Automic Continuous Delivery Automation [EOL] vs UrbanCode Deploy comparison

Broadcom and IBM are both solutions in the Release Automation category. Additionally, 86% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of IBM users who would recommend it.

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We performed a comparison between Automic Continuous Delivery Automation [EOL] and UrbanCode Deploy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Automic Continuous Delivery...

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

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UrbanCode Deploy

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

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Markus Jurchen

Administrator at a recruiting/HR firm with 10,001+ employees

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.

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it_user587571

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

It offers OOTB plugins for middleware.

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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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."

"You can design your workflows for your needs."

"It can support very complex environments and dependencies."

"It gives us good feedback on visualizations and on how our processes have progressed."

"The main benefit is you can deploy everything with it."

"The event monitor is very good. You can monitor when the file is created so you can pick up the file once it's done."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to see which problems have been resolved from deployment."

"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."

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"The solution handles complex deployments very efficiently."

"The most valuable functionality is the ability to define the deployment process, schedule the deployment and automatically execute the deployments to different environments."

"It is very easy to make a software release. It used to take us at least a couple of hours to make a release, now we went to production with a new one last night. This new release took me five minutes."

"Stable solution that's good for automating the CI/CD pipeline: from development to production."

"The most valuable feature is the snapshot functionality, which allows us to access previous versions of the artifacts."

"The stability is good. I haven't experienced any issues."

Cons

"key thing is support for cloud-based deployment. That is lacking."

"We hope that we can integrate the new CD Directive into our portfolio, so we can bring the deployment and release management closer together."

"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."

"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 dashboard should allow you to see the current state of packages in each environment, not only on an individual application basis, but across the entire application platform."

"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."

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"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."

"I would like to see more reporting for container architecture."

"I would like to have the agent up and running at all times, as opposed to only while it is in the DevOps pipeline."

"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 and Cost Advice

"We increased our quality and reduced our time costs."

"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."

"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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Educational Organization

67%

Financial Services Firm

16%

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Also Known As

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

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Overview

Deliver apps at pace with agile development and let customer satisfaction soar.

Today, the pressure is on to transform how you deliver applications to market. Get release agility and speed without compromising quality and stability with CA Continuous Delivery Automation. Deliver apps reliably on demand from development through production—mobile to mainframe. Agilely scale as the cadence, volume and complexity of your apps grow. It’s DevOps-ready release management and automation for your dynamic enterprise.

Broadcom

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.

IBM

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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