits to spreading out. If you have a flexible enterprise license contract, then you have a lot of scalability for this tool."
"Nolio is a pretty much good tool, though its pricing is relatively high in the market. It's more expensive than other tools."
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Top Industries

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Construction Company
16%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Construction Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Marketing Services Firm
11%
Outsourcing Company
10%
 

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Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise39
 

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What needs improvement with Nolio Release Automation?
The main disadvantage I see is the limited awareness of Nolio Release Automation in other organizations. It is a very nice tool, but its market presence is limited. I heard from the organization th...
What is your primary use case for Nolio Release Automation?
I am working for an organization where they have been using Nolio Release Automation since 2016-2017. We are currently using version 6.6, and due to dependencies and lack of support from Broadcom, ...
What advice do you have for others considering Nolio Release Automation?
The 6.9 version offers significant improvements over 6.6. The dashboard is very appealing, showing information about applications and offline agents. We can easily remove offline agents and upgrade...
 

Also Known As

CA Continuous Delivery Automation, Automic Release Automation, Automic ONE Automation, UC4 Automation Platform
CA Release Automation
 

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Sample Customers

BET365, Charter Communications, TASC
CA Release Automation customers include Citrix, NIIT Technologies, ING Bank, Molina Healthcare, Swisscom, Bupa and Tesco. Read case studies from customers who are igniting and advancing their continuous delivery journey with CA Release Automation.
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