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Automic Continuous Delivery Director [EOL] vs Microsoft Azure DevOps comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Automic Continuous Delivery...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Azure DevOps
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
133
Ranking in other categories
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (2nd), Release Automation (1st), Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (1st)
 

Featured Reviews

Umair (Abu Mohaymin) Akhlaque - PeerSpot reviewer
An automation solution to automate the entire release process but lacks development
Automic eliminates a lot of error mishandling. If implemented, it can save a significant amount of money. It requires a substantial investment upfront because it eliminates the need for manual intervention in each process or job. Essentially, an operator oversees the releases, ensuring they are ready for release without needing to understand the intricacies of the process. This streamlines the release process and allows for monitoring at every step, reducing manual errors and providing automation, as the name "Automic" suggests. Automic offers a wide range of out-of-the-box integrations, available through its marketplace. This includes monitoring tools, release processes, and various other tools, making it a comprehensive solution.
Ivan Angelov - PeerSpot reviewer
Facilitates agile transformation with potential for enhanced intuitiveness
What I liked about the solution is that it offers numerous features that are not available by default unless you are agile. Transitioning from the traditional Waterfall model to an agile methodology was challenging for us. Until 2020, our team predominantly worked with the Waterfall approach, using local tools like ServiceNow. We had a few team members who were familiar with Agile ISO, but none had experience with Azure. Therefore, we pursued Azure certification at the AZ-900 level. Our company organized a training session with a certified Azure expert, which was extremely beneficial for adopting best practices during the initial three months. This preparation helped us get accustomed to the new tool, as transitioning to a new system invariably requires time. Managing a pipeline of deliverables became significantly easier with this solution. We utilized it for stories and integrated change management with Azure DevOps. Eventually, everything related to the environment was organized there, enabling us to follow up and track progress with our technical engineers on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis. Reports were automatically generated and sent to management, offering them insights into our progress concerning the predefined roadmap.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature for me is the fact that you can easily design a pipeline to promote applications from a development environment up to a production environment, and the team can become autonomous in designing those pipelines."
"CDD is primarily used for showing end users (managers, business teams, project managers, and release managers) what is happening with each release. The status and reporting features are very important. Automation reduces time to deploy. It also allows us to do more with releases and testing prior to production, better guaranteeing a smooth deployment."
"The second valuable aspect is its capability to drive external systems like deployment automation engines or to integrate with Agile Central."
"The most valuable features of Automic Continuous Delivery Director are the UI, release planning, and tracking, and you can do your soft and hard freeze through CDP."
"Its ability to automate release deployments, streamline release scope, and reduce the cost of and time for deployment."
"Its extensive range of available connectors eliminates the need for manual code writing when implementing solutions, thus reducing coding efforts."
"Monitoring is most valuable."
"Provides agile management of projects."
"The product is easy to use...It is a stable solution."
"It's a pretty problem-free solution."
"The features of Azure Repos that we find most impactful are those related to source control management within our DevOps code management processes."
"Great project management feature and Git-based repository."
"Azure Pipeline and Azure Release are most valuable. I use Azure DevOps through pipeline and release."
"Microsoft Azure DevOps integrates well with other components, such as Synapse, which is a data warehouse tool of Azure. It is a framework platform for BI and integrated with other tools, such as Power BI."
 

Cons

"We have rolled out the SAFe model, but what we would like to have is better integration with Agile Central, for instance, or at least at the plugin level, where we would select only certain stories instead of many stories in the sprint."
"Reporting and dashboarding could be improved. Release pipelines should be creatable via templates as well as easily integrable/chained together. Visual navigation could also be improved when the pipelines become too large."
"CDD and RA should be two modules in the same product. They do not automatically “talk” to each other. and they require endpoint definition."
"We would like to have a more user-friendly interface. It is already very friendly, but as soon as you start to have many applications with many tasks, the applications should be easier to manipulate on the screen."
"The product's development has been stopped. It focuses on maintaining existing products."
"Automic Continuous Delivery Director can improve the integrations. We have 25 but would like more."
"The testing environment and different pipelining concepts can be improved."
"There are some areas that need improvement such as tracking."
"Proper Gantt charting should be a feature that is included because as it is now, we have to create it ourselves."
"Azure DevOps could be improved with more security plugins, especially for SaaS scanning and vulnerability scans."
"The ability to extend work items was more flexible than it is now. Talking version control, one of our customers had some issues because they found it very difficult to manage more than 1000 repositories for one team project."
"I would like to see improvement in the metrics and the dependencies."
"Templates could be improved."
"We are currently in the process of moving all of our on-prem to the cloud platform. We are trying to make that move and host the majority of our DevOps services in the cloud because the cloud is where most of the things are going nowadays. However, the process of this transfer is not straightforward, and it could be a lot easier. Microsoft hasn't provided the maturity for migration tools. It could be a lot easier in that respect. I want to see them continue to advance the API capabilities. They could add some more robust functionality to the administrative layer within ADO services. There are a lot of configuration elements that you need to take care of at the organization level and the project configuration level from an administrative capacity. When you're dealing with process templates and things of that nature, you have to do them all manually. Being able to automate some of that using scripts or API functionality would be really nice."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a free trial available that people can try. The solution has a subscription and it is based on the users that use the solution."
"As the cost structure is per user, I would recommend paying the cost structure based on the amount of data you use rather than the number of users."
"The pricing is very competitive because of the whole development cycle by Azure DevOps. You don't have to buy and integrate several different tools."
"I find that the pricing is good, and it is competitive with the other vendors in the market."
"It is a subscription model and I only pay for what I use."
"The price is cheaper than Jira and some of the other competing tools."
"It's a good tool, quite rich, it has a lot of features, and quite a lot of analytical capabilities which are built on top of it so that you can see how your projects are going and all that stuff. It's a good tool."
"There are other solutions available that are open source and free, such as GitLab."
"It has an annual subscription. It can be cheaper for partners. Many open-source products are available in the market, and it would be great if they can be a little bit more competitive in terms of pricing. A lot of startups are looking for an open-source, free, or cheap solution. If they can accommodate such requirements, it will be good for the product in the long run."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
13%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
9%
 

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Automic Continuous Delivery Director?
Its extensive range of available connectors eliminates the need for manual code writing when implementing solutions, thus reducing coding efforts.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Automic Continuous Delivery Director?
The product has easy licensing, which depends on the number being installed.
What needs improvement with Automic Continuous Delivery Director?
The product's development has been stopped. It focuses on maintaining existing products.
Which is better - Jira or Microsoft Azure DevOps?
Jira is a great centralized tool for just about everything, from local team management to keeping track of products and work logs. It is easy to implement and navigate, and it is stable and scalabl...
Which is better - TFS or Azure DevOps?
TFS and Azure DevOps are different in many ways. TFS was designed for admins, and only offers incremental improvements. In addition, TFS seems complicated to use and I don’t think it has a very fri...
What do you like most about Microsoft Azure DevOps?
Valuable features for project management and tracking in Azure DevOps include a portal displaying test results, check-in/check-out activity, and developer/tester productivity.
 

Also Known As

CA CDD, CA Continuous Delivery Director
Azure DevOps, VSTS, Visual Studio Team Services, MS Azure DevOps
 

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