We performed a comparison between Microsoft SMS and Sonatype Nexus Repository based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonatype, EMCO Software, Microsoft and others in Software Distribution."It has been working for us, and it has never been down so far."
"One of the most valuable features is the variety of permissions you can use on the repository. That helps us protect access to the information inside of the repository."
"The key benefit we get from it is speed to delivery. It has improved our overall time to get new applications out with new code. That's true whether from a platform perspective, where we are quickly deploying up-to-date docker containers, or whether we are looking to deploy new code out to deliver a new application."
"I onboarded .NET, then I onboarded JS. And about six or eight months back, I onboarded Python. And I am about to onboard Docker. The availability of integrations allows me to do this."
"I have found managing the artifact features very useful."
"The searching capability is good... and we are managing multiple central repositories."
"The most valuables features of the Sonatype Nexus Repository are you can block any uploads that you do not want. For example, from Maven. Even though someone will try to create a pump file with a package not currently in our repository, they can go and get it, but it won't store it into the Sonatype Nexus Repository and therefore won't be propagated across the enterprise."
"For us, the ability to do proxying and federations of repositories is very important. It gives us flexibility. We are the largest physics research laboratory in the world. With 12,000 people, we need to have good solutions to federate organizations inside our lab."
"Sonatype Nexus Repository has a valuable internal scanner feature."
"Its dashboard can be improved and made a little bit better."
"If your emphasis shifts towards NPM products or NuGet, using Nexus is still feasible but may require more effort. The tool is more centered around Maven, making it a bit challenging to seamlessly integrate with NPM."
"Particularly concerning OSF-type licenses, while they support a multitude of features, there's room for improvement in the single point transform, especially for grouping. It appears that currently, the grouping functionality is not robust, particularly for Docker images within a group. The support for this aspect seems to be contingent on the license type. For instance, with the Voss license type, there is a noticeable absence of support for this feature. This is an area that could benefit from enhancement in the upcoming updates."
"Lacks an end-to-end solution for developers to sign and store an image."
"We had some issues with the container platform, but we raised a support ticket and it was sorted out for us."
"I would like to see them build in some scanning features out-of-the-box, as opposed to only getting them by buying the add-ons of Nexus IQ Server. I would like to see some level of ability to filter in the tool itself, through scanning the binaries in there."
"[A] main feature that is missing in Nexus IQ is the ability to explore the history of the different reports that have been generated for a given product. For the time being, in the Nexus IQ UI, we are only able to browse the latest reports that have been generated for a given product. It would be really useful for us to be able to go back in time by browsing through the reports and to have a tool that would give us the evolution of the metrics."
"I'm waiting for hot publication between several Nexus instances. That's more important for me right now because in our company we have several locations distributed all over the world, and each location is producing its own artifacts, sometimes for the same project. I really would appreciate a scenario where the developers could provide their data to the local repository and it would be hot-replicated to the other repository instances."
"The only thing that I would like to see is multifactor authentication. This is a critical feature that must be included."
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Microsoft SMS is ranked 4th in Software Distribution while Sonatype Nexus Repository is ranked 1st in Software Distribution with 15 reviews. Microsoft SMS is rated 8.0, while Sonatype Nexus Repository is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft SMS writes "Reliable, stable, and free with our subscription". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sonatype Nexus Repository writes "Vastly improved our whole release cycle; automated processes help to deliver code". Microsoft SMS is most compared with EMCO MSI Package Builder, whereas Sonatype Nexus Repository is most compared with JFrog Artifactory, Archiva, Bitbucket Data Center, Inedo ProGet and EMCO Remote Installer.
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