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."Very good reporting features."
"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."
"The integration is a valuable feature."
"One of the most beneficial features for us is the flexibility it offers in creating deployment steps tailored to different technologies."
"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."
"Time to deployment has been reduced in situations where we want to deploy to production or deploy breaking changes."
"We would like to see better integration with other version controls, since we encountered difficulty when this we first attempted."
"TeamCity's GUI is nice."
"It provides repeatable CI/CD throughout our company with lots of feedback on failures and successes to the intended audiences via email and Slack."
"Not user friendly for the layman."
"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."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. Upgrading major versions can often cause some pain."
"I need some more graphical design."
"If there was more documentation that was easier to locate, it would be helpful for users."
"Last time I used it, dotnet compilation had to be done via PowerShell scripts. There was actually a lot that had to be scripted."
"Integrating with certain technologies posed challenges related to time and required support from the respective technology teams to ensure smooth integration with TeamCity."
"REST API support lacks many features in customization of builds, jobs, and settings."
"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."
"It will benefit this solution if they keep up to date with other CI/CD systems out there."
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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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