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 Rational ClearCase might be better suited for a smaller / simpler code base. Larger code bases really slow it down... but then again there are better alternatives out there for source control
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 Rational ClearCase is excellent for handling versioning and branching. No other tool I've used has the depth that ClearCase has when it comes to handling complex branching scenarios and identifying where certain versions of particular files are within a particular configuration. Rational ClearCase handles parallel development of many dependent applications really well. The use of ClearCase Views to switch between projects and configurations is extremely convenient as opposed to the local workstation model of the competitors. 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 Extremely buggy. Sometimes the repository gets locked for no reason. Slow. 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 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 If development is centrallized to one location and your company releases hundreds of customized versions of your software per year, then ClearCase is the best tool for managing the complexity of multiple versions of customized software. If your company has globally distributed development, then I'd recommend
Team Foundation Server over ClearCase. If your organization uses Agile Methodologies, then I'd recommend
TFS with GIT.
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 Managed code versioning for many years. Only one person can edit code at a time - slows processing down. IBM is an expensive product to support. Read full review ScreenShots