Likelihood to Recommend If you value integration over cost, Bamboo is clearly the way to go. It offers tight integration to the rest of the Atlassian suite, and when you need traceability from issue to build, Atlassian is the right way to go. However, if you find yourself needing to save on costs, you may consider taking an approach of rolling your own build system with open source alternatives, such as
Jenkins , if you don't [mind] putting in a little extra elbow grease.
Read full review Very slow and not intuitive; it would be my last choice for version control systems.The UI is a little confusing at times and seems a little outdated. It needs a lot of improvement. It is suited for small projects and fewer number of projects. But if there are huge projects and many projects to be maintained in a portfolio, its a little hard to manage.
Read full review Pros Levels of granularity. Organization has many projects that have many build plans that have many jobs that have many tasks, etc. And branch builds allow source control branches to be built separately. Versatility. I can use bamboo to manage my Java, node, or .NET build plans. I can use it to spin up Windows or Linux build agents, or install it on a Mac to build there as well. Bamboo integrates with other Atlassian products like Bitbucket, Stash, JIRA, etc. If a company commits to the entire Atlassian stack then work can be tracked through the whole development lifecycle which is really useful. Read full review One place for most recent code with history, avoid any conflict/confusion among other team/members. Stream/Workflow approach to control approval process betwen all the teams, which I couldn't find in other version control tools I worked. Bundle our code in a small group (called, Issues in Accurev) to differentiate between different projects. Read full review Cons Extremely hard barrier to entry for non-backend developers Blackbox makes it hard to customize functionality The inability to add features without breaking core functionality No cloud solution Tasks cannot be put in if/else statements No clear right way to form build plans Read full review Ability to zoom in/out for stream-view. We currently have many streams/substreams and unable to view the entire workflow. Zooming in/out would benefit. Being a designer, I use Adobe Flash and SWF files. When updating the SWF files, Accurev does not see these files as being changed and you will be unable to promote. In order to push changes, you must totally rename the SWF file. Read full review Likelihood to Renew We will renew because it is part of our build process.
Read full review Usability Bamboo was fairly easy to navigate but in the end it always felt as if it was developed as a bolt-on and not a true group up user interface. There were multiple ways to get to everything and the path was never the same. So it was difficult for users to really get a feel of how to use the application.
Read full review Support Rating Support for Bamboo has started lack a little over the years. Atlassian has been moving more towards
Bitbucket Pipelines and away from the on-premise install of Bamboo. While the tool is still great, it may take a little bit of time to get a question answered by official support.
Read full review Alternatives Considered We selected Bamboo because its capabilities to integrate with other
Atlassian products specially
Jira Software ,
Bitbucket and in some useful scenarios with
Confluence . Also, we found these pros important for us: great user interface, easily agent deployment, Docker compability, simply to maintain / manage, and straightforwardly integration with different notification platforms
Read full review In my view, accurev ranks very low compared to other tools I have used. Microsoft
TFS is the best in the industry as of today as it's a complete ALM solution. It does code version, bug tracking, user story documentation, and has easy integration with other external tools supporting many languages. So I would definitely recommend
TFS to anyone.
Read full review Return on Investment It helped us achieve the Continuous Deployment and Continuous Integration goals for our applications, a huge milestone that saved a lot of time for developers in making the builds and deployments and saved time for QA in running the automated tests. Helped with DevOps: we moved the formal approval from the email to the system and allowed the approver to actually push the button for the production deployments. Biggest positive impact of using Bamboo is that it improved our response time to customers and increased the frequency of our deliveries to them. Read full review Better team coordination. Avoid confusion by having one place for all documentation and code. Better project management by having different work streams. Read full review ScreenShots