SFDC DevOps vs Copado vs Gearset

Are you looking for a Dev Ops solution and considering SFDC DevOps, Copado, and Gearset.

Evaluating DevOps Center vs. Copado Essentials+, and I can share some high-level takeaways.

In favor of Copado Essentials+:

• Product has been around longer, is much better tested, has addressed customer pain points over time, etc. DevOps Center's current limitations around validation-only deployments and work item revisions and bugs when attempting to promote work items piecemeal definitely give us pause.

• Better visualization of deployment status

• Better visibility into diffs when selecting elements to include in a deployment/work item

• Including Profiles in source control is better supported (for companies not ready to migrate field/class/flow permissions to Permission Sets)

• More complete support for rollbacks (no need to use Git commands to achieve this)

• Jira integration is provided (although, to be fair, you can always put a link to a Jira issue in a DevOps Center work item description)

In favor of DevOps Center:

• Better integration of admin-centric workflows (Work Items) with dev-centric workflows (Git-based). In Copado Essentials+, choosing to use pro-clicks features like Work Items means compromising code reviews in GitHub, Git-based approaches to merge conflicts, workflows involving more than a single dev environment, etc. We believe DevOps Center offers a more complete conceptualization of Work Items.

• A Kanban-like pipeline UI that helps better visualize all in-flight work at a high level

• Ability to leverage source tracking to identify items to commit/deploy

• Ability to easily integrate and remove disposable dev environments in a pipeline, including both sandboxes and scratch orgs

• Better support/prompts to accommodate and promote back syncing of dev environments

• Adopting DevOps Center gives our team the opportunity to master what will likely be a core competency for Salesforce pros in the future

• You can't beat the price

It's early days, but right now we are pushing forward with DevOps Center.