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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Digital.ai Agility

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/ADigital.ai Agility (formerly VersionOne) helps organizations harness the power of their people’s knowledge, processes, and technology to build agile practices that scale across the enterprise. Its capabilities enable organizations to align products and investments with strategic business goals by coordinating planning, tracking, and reporting work across large distributed companies. Digital.ai Agility connects business strategy with team execution, providing a unified view at all levels,…N/A

    Ansible

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (acquired by Red Hat in 2015) is a foundation for building and operating automation across an organization. The platform includes tools needed to implement enterprise-wide automation, and can automate resource provisioning, and IT environments and configuration of systems and devices. It can be used in a CI/CD process to provision the target environment and to then deploy the application on it.

    $5,000

    per year

    Pricing
    Digital.ai AgilityAnsible
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Basic Tower
    5,000
    per year
    Enterprise Tower
    10,000
    per year
    Premium Tower
    14,000
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Digital.ai AgilityAnsible
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Digital.ai AgilityAnsible
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    Digital.ai (formerly XebiaLabs, CollabNet VersionOne, and Arxan)
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    99%
    Would buy again
    265 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    98%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    201 Answers
    Features
    Digital.ai AgilityAnsible
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Digital.ai Agility and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    Feature
    Digital.ai Agility
    6.3
    1 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Task Management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document Management3.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email integration2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Agile Development
    Comparison of Agile Development features of Digital.ai Agility and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    Feature
    Digital.ai Agility
    8.5
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Velocity Calculation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dependencies and Blockers7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Digital.ai AgilityAnsible
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    8.8
    (292 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.2
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    8.3
    (184 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.2
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    8.6
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Digital.ai AgilityAnsible
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Digital.ai (formerly XebiaLabs, CollabNet VersionOne, and Arxan)
    Scenarios where it works well: 1) Retros can be very well facilitated & notes/action items
    can be captured against the sprint. 2) Product Owner can effectively track the story
    progress with all the test-cases, design etc. 3) Being good scaling support, it provides good visibility
    across multiple teams, programs and agile portfolios, providing a centralized
    environment where all our stakeholders can easily work together regardless of location. 4) It provides easy tracking all of your epics,
    stories, themes, defects, tasks, tests and issues 5) I like its intuitive UI as for moving stories
    around, burning hours. 6) It allows top leadership to visualize
    and report their strategic plans, giving all stakeholders the relevant data
    that they need to stay dedicated to the project priorities. 7) It can be easily integrated with slack
    so for few teams we used slack for collaboration Scenarios where it did not work well: 1) Test Management need improvement in
    terms of tracking tests, team had hard time tracking regression test cases. 2) Version one comes with lot of features like
    Rally but here we don’t get customizations which is there in Jira where from workflow
    to issue everything can be customized based on your team/program/portfolio
    requirements. 3) Lot of navigation to access basic
    stuff. Example I want to go to bug attachment , there are lt of clicks &
    navigation need to do which should be pretty straightforward I feel.
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    Red Hat
    I think it's the best defacto orchestrator for automation because it's so easy to integrate in other tools to it (dynatrace, cyberark, terraform, etc). It is a lot for a new or smaller team to use so I wouldn't recommend it to a new team using Ansible, in that case using Ansible navigator is a better start to understanding playbooks/inventories before diving into the complexity of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. EDA also takes a lot of connectivity between Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and target systems to get working which can be difficult in very locked down envs unless you have approval from many other teams like networking and security.
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    Pros
    Digital.ai (formerly XebiaLabs, CollabNet VersionOne, and Arxan)
    • Automated saving of changes, no records can be lost because all items are saved in real-time.
    • The watch function, optional but beneficial when managing multiple teams or projects.
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    Red Hat
    • Standardize controls and visibility for automation.
    • Provide RBAC and Vault for improved automation security and support.
    • Job Scheduling is much more effective than Cron or other home-grown solutions.
    • The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform API is one of the best features as it makes automation accessible from any other platform.
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    Cons
    Digital.ai (formerly XebiaLabs, CollabNet VersionOne, and Arxan)
    • Although Digital.ai Agility supports customizations, they can be somewhat cumbersome to set up and maintain
    • The Analytics engine's user experience for digging into the data does not have the same feel as the rest of the system and, as a result, can be hard to work with
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    Red Hat
    • Ansible is still not truly declarative like Terraform.
    • Simple automation is fine, but creating complex, scalable automation scripts is very difficult to learn.
    • For a higher number of nodes, Ansible consumes a lot of resources. It needs the paid version of AAP, which requires a cost.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Digital.ai (formerly XebiaLabs, CollabNet VersionOne, and Arxan)
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    We are extremely happy with the use of AAP. It's better than expected, There is almost no limit when thinking of automation. The only problem is that the day to day is consuming a big part of our time. Patching and checking vulnerabilities are virtually killing us. But we can only improve with AAP.
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    Usability
    Digital.ai (formerly XebiaLabs, CollabNet VersionOne, and Arxan)
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    Everything has room for improvement, but Ansible is the best tool out there for what it does and what it can do. There are plenty of features and capabilities that can be added, but it's just a matter of time before it happens.
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    Performance
    Digital.ai (formerly XebiaLabs, CollabNet VersionOne, and Arxan)
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    Great in almost every way compared to any other configuration management software. The only thing I wish for is python3 support. Other than that, YAML is much improved compared to the Ruby of Chef. The agentless nature is incredibly convenient for managing systems quickly, and if a member of your term has no terminal experience whatsoever they can still use the UI.
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    Support Rating
    Digital.ai (formerly XebiaLabs, CollabNet VersionOne, and Arxan)
    VersionOne provides outstanding training. They have Product Owner training that I recommend every Product Owner attend. They have scrum master training and other agile training that was well worth the money paid because it made the teams more productive. And the support for the tool is incredible. These people live and breathe Agile and are evangelists and enthusiasts.
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    Red Hat
    There is a lot of good documentation that Ansible and Red Hat provide which should help get someone started with making Ansible useful. But once you get to more complicated scenarios, you will benefit from learning from others. I have not used Red Hat support for work with Ansible, but many of the online resources are helpful.
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    Implementation Rating
    Digital.ai (formerly XebiaLabs, CollabNet VersionOne, and Arxan)
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    I spoke on this topic today!
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    Alternatives Considered
    Digital.ai (formerly XebiaLabs, CollabNet VersionOne, and Arxan)
    JIRA appears to be more extensible with the ability for Scrum, Kanban, bug/incident tracking, and the ability to customize dashboards. However, VersionOne's performance over the same teams is extremely fast in comparison and therefore allows users to be more productive over the same amount of time.
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    Red Hat
    AAP compares favorably with Terraform and Power Automate. I don't have much experience with Terraform, but I find AAP and Ansible easier to use as well as having more capabilities. Power Platform is also an excellent automation tool that is user friendly but I feel that Ansible has more compatibility with a variety of technologies.
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    Return on Investment
    Digital.ai (formerly XebiaLabs, CollabNet VersionOne, and Arxan)
    • It has made it easier to implement Agile processes. Since our team is fairly new to Agile, this has been extremely helpful.
    • Our organization is quickly growing, and V1 has made it easier for new hires to look at everything that our team has in the works.
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    Red Hat
    • First, it keeps our entire server infrastructure aligned with our standards and reduces the time and effort needed to maintain our systems.
    • Automate routine IT tasks to save time, reduce errors, and ensure every server is configured and updated consistently.
    • Tasks that used to take our teams weeks to complete manually now run automatically and reliably, with full visibility, making our infrastructure management more effective and our compliance tracking much easier.
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