Digital.ai Release Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.7 out of 10

Score

8.7 out of 10

Reviews

2 Reviews

Easy to use and powerful release management product. Needs minor improvement...

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 14, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

XL Release or digital.ai is being used in or organization for release management and deployment purpose. All DevOps engineer gets access based on the project they are working upon and configures their releases as per need for deployments and manage via the release management process. The tool has a great gating/approval process with integration to many tools like Ansible, Jenkins, Jira, etc.

Pros

Release Management
Gating or Approval Process
Integration with other CI-CD tools via plugins
Good tool with easy to use UI

Cons

Pagination of data - across tool.
User Roles Management API can be improved.
Case insensitive ID's are treated differently making user face login and access issues.
Dependency on Universal template/custom plugins creation should be reduced.
Code versioning of templates is very difficult.
Better error handling.
Futures Timeout Issues.

Likelihood to Recommend

Mainly used in release management where all deployments are well managed and processed further based on the approval system. Complete enterprise-level solution with minor difficulties which need to be added to product improvement features. Integration with other CI-CD tools makes it easier to perform tasks in terms of release and deployments.

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

XL release coordinates multi-group release actions

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 28, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

XL is being used by multiple groups in my consulting software development organizations where a release control framework is needed. The main purpose is to allow the fine control of timing between both manual and automatic release activities. The tool acts as a workflow manager for the marketing, documentation, project management, and deployment scripts that combine to release a new major version. We use it sometimes for minor releases but only if there is cross-team coordination.

Pros

Cross-team release workflow control using email, texts, scripts allow our release management to be truly a 360 process.
XL Release allowing our Jenkins toolchain to control the beginning of release trains which is very powerful.
XL release allows us to expose the business process flow for anyone to read direct at the source which runs the process instead of a separate vision.

Cons

XL release is really only missing a consolidated calendar view where you can see the planned activity for the next month, it only knows about what is in progress.

Likelihood to Recommend

XL release fits very well when you need cross-team coordination in a release process where you want to coordinate an alpha or beta program with marketing as part of a major release process.

Kenneth Dick

System Architect in Information Technology at Valpak (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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