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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 (6th)
 

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 IT process automation is the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"The main benefit is you can deploy everything with it."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to see which problems have been resolved from deployment."
"The product provides efficiency, in terms time, cost, and resources."
"It is a very stable solution and we can rely on pressing a button to perform a full-stack automatic installation that reliably finishes in eight hours instead of a problematic three-week manual installation."
"In first pilot run, we achieved five times faster deployment without human work."
"It provides a wonderful user interface which is easy to use."
"I think on a day-to-day basis, it has increased the capacity to deploy. We don't have to wait for someone to do something."
"For us, Release Automation is a very critical tool that allows us to reproduce, redeliver, and redeploy all our various code in a timely manner and with minimum number of errors."
"Customer Service: Over the years customer service has improved, and I am happy with the current service."
"The UI makes it easier for non-engineers to understand."
"With CA Release Automation, the customers whom I worked with were able to increase the number of deployments, increase the deployment speed, increase the number of concurrent deployments, lower the error rate, and improve the visibility and the reliability of the deployment process."
"UI-based orchestration Ease of use of the application from anyone who is technical to completely non-tech folk Great visualization and consolidation of reports across the organization"
"We've integrated it with our ticketing system to automatically trigger deployments and update tickets accordingly, saving a lot of manual effort."
"The solution has been really helpful with its flowchart-type interface; we can easily configure the deployments through drag and drop functionality, and we can define the process and components using the flowchart."
"We have seen significant improvements in efficiency through the use of CA Release Automation by allowing us to standardize our deployment processes and automate those processes."
 

Cons

"Stability-wise I think it still needs to be improved; performance-wise. It crashes from time to time."
"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."
"We're a WebSphere shop so I would like to see more support for WebSphere, only because it's the platform that they seem to want to use the most."
"There are some bugs. For example, during the design of a workflow, important information is lost, it vanishes."
"File transfer is not very efficient. It takes a bit longer than some other methods and when you send the file from one platform to another, especially from the mainframe, the results consumption is quite high compared to other methods."
"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."
"We hope that we can integrate the new CD Directive into our portfolio, so we can bring the deployment and release management closer together."
"The first time setup can be very complicated."
"This product lacks proper documentation with illustrated examples."
"Can Nolio make a coffee.........."
"What I personally want to see is more features for data warehousing deployment."
"Tags are virtual snapshots of different deployment processes. Over time, if you often update your processes, it gets hard to track what exact changes were made between the different tags of the same process."
"To visually find a particular process, flow or action, the GUI needs to be improved, and also made faster as well."
"I also think that the cost of this product is high."
"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."
"In version 6.6, we faced numerous performance issues. This might be because it is a six-year-old version, and we are supporting nearly 1,500 applications and 15,000 to 16,000 agents."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Customers often complain about the price."
"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."
"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

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
16%
Comms Service Provider
14%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Marketing Services Firm
10%
Financial Services Firm
23%
Construction Company
17%
Marketing Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
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

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