Item: SmartDeploy
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SmartDeploy

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SmartDeploy is generally used for application deployment in UAT and Prod enviornment for our projects. It is utilised to streamline and make deployment process easier and less complicated so as team can focus on only development and not release of the product. Also streamlining deployments makes Knowledge transfer for new team members fast and makes them efficient

Pros and Cons

Pros

Imaging of system to another system
application depolyment on server
system driver management and dependencies handling

Cons

Remote monitoring is useful but has some lagging and functionalities are not upfront to use , making it complicated for new users to be aware just by using the application
Windows migration was quite difficult in terms of updates of softwares to be migrated to new system
Integration with client systems can be tough as major usage of other softwares is done in most of client systems causing us difficulties to integrate with smart deploy on the same platform

Most Important Features

App Deployment
Imaging systems with all configuration
Driver and dependency management

Return on Investment

New application created was deployed by SmartDeploy and saved us 20% of our deployment time on whole project providing us major time to build new functionalities and release product earlier
Computer imaging was quite elaborate and yet simple, making it helpful for our client system creation activity. Which helped us bag us new activities of system creation for more projects.
Driver management was causing lots of time consumption for system management team. Which in-turn reduced their focus on actual system issues. With SmartDeploy it helped in improving efficiency of 30% for system management team

Alternatives Considered

Docker, Jenkins and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

SmartDeploy has a fantastic deployment process management with detailed and configurable aspects. Even though it has detailed configuration it still somehow makes it easy to understand and implement compared to other services which need special learning and courses to understand them completelya and use them efficiently. This is one quality highly appreciated and stacks up against any other services I have used for deployment

Key Insights

Do you think SmartDeploy delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SmartDeploy's feature set?

Yes

Did SmartDeploy live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SmartDeploy go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SmartDeploy again?

Yes

Other Software Used

GitHub, IBM UrbanCode Deploy, AWS Backup

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited scenarios :
One of the situations SmartDeploy helped immensly was in application deployment and management for our projects , making it and instant favorite for the deployment process. Also in one situation where we had a high flying app development which did'nt had much time to develop, deployment thorugh smart deploy made it quick and less involvement. Easier to understand major functionalities and onboard new projects.
Less appropriate scenarios:
We faced issues while utilising by DevOps team for monitoring every system for issue resolving in linux update on every employees system. This created alot of delay in every employees work front as systems were not working as expected.

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