Automic Continuous Delivery Director [EOL] vs UrbanCode Deploy comparison

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Automic Continuous Delivery...

Average Rating

8.0

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Ranking in other categories

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UrbanCode Deploy

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

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Umair (Abu Mohaymin) Akhlaque

Group CEO at Flexsolutions

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.

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AK13

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…

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Pros

"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 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."

"The second valuable aspect is its capability to drive external systems like deployment automation engines or to integrate with Agile Central."

"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."

"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."

"Stable solution that's good for automating the CI/CD pipeline: from development to production."

"The stability is good. I haven't experienced any issues."

"The most valuable functionality is the ability to define the deployment process, schedule the deployment and automatically execute the deployments to different environments."

Cons

"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."

"Automic Continuous Delivery Director can improve the integrations. We have 25 but would like more."

"CDD and RA should be two modules in the same product. They do not automatically “talk” to each other. and they require endpoint definition."

"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."

"The product's development has been stopped. It focuses on maintaining existing products."

"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."

"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."

"I would like to see more reporting for container architecture."

"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."

"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."

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."

"Considering COVID-19, the price is too high."

"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."

"The cost of the solution is high but it offers great ROI."

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Educational Organization

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31%

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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.

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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.

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What needs improvement with Automic Continuous Delivery Director?

The product's development has been stopped. It focuses on maintaining existing products.

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Also Known As

CA CDD, CA Continuous Delivery Director

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Overview

CA Continuous Delivery Director is a powerful pipeline planning, orchestration and analytics solution that enables teams to eliminate spreadsheets, automate test processes and continually improve the delivery of revenue-generating features to end customers. The solution works with the most popular commercial and open source DevOps solutions to orchestrate the pipeline from planning through production. It is also the core of the continuous delivery ecosystem from CA, which includes development, testing and deployment solutions. CA Continuous Delivery Director enables effortless continuous delivery of high-quality, innovative applications from high-performance, collaborative teams.

Broadcom

IBM UrbanCode Deploy orchestrates and automates the deployment of applications, middleware configuration, and database changes into development, test, and production environments—local, dedicated or shared cloud environments—accelerating time to market and reducing cost by shrinking manual efforts from days to minutes with automation, while reducing risk by cutting deployment errors by up to 90 percent.

IBM

Sample Customers

United Airlines

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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