We performed a comparison between IBM Rational Build Forge and TeamCity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about GitLab, Jenkins, Google and others in Build Automation."All features are useful. Our customer doesn't have any complaints about the tool. It works pretty well for what they want and what they need to do."
"Very good reporting features."
"We would like to see better integration with other version controls, since we encountered difficulty when this we first attempted."
"VCS Trigger: Provides excellent source control support."
"I have not yet implemented the remote build feature, but this will be a big plus. We want to be able to build legacy products on a build agent without developers needing to have obsolete tool sets installed on their local PC."
"The integration is a valuable feature."
"It's easy to move to a new release because of templates and meta-runners, and agent pooling."
"The flexibility of TeamCity allows it to fit in workflows that I have yet to imagine."
"TeamCity is very useful due to the fact that it has a strong plug-in system."
"One of the most beneficial features for us is the flexibility it offers in creating deployment steps tailored to different technologies."
"Its logging can be improved. When something goes wrong, it is not always very easy to find the problem. It is hard to identify whether the problem is because of low memory in the server or some configuration in Rational Build Forge. The error logs are not very detailed, and they should provide more information. It should also have more integration with third-party tools. It would be great to have more integration with third-party tools."
"Not user friendly for the layman."
"Last time I used it, dotnet compilation had to be done via PowerShell scripts. There was actually a lot that had to be scripted."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. Upgrading major versions can often cause some pain."
"Their online documentation is fairly extensive, but sometimes you can end up navigating in circles to find answers. I would like them (or partner with someone) to provide training classes to help newcomers get things up and running more quickly."
"Integrating with certain technologies posed challenges related to time and required support from the respective technology teams to ensure smooth integration with TeamCity."
"It will benefit this solution if they keep up to date with other CI/CD systems out there."
"The UI for this solution could be improved. New users don't find it easy to navigate. The need some level of training to understand the ins and the outs."
"If there was more documentation that was easier to locate, it would be helpful for users."
"If TeamCity could create more out of the box solutions to make it more user friendly and create more use cases, that would be ideal."
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IBM Rational Build Forge is ranked 19th in Build Automation while TeamCity is ranked 6th in Build Automation with 25 reviews. IBM Rational Build Forge is rated 9.0, while TeamCity is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Rational Build Forge writes "Great reporting features and very functional". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TeamCity writes "Build management system used to successfully create full request tests and run security scans". IBM Rational Build Forge is most compared with Jenkins, Bamboo and Digital.ai Release , whereas TeamCity is most compared with GitLab, CircleCI, Jenkins, Harness and Tekton.
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