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Automic Continuous Delivery Automation [EOL] vs UrbanCode Deploy comparison

 

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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
UrbanCode Deploy
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
27
Ranking in other categories
Release Automation (8th)
 

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.
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DevOps Engineer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
A handy interface that includes buttons or drag-and-drop options for all functionality
Our company uses the solution for standard, blue-green, and complex deployments. We have 250 users throughout our company.  The solution handles complex deployments very efficiently.  The user interface includes buttons or drag-and-drop options for all functionality. It is easy to create component…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"They have gained efficiency that they cannot achieve in any other way."
"The main benefit is you can deploy everything with it."
"The IT process automation is the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"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."
"The product provides efficiency, in terms time, cost, and resources."
"The capability to provide visibility to the stakeholders, to management, is the biggest piece that showcases what the solution is about."
"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 can support very complex environments and dependencies."
"By standardizing the automated deployment application process, reducing the amount of errors due to manual steps and by providing visibility into the release cycles of various teams/applications, we've improved our global efficiency by at least 25% and still counting, since we've only used the product for a short period of time."
"Our organization has already improved by quite a bit by taking out so much manual intervention from multiple people doing the deployments."
"It has provided a platform for traceability across the whole release cycle for more than 700 diverse applications."
"Repeatable, reliable deployments from one environment to the next."
"For DevOps, this tool is one of the best with all its integration capabilities for repositories and various systems."
"ROI is difficult to explain but it's provided huge savings."
"The solution handles complex deployments very efficiently."
"The stability is good. I haven't experienced any issues."
 

Cons

"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."
"We hope that we can integrate the new CD Directive into our portfolio, so we can bring the deployment and release management closer together."
"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."
"The first time setup can be very complicated."
"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."
"The dashboard should allow you to see the current state of packages in each environment, not only on an individual application basis, but across the entire application platform."
"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."
"Not a perfect ten because the user interface is brand new and it needs improvement."
"The technical support of the solution could definitely be improved as PMRs take long to resolve."
"Sometimes the deployment process reports are faulty."
"I'm really not that satisfied with the stability of UrbanCode Deploy."
"Sometimes the tool gets hung while running a plan."
"If you really want to scale up, it's going to get a little complicated. You'll have to do some configurations to make it work."
"They need to reduce the footprint and improve the performance of UD agent. If the agent runs for too long it can cause a memory issue on the production server."
"This solution could be made more flexible with respect to deploying databases."
"The resource tree is pretty bulky and slow; making a change to the resource tree manually is pretty difficult when size increases."
 

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."
"I can save time and money more quickly."
"Customers often complain about the price."
"We increased our quality and reduced our time costs."
"Considering COVID-19, the price is too high."
"The licensing fees for this solution are based on the number of servers that are being deployed and the number of agents that you have."
"The cost of the solution is high but it offers great ROI."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
34%
Insurance Company
11%
Marketing Services Firm
5%
Computer Software Company
5%
 

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 Enterprise21
 

Also Known As

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

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Sample Customers

BET365, Charter Communications, TASC
As policy, IBM does not release customer names on non-IBM web sites.  However, public DevOps and UrbanCode Deploy case studies can be found here. IBM's UrbanCode Deploy customers span Small-Medium Businesses to Fortune 500 companies across all industries worldwide.
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