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"The orchestration, building the release, and then just executing it and managing that pipeline — the orchestration capabilities are great for that.""The solution can apply one template across multiple applications.""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."

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"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."

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"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 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."

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"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."

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  • "Overall, the price is just too high; especially considering we're in the middle of a pandemic."
  • "The solution's license includes all features."
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    XL Release, XebiaLabs XL Release
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    Overview

    Automate, orchestrate, and gain visibility into your release pipelines at scale using Digital.ai Release, a release management tool that is designed for enterprises. Control and track releases, standardize processes, and bake compliance and security into your software release pipelines.

    IBM Rational Build Forge is an adaptive execution framework that helps automate and standardize the software assembly process. Rational Build Forge helps teams standardize repetitive tasks, improve software quality and manage compliance mandates. This software scales to 25 seats. Rational Build Forge delivers:
    Flexibility - gives developers self-service access to preconfigured build processes from within their integrated development environment (IDE). You can add IBM Rational software products to further enhance automation, reporting and integration.
    Productivity - accelerates build and release cycles through iterative development, parallel processes and efficient use of hardware.
    Compliance - simplifies compliance management with self-documenting audit trails and role-based security.
    Compatibility - increases team efficiency with centralized build and release management using the tools you have today.

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    3M, GE, John Deere, Deutsche Telekom, Cable & Wireless, Xerox, and Société Générale, Liberty Mutual, EA, Rabobank
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    Educational Organization45%
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Insurance Company4%
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    Computer Software Company21%
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Manufacturing Company9%
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    Small Business6%
    Midsize Enterprise48%
    Large Enterprise46%
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    Midsize Enterprise2%
    Large Enterprise77%
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    Digital.ai Release is ranked 9th in Build Automation with 3 reviews while IBM Rational Build Forge is ranked 18th in Build Automation. Digital.ai Release is rated 8.6, while IBM Rational Build Forge is rated 9.0. 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 IBM Rational Build Forge writes "Great reporting features and very functional". Digital.ai Release is most compared with Jenkins, Microsoft Azure DevOps, GitLab, Digital.ai Deploy and Bamboo, whereas IBM Rational Build Forge is most compared with Jenkins and Bamboo.

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