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Automic Continuous Delivery Automation [EOL] vs Nolio Release Automation comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Automic Continuous Delivery...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Nolio Release Automation
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
51
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.
Akhilesh B N - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Delivery Engineer at Barclays Capital
Real-time monitoring and seamless integration enhance deployment efficiency
The main disadvantage I see is the limited awareness of Nolio Release Automation in other organizations. It is a very nice tool, but its market presence is limited. I heard from the organization that the licensing cost was somewhat expensive. Perhaps focusing on marketing efforts would be beneficial. It is a really nice tool, and I am unsure why many organizations are not using Nolio Release Automation. It is one of the greatest tools for continuous deployment, yet its popularity remains limited. Some organizations are not aware of its existence. This might be an area worth researching and potentially developing new marketing strategies.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The main benefit is you can deploy everything with it."
"The metrics gathered after deployment, for example, the rate of success versus the rate of failure."
"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."
"The measurement and the display functions make it easy to report all the statuses up to management, and it has helped our customers with their time, costs, and resources."
"Gives people insight into what's happening during the deployment."
"It gives us good feedback on visualizations and on how our processes have progressed."
"The IT process automation is the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"You can automate everything you want."
"Ability to maintain the maps of different environments in a single tool."
"Applications that have been on boarded into the Release Automation application have shown a decrease in deployment time and down time for maintenance."
"In 12 days, we have automated this application and increased the deployment from 70 applications to 350 in three months."
"The UI makes it easier for non-engineers to understand."
"It has reduced deployment times from nearly a couple of hours to around a couple of minutes, especially on production environments."
"This is purely an automation tool which has helped us to move from traditional manual deployments to zero-touch deployments."
"The frictionless end-to-end, automated deployments remove manual handovers between different parties, making it fault-tolerant without human errors, technology-agnostic, and consolidated on one tool instead of multiple solutions with manual implementations."
"Our requirement was to deploy to 300 servers which used to take two to three days before CA RA, now it takes only two to four hours."
 

Cons

"The first time setup can be very complicated."
"I would like to see more support for WebSphere."
"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."
"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."
"Stability-wise I think it still needs to be improved; performance-wise. It crashes from time to time."
"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."
"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."
"The stability of the solution can be improved."
"Some of the existing action packs still have bugs which need to be fixed."
"If I were to consider investing in a new deployment automation tool, I wouldn't switch to CA Release Automation, because of the CA strategy."
"It does not support integration with Jenkins for .Net"
"In the next release, I would like to see more features to use active directory. And more rules to support more Python scripts and to work with Kubernetes and clouds, to have an easy solution for a lot of parameters."
"Error handling needs to be improved in some of the action packs."
"The configuration of the solution is a bit difficult to maneuver. They should work to make it easier."
"The performance degrades as the size of the workflow and the number of target servers increases."
"The level of abstraction in the VPL needs to improve."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I can save time and money more quickly."
"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."
"Customers often complain about the price."
"Nolio is a pretty much good tool, though its pricing is relatively high in the market. It's more expensive than other tools."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
33%
Marketing Services Firm
17%
Healthcare Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

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Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise39
 

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What needs improvement with Nolio Release Automation?
The main disadvantage I see is the limited awareness of Nolio Release Automation in other organizations. It is a very nice tool, but its market presence is limited. I heard from the organization th...
What is your primary use case for Nolio Release Automation?
I am working for an organization where they have been using Nolio Release Automation since 2016-2017. We are currently using version 6.6, and due to dependencies and lack of support from Broadcom, ...
What advice do you have for others considering Nolio Release Automation?
The 6.9 version offers significant improvements over 6.6. The dashboard is very appealing, showing information about applications and offline agents. We can easily remove offline agents and upgrade...
 

Also Known As

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

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Sample Customers

BET365, Charter Communications, TASC
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