We performed a comparison between Microsoft SMS and Sonatype Nexus Repository based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonatype, EMCO Software, Microsoft and others in Software Distribution."It has been working for us, and it has never been down so far."
"I onboarded .NET, then I onboarded JS. And about six or eight months back, I onboarded Python. And I am about to onboard Docker. The availability of integrations allows me to do this."
"For us, the ability to do proxying and federations of repositories is very important. It gives us flexibility. We are the largest physics research laboratory in the world. With 12,000 people, we need to have good solutions to federate organizations inside our lab."
"Sonatype Nexus Repository has a valuable internal scanner feature."
"I have found managing the artifact features very useful."
"The primary feature is that I now have the ability to provide a central platform for storing build artifacts; a concise way for any project team to store its build with us."
"The most important feature of Nexus Repository Manager is the storing and sharing of components. For Nexus IQ, it's the scanning of projects and the rating of vulnerabilities and license violations that we may have in our products."
"Navigation on the UI is easy and simple to understand."
"If there are any issues in build security, it can pick them up straight away."
"Its dashboard can be improved and made a little bit better."
"Lacks an end-to-end solution for developers to sign and store an image."
"We feel that if the product could be configured more easily through configuration files, instead of API calls and databases, that would make it easier to integrate with other DevOps tools. This is one of the hurdles that we encountered when we tried to integrate Nexus 3 with our OpenShift installation."
"Particularly concerning OSF-type licenses, while they support a multitude of features, there's room for improvement in the single point transform, especially for grouping. It appears that currently, the grouping functionality is not robust, particularly for Docker images within a group. The support for this aspect seems to be contingent on the license type. For instance, with the Voss license type, there is a noticeable absence of support for this feature. This is an area that could benefit from enhancement in the upcoming updates."
"When it comes to uploading NPM libraries, JavaScript dependencies libraries, it is a little bit of a convoluted process. They need to improve uploading libraries for NPM-type repositories."
"I would like to see them build in some scanning features out-of-the-box, as opposed to only getting them by buying the add-ons of Nexus IQ Server. I would like to see some level of ability to filter in the tool itself, through scanning the binaries in there."
"They should provide automation for adding container images and artifacts in compliance with security requirements."
"We've had some challenges around the database they use. We've had some big outages and it's due to the fact that we haven't found the database they use is all that stable... We've had some really positive conversations with Sonatype around that and they've provided us with the support and special services to help us migrate off of that, on to another type of database platform which we have more control over."
"[A] main feature that is missing in Nexus IQ is the ability to explore the history of the different reports that have been generated for a given product. For the time being, in the Nexus IQ UI, we are only able to browse the latest reports that have been generated for a given product. It would be really useful for us to be able to go back in time by browsing through the reports and to have a tool that would give us the evolution of the metrics."
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Microsoft SMS is ranked 4th in Software Distribution while Sonatype Nexus Repository is ranked 1st in Software Distribution with 15 reviews. Microsoft SMS is rated 8.0, while Sonatype Nexus Repository is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft SMS writes "Reliable, stable, and free with our subscription". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sonatype Nexus Repository writes "Vastly improved our whole release cycle; automated processes help to deliver code". Microsoft SMS is most compared with EMCO MSI Package Builder, whereas Sonatype Nexus Repository is most compared with JFrog Artifactory, Archiva, Bitbucket Data Center, Inedo ProGet and EMCO Remote Installer.
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