Gartner defines enterprise agile planning (EAP) tools as products that enable organizations to scale their agile practices to support a holistic enterprise view. These tools act as a hub for defining, planning, managing and deploying work. They also serve as an information hub for the disparate islands of metrics from the full life cycle. Just as agile is an evolution of development methodologies, EAP tools are an evolution of project-/team-centric tools. They support a business-outcome-driven approach to managing the full life cycle of agile product delivery at scale.

Enterprise Agile Planning Tools

Gartner defines DevOps platforms as those that provide fully integrated capabilities to enable continuous delivery of software using Agile and DevOps practices. The capabilities span the development and delivery life cycle built around the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline and include aspects such as versioning, testing, security, documentation and compliance. DevOps platforms support team collaboration, consistency, tool simplification and measurement of software delivery metrics.
DevOps platforms simplify the creation, maintenance and management of the components required for the delivery of modern software applications. Platforms create common workflows and data models, simplify user access, and provide a consistent user experience (UX) to reduce cognitive load. They lead to improved visibility, auditability and traceability into the software development value stream. This end-to-end view encourages a systems-thinking mindset and accelerates feedback loops.

DevOps Platforms

Gartner defines the application security testing (AST) market as the buyers and sellers of products and services designed to analyze and test applications for security vulnerabilities. This market is highly dynamic and continues to experience rapid evolution in response to changing application architectures and enabling technologies.
AST tools are offered either as software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based subscription offerings, or less often, as on-premises software. Many vendors offer both options.

Application Security Testing

Gartner defines software engineering intelligence (SEI) platforms as solutions that provide software engineering leaders data-driven visibility into the engineering team’s use of time and resources, operational effectiveness, and progress on deliverables. This data-driven visibility enables software engineering leaders and their teams to make smarter business decisions, which leads to the delivery of increased value to customers. SEI platforms must be able to ingest and analyze the signals created by common engineering tools and systems. They must provide rich, tailored, role-specific user experiences to enable leaders to more easily query data to identify important trends and gain contextual insights.
Software engineering intelligence platforms are used by software engineering leaders and their teams to better understand how software solutions are being built and delivered. Teams can more easily see where they are spending time and how they are approaching code quality (e.g., code reviews), and better understand team flow through key metrics like deployment frequency and cycle time. These platforms serve as a single source of truth for engineering data, providing a unified, comprehensive and transparent view of the engineering processes. Key engineering metrics for delivering digital products include team productivity, business alignment, software quality and operations effectiveness.
Organizations can use SEI platforms to better understand their software development life cycle and gain insights into how their teams build software. These organizations can use these insights to continually adjust, experiment with and improve their processes and practices, yielding improved business alignment, higher quality software and happier, more productive teams.

Software Engineering Intelligence Platforms (Transitioning to Developer Productivity Insight Platforms)

Software Engineering Intelligence Platforms

Code review tools are software applications that help developers review and improve code quality by examining code changes, identifying issues, and ensuring adherence to standards. These tools enhance collaboration and knowledge sharing among team members, making the codebase more maintainable and reliable. Key features include enhancing code quality by automatically checking for coding standards, bugs, and security vulnerabilities. These tools allow reviewers to provide clear, actionable feedback through inline comments and streamline the integration of code changes via pull requests or merge requests. Typical users include developers, team leads, and quality assurance engineers who collaborate to maintain high code quality and streamline the development process.

Code Review Tools

Gartner defines Software Composition Analysis (SCA) as a technology that analyzes applications and related artifacts (containers, registries, etc.) to detect open-source and third-party software components known to have security and functional vulnerabilities, are out-of-date for security patches, or that pose licensing risks. SCA products and services help ensure the enterprise software supply chain includes only secure components and, therefore, supports secure application development and assembly

Software Composition Analysis (Transitioning to Software Supply Chain Security)

Software Composition Analysis

Application security posture management (ASPM) tools continuously manage application risk through collection, analysis and prioritization of security issues from across the software life cycle. They ingest data from multiple sources, maintain an inventory of all software within an organization, correlate and analyze findings for easier interpretation, triage and remediation. They enable the enforcement of security policies and facilitate the remediation of security issues while offering a comprehensive view of risk across applications.

Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) Tools

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SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

While the version control and repository management are excellent, the user interface can feel slow and cluttered at times, especially when navigating through a complex project with many pipelines.

EQUIPO DE PRODUCCION

Gitlab es una plataforma bastante equilibrada y completa para la gestión del clico de vida de los desarrollos de software. Permite tener un gran control de versiones, asegurar la integración continua y el despliegue automatizado en un mismo entorno.
Su interfaz es bastante intuitiva y fácil de iniciarse en ella, permite que varios equipos colaboren en un mismo proyecto manteniendo la trazabilidad y orden de los despliegues de codigo

Gitlab is a well-balanced and comprehensive platform for managing the software development lifecycle. It allows for robust version control, continuous integration, and automated deployment within a single environment.
Its interface is intuitive and easy to learn, allowing multiple teams to collaborate on the same project while maintaining traceability and order of code deployments.

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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Blueprint

OpenText (Micro Focus)

DevFactory

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Perforce

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Businessmap

Favro

Enalean

Xeleron

Aha!

Pivotal (moved to VMware)

Panaya

Atlassian (AgileCraft)

IT PROJECT MANAGER

My experience is mixed because while GitLab effectively centralizes projects, it creates a barrier for non-technical team members. The platform is clearly designed by and for developers.

Senior Devops Engineer

Agile is very must and imp methodology now a days for every software engineer and GitLab has designed itself in such a way to adopt this new methodology.
User story, Task, EPIC, Points and estimation, different product backlogs, Sprint/iteration etc has been successfully mapped. Burndown charts also shows important feature which help us in achieving milestone. Development team can accelerate their work based on  Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme Programming feature of GITLAB.

Software Developer

 Now a days in companies for planning and agile management of any software GitLab proved as an awesome platform. Git provides very rich features for continuous integration, project management. 

Senior React Developer

I have been using GitLab since last year. When comparred with GitHub it has some cons. The UI is not good. The features are not as excepted. It has covered almost features which is available in GitHub. The main disadvantage is UI. The comparison of the files in a repo has a messy UI. The diff mechanism not as good. The pull request feature is good but when we got a conflict, the resolving process was hectic than GitHub.

Software Engineer

GitLab is so satisfying source control and CI/CD solution for our product where our automation solution gets stored as code as well as the developer product gets deployed to the production in no time with the help of amazing fast GitLab CI.

Technology Analyast

I love Gitlab. Maybe out of familiarity but I use it for both my profesional and personnal repositories. 

IT Associate

Terrific all-in-one DevOps product for our internal development teams. We use GitLab extensively as our code repository and CI/CD pipeline. It integrates very well with our other tools such as Atlassian Jira to provide an end-to-end experience.

Software developer

GitLab has been wonderful for enterprise-level software planning and then in the further development of that software.  GitLab provides a way to create private repositories which can be shown only to our team members. GitLab has a weak pull request merging and review system. It provides wonderful built-in support for the users to do agile software development.

Sales Analytics

Gitlab brought another face to our organization. We use it daily in the planning and monitoring of activities and projects. Our managers maintain this control over their teams through the use of GitLab.

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It totally transformed the complete development workflow by having all dev-ops related things like version control, CI/CD pipelines, issue tracking and security scanning in one thing. It eliminates the usage of multiple tools decreasing cost and increasing productivity. 

IT Services Associate

GitLab is a powerful platform for managing source code, streamlining CI/CD, and enabling team collaboration. The product provides a centralized environment for version control, code reviews, and automated deployments, which has significantly improved our development workflows.

PRODUCT MARKETING LEAD

I have been using GitLab's solution for the past 1.5 years across multiple teams and projects. It has helped me streamline and manage our agile delivery lifecycle. The biggest pro is the end-to-end DevOps integration. As a PRoject Manager/Business Analyst it really helped me get quick updates due to the epic, issue and milestone hierarchy. While working at bigger theam the collaboration tools also played a big role in me loving this product. With a quick learning curve if coming from similar agile tools, my experience has been great.

IT SECURITY & RISK MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATE

Al usar esta herramienta una de las caracteristicas que mas me sorprendio fue su capacidad para poder tener el control de los ciclos de vida de los software en los equipos, ademas de poder realizar pruebas, despliegues y monitoreos en un solo lugar.

Data Analyst/BA

GitLab has been a reliable and comprehensive DevOps platform for our organization. Our overall experience with the vendor has been positive, especially in terms of the platform's depth of features, support responsiveness and the flexibility it provides for CI/CD, version control and project collaboration.

Head of IT Architecture

GitLab provides a complete suite of functionalities for managing CI/CD and source code management even for large companies. It's easy to use and is an essential tool for efficient development teamwork.

IT Support

We are using GitLab to develop our software and we are very satisfied with the tool. We also use many build- and testrunner to verify our code and the code reviews are done within our programming departments

ASSOCIATE

Overall experience with GitLab seems excellent. 
It provides repository facilities for organizations to securely store and manage their projects as repositories, and the entire team can work collaboratively.
It's a complete DevOps tool for project storing, planning, maintaining, monitoring, and working among the team members. 


IT ASSOCIATE

Insgesamt ist meine Erfahrung mit Gitlab sehr positiv. Die Plattform bietet eine leistungsstarke und flexible Umgebung für Versionskontrolle, CI/CD und Projektmanagement. Besonders schätze ich die Möglichkeit, alles in einem Tool zu vereinen. Die Benutzeroberfläche ist übersichtlich, und die Integration mit anderen Tools funktioniert gut.
Es gibt eine gute Kontrolle über die Benutzerrechte und Repository-I/O.

The platform is reliable, easy to use, and provides powerful tools for version control, CI/CD, and team collaboration. It has streamlined our development process and improved efficiency.

QA Engineer

Gitlab is very good option for managing devops workflows. I used it mainly in StartUps. Great thing about this tool is that you can monitor and issue tracking, besides version control and repo hosting. It provides utility for storing any dependency your project needs. And of course, CI CD would be the main thing, all the deployment and release process.  

SOC Manager

It helps us to speed development. The platform is intuitive and makes collaboration easier. The version control also works very well, therefore our experience is very positive.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

GitLab is an excellent choice if your goal is to consolidate your tech stack and build a cohesive, automated DevSecOps workflow. You trade a bit of simplicity and single-purpose polish for a highly integrated, secure, and powerful development environment.

Lead System Engineer (R&D)

For more than 10 years I have used GitLab daily and have seen the evolution of this product. Versus other analogs, the best tools for team work, automation and DevOps'ing...

Architect

Excellent software for code management that works extremely well for project management but is somewhat disconnected from our developers side, meaning they have to adapt to how gitlab takes, tests and deploys their code. The transition is not entirely seamless. 

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GitLab is a comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform for software innovation. Through a single application with a common data store for the entire DevSecOps lifecycle, GitLab enables seamless and efficient agile software delivery from planning to deployment with complete visibility and traceability, helping organizations deliver software faster. With GitLab, customers can: (1) plan & track complex initiatives with multi-level work item hierarchies, (2) visualize progress of initiatives on flexible issue/ epic boards and over time via roadmaps, (3) code, collaborate and track development of a work item, (4) optimize team delivery with DORA and DevSecOps metrics from the Value Stream Dashboard,(5) maximize team collaboration with out of the box functionality for Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) and Disciplined Agile frameworks.

GitLab is a comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform for software innovation. As a software delivery platform for development, security, and operations teams, GitLab brings security and compliance to AI-powered workflows throughout the software delivery lifecycle, helping customers deliver secure software faster. GitLab Duo, the company’s suite of AI capabilities, improves team collaboration and reduces the security and compliance risks of AI adoption by bringing the entire software development lifecycle into a single AI-powered application that is privacy-first.

With GitLab, customers can visualize their end-to-end value streams, boost developer productivity with out-of-the-box analytics, and secure their software supply chain with SAST, DAST, secret detection, container scanning, and API testing. It enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, and accelerate cloud transformations to maximize the overall return on software development. 

GitLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate and build software. From idea to production, GitLab helps teams improve cycle time from weeks to minutes, reduce development costs and time to market while increasing developer productivity.

We're the world's largest all-remote company with team members located in more than 65 countries. As part of the GitLab team, you can work from anywhere with good internet. You'll have the freedom to contribute when and where you do your best work.

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