Blue Canvas vs. Rocket DevOps

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Blue Canvas
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Cloud-based DevOps solution for Salesforce that helps businesses manage continuous deployment, source code, and unit tests. The platform aims to enable admin teams to leverage Git without massive overhead and training, using Git to compare orgs with thousands of differences in seconds. Commit, compare, merge, review, and backup.Be prepared to rollback any release with continuous metadata backups; automatically run tests on each deployment.N/A
Rocket DevOps
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Rocket DevOps (formerly Rocket Aldon) enables true end-to-end (CI/CD) for IBM i+ environments. Businesses can extend holistic DevSecOps best practices to the IBM i, pursue innovative experimentation, easily respond to compliance audits, and adapt to the ever-changing expectations of process, technology, or experience.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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User Ratings
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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Rocket Aldon is perfect for simple changes to traditional IBM i development using RPGLE, CL, and DDS. It is great for finding related objects that are referenced in many locations and helping recompile all of these objects. However, Aldon has a particularly hard time with SQL views. For some reason, it is determined to lock every table related to a view even though this is not required by the operating system. Whenever one view references another view, you are always in danger of losing a view permanently if you didn't check it out and promote it. To clarify, imagine you created a view CUSTOMER_INFO. Then you make another view called CUSTOMER_SHIPMENTS that joins the CUSTOMER_INFO to a shipping table. If you ever change CUSTOMER_INFO and then promote it, there is a good chance that Aldon will delete the CUSTOMER_SHIPMENTS view and you will not get a single warning. It doesn't happen every time but when it does you are going to have a real mess on your hands.
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Pros
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  • Software Change Management
  • IBM i development
  • Object relationships
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Cons
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  • Check-in checkout process can be cumbersome
  • UI is crowded and not intuitive
  • Requires in house expertise maintain and manage
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Likelihood to Renew
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Based on current integration with our release process, we will need to keep this for the future.
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Support Rating
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Support is hit and miss. Sometimes they give some great assistance and sometimes they are no help at all. It always seems like they can't replicate the problem but then they never try to get on our system to do deeper research. It's kind of frustrating dealing with them. Also, the website isn't that helpful.
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Alternatives Considered
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There are not a lot of CMS solutions for the IBM i server. Midrange Dynamics MDCMS is definitely one to consider. It seems very similar to Aldon Rocket and has a lot more functionality. I haven't used it but I have been to a demo and it looks promising. It seems a lot more intuitive and the promotions seem easier. However, that was a demo environment and even then it crashed so there's that to consider....
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Return on Investment
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  • Software promotion is much easier and doesn't require custom coding.
  • Developers can work collaboratively with less overlap.
  • Developers can find objects faster and research code more thoroughly.
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ScreenShots

Blue Canvas Screenshots

Screenshot of Visualize a pipeline. Connect as many orgs as needed. Constant metadata backup. Roll down prod changes to all dev sandboxesScreenshot of Git-diff sandboxes through a Salesforce-like UIScreenshot of Cherrypick which permission sets to synch with the deploymentScreenshot of Pre-deployment checks & resolution guidance. Peer Review Policy. Merge conflicts, rollbacks, hotfixes... handled on the go! Jira and Azure DevOps integration built-in.