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Digital.ai Deploy vs UrbanCode Deploy comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 7, 2025

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

Digital.ai Deploy
Ranking in Release Automation
10th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
UrbanCode Deploy
Ranking in Release Automation
7th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
27
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Release Automation category, the mindshare of Digital.ai Deploy is 2.8%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of UrbanCode Deploy is 4.6%, down from 5.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Release Automation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
UrbanCode Deploy4.6%
Digital.ai Deploy2.8%
Other92.6%
Release Automation
 

Featured Reviews

Dorian Sezen - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Partner at Kloia
Good solution for heterogeneous enterprise environments that have different workflows
The solution is for heterogeneous enterprise environments that have different workflows like Kubernetes, Linux, Windows, and mainframe The solution creates a manifest file that caps the bridge between the developer and the system admin. The tool needs to improve on cloud-native GitOps. I have…
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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

"It has been a key enabler for us to implement Continuous Delivery and DevOps across the organisation, increasing release frequency by a factor of approximately 10 and reducing re-deployments by a factor of 50."
"The product sounds good thanks to its UI, as it is really easy to perform a deployment when things work."
"For us the flexibility of this product is nice, we can manage several things within one file and by giving parameters to the deployables."
"The product has a flexibility that allows it to work with various deployments and various technologies."
"Quicker and more solid installations."
"Jenkins deployment was hard to maintain different environments, different variables, machines etc., now we have it all under one roof."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is vendor-agnostic and it has a file called Manifest, which makes it possible for developers, ops people, and system admins to cooperate."
"The main quality is still to have a One Click process, then you save precious time."
"For DevOps, this tool is one of the best with all its integration capabilities for repositories and various systems."
"This product is excellent for deploying components and running processes related to deployments."
"Repeatable, reliable deployments from one environment to the next."
"This saves time, and makes the process much more reliable, reversible, repeatable, and traceable."
"Our biggest ROI is increased productivity which we experienced within the first year."
"It has provided a platform for traceability across the whole release cycle for more than 700 diverse applications."
"It is very easy to make a software release. It used to take us at least a couple of hours to make a release, now we went to production with a new one last night. This new release took me five minutes."
"It was very easy to install and configure IBM UrbanCode Deploy and remotely deploy its agents."
 

Cons

"GUI: uses Adobe Flash which is a bit of a pain (Soon to be replaced by a new GUI with HTML5 and AngularJS)."
"Documentation / initial setup / learning curve."
"The tool needs to improve on cloud-native GitOps."
"The solution currently has a bug that causes performance issues. They need to resolve this in a future release."
"I’d like better reporting possibilities."
"Though the product is very good, I think the product can still be improved in a couple of ways."
"Customer service was not very good."
"The basic design is broken, as it computes diffs to perform updates."
"I would like to see more reporting for container architecture."
"There have been a lot of broken stoppages in uDeploy 6.1.2, particularly in the upgrade."
"I think that the IBM support team needs to be more proactive in their responses to PMR tickets raised by customers."
"This solution could be made more flexible with respect to deploying databases."
"Lack of technical expertise available in the market that forces us to rely solely on IBM Professional Services."
"We have encountered scalability issues. We did not scale particularly well."
"The resource tree is pretty bulky and slow; making a change to the resource tree manually is pretty difficult when size increases."
"I certainly would like to have a better way to pass information between deployment steps using UrbanCode Deploy because that's really difficult to do."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product’s pricing is acceptable. We get volume discounts."
"Pricing costs are based on annual subscriptions."
"Considering COVID-19, the price is too high."
"The cost of the solution is high but it offers great ROI."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
28%
Construction Company
11%
Insurance Company
7%
Marketing Services Firm
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise2
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise22
 

Also Known As

Deployit, XLDeploy, XebiaLabs XL Deploy
uDeploy
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

American Express, Xerox, Fandango, Rabobank, Cable & Wireless, Air France, 3M, GE, Liberty Mutual, EA
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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