World market of DevOps-solutions

2020: Market leaders of DevOps-solutions are called

On July 23, 2020 the brief summary according to the report "The Forrester Wave was at the disposal of TAdviser: Continuous Delivery and Release Automation", Web Control prepared by specialists.

Continuous development and integration (CI/CD) gives to the large companies the chance to considerably accelerate development process of functionality and installation of updates. However for optimization of these processes it is necessary to select the correct tools among the big variety presented at the market. For the choice of the suitable tool developers can be guided by publications at specialized forums, own experience, experience of colleagues, materials of vendors. And it is possible to use expert knowledge of the independent agencies and to make preselection, based on analytical reports.

Market leaders of DevOps-solutions are called

In June, 2020 the independent analytical agency Forrester released the report "The Forrester Wave: Continuous Delivery and Release Automation" in which submitted the overview of 14 largest players of the market of solutions for ensuring continuous integration and automation of releases: Armory, Atlassian, Broadcom, Chef, CloudBees, Digital.ai (former XebiaLabs), Flexagon, Gitlab, Harness, IBM, Inedo, Micro Focus, Microsoft and Octopus Deploy.

Analysts of Forrester estimated these companies and their solutions on a number of the criteria grouped in three categories: functionality of the solution, the strategy of the company where the innovation policy, marketing, support and training, pricing, a partner ecosystem, and presence in the market entered.

The methodology of drawing up reports of The Forrester Wave assumes distribution of vendors by 4 groups (leaders, strong players, rivals and applicants), however in 2020 analysts selected only three groups.

• Лидеры (Leaders): Broadcom, CloudBees, Digital.ai, Flexagon, IBM, Microsoft.
• Strong players (Strong Performers): Chef, GitLab, Harness, Micro Focus.
• Contenders: Armory, Atlassian, Inedo, Octopus Deploy.

Experts noted multifunctionality of the CloudBees platform which is known thanks to support open source of the Jenkins project. In IBM Cloud DevOps for Hybrid Deployment good support of different platforms was emphasized and insufficient opportunities of generation of the reporting and inconvenience of use are mentioned. An appreciation received cloud solutions Microsoft Azure DevOps of Pipelines and Azure DevOps Server. Automic Continuous Delivery from Broadcom is called suitable for the large companies which need the full-function platform supporting legacy solutions. Flexagon is suitable for the companies using Oracle. Digital.ai (the former XebiaLabs) which is for July, 2020 in process of merge with CollabNet VersionOn producer, is mentioned as the platform with simple deployment and flexibility providing good analytics about degree of readiness of releases and suitable for the companies with the complex environment and legacy systems.

Among strong players it is possible to select Chef to which strengths support of the principles of "infrastructure-as-code" and "policy as code" belongs. The famous supplier of development tools of Atlassian appeared in category Contenders thanks to the solution Bitbucket Pipelines. In this solution there are no many opportunities of automation of releases, however it can be attractive to those who already invested in the products Atlassian.

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