Name: Digital.ai Release
Rating: 8.8 (9 reviews)
Author: Digital.ai (formerly XebiaLabs, CollabNet VersionOne, and Arxan)

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Cross-Browser Testing

Mobile App Development

Product Analytics

Development

Online Proctoring Software

Education

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Enterprise Generative AI

Enterprise

Accounting

Subscription Management

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

Job Board

Payroll

Recruitment Agency

Recruitment Automation

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

AIOps

Application Server

Cloud Storage

Consulting and Advisory Services

Cybersecurity Consulting

Database Load Balancing

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection

Embedded Business Intelligence (BI)

Embedded Database

Enterprise Architecture Management

Fraud Detection

Function as a Service (FaaS)

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Mobile Data Security

Mobile Device Management (MDM)

Mobile Identity

Monolithic Frame-based Disk Arrays

Network Performance Monitoring

Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

Information Technology

A/B Testing

AI Writing Assistant Software

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

App Store Optimization (ASO)

Appointment Scheduling

Competitive Intelligence

Content Management

Customer Journey Mapping

Email Marketing

Gamification

Heatmap and Session Recording

Landing Page

Marketing Automation

Mobile Advertising

Online Proofing

Social Media Management

Social Media Marketing

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Call Recording

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Lead Generation Services

Multichannel Retail

Product Configuration

Quote to Cash

Sales Email Tracking

Sales

Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management

Identity Threat Detection & Response Software

Virtualization Security

Security

Construction Workforce Management

Dental

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Version Control

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Version History

Version Control Collaboration Tools

Pull Requests

Code Review Tools

Project Access Control

Automated Testing Integration

Issue Tracking Integration

Branch Protection

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Cloud

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Continuous Delivery

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Release Management

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Digital.ai Release, formerly XebiaLabs XL Release, is a release management tool designed for enterprises that enables users to control and track releases, standardize processes, and bake compliance and security into software release pipelines. As a release orchestration tool, Digital.ai Release works specifically for continuous delivery, and enables teams across an organization to model and monitor releases, automate tasks within IT infrastructure, in order to cut release times and improve release processes.

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Digital.ai Release

Release management software automates managing the release of software and applications from development stage to software release at a finer more technical grain than project management software.

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Digital.ai was formed by bringing together companies supporting business agility, software delivery, and application security into one integrated, intelligent value stream platform. Combined, Digital.ai boasts more than fifty years of experience providing critical business and technology solutions to over 1500 companies around the world.<br><br>Digital.ai was formed from the three company merger of XebiaLabs, CollabNet VersionOne, and Arxan in April 2020, and has also acquired and now supports  technology from the former Numerify, and Experitest.

Digital.ai (formerly XebiaLabs, CollabNet VersionOne, and Arxan)

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Calendar view

User roles

Custom plugins

Error handling

Release management

Approval process

Ci cd

Easy to use

Cross team

Business process

Process flow

Home

Release Management Tools

Bitbucket

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.

Product Usage

Pros and Cons

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

Things done well

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.

Things done poorly

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.

Release management
Approval or Gating system
Security in deployment automation tasks

Most Important Features 3.4.21

Positive - Faster deployments.
Positive - Better tracking on progress of each release.
Negative - Data once goes beyond a limit, pagination and data load take a toll on users.
Positive - Dashboard can be customizable.

Return on Investment

Deployment and release management can be done in various ways. But, XL Release or Digita.ai, helps in simplifying the process with predefined plugins, pre-developed security features, etc that help manage and process deployment cycles quicker and in a processed way.

CloudBees Jenkins Platform, Liquibase, Jira Software, Bitbucket and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Alternatives

CloudBees Jenkins Platform, Bitbucket, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Liquibase

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Digital.ai Release (formerly XebiaLabs XL Release) 2022-04-14 10:36:13

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Digital.ai Release
Formerly XebiaLabs XL Release

Overview

What is Digital.ai Release?

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

XL release coordinates multi-group release actions

Pricing

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What is Digital.ai Release?

Entry-level set up fee?

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Azure DevOps Services

GitHub

Jira Software

AWS CodePipeline

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