Digital.ai Release vs Jenkins comparison

"The most valuable feature of Digital.ai Release is its ability to communicate with various deployment systems, such as XLD and batch deployments, as well as integrate with tools, such as Flyway and Bamboo. We use Bamboo as our build orchestrator, and Digital.ai Release also integrates with Jira, another Atlassian solution. These capabilities make it a powerful tool for managing workflow, test automation, and other processes."

"The orchestration, building the release, and then just executing it and managing that pipeline — the orchestration capabilities are great for that."

"The solution can apply one template across multiple applications."

"The time is also reduced because the manual work has tremendously decreased. We just have to click one button, and it will create everything for us."

"We significantly reduced build times of large projects (more than 80k lines of Scala code) using build time on Jenkins as a time sample. It reduced the developer write-test-commit cycle time, and increased productivity."

"I like that you can find a wide range of plugins for Jenkins."

"Jenkins has a lot of built-in packages and tools."

"For business needs, Jenkins is the most relevant choice because it can be self-hosted, the price is good, it’s robust, and requires almost no effort for maintenance."

"A lot of support material exists via a single web search of exactly what you're looking for."

"We have started to integrate Pipelines as a part of a build, and built a library of common functions. It simplified and made our build scripts more readable."

"It's very useful when you want to automate different processes from beginning to end."

"We used it for all continuous integration parts, like automation testing, deployment, etc."

"The solution is a little bit expensive."

"Currently, we put artifact details manually. What we could improve, in our case, is the deployment instruction base. Developers input all the information, including which artifact and where it needs to be deployed. What Digital.ai could do is automatically go to the deployment instruction page, take those artifact details, and implement them."

"The backfill could be improved, we could automate that. Right now it's subjective — it's up to the lead developer's memory to remember to backfill."

"Digital.ai Release could improve by having a better plugin that works with Guardian that we use for mainframe migrations. If there could be an interface or plugin for Guardian that would be beneficial."

"The documentation is not helpful, as it is not user-friendly."

"Jenkins could simplify the user interface a little bit because it sometimes creates too many features cramped in the UI."

"It would be helpful if they had a bit more interactive UI."

"I would like to see even more integrations included in the next release."

"They need to improve their documentation."

"The bug fix speed is very slow."

"The product should provide more visualization as to how many pipelines are performing and how many builds are happening. It should also integrate with Kubernetes and OpenShift."

"I sometimes face a bottleneck when installing the plugins on an offline machine. Mapping the dependencies and then installing the correct sequence of dependencies is a nightmare, and it took me two days to do it."

"Overall, the price is just too high; especially considering we're in the middle of a pandemic."

"The solution's license includes all features."

"Jenkins is a free open-source server."

"Jenkins is not expensive and reasonably priced."

"Jenkins is an open-source tool."

"The pricing for Jenkins is free."

"Jenkins is open source and free."

"Jenkins is an open-source platform."

"Some of the add-ons are too expensive."

"The open-source version is free, but small companies would not be able to afford the cloud-based version."