I use the solution for deployment and GitLab for entire development operations life cycles.

We continued with custom in-house scripting; a dead end, obsolete approach that cannot scale and belongs to the past, not the future. Open source-based products (Jenkins and others) that we complement with in-house custom functions, require too much human investment in development effort to provide minimum features that make solutions properly operational in large-scale enterprises with complex IT landscapes; a buy vs. build decision.

Its competitors are: Xebia Labs, CA Release Automation.

We evaluated Nolio by CA for release management.

Because the company likes to use the big solution providers, our middleware is IBM. Our deploy tool is IBM so they have a lot of big players. I personally prefer Open Source solutions. I don't just want to use Open Source. We use Jenkins & GitLab. 

Jenkins & GitLab are tools that everybody uses and if there are problems, these problems are fixed quickly by the community or by the developers. That's basically how Open Source works. I am not at all against paying for a solution. For example, it could well be that we use GitLab but the Enterprise Edition. It gives us the opportunity to start with a community edition.

I like to evaluate tools to see how they work, to see how they fit us as a company, and then switch to a paid solution. This is something I miss with big companies like IBM.

We are still evaluating competitors like XebiaLabs Release, Puppet and Chef Automate. There is a chance we could move to Chef Automate

Yes, we evaluated Jenkins.

Evaluated Automic, CA product offerings. Also kept tabs on the Serena offering.

We compared UrbanCode Deploy with XebiaLabs XL. We chose UCD because of the process design function.

We evaluated OpenStack and Amazon Web Services.

Before chosing this product we also evaluated Midvision RapidDeploy, Thoughtworks Go and Xebia Labs XL Deploy.
Thoughtworks Go: the plugin to integrate with Sonatype Nexus is a thirdparty plugin and has been broken for sometime.
Xebia Labs XL Deploy: The set up of each app for deployment is overly complicated.

Before we chose this solution, we evaluated other options.

We explored Ansible, Puppet and Chef. I worked on Chef for a few days and I am not a very big fan of it, probably due to my lack of interest.

We didn’t evaluate other tools. We were forced to use it by IBM as datacentre manager.

Yes, we evaluated Thoughtworks GO and Nolio alongside this product.

Rundeck is also a good option, but UrbanCode Deploy provides more features and is easier to use.