We performed a comparison between IBM Rational Build Forge and Jenkins based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Build Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"All features are useful. Our customer doesn't have any complaints about the tool. It works pretty well for what they want and what they need to do."
"The most valuable feature of Jenkins is its continuous deployment. We can deploy to multi-cluster and multi-regions in the cloud."
"Has enabled full automation of the company."
"Jenkins has excellent task planning features."
"Has a good interface, is reliable and saves time."
"Jenkins is very stable."
"The most valuable features of Jenkins are the ease of use and the information about how to use the features is readily available on the internet. Additionally, with the solution, I can use other reporting tools, such as Flow."
"The solution is scalable and concurrent users have access to the platform."
"Jenkins has built good plugins and has a good security platform."
"Its logging can be improved. When something goes wrong, it is not always very easy to find the problem. It is hard to identify whether the problem is because of low memory in the server or some configuration in Rational Build Forge. The error logs are not very detailed, and they should provide more information. It should also have more integration with third-party tools. It would be great to have more integration with third-party tools."
"It could be cheaper."
"UI is quite outdated."
"I would like to see even more integrations included in the next release."
"And I don't care too much for the Jenkins user interface. It's not that user-friendly compared to other solutions available right now. It's not a great user experience. You can do just fine if you are a techie, but it would take a novice some time to learn it and get things done."
"Jenkins could improve the integration with other platforms."
"Some kind of SaaS product would be helpful in providing organizational structure."
"Its schedule builds need improvement. It should have scheduling features in the platform rather than using external plug-ins."
"I would like to have an integrated dashboard on top of it and a better UX to look at. The dashboard could be better in terms of integration with other tools. We should be able to have a single pane of glass across all the tools that we use where Jenkins is the pipeline. This can be a very good upgrade to it."
IBM Rational Build Forge is ranked 12th in Build Automation with 1 review while Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 33 reviews. IBM Rational Build Forge is rated 8.0, while Jenkins is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Rational Build Forge writes "Useful features, stable, easy to deploy, and works well". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Jenkins writes "We can do whatever we want and customize as much as we wish to in any programming language". IBM Rational Build Forge is most compared with Bamboo and CircleCI, whereas Jenkins is most compared with Tekton, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, GitLab and Harness.
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