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Automic Continuous Delivery Automation [EOL] vs UrbanCode Deploy comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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 (7th)
 

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

"It can support very complex environments and dependencies."
"They have gained efficiency that they cannot achieve in any other way."
"The capability to provide visibility to the stakeholders, to management, is the biggest piece that showcases what the solution is about."
"It provides a wonderful user interface which is easy to use."
"The main benefit is you can deploy everything with it."
"It is an umbrella system that allows us to integrate many different systems into our heterogeneous environment."
"I think on a day-to-day basis, it has increased the capacity to deploy."
"The IT process automation is the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"Customer Service: Perfect. IBM has one of the best customer services."
"For DevOps, this tool is one of the best with all its integration capabilities for repositories and various systems."
"This product is excellent for deploying components and running processes related to deployments."
"Our organization has already improved by quite a bit by taking out so much manual intervention from multiple people doing the deployments."
"The most valuable functionality is the ability to define the deployment process, schedule the deployment and automatically execute the deployments to different environments."
"ROI is difficult to explain but it's provided huge savings."
"The most valuable feature is the snapshot functionality, which allows us to access previous versions of the artifacts."
"Getting the deployments automated adds a lot of value."
 

Cons

"If you have a technical problem and need development of the tool, the support team is terrible, because they cannot help with the technical details."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It would be very beneficial for us to see integrations into cloud environments, especially into the Google Cloud environment because we are heading towards cloud."
"File transfer is not very efficient. It takes a bit longer than some other methods and when you send the file from one platform to another, especially from the mainframe, the results consumption is quite high compared to other methods."
"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."
"The first time setup can be very complicated."
"Sometimes the deployment process reports are faulty."
"Licensing structure - pay per machine deployed to."
"I think that the IBM support team needs to be more proactive in their responses to PMR tickets raised by customers."
"If you really want to scale up, it's going to get a little complicated. You'll have to do some configurations to make it work."
"There are also many bugs in UrbanCode Deploy."
"The interface allows access in a number of ways but that can be confusing."
"I certainly would like to have a better way to pass information between deployment steps using UrbanCode Deploy because that's really difficult to do."
"WebSphere deployments, for some reason, don’t work out-of-the-box."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"Customers often complain about the price."
"We increased our quality and reduced our time costs."
"I can save time and money more quickly."
"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."
"The cost of the solution is high but it offers great ROI."
"Considering COVID-19, the price is too high."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Comms Service Provider
15%
Marketing Services Firm
11%
Real Estate/Law Firm
9%
Financial Services Firm
31%
Insurance Company
9%
Construction Company
7%
Marketing Services Firm
5%
 

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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