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Automic Continuous Delivery Automation [EOL] vs UrbanCode Deploy comparison

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

Categories and Ranking

Automic Continuous Delivery...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
UrbanCode Deploy
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
27
Ranking in other categories
Release Automation (9th)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer895359 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Project Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Automatic installation for complex deployments and environments, with good workflow support
I like that really complex deployments are possible with it. It's very good. You have everything you need. You can design your workflows for your needs. You can do so much more, it's not just an automatic installation tool. It's a real deployment tool. I can do the complete deployment with everything that is possible.
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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…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The main benefit is you can deploy everything with it."
"We increased our quality and reduced our time costs."
"Deployment workflow (WF) can be designed this way, so that it is not necessary to provide all applications (systems) artifacts of which an application consists."
"I would say our headwind, or our time to market, is reduced considerably. We get more consistent results out of it, because you write one time and once it's automated you expect it to behave the same way every time. And it cut down a lot of re-work for us."
"What we like about the product is that it is more or less an umbrella system that allows us to integrate many different systems into our heterogeneous environment."
"The measurement and the display functions make it easy to report all the statuses up to management, and it has helped our customers with their time, costs, and resources."
"The metrics gathered after deployment, for example, the rate of success versus the rate of failure."
"The IT process automation is the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"The solution handles complex deployments very efficiently."
"The solution is a great tool for hands-on deployment that is straightforward."
"The most valuable functionality is the ability to define the deployment process, schedule the deployment and automatically execute the deployments to different environments."
"This saves time, and makes the process much more reliable, reversible, repeatable, and traceable."
"With the usage of UrbanCode Release, we are able to save on efforts required to create a detailed, accurate implementation plan, and as it has direct connectivity with UrbanCode Deploy, we can schedule automatic deployments and hence save on time and cost of resources, so the overall release efficiency has improved multifold."
"There are several most valuable features for us: Automation of deployment processes for all our projects, it's user-friendly enough for our development team to access and use on a daily basis, and the lead approval process is one of the unique features in it that can't be found in any other automation tool."
"The most valuable feature is the snapshot functionality, which allows us to access previous versions of the artifacts."
"By standardizing the automated deployment application process, reducing the amount of errors due to manual steps and by providing visibility into the release cycles of various teams/applications, we've improved our global efficiency by at least 25% and still counting, since we've only used the product for a short period of time."
 

Cons

"There are some bugs. For example, during the design of a workflow, important information is lost, it vanishes."
"There needs to be better error handling and error descriptions. It should be more clear what the errors are and what we can do to fix them."
"Not a perfect ten because the user interface is brand new and it needs improvement."
"At the moment, the version that we are using (version 12.0), the environment is complex with multiple installations. Therefore, the monitoring is not scalable, but this should be improved in 12.1 and 12.2."
"The stability of the solution can be improved."
"There is an issue with the stability in the tool. The process of agent will stop, then the monitoring agent can't be recognized because the process is running, but you can talk with the system."
"We hope that we can integrate the new CD Directive into our portfolio, so we can bring the deployment and release management closer together."
"key thing is support for cloud-based deployment. That is lacking."
"Licensing structure - pay per machine deployed to."
"The solution is stable. When multiple deployment jobs are triggered at once, the solution logs the second job until the first is completed. This could impact performance or progress because the solution gets stuck in a holding pattern."
"The technical support of the solution could definitely be improved as PMRs take a long to resolve."
"We're running version 4.8.4, which isn't the latest version. This version lacks reporting, which may be improved in the latest version."
"Lack of technical expertise available in the market that forces us to rely solely on IBM Professional Services."
"Sometimes the deployment process reports are faulty."
"This solution could be made more flexible with respect to deploying databases."
"In our implementation, we created 16 PMR for this product. 15 of them were solved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We increased our quality and reduced our time costs."
"Customers often complain about the price."
"I can save time and money more quickly."
"If you have a fixed contract, it has limits to spreading out. If you have a flexible enterprise license contract, then you have a lot of scalability for this tool."
"The cost of the solution is high but it offers great ROI."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
15%
Construction Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Healthcare Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
25%
Construction Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise22
 

Also Known As

CA Continuous Delivery Automation, Automic Release Automation, Automic ONE Automation, UC4 Automation Platform
uDeploy
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

BET365, Charter Communications, TASC
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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