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Data & Analytics Architect at BM&FBOVESPA SA Bolsa de Valores Mercadorias e Futu
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Jun 5, 2023
Bitbucket provides valuable version control for our code
Pros and Cons
  • "The version control feature for our code and the security aspect is valuable to us."
  • "There is room for improvement in the workflow. Other similar tools offer automation and more streamlined workflows, which Bitbucket currently lacks."

What is our primary use case?

We use Bitbucket as our code repository and base it on our DevOps process.

How has it helped my organization?

This technology is quite common in our company. It is very important for our development process.

What is most valuable?

The version control feature for our code and the security aspect is valuable to us. It is also related to automation, DevOps, and our desktop environment.

What needs improvement?

There is room for improvement in the workflow. Other similar tools offer automation and more streamlined workflows, which Bitbucket currently lacks.

In additional features, I would like to see more low-code options for certain tasks. When we compare it to another solution like GitHub, in my opinion, Bitbucket could offer us more automation and actions in the future. This would be a valuable feature for improving our projects.

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For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Bitbucket for around seven years. I use the latest version. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is a stable solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is a scalable solution.

How are customer service and support?

The customer service and support team is good. 

What was our ROI?


What other advice do I have?

Bitbucket is worth the investment. Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. I recommend using the solution.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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DevOps consultant at Africa4Data
Real User
May 24, 2023
Useful for for source code management
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature of Bitbucket is its issue management."
  • "Bitbucket should consider having a CI/CD if they don’t have it already."

What is our primary use case?

We use Bitbucket in our company for source code management.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature of Bitbucket is its issue management.

What needs improvement?

Bitbucket should consider having a CI/CD if they don’t have it already. Bitbucket’s stability could be improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Bitbucket for ten years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate Bitbucket a nine out of ten for stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Twelve developers are using Bitbucket in our organization.

How was the initial setup?

Since it is on the cloud, Bitbucket’s initial setup is straightforward.

What was our ROI?

We have seen a return on investment with Bitbucket.

What other advice do I have?

I use the latest version of Bitbucket. I would recommend users to use Bitbucket if they have the budget.

Overall, I rate Bitbucket a nine out of ten.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Web Developer at a security firm with 11-50 employees
Real User
May 17, 2023
A stable cloud -based Atlassian tool that is easy to use and manage
Pros and Cons
  • "We can watch the newly implemented code. So it's quite nice to organize the teams to see what part of the work is done and what part of the code is already old or new. It is very good for that kind of management."
  • "The scalability for the cloud version can be improved."

What is our primary use case?

The solution is used for web-development

How has it helped my organization?

The solution is good for cloud collaborative work. During the time I was working as a release manager, I could manage the tool request and the technical problems that occurred on the site of the development.

What is most valuable?

We can watch the newly implemented code. So it's quite nice to organize the teams to see what part of the work is done and what part of the code is already old or new. It is very good for that kind of management.

What needs improvement?

The scalability for the cloud version can be improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for nine months.


What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is a stable solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is a scalable solution. The cloud version is not scalable. But if you pay for the premium version it is very scalable. Five users are using the solution at a time.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have only taken demos for products before and did not use anything. It was mainly the license solution. I was searching in several websites, and all of them were talking good things about the Atlassian solution. So I decided to give it a try.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was easy and quick.

What about the implementation team?

I deployed the solution myself.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I did not pay for the license as I was using a corporate license. But I think the pricing is fair.

What other advice do I have?

It's very easy to use and a nice tool to manage. And I think the first implementation or the configuration is very important so that teams could work with that.

I rate it nine out of ten.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Software Engineer at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Feb 4, 2023
It's scalable, and you can use it to whitelist IP addresses during deployment
Pros and Cons
  • "You can use Bitbucket to whitelist IP addresses during deployment."
  • "Currently, what's lacking in Bitbucket is the assignment feature."

What is our primary use case?

We're using Bitbucket for version control and deployment.

What is most valuable?

What I like best about Bitbucket is that you can use it for deployment, primarily if your IP addresses do not work well with your deployment scripts. You can use the tool to whitelist IP addresses during deployment.

What needs improvement?

Currently, what's lacking in Bitbucket is the assignment feature or the feature of giving permissions to other users.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been working with Bitbucket since 2014.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability of Bitbucket is ten out of ten. Bitbucket has documentation on how to scale, and you can also communicate with the Bitbucket team for any scalability-related questions.

How are customer service and support?

I have yet to contact the technical support team for Bitbucket.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Currently, we are moving from Bitbucket to GitLab for convenience, but at the moment, we're still using both solutions.

How was the initial setup?

Setting up Bitbucket is simple because you can log in with your email account.

My team uses scripts developed on Ruby to do Bitbucket deployments.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Bitbucket is a low-priced tool.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

My company evaluated GitLab.

What other advice do I have?

I'm working as a software engineer.

My company has four Bitbucket users.

My rating for Bitbucket is nine out of ten.

I recommend the tool to others. One company even consulted with me, and I told that company to focus on Bitbucket.

My company is a Bitbucket user. There's no partnership currently.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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C.T.O at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
Real User
Top 10Leaderboard
Jan 3, 2023
Helps us with data collection, but we would like to see more infrastructure for the code
Pros and Cons
  • "The setup was okay, and it was well-integrated."
  • "The scalability could be improved."

What is our primary use case?

Bitbucket has a global way of collecting data from air conditioners and real-time data collection for global customers.

What is most valuable?

We like that it can be integrated with Jira.

What needs improvement?

We should be able to choose the size of the RAM or container classification. We would like to see more infrastructure for the code. The scalability could be improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using Bitbucket for nine months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the stability a five out of ten. In our organization, we have a lot of microservices, so our project wasn't that stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I rate the scalability a four out of ten, and it could be improved. We have about 20 users.

How was the initial setup?

The setup was okay, and it was well-integrated. We are using a subscription cloud.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

GitLab UI is better than Bitbucket. The UI in Bitbucket could be better. Jira is also not easy to understand.

What other advice do I have?

I rate this solution a seven out of ten. We want people to use Jira for an integrated approach between Jira and all the products. Regarding advice, If you want an enterprise-class product, I first recommend Jira, and then I would recommend Bitbucket.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Solution Architect, DevOps Engineer at sonne technology
Real User
Nov 17, 2022
Minimal customer service required, standard licensing, with product efficiency
Pros and Cons
  • "Bitbucket is an integral part of our CI/CD project."
  • "Bitbucket has helped improve our organization by speeding up our production efficiency and product delivery processes."
  • "I would like to see the integration with some of the cloud service providers improved."

What is our primary use case?

Our primary use case is for source coding and continuous integration.

How has it helped my organization?

Bitbucket has helped improve our organization by speeding up our production efficiency and product delivery processes.

What is most valuable?

Bitbucket is an integral part of our CI/CD project.

What needs improvement?

I would like to see the integration with some of the cloud service providers improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Bitbucket for the past year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Bitbucket does not have a problem with stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability of Bitbucket is reliable and we have over two thousand five hundred product items in place and the solution is operating as expected.

How are customer service and support?

Technical support is good. We are facing accessibility maybe once a month. This is a small number in comparison with others in the field.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup of Bitbucket is not complex but you need to have a good working knowledge of the infrastructure.

What about the implementation team?

The implementation can be done in-house and takes two to three hours.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

When it comes to licensing we have the standard plan.

What other advice do I have?

I can definitely recommend using Bitbucket and would rate them a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Senior Manager at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
Nov 13, 2022
Writing and storing code in the central repository is easy
Pros and Cons
  • "It is easy to write code and store it in the central repository."
  • "The dynamic solution is definitely scalable and customizable to any need."
  • "Fine tuning for procedures and features related to analytics and code validation is needed."

What is our primary use case?

Our company uses the solution for code management. 

What is most valuable?

It is easy to write code and store it in the central repository. 

What needs improvement?

Fine tuning for procedures and features related to analytics and code validation is needed. 

There are some issues in obtaining licenses.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for two years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable so I rate it a nine out of ten. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The dynamic solution is definitely scalable and customizable to any need. 

How are customer service and support?

Technical support is pretty helpful so I rate them an eight out of ten. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

The setup is simple with no issues. 

What about the implementation team?

We implemented the solution in-house. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Sometimes there are issues in obtaining licenses and the pricing could be improved.

I rate pricing a six out of ten. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We did not evaluate other options. 

What other advice do I have?

I rate the solution an eight out of ten. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Automation Practice Leader at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
May 31, 2020
Provides great features not available elsewhere but access to technical support is severely lacking
Pros and Cons
  • "Code check in and code version control."
  • "But the tool has good capabilities and very good features not explored by many other Git based version controlling tools like GitLab or GitHub."
  • "Could provide some default branching options for users to adopt."
  • "Atlassian is a very poor support model; I have been impacted a couple of times and it is very difficult and frustrating."

What is our primary use case?

We have around 700 users for this product in our company and a maintenance team of four people. I've recently put in an order to increase that to 1,000 users in the near future and hope to bump this up to 2,000 users down the track. We are end users of this solution and I'm the Head of the DevOps Engineering Center.

What is most valuable?

It's the code check in and code version controlling.

What needs improvement?

There is room for improvement in terms of the branching strategies. Instead of leaving the branching strategy for users to decide, Bitbucket could provide some default branching options for users to adopt. For now, users need to configure branching strategies from scratch as there's no template for the code branching. If they came up with a couple of default budgeting strategies, it could be used immediately. For example, there's a branching strategy called GitFlow, which is widely used in the market. It could be included in the tool as a template and adopted quickly and used immediately rather than having to create it from scratch. 

Secondly, when it comes to the code reviewer, there's no way to restrict the number of reviewers, it can only be modified by the project managers on the fly and we don't want the project managers modifying the code reviewers. It should be restricted to the tool administrators. This is another gap in the solution. They really need to give out of the box integrations to all DevOps tools and the cloud tools without the need for additional plugins.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using this solution for five years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

This is a stable solution and has a very good backup mechanism. There's only an issue if you don't have your backup running and there is a hardware failure or if the database goes out of sync. If that happens, recovery of Bitbucket is very, very complex.We encountered an issue as a result of some incorrect commands triggered by our engineer and it was very difficult to recover. We had to engage the Atlassian product engineers and they also had problems. Eventually, we had to recover each and every line of code manually. If you're using Bitbucket as a code repository or a version controlling tool, users need to ensure that the necessary backup for the file system and databases is configured appropriately. If not, then your recovery will be impacted.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It's a very scalable solution especially if it's hosted on cloud. The only thing is that the developers need to be aware of the number of code branches that they are creating, and carry out the proper housekeeping of the code. If that doesn't happen then the growth of Bitbucket will be enormous, and it might encounter some disk utilization related issues. I would suggest not to rely fully on the tool's capability for scaling up and down. Users need to be aware of what needs to be cleaned and housekeeping required. That aside, it's very scalable.

How are customer service and technical support?

The technical support of the solution is problematic. If you subscribe to 24/7 support then you're fine. Otherwise they're available eight hours a day, not necessarily during your business hours. Unfortunately, there is no phone number to call the customer care directly which is frustrating. The only option is to raise a support ticket and then wait for them to reply; most of the time they try to avoid the calls and do most of the communication through the support ticket, which is very painful. I've worked for other large companies where they provide a dedicated phone number for customers and escalation of the ticket can be requested. Atlassian is a very poor support model

I've been impacted a couple of times. Even if you put in an escalation request you only get a reply when they get to it and turn on the escalation in their own sweet time. It's very difficult and frustrating. Instead of going for the Atlassian support, we paid a third party vendor, an Atlassian support partner, and we took an annual maintenance contract with them.

Atlassian don't want their customers dependent on them but want them to take up support services from their preferred support partners. There are different levels and if you need something urgently, they'll suggest you contact their premier support partners. It's not a good model and I would rate them poorly in this regard.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I still use Jira and Confluence and have done for many years. It's the same support model for all tools, just like Bitbucket.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is not very complex. It took us about a week, perhaps less.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The price of Bitbucket is on the high side, but I think that's because of the tool's capability, which is justifiable. If you're purchasing for a smaller number of users then the license cost per user is definitely expensive, but if you buy a greater number of licenses, then it likely becomes a little cheaper.

Atlassian is a very clever company. They sell the base product a little cheaper, and on top of that they sell many important plugins or add-ons which you need but which are also expensive. You might think you have a reasonably good deal but the base product will not have some of the important features and if you look at the final cost, it's a little expensive. But the tool has good capabilities and very good features not explored by many other Git based version controlling tools like GitLab or GitHub.

What other advice do I have?

I would have given Atlassian a nine out of 10, but because of the technical support issues and pricing, I would give them a seven out of 10 rating. I wouldn't even complain about the cost but they really need to improve their support model. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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it_user1261719 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Information Officer at a recruiting/HR firm with 11-50 employees
Real User
Jan 23, 2020
A secure and cost-effective solution for code tracking and management
Pros and Cons
  • "Bitbucket is a standard git implementation with perfectly coordinated screens, it's secure, and we have had no problems with it."
  • "The installation of Bitbucket on our server was not as easy as other Atlassian products, so it is something that can be improved."

What is our primary use case?

We develop our own applications and all of our source code activities are managed and tracked on Bitbucket.

What is most valuable?

Bitbucket is a standard git implementation with perfectly coordinated screens, it's secure, and we have had no problems with it.

We are satisfied with the user interface.

What needs improvement?

The installation of Bitbucket on our server was not as easy as other Atlassian products, so it is something that can be improved. The same is true for the upgrade process. I have upgraded it twice, and it is similar to the initial installation.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Bitbucket for two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have had no problems and I'm satisfied with the stability. We use it quite heavily because all of our applications and updates are handled on different branches in Bitbucket.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I cannot say much with respect to scalability because we are a small company with a maximum of five people who are using the product.

How are customer service and technical support?

In the two years that we have been using Bitbucket, we have not needed any support.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Prior to using Bitbucket, we were using the freeware version of SVN. We switched because Bitbucket has better features, especially for source code maintenance.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was a little bit complex. It requires more intervention on the Linux console than the other Atlassian products. You need to adjust more files, for example.

It took us about a month to deploy and three people were involved in the process. Only one person is required for maintenance because it is generally maintained by Atlassian.

What about the implementation team?

The deployment was done by our in-house team.

What was our ROI?

We have seen ROI but I cannot easily quantify it with numbers.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

We are using the minimum package with ten users and we are happy with the price because we are a small company. With our small number of users, our licensing fees are approximately $10 USD per month. There are no fees in addition to this.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated GitHub but we require our own server for source code management.

What other advice do I have?

This solution is good and it covers all our needs. Periodically, I receive announcements from Atlassian, mostly concerning the security features. They are fixing the newly discovered vulnerabilities and also, there are some other improvements in the features. Normally, I am not affected by the new features because we don't require them.

My advice is to start using this solution because it works very well and we are very satisfied with the functionality. If somebody knows how to configure git for libraries then they can implement Bitbucket as well.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

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On-premises
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Quality Assurance Automation Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Nov 27, 2019
A fast initial setup that is scalable and stable
Pros and Cons
  • "The initial deployment is rather straightforward and only takes 30 minutes to an hour."
  • "The solution is not user-friendly. Right now, the solution is not so easy to understand. It needs to update its design and overall user experience."
  • "The code review and creation of requests need improvement."

What is our primary use case?

We primarily use the solution for managing our own repository.

What is most valuable?

I don't have too much experience with Bitbucket; I use GitHub more often.

It's easy to switch back and forth between Bitbucket and GitHub.

What needs improvement?

The code review and creation of requests need improvement. In GitHub it's much easier and broader and that makes everything easier to see.

The solution is not user-friendly. Right now, the solution is not so easy to understand. It needs to update its design and overall user experience.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using the solution for several months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is relatively stable. It's much more stable than GitHub.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is fairly scalable. I'm not sure if scaling affects pricing, however. We often have around 100 users on the solution, but it depends on the project.

How are customer service and technical support?

I've never had to contact technical support.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We did previously use a different solution. We switched to Bitbucket when we switched projects.

How was the initial setup?

The initial deployment is rather straightforward and only takes 30 minutes to an hour.

What about the implementation team?

I handled the implementation myself.

What other advice do I have?

We use the cloud deployment model.

We use the solution pretty extensively, but it depends on the client and the project.

I'd suggest those considering implementing the solution try all the functionalities in the trial period. That way you can decide if it will work for your projects.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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