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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

"We increased our quality and reduced our time costs."
"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."
"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."
"What we like about the product is that it is more or less an umbrella system that allows us to integrate many different systems into our heterogeneous environment."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to see which problems have been resolved from deployment."
"It gives us good feedback on visualizations and on how our processes have progressed."
"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."
"The main benefit is you can deploy everything with it."
"The benefits: we are able to deliver more, our release volume doubled but our release window went down by 80% so we deliver more and faster."
"Applications that have been on boarded into the Release Automation application have shown a decrease in deployment time and down time for maintenance."
"Ability to maintain the maps of different environments in a single tool."
"It's a stable product."
"The release time has gone down from a number of days to a few minutes."
"This is purely an automation tool which has helped us to move from traditional manual deployments to zero-touch deployments."
"Deployment workflows has not only increased the confidence in the release process, but also opens up a whole new world to automate the deployment for not just code, but DB, network appliances, application servers, and AWS."
"Their products are near the market, they cover everything that we need on the customers’ side, and their products also get frequently upgraded, so they keep apace with new technology and new stacks."
 

Cons

"Not a perfect ten because the user interface is brand new and it needs improvement."
"I would like to see more support for WebSphere."
"The stability of the solution can be improved."
"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."
"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."
"GUI for mobile phones: Availability to approve and start deployment through mobile phones."
"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."
"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."
"It is possible to have a lot of execution servers, but you can’t put them in a balanced pool of servers."
"Well, I'm looking forward to seeing different kinds of scheduling options and being able to troubleshoot more real time if something does go wrong."
"Of course, we need to test this more, but I want to see much more seamless integration between Release Automation and CA Service Virtualization or DevTest."
"We did have stability issues. The tool slows down often."
"I would like to see improving the shared component features."
"We couldn’t get the support, and we weren’t able to achieve our goals, and there were no other plug-ins available for JIRA or Jenkins."
"When I started using Nolio around eight months ago, a challenge was the lack of relevant information and related support for learning."
"Initial setup was extremely complex due to infrastructure challenges and the specs required to get this implemented."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"Customers often complain about the price."
"I can save time and money more quickly."
"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%
 

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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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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