No more typing reviews! Try our Samantha, our new voice AI agent.

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

Why PeerSpot?
 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

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 (5th)
 

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

"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."
"At the end of the day, at the end of the year, CA offered the best package overall, and that wasn't just from a product standpoint but also a support standpoint."
"It can support very complex environments and dependencies."
"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 IT process automation is the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"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."
"You can automate everything you want."
"I would say our headwind, or our time to market, is reduced considerably. We get more consistent results out of it, because you write one time and once it's automated you expect it to behave the same way every time. And it cut down a lot of re-work for us."
"This product has become invaluable in terms of saving time and improving time to market."
"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."
"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."
"Customer Service: Over the years customer service has improved, and I am happy with the current service."
"For my organization, in particular, it’s going to improve our throughput; we're not going to have delays in testing because we had some sort of manual entry error or transposition error, and we should be able to release our software to the customer in a much more efficient fashion."
"Deployments have been automated fully and now all the teams follow a single, error-free approach of deployment, which is time saving and seldom faults."
"The CA Application Insight feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"It has significantly improved the workload balance of the people that are part of my group and has helped us to get things done around 70 to 80% faster than before."
 

Cons

"key thing is support for cloud-based deployment. That is lacking."
"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."
"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 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."
"There are some bugs. For example, during the design of a workflow, important information is lost, it vanishes."
"We hope that we can integrate the new CD Directive into our portfolio, so we can bring the deployment and release management closer together."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see improving the shared component features."
"This product lacks proper documentation with illustrated examples."
"Some of the existing action packs still have bugs which need to be fixed."
"The learning curve for this tool is somewhat steep."
"I also think that the cost of this product is high."
"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."
"A task for using a dynamic language like Groovy could be very useful in order to create easily simple tasks."
"I think the biggest complaint that we've gotten from the development side is that the user interface, the experience is not as good as they'd like it to be."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I can save time and money more quickly."
"We increased our quality and reduced our time costs."
"Customers often complain about the price."
"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."
"Nolio is a pretty much good tool, though its pricing is relatively high in the market. It's more expensive than other tools."
report
Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Release Automation solutions are best for your needs.
920,769 professionals have used our research since 2012.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
15%
Construction Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Healthcare Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
18%
Construction Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Marketing Services Firm
9%
 

Company Size

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

Questions from the Community

Ask a question
Earn 20 points
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
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

BET365, Charter Communications, TASC
CA Release Automation customers include Citrix, NIIT Technologies, ING Bank, Molina Healthcare, Swisscom, Bupa and Tesco. Read case studies from customers who are igniting and advancing their continuous delivery journey with CA Release Automation.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, GitLab, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Release Automation. Updated: October 2026.
920,769 professionals have used our research since 2012.