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Automic Continuous Delivery Automation [EOL] vs UrbanCode Deploy comparison

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

Categories and Ranking

Automic Continuous Delivery...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
UrbanCode Deploy
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
27
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.
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DevOps Engineer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
A handy interface that includes buttons or drag-and-drop options for all functionality
Our company uses the solution for standard, blue-green, and complex deployments. We have 250 users throughout our company.  The solution handles complex deployments very efficiently.  The user interface includes buttons or drag-and-drop options for all functionality. It is easy to create component…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"At the end of the day, at the end of the year, CA offered the best package overall, and that wasn't just from a product standpoint but also a support standpoint."
"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."
"Self-service for developers, because they are able to deploy to development departments on their own, without needing people from operations."
"We increased our quality and reduced our time costs."
"The agents are one of the solution's most valuable features, and I like agents for file transfers so you can transfer the files from agent to agent on the different platforms."
"It can support very complex environments and dependencies."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to see which problems have been resolved from deployment."
"The main benefit is you can deploy everything with it."
"It was very easy to install and configure IBM UrbanCode Deploy and remotely deploy its agents."
"Automated deployment forces the organization to standardize runtimes, development output and handling of platform provisioning."
"It helps us orchestrate enterprise applications that need to be coordinated."
"Our biggest ROI is increased productivity which we experienced within the first year."
"This saves time, and makes the process much more reliable, reversible, repeatable, and traceable."
"This product is excellent for deploying components and running processes related to deployments."
"It has provided a platform for traceability across the whole release cycle for more than 700 diverse applications."
"It has automated the deployment of tasks to different environments which we were previously only able to do manually."
 

Cons

"If you have a technical problem and need development of the tool, the support team is terrible, because they cannot help with the technical details."
"The first time setup can be very complicated."
"GUI for mobile phones: Availability to approve and start deployment through mobile phones."
"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."
"At the moment, the version that we are using (version 12.0), the environment is complex with multiple installations. Therefore, the monitoring is not scalable, but this should be improved in 12.1 and 12.2."
"Not a perfect ten because the user interface is brand new and it needs improvement."
"Stability-wise I think it still needs to be improved; performance-wise. It crashes from time to time."
"I would like to see more support for WebSphere."
"Its reliability has been a little suspect, and one of our frustrations has been that it's taken them some time to focus on fixing that problem."
"Lack of technical expertise available in the market that forces us to rely solely on IBM Professional Services."
"We're running version 4.8.4, which isn't the latest version. This version lacks reporting, which may be improved in the latest version."
"We have encountered scalability issues. We did not scale particularly well."
"The solution is stable. When multiple deployment jobs are triggered at once, the solution logs the second job until the first is completed. This could impact performance or progress because the solution gets stuck in a holding pattern."
"There are also many bugs in UrbanCode Deploy."
"Full blown support for repositories such a SonaType Nexus would be better than having to deploy an agent to watch particular filesystem paths."
"WebSphere deployments, for some reason, don’t work out-of-the-box."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I can save time and money more quickly."
"We increased our quality and reduced our time costs."
"Customers often complain about the price."
"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."
"Considering COVID-19, the price is too high."
"The cost of the solution is high but it offers great ROI."
"The licensing fees for this solution are based on the number of servers that are being deployed and the number of agents that you have."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
15%
Construction Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Healthcare Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
24%
Construction Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise22
 

Also Known As

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

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Sample Customers

BET365, Charter Communications, TASC
As policy, IBM does not release customer names on non-IBM web sites.  However, public DevOps and UrbanCode Deploy case studies can be found here. IBM's UrbanCode Deploy customers span Small-Medium Businesses to Fortune 500 companies across all industries worldwide.
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