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Automic Continuous Delivery Automation [EOL] vs UrbanCode Deploy comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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 (6th)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer895359 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
CT
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

"The main benefit is you can deploy everything with it."
"I think on a day-to-day basis, it has increased the capacity to deploy. We don't have to wait for someone to do something."
"Gives people insight into what's happening during the deployment."
"It gives us good feedback on visualizations and on how our processes have progressed."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to see which problems have been resolved from deployment."
"I would say our headwind, or our time to market, is reduced considerably. We get more consistent results out of it, because you write one time and once it's automated you expect it to behave the same way every time. And it cut down a lot of re-work for us."
"Self-service for developers, because they are able to deploy to development departments on their own, without needing people from operations."
"The metrics gathered after deployment, for example, the rate of success versus the rate of failure."
"Stable solution that's good for automating the CI/CD pipeline: from development to production."
"The most valuable functionality is the ability to define the deployment process, schedule the deployment and automatically execute the deployments to different environments."
"The solution handles complex deployments very efficiently."
"The most valuable feature is the snapshot functionality, which allows us to access previous versions of the artifacts."
"It is very easy to make a software release. It used to take us at least a couple of hours to make a release, now we went to production with a new one last night. This new release took me five minutes."
"The stability is good. I haven't experienced any issues."
 

Cons

"The stability of the solution can be improved."
"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."
"It would be very beneficial for us to see integrations into cloud environments, especially into the Google Cloud environment because we are heading towards cloud."
"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."
"We hope that we can integrate the new CD Directive into our portfolio, so we can bring the deployment and release management closer together."
"There needs to be better error handling and error descriptions. It should be more clear what the errors are and what we can do to fix them."
"I certainly would like to have a better way to pass information between deployment steps using UrbanCode Deploy because that's really difficult to do."
"The scalability of this application needs improvement. Changes and variations in the application become bottlenecks as they need to be more seamless and comfortable."
"I would like to have the agent up and running at all times, as opposed to only while it is in the DevOps pipeline."
"The technical support of the solution could definitely be improved as PMRs take long to resolve."
"The interface allows access in a number of ways but that can be confusing."
"I would like to see more reporting for container architecture."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"I can save time and money more quickly."
"We increased our quality and reduced our time costs."
"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."
"Considering COVID-19, the price is too high."
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Top Industries

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Educational Organization
32%
Financial Services Firm
31%
Insurance Company
9%
Computer Software Company
5%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Also Known As

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

Overview

 

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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