If you are looking for a product to automate deployments as well as having the desire to implement Continuous Delivery/DevOps methodology you can not ignore this product. It definitely makes those goals possible and easier to reach. It does so without being invasive (no agents necessary) but still delivers great customizability through a broad range of state of the art commercial plugins and the ability to create your own plugin solutions as well.

I would rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.

We use both the on-premises and cloud deployment models.

The product has a flexibility that allows it to work with various deployments and various technologies. 

I would recommend the solution for enterprise-level organizations.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

Set up a secured server with separate profiles. It sounds obvious, but by this way you have a segregation between business teams. Having four environments is recommended: sand box, development, pre-production and production. Sand box is used to test unitary your DAR package. When it's done, you can use a unique project to assemble all the others DARs.

I'd advice anyone who considers using this solution to switch to native platform packaging format instead (i.e. deb for Debian, msi for Windows, ...). This kind of solution is good when you wish to have a centralized way to perform your deployments. Now it should actually be more something which asks the servers to which versions of the packages we are so that users can deploy packages manually when the system is off.

I think XL Deploy is a very versatile product, and it actually makes a lot more sense than a lot of other options which are on the market. It actually helps our technical people to adapt to it much faster. You don't need a lot of specialists and technical skills. That's where I find it makes it easier for most of the teams to pick this product up pretty quickly. That, to me, has been a big factor because new users for the platform can easily adapt to it. That means you can scale this faster and more teams can be involved in using it faster. Without that, you're always stuck because of the lack of specialist skills and hampered in scaling DevOps practices effectively across the enterprise.

If you only have a budget for a few specialists and have a lot to roll out, then you have to wait for the specialists to complete work they need to do before you deploy. This makes you wait longer for anything to be deployed. That becomes a big stumbling block.

In the case of using XL Deploy, we don't face that problem anymore. The other thing that is a benefit is that we also used the other product, XL Release, which helps to orchestrate the Continuous Delivery and Release journey. It simplifies the DevOps journey and makes visibility, control, governance, audit, compliance much easier.

On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate this product a nine. There's always room to make a product better. 

XLDeploy has excellent dependency management for application deployment, We would like that capability extended to a more visual manner making it easier for teams to understand their dependencies.

Make sure it works with cloud integration, and you have proper technical support.

This is just a technical tool, take time to redesign processes too.

Compare and choose the product that fits your needs, if you implement this product, draw the implementation in the tool first and note your needs. As you may need other plugins then default are delivered, it is possible to create your own. But then you do need the programming knowledge.