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Automic Continuous Delivery Director [EOL] vs Digital.ai Release comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Automic Continuous Delivery...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Digital.ai Release
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Build Automation (9th), Release Automation (6th), DevSecOps (5th)
 

Featured Reviews

Umair (Abu Mohaymin) Akhlaque - PeerSpot reviewer
Group CEO at Flexsolutions
An automation solution to automate the entire release process but lacks development
Automic eliminates a lot of error mishandling. If implemented, it can save a significant amount of money. It requires a substantial investment upfront because it eliminates the need for manual intervention in each process or job. Essentially, an operator oversees the releases, ensuring they are ready for release without needing to understand the intricacies of the process. This streamlines the release process and allows for monitoring at every step, reducing manual errors and providing automation, as the name "Automic" suggests. Automic offers a wide range of out-of-the-box integrations, available through its marketplace. This includes monitoring tools, release processes, and various other tools, making it a comprehensive solution.
reviewer1442733 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Architect at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Standardized releases have reduced errors and now streamline our cloud resource management
To improve Digital.ai Release, I think the user interface could be improved. For example, I have a plan phase before my build phase, and sometimes the toggle button is hidden. I have to toggle it before the step can be executed, or it will be skipped. Many people who did not use Digital.ai Release before do not even know there is a toggle button, and the first time when they run into that phase, they will definitely skip that step. Regarding needed improvements, I did not do extensive reading on documentation or training material directly from Digital.ai Release. My knowledge comes from the team who has been using it. However, I would appreciate standardized training material that would give me hands-on experience.

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

Pros

"The second valuable aspect is its capability to drive external systems like deployment automation engines or to integrate with Agile Central."
"Its ability to automate release deployments, streamline release scope, and reduce the cost of and time for deployment."
"CDD is primarily used for showing end users (managers, business teams, project managers, and release managers) what is happening with each release. The status and reporting features are very important. Automation reduces time to deploy. It also allows us to do more with releases and testing prior to production, better guaranteeing a smooth deployment."
"The most valuable feature for me is the fact that you can easily design a pipeline to promote applications from a development environment up to a production environment, and the team can become autonomous in designing those pipelines."
"The most valuable feature is the thorough coordination of software delivery across multiple environments, where multiple actors (typically business stakeholders, devs and ops engineers, release engineers, testers, and change managers) can easily cooperate to ensure a proper and repeatable delivery by combining constant follow-up on manual and automated activities."
"It's the simplicity; it's very simple to use and deploy and deliver, and it works."
"Its extensive range of available connectors eliminates the need for manual code writing when implementing solutions, thus reducing coding efforts."
"The most valuable features of Automic Continuous Delivery Director are the UI, release planning, and tracking, and you can do your soft and hard freeze through CDP."
"Overall, it's been a good experience."
"Since using Digital.ai Release, one of the benefits is standardizing the way I release to my Azure environment, which in the long term will help me reduce costs and improve efficiency."
"Since we started using the manual testing module from Digital.ai, I have seen a positive impact on my organization as our test management has improved significantly."
"Digital.ai Release offers the best features such as good integration between multiple tools and flexible options for usage; while I have not configured the template myself, I use existing templates and find that anything can be accomplished using the workflows and integrations."
"The orchestration, building the release, and then just executing it and managing that pipeline — the orchestration capabilities are great for that."
"The solution can apply one template across multiple applications."
"The time is also reduced because the manual work has tremendously decreased. We just have to click one button, and it will create everything for us."
"Since using Digital.ai Release, time has been saved, money has been saved, and staffing requirements have been reduced."
 

Cons

"CDD and RA should be two modules in the same product. They do not automatically “talk” to each other. and they require endpoint definition."
"Reporting and dashboarding could be improved. Release pipelines should be creatable via templates as well as easily integrable/chained together. Visual navigation could also be improved when the pipelines become too large."
"We have rolled out the SAFe model, but what we would like to have is better integration with Agile Central, for instance, or at least at the plugin level, where we would select only certain stories instead of many stories in the sprint."
"We would like to have a more user-friendly interface. It is already very friendly, but as soon as you start to have many applications with many tasks, the applications should be easier to manipulate on the screen."
"Automic Continuous Delivery Director can improve the integrations. We have 25 but would like more."
"Unfortunately, today in CDD, we don't have that capacity to integrate the testing yet."
"The product's development has been stopped. It focuses on maintaining existing products."
"The backfill could be improved, we could automate that. Right now it's subjective — it's up to the lead developer's memory to remember to backfill."
"To improve Digital.ai Release, I think the user interface could be improved."
"Currently, we put artifact details manually. What we could improve, in our case, is the deployment instruction base. Developers input all the information, including which artifact and where it needs to be deployed. What Digital.ai could do is automatically go to the deployment instruction page, take those artifact details, and implement them."
"The solution is a little bit expensive."
"Digital.ai Release can be improved by reducing the number of tasks that need to be completed before starting a release, as there are too many tasks to get done."
"Overall, the price is just too high; especially considering we're in the middle of a pandemic."
"I would like to improve Digital.ai Release by exploring its cloud capabilities as we are currently in the middle of migrating to the cloud, but I actually have no idea what Digital.ai's cloud capabilities are."
"I feel that it could be more user-friendly, as the UI feels a bit old and not very appealing."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a free trial available that people can try. The solution has a subscription and it is based on the users that use the solution."
"The solution's license includes all features."
"Overall, the price is just too high; especially considering we're in the middle of a pandemic."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
31%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Transportation Company
5%
Computer Software Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Manufacturing Company
18%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Insurance Company
8%
 

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Midsize Enterprise
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Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise8
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Digital.ai Release ?
In terms of pricing, Digital.ai Release is more of an enterprise-level investment. It is not a low-cost tool, and the actual cost depends on factors such as the number of users, deployment needs, a...
What needs improvement with Digital.ai Release ?
A few challenges have been encountered, and from my experience, Digital.ai Release should improve the user interface. It has a lot of functionality, but some areas can be a little too complicated c...
What is your primary use case for Digital.ai Release ?
Digital.ai Release is used primarily to manage and automate the release process across software environments. Instead of having developers, testers, and operation teams coordinating every deploymen...
 

Also Known As

CA CDD, CA Continuous Delivery Director
XL Release, XebiaLabs XL Release
 

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