We performed a comparison between Digital.ai Release and GitLab based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Build Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"The orchestration, building the release, and then just executing it and managing that pipeline — the orchestration capabilities are great for that."
"The most valuable feature of Digital.ai Release is its ability to communicate with various deployment systems, such as XLD and batch deployments, as well as integrate with tools, such as Flyway and Bamboo. We use Bamboo as our build orchestrator, and Digital.ai Release also integrates with Jira, another Atlassian solution. These capabilities make it a powerful tool for managing workflow, test automation, and other processes."
"The solution's service delivery model is fantastic."
"It is a speedy platform compared to the others I have used. I have also enjoyed using the platform as this solution offers a good user experience."
"It is very flexible and easy because you can store data on cloud."
"CI/CD and GitLab scanning are the most valuable features."
"The SaaS setup is impressive, and it has DAST solutioning."
"It speeds up our development, it's faster, safer, and more convenient."
"GitLab is a solution for source code management, container registry, pipelines, testing, and deployment."
"GitLab's best feature is Actions."
"The solution is a little bit expensive."
"Digital.ai Release could improve by having a better plugin that works with Guardian that we use for mainframe migrations. If there could be an interface or plugin for Guardian that would be beneficial."
"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 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."
"The only thing our company is really waiting on in terms of features is the development of metrics."
"The solution does not have many built-in functions or variables so scripting is required."
"The price of GitLab could improve, it is high."
"Perhaps the integration could be better."
"We are having a few problems integrating with Jira at the moment, which is something that our IT department is investigating."
"When deploying the solution on cloud and the CI/CD pipeline, we have to define the steps and it becomes confusing."
"There is room for improvement in GitLab Agents."
"I would like more Agile features in the Premium version. The Premium version should have all Agile features that exist in the Ultimate version. IBM AOM has a complete Agile implementation, but in GitLab, you only have these features if you buy the Ultimate version. It would be good if we can use these in the Premium version."
Digital.ai Release is ranked 12th in Build Automation with 4 reviews while GitLab is ranked 1st in Build Automation with 70 reviews. Digital.ai Release is rated 8.2, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Digital.ai Release writes "Effectively automates deployments and applies one template across applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". Digital.ai Release is most compared with Jenkins, Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational Build Forge, Bamboo and Digital.ai Deploy, whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton. See our Digital.ai Release vs. GitLab report.
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