Likelihood to Recommend It provides a cloud-based integrated development environment that integrates with other IBM Cloud services to provide a streamlined development workflow. This includes real-time collaboration and code sharing capabilities, making it easy for teams to work together on projects. This feature is very useful for our app to maintain the code
Read full review IBM UrbanCode Deploy is excellent for code deployments such as Java, .Net, C++, etc. It can also deploy and run SQLs reasonably well. Where it lacks is the ability for executables, Jars, WARs, EARs, etc.
Read full review Pros It contains the deployment templates which are much more time saving and is of great use. This has the integration of the Cloud applications which makes the work much more convenient. This is flexible when it comes to development, deployment, and delivery. [It] also has a much more reasonable pricing. Provides space for the data storage. [IBM Cloud Developer Tools] also can support many useful tools. Read full review Consistently deploys to multiple environments with no changes to the process. Having reusable processes across environments from Dev to Production make deployments more consistent and easier to manage. IBM UrbanCode Deploy has an easy to understand UI, to be able to review if a deployment has successfully completed or not, and details if it did not work. Using the UI is simple and easy to understand. Scheduling and approvals are built-in as configured for the deployments. This allows us to use the same deployment process, but get approvals as needed when code is moved up to the upper environments. Read full review Cons Its price is quite high and this made it unsuitable for us as we cannot afford such high rates. Its Setup takes much longer time and this is frustrating. Its interface needs to be improved and easy even for the Newbies. Read full review IBM UrbanCode Deploy does code deployments easy enough, but configurations or ex deployments are a little more complicated. I work on packaged systems, so most of the code I get is form a vendor that I have to deploy. IBM UebanCode Deploy integration into the mainframe world would be ideal. My company uses Mainframe and OpenSystems technologies, and many times there are dependencies between the deployments. Read full review Likelihood to Renew It's a great platform to develop, run, test and deploy the applications easily. And it makes very easier and secure the implementation of continuous delivery process. For first time and experts also can use this service so easily. Great service provided by the IBM Cloud Continuous Service. There are more services that helps a lot to work on it. Thanks a lot.
Read full review Usability Nothing special to say : the UX is clear and simple.
Read full review Support Rating In more than a year using the IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery tool, I haven't had any major complaints or problems. However, in the last month, IBM suffered from a couple of problems through several of its services, and for a short period of time, I couldn't deploy successfully my projects. The problem was brief and was quickly fixed.
Read full review I've not worked directly with IBM UrbanCode Deploy support. My DevOps team administers the environment and deals with that.
Read full review Alternatives Considered We chose IBM Cloud Developer Tools for multiple reasons. Cost, current infrastructure vendor list, and Cloud Operations team experience were key driving factors for us. Palo Alto's Prisma Cloud product was slick for sure but we found it more difficult to deploy and integrate with our current environment and applications
Read full review Return on Investment This has made the configuration files much easier to access. Has made the commands more logical as well as easy for use and learning. Contains great AI capabilities The documentation needs improvement. Error received from commands are pretty hard to understand. Read full review IBM UrbanCode Deploy has had a positive impact on making deployments much easier and quicker to do. Downtime for a system is greatly reduced and deployments go much smoother as the processes are complete repeatable and not manual. Read full review ScreenShots