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Automic Continuous Delivery Automation [EOL] vs Microsoft Azure DevOps comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Automic Continuous Delivery...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Azure DevOps
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
132
Ranking in other categories
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (2nd), Release Automation (1st), Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (1st)
 

Featured Reviews

MJ
The main benefit is you can deploy everything with it, but everybody has to need to use this tool in the organization
The main benefit is you can deploy everything with it, but everybody has to need to use this tool in the organization. If some organizations have their own tool, it is hard to make it clear that ARA would be better if everyone used it, because it provides a benefit when you can monitor all the users.
Ivan Angelov - PeerSpot reviewer
Facilitates agile transformation with potential for enhanced intuitiveness
What I liked about the solution is that it offers numerous features that are not available by default unless you are agile. Transitioning from the traditional Waterfall model to an agile methodology was challenging for us. Until 2020, our team predominantly worked with the Waterfall approach, using local tools like ServiceNow. We had a few team members who were familiar with Agile ISO, but none had experience with Azure. Therefore, we pursued Azure certification at the AZ-900 level. Our company organized a training session with a certified Azure expert, which was extremely beneficial for adopting best practices during the initial three months. This preparation helped us get accustomed to the new tool, as transitioning to a new system invariably requires time. Managing a pipeline of deliverables became significantly easier with this solution. We utilized it for stories and integrated change management with Azure DevOps. Eventually, everything related to the environment was organized there, enabling us to follow up and track progress with our technical engineers on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis. Reports were automatically generated and sent to management, offering them insights into our progress concerning the predefined roadmap.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Gives people insight into what's happening during the deployment."
"The metrics gathered after deployment, for example, the rate of success versus the rate of failure."
"Self-service for developers, because they are able to deploy to development departments on their own, without needing people from operations."
"It gives us good feedback on visualizations and on how our processes have progressed."
"The product provides efficiency, in terms time, cost, and resources."
"You can design your workflows for your needs."
"We have saved on our time costs and have seen more quality."
"The IT process automation is the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"We can forecast tasks and the number of hours a task will take and can compare it with how long a task actually takes."
"Fields can be customized and the reporting is good."
"Microsoft Azure DevOps integrates well with other components, such as Synapse, which is a data warehouse tool of Azure. It is a framework platform for BI and integrated with other tools, such as Power BI."
"This solution works with other Microsoft solutions pretty easily. It was easy to integrate everything into all the other tools that we were using. It integrates very seamlessly."
"Most of the features are very valuable for us, especially the source code control and task management."
"The solution's most valuable features are backlog management, build release pipeline, and testing."
"Detailed logs allow us to pinpoint the exact cause of any issues, making troubleshooting efficient and accurate."
"I like the entire tool because it is a one-stop-solution for DevOps."
 

Cons

"The stability of the solution can be improved."
"key thing is support for cloud-based deployment. That is lacking."
"GUI for mobile phones: Availability to approve and start deployment through mobile phones."
"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."
"I would like to see more support for WebSphere."
"We hope that we can integrate the new CD Directive into our portfolio, so we can bring the deployment and release management closer together."
"Not a perfect ten because the user interface is brand new and it needs improvement."
"One of the biggest features I've been asked by my team to put in there is opening more scripting languages to be part of the platform. There is a little bit of a learning curve in learning how to code some of the workflows in Automic at this time. If widely used languages like Perl and Python were integrated, on top of what's already there, the proprietary language, it would make it easier to on-board new resources."
"One potential enhancement in Azure DevOps could be integrating more customizable reporting features, particularly for Power BI integration."
"Another area is the Azure monitoring agent for Citrix machines. There's room for improvement there too."
"The testing environment and different pipelining concepts can be improved."
"Testing is very important. Microsoft Azure DevOps tests very well. However, DevOps teams need to be aware of what they are impacting when someone updates anything on the system."
"Reporting could be better. We would like to see how many applications are onboarded in DevOps and in which phase they are. We would like to know for how many applications we have done only the repository, but we have not yet done the build pipeline or deploy pipeline. Currently, there is no such report. We have to figure it out ourselves. There is no way to check how many applications are completing their build pipelines, how many applications are completing their deploy pipeline, how many are ready to use, and how many pipelines are working."
"There is only one key area of improvement for me. The new imaging thing is that there is DevOps, where security is important because it is always lasting. So, to integrate security in our DevOps, that would be nice."
"We did have some brief performance issues, however, that was due to putting everything on one epic instead of breaking a project up."
"With Microsoft, I would prefer to have more test plans. It's very difficult to find individual test plan module training."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I can save time and money more quickly."
"We increased our quality and reduced our time costs."
"Customers often complain about the price."
"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."
"We do not pay licenses for this solution."
"The pricing is very competitive because of the whole development cycle by Azure DevOps. You don't have to buy and integrate several different tools."
"The solution's deployment and licensing costs are very cheap compared to those of its competitors."
"When compared to other vendors, it is cheaper."
"It is the least expensive product in this class."
"The licensing costs are reasonable."
"It is a subscription model and I only pay for what I use."
"For Microsoft, it can get expensive when you need heavy-duty machines."
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Manufacturing Company
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Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
9%
 

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Also Known As

CA Continuous Delivery Automation, Automic Release Automation, Automic ONE Automation, UC4 Automation Platform
Azure DevOps, VSTS, Visual Studio Team Services, MS Azure DevOps
 

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