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GitLab Ultimate

Composite Score
9.1 /10
CX Score
9.5 /10
Category
GitLab Ultimate
9.1 /10

What is GitLab Ultimate?

With GitLab, Security is built into the CI pipeline, out of the box. Every code commit is automatically scanned for security vulnerabilities in your code and its dependencies. Actionable results are delivered to the developer in their native workflow for rapid remediation.

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GitLab Ultimate Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

90 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+98 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love GitLab Ultimate?

2% Negative
1% Neutral
97% Positive

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

Feature Ratings

Average 86

Automated Workflow

89

Vulnerability Scanning

88

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

87

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

87

Container Security Testing

87

Policy Engine and Enforcements

85

Risk Scoring

85

Integrated Development Environment (IDE) plug-in

84

False Positive Remediation

84

Mobile Application Security Testing

82

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)

82

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 87

Business Value Created

90

Ease of Implementation

89

Ease of Data Integration

88

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

88

Availability and Quality of Training

87

Breadth of Features

87

Ease of Customization

86

Quality of Features

86

Ease of IT Administration

86

Vendor Support

84

Usability and Intuitiveness

83

GitLab Ultimate Reviews

Naziya A.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2023

Open-Source Platform For Project Management

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates GitLab Ultimate from other similar products?

It includes features that aid in my productive and secure work, like continuous integration/deployment, sprints, milestone tracking, secure code reviews, advanced role-based permissions settings, and more. We have a code quality function provided by Githab. We can evaluate the caliber of our source code with this tool.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It has effective project management tools for monitoring development tasks and promoting teamwork. Private repository access is granted to users in accordance with their individual rights and restricted organization settings. Developers can quickly identify issues and securely deploy changes thanks to its continuous integration/deployment functionality. It is an excellent tool for managing, storing, and setting up continuous distribution as necessary.

What do you dislike most about this product?

For larger activities or many projects, the allocated storage space is insufficient. Additionally, the lack of third-party connectors makes it challenging to maintain data synchronization across numerous systems.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

A complete Git repository with branching, merging, and pull requests is available through GitLab. To facilitate better teamwork, GitLab provides a variety of collaboration tools like merge requests, wikis, and comment threads. To assist teams in remaining structured and on task, GitLab provides a variety of project management tools, such as issue tracking, milestone tracking, and a kanban board.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Efficient Service
  • Effective Service

Estelle M.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Finance
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

Great code collaboration platform.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates GitLab Ultimate from other similar products?

The Gitlab platform is known for its unique CICD ( continuous integration and continuous delivery ) workflow. This workflow, brings automation into critical processes, required to develope , test and deploy our code into our production environment. Leading to automated security tests and feedback provisions for peer to peer code reviews.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Gitlab's version control is an important part of my day to day experience with this tool. We utilize this function to primarily collaborate and maximize productivity. Another key benefit of Gitlab's version control system , is that it enables clear code reviews, branching patterns , and asset version control, which are key for faster problem solving and quicker product delivery.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Kubernetes is the adopted code orchestration system of choice within my institution , and I dislike that Gitlab's integration with this tool is inadequately limited. This reduces the efficiency of our inhouse workflow processes, when developing containerized applications.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Collaboration on large scale development projects with lots of contributors , is a fantastic use-case for the Gitlab repository, software development platform.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Security Protects

Adenike O.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

Ideal Git program for software innovation.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates GitLab Ultimate from other similar products?

Security is the key area where Gitlab thrives and it is in this aspect , that it rises above other Git alternative platforms. Gitlab offers different security testing methodology , which helps us deliver a secured software end-product , that is also compliant with the latest industry requirements as far as security is concerned. Some of the security testing methodologies that Gitlab provides includes - dynamic application security testing ( DAST ) , dependency scanning, container scanning and Static application security testing (SAST).

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

This has got to be the fact , that Gitlab is open source. A major benefit of using an open source Git platform like Gitlab is the access to unique innovations , which thousands of developers and engineers all over the world, are continuously refining and adding to the Gitlab program. Thereby , ensuring that Gitlab is forever improving as a platform.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Gitlab does not provide analytics on its dashboard. Also, I think that Gitlab needs to provide better documentations , that will guide users on how to use its continuous integration and deployment features.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Gitlab has forever been the Git program I recommend to developers and engineers, because it covers all stages of software development and operations.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Security Protects
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