IBM Rational Build Forge Reviews

Vendor: IBM

4.5 out of 5

2 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is IBM Rational Build Forge?

IBM Rational Build Forge is an adaptive execution framework that helps automate and standardize the software assembly process. Rational Build Forge helps teams standardize repetitive tasks, improve software quality and manage compliance mandates. This software scales to 25 seats. Rational Build Forge delivers:
Flexibility - gives developers self-service access to preconfigured build processes from within their integrated development environment (IDE). You can add IBM Rational software products to further enhance automation, reporting and integration.
Productivity - accelerates build and release cycles through iterative development, parallel processes and efficient use of hardware.
Compliance - simplifies compliance management with self-documenting audit trails and role-based security.
Compatibility - increases team efficiency with centralized build and release management using the tools you have today.

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IBM Rational Build Forge is the #24 ranked solution in top Build Automation solutions. PeerSpot users give IBM Rational Build Forge an average rating of 9.0 out of 10. IBM Rational Build Forge is most commonly compared to Jenkins: IBM Rational Build Forge vs Jenkins.

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June 2025

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IBM Rational Build Forge mindshare

As of July 2025, the mindshare of IBM Rational Build Forge in the Build Automation category stands at 0.8%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"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."
"Very good reporting features."

Room for Improvement

"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."
"Not user friendly for the layman."

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