We looked for a solution that was less sales orientated, more roadmap, and had a development culture. That’s something CA can improve. We'd like more support.

We looked at Xebia, UrbanCode, Open Source Jenkins. It was because of use of agents and the ability to deploy non-Java code.

At the time we did the selection, no. They were out there. I was not part of the selection process, I know the person that was, and we got release automation before it was known as CA Release Automation. It was then purchased by CA. It was a clear market leader, so we basically went in that direction.

We ran a POC earlier this year. It basically looked at IBM UrbanCode versus CA Release Automation. They're the two market leaders.

We evaluated XL Deploy and UrbanCode Deploy.

We had an environment where each development team had their own set of tools for building packages and all deployment was manual. The evaluation of this product included reviewing the capabilities of Jenkins and Visual Studio.

We looked at a whole bunch of other solutions, namely XL Deploy from XebiaLabs.

The reason why we decided to choose CA was because of the completeness of this product, what it came up with and the fact that CA was willing to take a risk with us. They were not getting paid until we were successful in using the product and that made a big difference.

We also looked at Ansible. You don't need to be a DevOps engineer to know how to write the scripts. I could be an operation user. It's too complicated.

UrbanCode Deploy, Red Hat Ansible, and we considered Ansible Tower as well. We had some discussions about XebiaLabs XL Deploy, but it was not on the short-list in the end.

When CA is compared to UrbanCode Deploy, the latter is stronger in the development cycle, while CA Release Automation is stronger on the deployment or release automation side.

We are still in the evaluation mode with different vendors. Also, some teams are using the CA RA tool extensively.

I've also looked at HP and Micros Focus as options that we may work with them in the future.

We evaluated open source, XebiaLabs, and IBM.

We checked out, from my point of view, several vendors, but we have a VP that wanted an enterprise solution. We already had a relationship with CA. He felt that this was something that CA could do for us. We met with them. We feel that they're doing a good job.

We had previous knowledge about this tool, so selection was not difficult.

We evaluated Bamboo, HP Codar, and Serena Deployment Automation.

We looked into open-source tools, XebiaLabs, and IBM.

No other options were evaluated.

We didn't evaluate any other products.

We also looked at IBM u Deploy.

We didn't evaluate other options.

Yes, we evaluated other products as well, but I am not sure what the other options were.

We also looked at Atlassian, but CA has been there for a long time and we've just kept with them, especially since they integrate with everything and other CA tools. We also look at the integration focus of new tools.

We also looked at Visual Build Pro.

No other options were evaluated.

No other options were evaluated.

It goes back quite a few years that we've been using this and at the time we were either going to do a homegrown solution or this. Those were the two options.

We did not evaluate other options.