I am pleased to announce that IBM has been positioned as a leader in the “The Forrester Wave™: Continuous Delivery and Release Automation, Q4 2018” report.

This is wonderful news and is based on IBM’s   scores in the Current Offering, Strategy and Market Presence categories. IBM is the only vendor in the top three in all categories. Here are some of our key takeaways from the report:

• IBM’s solution is ideal for the largest and most diverse organizations looking for enterprise-class product and support.
• Forrester notes the trend of Continuous Integration vendors starting to support Continuous Delivery. We know this is not easy to get right! IBM made this transition years ago with the UrbanCode AnthillPro and IBM BuildForge offerings. 
• Forrester notes that reporting is a weak spot for much of the Continuous Delivery and Release Automation segment. IBM makes our enhanced reporting engine, in UrbanCode Velocity, available as a community edition (free) to ensure UrbanCode customers have access to strong pipeline analytics and reporting tools. 
• IBM is among the few vendors that leverage machine learning and predictive analytics for evaluating release readiness.
• Users were favorable to the tool’s reliability, its calendaring abilities, and IBM support.

If you’re not familiar with UrbanCode, here are a few of our customer videos - they demonstrate the range of quantifiable business benefits that can be achieved with UrbanCode. 

• NBCUniversal scales DevOps across a large multi-speed IT enterprise 
• Bendigo and Adelaide Bank improves agility with DevOps 
• Rabobank uses UrbanCode and Rational Test to gain agility on IBM Z
   

To learn more about IBM Continuous Delivery and Release Automation, featuring UrbanCode, visit us at https://www.ibm.com/cloud/devops/urbancode-continuous-delivery

Click here to download the The Forrester Wave™: Continuous Delivery And Release Automation, Q4 2018 report. I know many people just skip to the graphics and vendor write-ups in these kinds of reports. On this one, I recommend you actually read the market overview on top. There is some excellent and well written content up there that is worth your time.

About the author

Eric Minick, DevOps Offering Manager, Hybrid Cloud, IBM

Eric Minick leads the DevOps offering management team in IBM’s Hybrid Cloud group. He joined IBM through its acquisition of UrbanCode. He has spent the last 15 years helping organizations large and small adopt continuous integration, delivery and, DevOps. He is a frequent speaker on the topic, and co-authored “Application Release and Deployment For Dummies.” Prior to consulting, Eric was a developer, test automation engineer and support engineer, and has contributed to multiple generations of UrbanCode products. Follow him on Twitter at @ericminick.