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    IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloud Continuous Delivery, available on IBM Cloud, allows users to provision an integrated toolchain using customizable, shareable templates with tools from IBM, third parties and open source. Automate builds and tests with Tekton-based delivery pipelines, and control quality with analytics.

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    SonarQube Server

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/ASonarQube is a code quality and vulnerability solution for development teams that integrates with CI/CD pipelines to ensure the software you produce is secure, reliable, and maintainable.

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    IBM Cloud Continuous DeliverySonarQube Server
    Editions & Modules
    Lite
    $0.00
    Professional
    $35.00
    Authorized user per month
    Community
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    Developer EDITION
    starting at $720
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    Offerings
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    IBM Cloud Continuous DeliverySonarQube Server
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    IBM Cloud Continuous DeliverySonarQube Server
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    81%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    80%
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    IBM Cloud Continuous DeliverySonarQube Server
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery and SonarQube Server
    Feature
    IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
    8.5
    4 Ratings
    11% above category average
    SonarQube Server
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    Ratings
    Task Management8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Management8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling8.84 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology7.63 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document Management8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email integration8.63 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management8.63 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual planning tools9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Agile Development
    Comparison of Agile Development features of IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery and SonarQube Server
    Feature
    IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
    7.6
    6 Ratings
    8% below category average
    SonarQube Server
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    DevOps Tool Integrations8.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code Review7.45 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code Collaboration7.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Velocity Calculation6.84 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dependencies and Blockers7.25 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IBM Cloud Continuous DeliverySonarQube Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (16 ratings)
    8.9
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Usability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    IBM Cloud Continuous DeliverySonarQube Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    It provides a cloud-based integrated development environment that integrates with other IBM Cloud services to provide a streamlined development workflow. This includes real-time collaboration and code sharing capabilities, making it easy for teams to work together on projects. This feature is very useful for our app to maintain the code
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    Sonar
    SonarQube is excellent if you start using it at the beginning when developing a new system, in this situation you will be able to fix things before they become spread and expensive to correct. It’s a bit less suitable to use on existing code with bad design as it’s usually too expensive to fix everything and only allows you to ensure the situation doesn’t get worse.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • It contains the deployment templates which are much more time saving and is of great use.
    • This has the integration of the Cloud applications which makes the work much more convenient.
    • This is flexible when it comes to development, deployment, and delivery.
    • [It] also has a much more reasonable pricing.
    • Provides space for the data storage.
    • [IBM Cloud Developer Tools] also can support many useful tools.
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    Sonar
    • Detecting bugs and vulnerabilities: SonarQube can identify a wide range of bugs and vulnerabilities in code, such as null pointer exceptions, SQL injection, and cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. It uses static analysis to analyze the code and identify potential issues, and it can also integrate with dynamic analysis tools to provide even more detailed analysis.
    • Measuring code quality: SonarQube can measure a wide range of code quality metrics, such as cyclomatic complexity, duplicated code, and code coverage. This can help teams understand the quality of their code and identify areas that need improvement.
    • Providing actionable insights: SonarQube provides detailed information about issues in the code, including the file and line number where the issue occurs and the severity of the issue. This makes it easy for developers to understand and address issues in the code.
    • Integrating with other tools: SonarQube can be integrated with a wide range of development tools and programming languages, such as Git, Maven, and Java. This allows teams to use SonarQube in their existing development workflow and take advantage of its powerful code analysis capabilities.
    • Managing technical debt: SonarQube provides metrics and insights on the technical debt on the codebase, enabling teams to better prioritize issues to improve the quality of the code.
    • Compliance with coding standards: SonarQube can check the code against industry standards like OWASP, CWE and more, making sure the code is compliant with security and coding standards.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Its price is quite high and this made it unsuitable for us as we cannot afford such high rates.
    • Its Setup takes much longer time and this is frustrating.
    • Its interface needs to be improved and easy even for the Newbies.
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    Sonar
    • Importing a new custom quality profile on SonarQube is a bit tricky, it can be made easier
    • Every second time when we want to rerun the server, we have to restart the whole system, otherwise, the server stops and closes automatically
    • When we generate a new report a second time and try to access the report, it shows details of the old report only and takes a lot of time to get updated with the details of the new and fresh report generated
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    It's a great platform to develop, run, test and deploy the applications easily. And it makes very easier and secure the implementation of continuous delivery process. For first time and experts also can use this service so easily. Great service provided by the IBM Cloud Continuous Service. There are more services that helps a lot to work on it. Thanks a lot.
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    Sonar
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    Usability
    IBM
    Nothing special to say : the UX is clear and simple.
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    Sonar
    It can improve in some user experience and usability parts, like the code view and the way we assign issues it's a bit hidden and not highlighted
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    In more than a year using the IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery tool, I haven't had any major complaints or problems. However, in the last month, IBM suffered from a couple of problems through several of its services, and for a short period of time, I couldn't deploy successfully my projects. The problem was brief and was quickly fixed.
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    Sonar
    We we easily able to integrate the SonarQube steps into our TFS process via the Microsoft Marektplace, we didn't have the need to call SonarQube support. We've used their online documentation and community forum if we ran into any issues.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    We chose IBM Cloud Developer Tools for multiple reasons. Cost, current infrastructure vendor list, and Cloud Operations team experience were key driving factors for us. Palo Alto's Prisma Cloud product was slick for sure but we found it more difficult to deploy and integrate with our current environment and applications
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    Sonar
    SonarQube is an open-source. It's a scalable product. The costs for this application, for the kind of job it does, are pretty descent. Pipeline scan is more secured in SonarQube. Its a very good tool and its support multiple languages. Its main core competency is of static code analysis and that is why SonarQube exists and it does it exceedingly well. The quality of scan on code convention, best practices, coding standards, unit test coverage etc makes them one of the best competent tool in the market
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • This has made the configuration files much easier to access.
    • Has made the commands more logical as well as easy for use and learning.
    • Contains great AI capabilities
    • The documentation needs improvement.
    • Error received from commands are pretty hard to understand.
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    Sonar
    • Positive ROI from the standpoint of flagging several issues that would have otherwise likely been unaddressed and caused more time to be spent closer to launch
    • Slightly positive ROI from time-saving perspective (it's an automated check which is nice, but depending on the issues it finds, can take developers time to investigate and resolve)
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