"It has been working for us, and it has never been down so far."
"I have found managing the artifact features very useful."
"I onboarded .NET, then I onboarded JS. And about six or eight months back, I onboarded Python. And I am about to onboard Docker. The availability of integrations allows me to do this."
"The most important feature of Nexus Repository Manager is the storing and sharing of components. For Nexus IQ, it's the scanning of projects and the rating of vulnerabilities and license violations that we may have in our products."
"While there aren't many features, they're all useful, particularly the ability to store and retrieve content, and to proxy all of the features that an enterprise repository manager should have."
"Navigation on the UI is easy and simple to understand."
"One of the most valuable features is the variety of permissions you can use on the repository. That helps us protect access to the information inside of the repository."
"It has very good enterprise integration, so we are able to integrate it with the rest of our infrastructure for authentication, for role management. That is very useful."
"The primary feature is that I now have the ability to provide a central platform for storing build artifacts; a concise way for any project team to store its build with us."
"Its dashboard can be improved and made a little bit better."
"I'm waiting for hot publication between several Nexus instances. That's more important for me right now because in our company we have several locations distributed all over the world, and each location is producing its own artifacts, sometimes for the same project. I really would appreciate a scenario where the developers could provide their data to the local repository and it would be hot-replicated to the other repository instances."
"Particularly concerning OSF-type licenses, while they support a multitude of features, there's room for improvement in the single point transform, especially for grouping. It appears that currently, the grouping functionality is not robust, particularly for Docker images within a group. The support for this aspect seems to be contingent on the license type. For instance, with the Voss license type, there is a noticeable absence of support for this feature. This is an area that could benefit from enhancement in the upcoming updates."
"They could improve the user interface and REST APIs."
"They should provide automation for adding container images and artifacts in compliance with security requirements."
"I would like to see them build in some scanning features out-of-the-box, as opposed to only getting them by buying the add-ons of Nexus IQ Server. I would like to see some level of ability to filter in the tool itself, through scanning the binaries in there."
"Sonatype Nexus Repository could improve by making the experience working with CI/CD pipelines, such as GitHub Action or GitLab better."
"We had some issues with the container platform, but we raised a support ticket and it was sorted out for us."
"[A] main feature that is missing in Nexus IQ is the ability to explore the history of the different reports that have been generated for a given product. For the time being, in the Nexus IQ UI, we are only able to browse the latest reports that have been generated for a given product. It would be really useful for us to be able to go back in time by browsing through the reports and to have a tool that would give us the evolution of the metrics."
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Microsoft SMS is ranked 4th in Software Distribution while Sonatype Nexus Repository is ranked 1st in Software Distribution with 15 reviews. Microsoft SMS is rated 8.0, while Sonatype Nexus Repository is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft SMS writes "Reliable, stable, and free with our subscription". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sonatype Nexus Repository writes "Feature-rich and seamless integration with our other tools". Microsoft SMS is most compared with EMCO MSI Package Builder and EMCO Remote Installer, whereas Sonatype Nexus Repository is most compared with JFrog Artifactory, Archiva, Bitbucket Data Center, Inedo ProGet and EMCO Remote Installer.
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