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"It has been working for us, and it has never been down so far."

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"It has very good enterprise integration, so we are able to integrate it with the rest of our infrastructure for authentication, for role management. That is very useful.""The core features are the most important: We can host libraries, upload them, and they can be used across multiple teams.""I have found managing the artifact features very useful.""If there are any issues in build security, it can pick them up straight away.""The key benefit we get from it is speed to delivery. It has improved our overall time to get new applications out with new code. That's true whether from a platform perspective, where we are quickly deploying up-to-date docker containers, or whether we are looking to deploy new code out to deliver a new application.""While there aren't many features, they're all useful, particularly the ability to store and retrieve content, and to proxy all of the features that an enterprise repository manager should have.""One of the most valuable features is the variety of permissions you can use on the repository. That helps us protect access to the information inside of the repository.""For us, the ability to do proxying and federations of repositories is very important. It gives us flexibility. We are the largest physics research laboratory in the world. With 12,000 people, we need to have good solutions to federate organizations inside our lab."

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"Its dashboard can be improved and made a little bit better."

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"They could improve the user interface and REST APIs.""We had some issues with the container platform, but we raised a support ticket and it was sorted out for us.""Lacks an end-to-end solution for developers to sign and store an image.""[A] main feature that is missing in Nexus IQ is the ability to explore the history of the different reports that have been generated for a given product. For the time being, in the Nexus IQ UI, we are only able to browse the latest reports that have been generated for a given product. It would be really useful for us to be able to go back in time by browsing through the reports and to have a tool that would give us the evolution of the metrics.""We've had some challenges around the database they use. We've had some big outages and it's due to the fact that we haven't found the database they use is all that stable... We've had some really positive conversations with Sonatype around that and they've provided us with the support and special services to help us migrate off of that, on to another type of database platform which we have more control over.""I would like to see them build in some scanning features out-of-the-box, as opposed to only getting them by buying the add-ons of Nexus IQ Server. I would like to see some level of ability to filter in the tool itself, through scanning the binaries in there.""We feel that if the product could be configured more easily through configuration files, instead of API calls and databases, that would make it easier to integrate with other DevOps tools. This is one of the hurdles that we encountered when we tried to integrate Nexus 3 with our OpenShift installation.""I'm waiting for hot publication between several Nexus instances. That's more important for me right now because in our company we have several locations distributed all over the world, and each location is producing its own artifacts, sometimes for the same project. I really would appreciate a scenario where the developers could provide their data to the local repository and it would be hot-replicated to the other repository instances."

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  • "It comes free with the Microsoft account. We have a yearly agreement, and all products are covered under it."
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  • "In my opinion, the pricing is very fair and very customer-oriented. It's much better than any other tool I have used so far."
  • "It seems like a fair price, based on other software solutions I've purchased."
  • "It's quite expensive. They are charging around $110 or $120 per user, per year. It's quite expensive in comparison to the other tools available in the market."
  • "Nexus Repository Manager Pro is quite affordable because it's about €100, per user, per year. Purchasing licenses was not really a big issue for us. Regarding Nexus IQ, it's much more expensive. We purchased 250 licenses and they cost us about €120,000."
  • "One of the challenges we had around licensing was how to deal with anonymous requests. According to the letter of the contract, an anonymous request consumes a license. We had to do some work to get over the fact that any anonymous interactions with the Repository product had to be put back to an end-user account."
  • "There were costs in addition to the standard licensing fees. The standard is free."
  • "The cost is managed by the client."
  • "I use the open-source version of the product, which is free of cost."
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    Also Known As
    Microsoft Systems Management Server, MS SMS
    Nexus Repository, Nexus Repository Manager
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    Overview
    Shopfloor management solution that provides simple to understand, real time graphical view of work requirements set against the actual working capacity of the machine tools.
    Nexus Repository is powered by Repository Manager, the same technology engine found in our OSS version deployed at more than 100,000 organziations world-wide. It is Built on the shoulders of Maven, Repository Manager supports all popular component formats and brings your entire development organization together. It includes staging and release functionality that provides support for operations and quality assurance processes prior to production and gives you instant insight into potential component security, license, and quality issues, enabling teams to take corrective action early and quickly.
    Sample Customers
    Curtin University, MyCNX, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Kecioren Municipality, Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing, Delphi Automotive, Turkcell, Arcoflex Automation Solutions, Atasun Optik
    Goldman Sachs, Toyota, Disney, Deutsche Bank
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Construction Company11%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Retailer7%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm33%
    Computer Software Company22%
    Government11%
    Recreational Facilities/Services Company11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Government10%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business42%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise48%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise53%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise68%

    Microsoft SMS is ranked 4th in Software Distribution while Sonatype Nexus Repository is ranked 1st in Software Distribution with 15 reviews. Microsoft SMS is rated 8.0, while Sonatype Nexus Repository is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft SMS writes "Reliable, stable, and free with our subscription". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sonatype Nexus Repository writes "Feature-rich and seamless integration with our other tools". Microsoft SMS is most compared with EMCO MSI Package Builder and EMCO Remote Installer, whereas Sonatype Nexus Repository is most compared with JFrog Artifactory, Archiva, Bitbucket Data Center, Inedo ProGet and EMCO Remote Installer.

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