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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

87

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

87

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

87

Container Security Testing

86

Policy Engine and Enforcements

85

Risk Scoring

85

False Positive Remediation

83

Integrated Development Environment (IDE) plug-in

82

Mobile Application Security Testing

82

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)

82

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 86

Business Value Created

90

Ease of Implementation

89

Ease of Data Integration

88

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

87

Availability and Quality of Training

87

Breadth of Features

86

Ease of Customization

86

Quality of Features

86

Ease of IT Administration

86

Vendor Support

84

Usability and Intuitiveness

82

GitLab Ultimate Reviews

James H.

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

Submitted Dec 2022

The best code repository management program.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates GitLab Ultimate from other similar products?

The most stand out feature of Gitlab is its open source nature. This means that Gitlab's source code is available for everybody to view and contribute to its improvement. Gitlab's value stream reporting and planning features are other stand-out areas of this version control program.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Gitlab offers an helpful integration capability. Generally, we integrate Gitlab with other software , to enable all of my team members to collaborate with one another, at every phase of our projects. As an example, the integration between Gitlab and our preferred project management software ( Jira ) helps to accelerate specified aspects of our project management workflow, while also helping with automatic detection and cross referencing across all phases of team projects.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Gitlab doesn't provide support for mercurial version control repositories. Likewise, it does not support semantic search. The absence of the latter , leaves us with a slower and less advanced search function for repositories.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Gitlab offers the most complete package for software development lifecycle.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Emmeline A.

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

Submitted Dec 2022

Tool for managing large-scale projects

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates GitLab Ultimate from other similar products?

At every stage, from developing a strategy through production, development, implementation, tracking, and monitoring, we may participate in the dependable delivery of our projects and programs. We can also obtain deep visualization thanks to it. The security mechanisms in place can be changed by our company, allowing us to select the amount of protection and verification we want before integrating with the system.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Its most powerful feature is its ability to integrate with other third-party software. It also enables the quick construction of a helpful ecology because of its customizable options. The favorite feature is that our teams may do private projects for private repositories and limit access to a select group of individuals. By adding them to our favorites list and swiftly going to them, our favorite projects are always accessible.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The user interface might be more aesthetically beautiful and user-friendly, even though it is a fantastic tool for engineers. The application design might be modified to make it more aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly, even though it's a terrific tool for designers. Learning how to use it effectively may take some time, but once you do, you'll find it a helpful tool.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

GitLab provides accurate information and updates about progress, barriers, and results without modification or connection. It makes it possible for managers, decision-makers, and planners to interact directly with the project and its stages and move activities along more quickly without using another application or seeking outside assistance. Thanks to GitLab, our agile teams have significantly reduced cycle times and manual chores by collaborating, working more efficiently, and paying closer attention.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

Genesis B.

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

Submitted Dec 2022

A continuous deployment and virtualization tool.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates GitLab Ultimate from other similar products?

It also offers a free edition for individual users, perfect for small or newly established enterprises so they can run smoothly. The finest option I could find for the organization allows us to alter it to suit our approach's requirements, whether we use the official framework provided by the tool or our framework. Since this is my first time using something with its capability, usability, and customizability, I enjoy them.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

With the help of this technology, the developer can speed up the development process. CI/CD integration with GitLab is also flexible. Today, GitLab is every organization's leading platform for agile planning and development. The projects and the system's copies' safety and security remain intact. They are building a comprehensive history of those revisions while monitoring and regulating project changes.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Not all huge files can be supported because they bog down the suite and produce errors. Getting a handle on the workflow takes time and effort. The monitoring and control of updates need to be clarified for users and user groups. They are exceedingly slow and inattentive and frequently let tickets expire. Scaling the product is challenging. Because of this, I can only suggest scaling horizontally.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The GitLab enterprise agile Planning tool differentiates from rival offerings. It provides masterworks, challenges, milestones, objectives, iterations, and all other project planning assets with a single out-of-the-box platform for the project development lifecycle. The tool with the greatest functionality is my favorite, but it runs so slowly when we execute heavy tasks or try to scale it up.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing