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it_user779229 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We started with IBM tool sets. We had Electric Cloud that we looked into. And then we looked into Automic, and a few others; open source tools, as well. And then we naturally aligned towards Automic.

We went with them because of the stability of the company. We were looking for a partner, a well grounded company, how long they had been in operation. And we also looked at some white paper case studies out there, that helped us. And then we did a couple of proofs of concept with some of the vendors, and for our use case, what we were trying to implement, Automic stood out.

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it_user779319 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Going back now to 2016, we spent a year's time doing proofs of concepts with various release automation tools. We looked at all the industry leaders and we also reached out to companies that we had relationships with; obviously with CA, and we had products with IBM. We just took each one and gave them a shot, a proof of concept to go through.

At the end of the day, at the end of the year, CA offered the best package overall, and that wasn't just from a product standpoint but also a support standpoint. Because some companies (shall remain nameless) give you a startup and then they let you go, and we felt we needed beyond what you get for training. Sometimes it's not enough. 

You need that real world experience, you need someone who is an expert at your side doing it, as opposed to their giving you two weeks and then you're own your own. And then, it's not like it was during the demo, or like it was during the pilot. There were things that we ran into, that were variations within our organization, that CA was able to come in and adjust and change and make it work.

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MD
Principal Project Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Before we started, there was a evaluation. An interesting point was that CA was approached as one of the two solution and Automic was the other. Then came the merger, and it was clear after the merger, we would be using the Automic solution and going with CA. 

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it_user727497 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Evangelist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Yes, for sure. We did more PoCs during the analysis phase of our DevOps project last year. We were testing products: IBM UrbanCode, CA Release Automation, XL Deploy from XebiaLabs, HPE Codar and the winner - Automic ARA.

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RM
IT Process Automation Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We chose this solution because we have a good license agreement and because it's a product where I can process my job centrally.

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