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Our users have ranked these solutions according to their valuable features, and discuss which features they like most and why.
You can read user reviews for the top Workload Automation Tools to help you decide which solution is best for you.
Users compare and give feedback on Workload Automation Tools that they’ve used — based on product reviews, ratings, and comparisons.
#1 Control-M
Control-M is ranked as PeerSpot’s #1 Workload Automation Tool. Our users give Control-M an average rating of 8 out of 10.
An AVP Systems Engineer at a financial services firm writes of the solution, “The File Transfer component is quite valuable. The integration with products such as Informatica and SAP are very valuable to us as well. Rather than having to build our own interface into those products, we can use the ones that come out of the box. The integration with databases is valuable as well.”
Randy S., Sr. Systems Engineer at a financial services firm, says, “The capabilities of auditing have been great. The ease of use is one of its great aspects. It's very easy to use and very easy to pick up. The product scales quite well. Technical support is very helpful and available 24/7. The stability is excellent.”
Abhishek S., a Subject Matter Expert at a consumer goods company, mentions, “Workload Archiving is a very good feature for us. It helps with our customer requirements in terms of reporting and auditing... Previously, when we didn't have any archive server, we managed the data in Control-M with man-made scripts, and we would pull the data for the last 365 days, or three or four months back.”
#2 OpCon
OpCon is ranked as PeerSpot’s #2 Workload Automation Tool. Our users give OpCon an average rating of 10 out of 10.
One PeerSpot reviewer, a Systems Analyst at a financial services firm, writes of the product, “Its flexibility would be the greatest benefit to it. You can really come up with some creative scheduling solutions. You're only limited by your imagination with some of the stuff. There are some limitations to it, of course, but I would say the biggest plus is the flexibility that it offers and its integration to the core.”
Rani J., Manager of Computer Operations at a financial services firm, notes, “OpCon is pretty easy to use. I'm not a programmer, I had no formal training. They offer some basic training courses. They also have a lot of documentation online and their support staff is super helpful. So it's pretty easy as long as you can take the time to familiarize yourself. It's a pretty easy application.
Tom G., IT Analyst I at Redwood Credit Union, says of the product, “Last year, we added a second environment and the OpCon Deploy product. This has allowed us to build a testing environment. This has been a great addition for us as we can work through our workflows without disrupting our production environment.”
#3 ActiveBatch Workload Automation
ActiveBatch Workload Automation is ranked as PeerSpot’s #3 Workload Automation Tool. Our users give ActiveBatch Workload Automation an average rating of 8 out of 10.
Peter B., Senior System Analyst at an insurance company, writes of the solution, “One of the valuable features is the ability to tie ActiveBatch into other applications using API calls. The native integrations and REST API adapter for orchestrating the entire tech stack are very good and user friendly. We have a product called ServiceNow, which is a call tracking system. If a problem occurs, ActiveBatch will send an API call into ServiceNow, and it will raise a ticket to say that there's a problem.
Bhasker C., Manager at a financial services firm, notes, “One of the most valuable features of this solution is the versatility of the prebuilt jobs.” He adds, “The scalability of the solution is good.”
#4 AutoSys Workload Automation
AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked as PeerSpot’s #4 Workload Automation Tool. Our users give AutoSys Workload Automation an average rating of 8 out of 10.
An Executive Director at a financial services firm says, “It is very valuable for us when we are trying to arrange or orchestrate jobs into a system. It is helpful for triggering jobs for a scheduled task.” He adds, “I would rate it a nine out of 10.”
Another PeerSpot reviewer, an IT consultant at a computer software company, notes of the product, “The most valuable features of AutoSys Workload Automation are the file transfer protocol and file watcher. The solution has a user-friendly user interface. It is very simple to use. You have a scope of all your jobs, jobs are what you call tasks that you will automate in the solution. It lets you monitor everything in these jobs.”
A Head of Consumer Insurance at an insurance company mentions, “It gives a real-time view of all the batch processing that we have. Monitoring-wise, it is really good. It also gives us the ability to connect different software processes.”
#5 Automic Workload Automation
Automic Workload Automation is ranked as PeerSpot’s #5 Workload Automation Tool. Our users give Automic Workload Automation an average rating of 8 out of 10.
Shulamit A., Department Manager at an insurance company, says of the solution, “The feature that I have found most valuable is that we can control between a lot of operating systems and other products because we have a lot of old and new products in our environment. It helps us to control all of them together.”
Another PeerSpot reviewer, a Senior Systems Analyst at a retailer, notes, “The reason we went with Automic is very simple. We were using ESP, which was a Broadcom product. So, Automic happened to be a natural fit. It was a much easier transition from ESP to Automic. We had familiarity with the vendor and the product.”
A Senior Technical Consultant at a tech services company writes of the solution, “The most valuable features are its robustness, it's highly scalable, and it's easy to implement.” He adds, “I rate Automic Workload Automation a nine out of ten. I recommend this solution to others.”
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