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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90% willing to recommend

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Automic Continuous Delivery...

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8.0

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7.8

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Release Automation (6th)

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it_user779229

Architect at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 26, 2017

Reduces our time to market considerably with automated and consistent results

Our most important criteria when selecting a vendor are * the size of the vendor itself * how stable the company is * how long they have been in the market * what product suites they have that can help us achieve our goal at the end of the day. We look for partners, not vendors per se, that can help us implement our vision with us, and that's why we like Automic. I give it a good nine out of 10 at this time. The one piece that I think that could help leverage more of the tool is the scripting language barrier at this time. If that's not there, and some of the pieces that could be delivered faster, it might be adopted more out there in the market. I would suggest look at the complete offering that's out there. I would suggest: Prove it out first with the use case that you have. We were not shy in terms of running some proofs of concept with a couple of big vendors out there, and then making them make the case why their product suits our use case. And don't be shy to restart if there is something that you think is not going right, make sure you fix the problem before it gets too late.

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AK13

DevOps Engineer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Nov 7, 2022

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…

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Pros

"You can design your workflows for your needs."

"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."

"Self-service for developers, because they are able to deploy to development departments on their own, without needing people from operations."

"The capability to provide visibility to the stakeholders, to management, is the biggest piece that showcases what the solution is about."

"We have saved on our time costs and have seen more quality."

"It can support very complex environments and dependencies."

"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 IT process automation is the most valuable aspect of this solution."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"The solution handles complex deployments very efficiently."

Cons

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"GUI for mobile phones: Availability to approve and start deployment through mobile phones."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I can save time and money more quickly."

"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 increased our quality and reduced our time costs."

"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."

"Considering COVID-19, the price is too high."

"The cost of the solution is high but it offers great ROI."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

37%

Computer Software Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Retailer

Educational Organization

65%

Financial Services Firm

16%

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What do you like most about UrbanCode Deploy?

The solution handles complex deployments very efficiently.

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What needs improvement with UrbanCode Deploy?

The interface allows access in a number of ways but that can be confusing. For example, driving to your home from the office is easy when there are one or two routes. With twenty routes, there is s...

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Our company uses the solution for standard, blue-green, and complex deployments. We have 250 users throughout our company.

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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.

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.

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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