UrbanCode Deploy Reviews

Vendor: IBM

3.9 out of 5

27 reviews
90% willing to recommend

1,082 followers

What is UrbanCode Deploy?

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.

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UrbanCode Deploy is the #12 ranked solution in top Release Automation solutions. PeerSpot users give UrbanCode Deploy an average rating of 7.8 out of 10. Based on the analysis of the 27 most recent UrbanCode Deploy reviews, the overall sentiment is positive, with a sentiment score of 7.0. (Among the lowest in the category). UrbanCode Deploy is most commonly compared to Microsoft Azure DevOps: UrbanCode Deploy vs Microsoft Azure DevOps. UrbanCode Deploy is popular among the midsize enterprise segment, accounting for 66% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a educational organization, accounting for 66% of all views.

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reviewer887301

Software Engineering Director at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

The technical support of the solution could definitely be improved as PMRs take a long to resolve. The cost of the solution is high. It would be good to have the support of public cloud services like Azure. My team has also had some concerns around security when using this solution.

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it_user587571

Solution Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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.

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reviewer1763364

Engineering Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

A lot of times, the constant changes that happen in the application, the skillsets required, etc., become bottlenecks, and we have to constantly depend on teams. Any new variations that happen in the application, getting the whole pipeline to be built again, or changes to be done in the uDeploy code: All these become complicated and they take time. UrbanCode Deploy could be improved so all these processes are more comfortable, seamless, and rapid. We were also trying to do an orchestration, and do a POC around how it could be leveraged for flexibility of BCT, switchovers, etc., a similar functionality as HBO, and I would love to see this single suite support that in the next release. I'm really keen on exploring that.

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UrbanCode Deploy mindshare

As of December 2024, the mindshare of UrbanCode Deploy in the Release Automation category stands at 3.9%, down from 4.5% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Release Automation

PeerAnalyst reports

Type	Title	Date
Category	Release Automation	Dec 22, 2024	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Dec 22, 2024	Download
Comparison	UrbanCode Deploy vs Microsoft Azure DevOps	Dec 22, 2024	Download
Comparison	UrbanCode Deploy vs GitLab	Dec 22, 2024	Download
Comparison	UrbanCode Deploy vs Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform	Dec 22, 2024	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Microsoft Azure DevOps	4.1	39.5%	95%	130 interviews Add to research
GitLab	4.3	36.6%	97%	80 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"The solution handles complex deployments very efficiently."
"Stable solution that's good for automating the CI/CD pipeline: from development to production."
"The most valuable functionality is the ability to define the deployment process, schedule the deployment and automatically execute the deployments to different environments."

Room for Improvement

"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."
"The technical support of the solution could definitely be improved as PMRs take long to resolve."

Pricing

"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

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Educational Organization

66%

Financial Services Firm

16%

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UrbanCode Deploy was previously known as uDeploy.

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UrbanCode Deploy customers

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.