Automic Workload Automation Valuable Features

KD
Manager, Delivery at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

The tool's scheduling capabilities allow the tool to do output scans based on the report outputs. One can read the output scans, put them into variables, and do some clever calculations for decision-making which a human can do in a normal setting. Automic Workload Automation provides its users with flexibility and a flow chart visibility, allowing users to see how things are moving if there is a need for some action before resuming the workflow. The visibility Automic Workload Automation provides across platforms worked well for our team in the past.

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SandeepKumar10 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at MIRAKI TECHNOLOGIES

The solution includes many features and is scalable and stable. 

The automation tool provides scripting that is easy to convert for specific requirements. 

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MH
Senior Presales Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Unlike other Orchestration or Workload Automation tools, Automic Workload Automation stands out as a versatile single solution capable of handling various use cases such as business process automation, workload automation, service orchestration, and DR automation. There's no need for additional tools to make it compatible with your specific use case. Automic Workload Automation can handle it all without requiring any sideline tools to be installed.

The concept is that with a single skill set, you can automate all your daily automation requirements.

Automic Workload Automation offers a useful scripting language that is built on top of JCL. Unlike other workload automation tools in the market that have to rely on third-party integrators, such as Python to develop their own scripts, Automic Workload Automation provides a scripting language that can be easily implemented with support from the vendor. This makes the implementation process smooth and hassle-free, and the scripting language can be used to run any impetus within the process. With the help of this scripting language, there are no limitations to what can be automated. Automic Workload Automation provides a flexible and powerful solution for automating various tasks.

The solution can be deployed quickly with Kubernetes which is useful.

There are frequent updates fixing vulnerabilities and other problems.

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Buyer's Guide
Automic Workload Automation
April 2024
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SS
Application Developer Senior Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

In the latest version, we can access the solution through a web browser as well. 

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Bernd Stroehle. - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at KosaKya

Automic Workload Automation is a highly complex yet versatile tool.

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Ralph Franzke - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at setis GmbH

It's a powerful product.

I'm very familiar with the interface. It's easy to use. It's very intuitive and useful.

Nearly all of our business processes are automated using this product. It's not really complex. It has drag-and-drop capabilities. You can take an SAP job and move it into the workflow.

The scalability is great.

There's good visibility across operating platforms. You can see system states and logs, et cetera. It's powerful. You can analyze log files and get a good view of them. I'm not as familiar with the data analysis part, however, as I don't really use it. 

The solution offers connectivity in any direction. We have an old mainframe and have connectivity with special systems, SAP, and data connectors. 

It's helped us reduce workload failure across multiple cloud environments by 90%.

With this solution, we've been able to free up staff for other projects or tasks. The automation makes it possible to save time on various tasks.

We've been able to reduce operational costs thanks to its virtual presence.  

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LR
System Administrator with 201-500 employees

The USB port is okay. 

The product in general, is okay. I do appreciate it from an architecture point of view. 

The most important and critical process business in the bank, including COB, closed or business, which has to run on a daily basis, is automated. This is the most critical and the most important business process in the bank. 

The electronic work order combinations have the ability to scale and handle large volumes of data. So far, it's fine, as of right now. We don't have huge amounts of data. The amount of backups involved is quite limited, and for the amount of data exchange, it's actually pretty low. 

It is easy to manage complex workloads using automatic workflow automation. I would rate it above average. It's far from perfect. However, it's above average.

It's good for managing processes that span multiple operating platforms. We have very good integrations between everything. We have multiple agents surrounding only Nutanix. I'm happy with that.

Automic Automation helped improve our compliance processes. For example, we have to prove that we do a backup or daily backup, and so forth. It is very easy to extract the backup report and the enterprise report. Whenever we have a compliance audit, I can simply send those outputs and everything is fine.

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Harby Maranan - PeerSpot reviewer
Workload Automation SME at Dairy Farm

The Zero Upgrade feature is the most valuable. 

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RB
IT Manager at ESB
  • Stability
  • Versatility
  • It is integrated across all our IT platforms in our infrastructure, which is a big plus.
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GM
Sr Systems Analyst at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

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.

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Kuntal Sadhu - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at Wipro Limited

I like that Automic Workload Automation has many features compared to other products. There are a lot of good features, and architecture-wise there is a valuable client concept. The architecture and the multi-tenancy is a multi-client concept. That is also useful.

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AL
Systems Engineer at Merck KGaA
  • Flexibility
  • Easy to use
  • Stable automation engine
  • We do not have to use a broad variety of agents to connect to different types of systems.
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CB
Assistant Director of Production Services

An important feature is the ability to modify PeopleSoft Run Controls at run-time. We run all of the batch processes for the Student Information Systems, Finance, and HCM, which use Peoplesoft in our shop. The ability to modify dates, query names, batch numbers, etc., is paramount to my team. The ability of the Automic script/coding is also a valuable asset as it provides a way for us to meet any customer's requirements, no matter what it is, we can do it with Automic scripting.

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Nattapong Naserb - PeerSpot reviewer
Implementor , System Engineer at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

This is an easy-to-use, user-friendly product. The user interface is very simple and straightforward. 

It scales well. We can increase or reduce the number of nodes as needed. 

It is easy to set up. 

The solution is stable. 

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RR
Sr Production Control Analyst at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

It's easy to use. When you schedule jobs, if you can speak English you can schedule them easily and correctly.

There's a lot of flexibility because the product allows you to do many tasks, in multiple ways, so you can choose the way that works best for your environment.

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SA
Department Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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MM
Manager of Global Process Automation at Adidas Group

It is an easy product to use, and we can use it for end-to-end process automation. We also have the capabilities to do dashboarding, therefore we have an analytics product that can provide other things and value for us.

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HE
Administrator at Volkswagen Financial Services AG

The most valuable feature is it always runs things automatically that you normally have to do manually, like download files. We also use the FTP agent, where you have to download and upload files at a specific date.

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HR
System Specialist at a tech services company

We are on the user side of CA, not system engineers. We control the different batches, and this way is better for handling the systems than the way that we did it before. I like the script engine of CA, where you can build everything you want. If there are features not implemented, then you can script something around it, and it works.

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JK
Lead Systems Administrator at Great American Insurance

The usability of the user interface.  It just makes sense and it is easy to see the flow of the processes.  We have been slowly migrating to the web-based user interface, which has some of the older features missing, but also introduces additional new features.

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VS
Manager, Application Administration at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The ability the system has to dynamically create groups, schedules, and workflows is crucial to AMC. In a fast-paced, agile environment, the teams at AMC are very lean. Monitoring and maintaining of all the approximately 2,000,000 executions of Automic jobs are managed by only three employees. The system has been designed to be as dynamic and versatile as the business processes and teams that own them.

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AK
Automation Admin

The main things that we use it for are job control and batch. For these, it does very well.

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MS
IT Automation Specialist at dm-drogerie markt GmbH + Co. KG

The very special feature that we use is the connection to ServiceNow.

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it_user716556 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The visibility into what normally a monolithic script would do with the audit trail and version control features makes troubleshooting jobs a breeze. I use to have to manually code in logging tricks into my scripts, then parse though these file to see what was happening during execution. With AWA, I simply view the last run, or any previous run, and can visually see what happened with the ability to drill down to a specific part of the workflow. Viewing past modifications to objects would require a third party version management product with a check-out/check-in process; with Automic, every save is shown in a tab on the object.

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Antonio Cesar Dos Santos - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Operations Analyst at Dock Tech

Workload Automation's most valuable features are perspective analytics and coding.

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AI
Head of Branchless Banking at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

The best thing about the product is its agility. 

It is a complete solution: people, process, and technology.

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YY
System Specialist at Türkiye İş Bankası

I am using Automic Workload Automation for disaster recovery, and its monitoring capabilities and its scalability for our operations. It is very good.

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AK
UC4 Administrator at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It depends for me as an administrator. There are a lot of features which help us get a stable application. It is easy to have a stable production line, because this app supports us very well.

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IC
DevOps Engineer at 84.51
  1. The modulation of some of the things, like how the things are connected and disconnected. You have different login objects that you can quickly put to other different objects and other objects that you create, which makes transporting things very easy from one environment to the next. 
  2. I like the documentation that is out there. It is very good and the community that comes with it is really good. It provides a lot of different use cases similar to ours that people have for specific things which we can go out, look at, and receive some help on. 
  3. It is very technology agnostic. It fits with pretty much all the different types of technology, different types of servers, and different other types of languages that we use; it fits in very well with everything.
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it_user505632 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Web based GUI is available that can be handled from any device including desktop/laptop/phones.
  • $U works on various OS platforms and has integration with a number of applications such as SAP, ORACLE, FTP, etc.
  • No server agent architecture but still has a central management system so that you can manage all $U effortlessly. And you can manage security and authorization easily.
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Marcos L. Domingos - PeerSpot reviewer
ITSM Specialist at Qintess

Due to the fact that we have several solutions to be integrated into the ITSM processes, the possibility of having multiple client areas is important because it favors organizing integrations and automations.

We have other products from Broadcom (CA Technologies) in operation, and integration with these products was very smooth. It integrates easily with CA Service Desk Manager, CA Service Catalog and CA Process Automation, and more.

Adding that to the various packages and plugins available at Marketplace, the learning curve to make automation work was very fast.

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Baris Isiklilar - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at BTBilgi

The most valuable features are its robustness, it's highly scalable, and it's easy to implement. 

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AN
Automic Admin at IT Service Solutions Service Delivery

The two main things about it are its versatility and stability. For versatility, we bought it to do one job, and we now use it now for several jobs on all different types of applications. In regards to its stability, it is very reliable. We have never had any unplanned crashes. 

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MS
Systems engineer at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

The most valuable feature is that I do not have to wait for one job to finish, then manually click on the next one to start. Automation is the best feature.

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ME
Production Systems Engineer at Sofrecom

I have found new methods for converting scripts from Dollar U to ONE Automation. For example, I take the dynamic library from Dollar U and put it in the dynamic binary library in ONE Automation. This enables us to use Dollar U scripts in ONE Automation.

It's easy for integration, not like BMC Control-M. It's clear when there are errors or bugs. We can just go to the logs and read the error code and find what needs to be done.

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MW
Automation Engineer at Ing-Diba Ag

We can perform across platform automation with a product, and we are not bound to one architecture or system. We can bind together a lot of systems and ways of integrating systems. That is the most positive effect on our end. It is very flexible to program around your automation.

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IC
DevOps Engineer at 84.51

How technology agnostic it is. It works with all the different legacy solutions we have and it allows us to look at things in one location, as opposed to going to a lot of different places.

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it_user779145 - PeerSpot reviewer
Archive And Research And Development Lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Being able to script, create something I want the software to do for a specific job. This allows me to do that. Very powerful.

It's a scheduling tool on steroids. We can have a job run at certain times. If it fails, reset it a number of times and then send an e-mail. Send e-mails on any type of event. Calendar creation, schedule things on certain days, year-end stuff, period end. It's endless, really.

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SG
VP, Chief Technology & Digital officer

It's very hard to transfer the feeling when you have a platform that came to handle infrastructure issues, but at the end of the day, they are making real changes and impacting our business level, which is amazing, because it's very uncommon. That's it, basically.

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TQ
Automic Administrator at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The main features are the enormous, stripped function, which the software provides. Also, its many different agents which are supported in different platforms. 

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it_user779202 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The ability to be able to automate more of our business processes: 

  1. It gives us a lot of leverage in terms of what we can do with the product. 
  2. The predictive analytics portion, which is the reporting capability, gives us a lot of useful data.
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it_user779028 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at WageWorks

Doing more with less. It's allowing us to increase our overall volumes of data that we're working with, without actually increasing the overall amount of team that we need to monitor it. Since we can rely on its availability and quality, it has not been an issue.

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GN
Solutions Architect at Tata Consultancy

The most valuable features are the predefined templates for application-specific jobs and the access for different users.

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it_user797946 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a media company with 10,001+ employees

This product has really helped Comcast and the organization streamline a lot of independent jobs that we might have had. We can take something from crontab, something that's very nitty-gritty and low-level, and be able to put it into a nice interface, and be able to track it at every junction along the way, add alerting, all kinds of stuff, interdependencies. The list goes on and on.

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it_user779136 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at BECU

It is very scalable and robust, and it keeps growing with us.

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AS
Engineering Job Scheduling at IT S Care
  • All the possibilities, like scripting different objects. 
  • All the components that can be used to design workflows; process automation. 
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JM
Senior Programmer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The workflow allows us to integrate multiple applications into one flow and come up with a business result.

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it_user778872 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at Aci

Having automated, real-time notifications. If something is not available it's automatic where or whom to notify. And it's continuous processing.

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HE
Workload Automation Expert at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

We can use anything on the server, like PowerShell and flash. We can use whatever language that will make things easier.

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EF
Systems Engineer at Consoft Systemi

The most valuable feature is that it can be installed on any type of application on every kind of operating system and the agent can use it on these applications and systems.

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CB
Senior System Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our customers appreciate it mostly because it takes a lot of effort away from them. You can trust the system. If the system works well, the customers are satisfied. 

Most of our issues are related to the system, not the job scheduling, such as, bugs and unexpected downtime of the application or database.

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it_user779010 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Operations Lead at 84.51

Number one, A+, is the scripting language, and the ability to go in, and take an already robust, consistent, strong tool, and turn it into an incredibly scalable, flexible tool, that you can literally do anything you want to with.

Back in the old days, I would think, "Okay, if I need a specific job done, I would think, what type of Shell script, or maybe a Python program, would I have to right to get this done?" Now I can do everything inside of Automic itself, using Shell scripts, or using the Automic scripting language itself; makes it very powerful.

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it_user779070 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Production Control Specialist at SAIF Corporation

The new release is web-based, so that's a big, big improvement. A lot of our products that we use right now are going to that platform.

It's easy to train other people. A new developer could come in and learn it very quickly.

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JD
IT Specialist Automation Service Coordinator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature is the automation. There is the possibility to understand its different components. It is very open, where you can run different scripts or program scripts in PowerShell or Bash. Thus, it is open for various languages, and not closed to Java, where some other tools might be.

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AF
Application Operating Service Manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

The most valuable parts are the scalability and flexibility, where you can do whatever you think, then you can realize it in the product and have many ways to do it. So, there is not one road you can take, but many roads.

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RG
Automic Job Developer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

We are able to combine job scripting on the server and automation engine on the GUI. Therefore, we are capable to work in SAP and on the servers, then file transfer the whole product line, which Automic offers.

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TS
Associate Director at Pbb Deutsche

Our key feature is that we have different clients for different environments. We can manage all our environments using a transport case as a name of a feature. It is very helpful to have the same setup in each environment.

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TF
ICT Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Its stability.

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BS
Consultant at Project Management.Pl
  • Reliability
  • Transparency
  • Its processes are repeatable.
  • Easy to manage.

These are the most important features.

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RL
Senior Systems Engineer at a non-tech company with 11-50 employees

It is easy to manage and customize the system. It performs well.

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SG
Consultant

Most valuable is the script language that we use. There is also the opportunity to use the database information inside of the automation engine and current existing objects that you can stack against it.

I use this automation solution, because it is very flexible. This automation solution supports a lot of computer platforms. Also, a lot of operating systems are supported other than automation solutions. 

The one big advantage is the Bose-Bose implementation methods. One is with the graphical use interface, where you can use small items, and it is possible to implement via programming language, but mostly this is not the case. 

Mostly from my point of view, I need to isolate what is the use case of the customer, and what needs to be done. This is not technical.

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KD
Department Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature is the combination of normal job management with file transfer and scripting, so we have everything onboard.

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it_user840180 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature is the one for SAP batch processing. It's not just ordinary job processing. There are certain other mid-level workload automation tools which can handle the OS level, but SAP is something which is really very critical. Automic stands out from the ordinary tools because handling SAP processes is absolutely easy with it. Integrating SAP applications with Dollar U is very easy. It's just a few considerations and there you go. You can initiate your processing.

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JM
IT Support at Revenue (Ireland)
  • File transfer is excellent 
  • Very intuitive interface (Java version) 
  • Process flows are very easy to build.
  • Events are useful to trigger process flows based on external factors.
  • Zero downtime upgrade is a great idea!
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it_user895362 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable features are that a lot systems are supported. You can use this for z/OS, Windows, Unix, SAP, etc.

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DR
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
  • To automate the business.
  • The SQL agent
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TR
Systems Analyst at a tech services company

The features of the calendar are the most valuable, then the scripting. With the scripting, we can script all things, which is a first. As far as our schedules, if we have problems, we can create our own process in the automation, which is good.

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SV
Worker

Stability. It works without issues.

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it_user723048 - PeerSpot reviewer
SCM
  • Check-out
  • Check-in
  • Promote
  • Demote

Just that the basic functionality works.

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it_user1027005 - PeerSpot reviewer
Batch Scheduling DTS, Service Delivery Lead at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

It has its own scripting language which allows you to be even more flexible with the objects and create your own unique environment. You can easily have a single object with smartly defined parameters (variables) and reuse that object in many different workflows, passing different values to achieve different purposes. 

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AH
Systems Engineer at a tech services company

You can create very fine, granular workflows with a lot of possibilities. It gives you the possibility to do things in many ways. We do not have so many cases where you just can copy information here and there. Our customers have special needs, and we can use the tool to do that.

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CC
Automation Engine Admin at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
  • File transfer
  • The solution for rocket automation, as a file transfer and its agents.
  • Mostly SAP scripting.
  • Integration with most of the platforms that we have within the company's Windows, Linux, and Unix. Integrating these inside the automation agent for scheduling, backups, file transfer, and SAP jobs.
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it_user778713 - PeerSpot reviewer
Unix Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • ECUs
  • Easy scheduling
  • Reliability
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YM
Development Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The ease of deployment makes it easier when it comes to the development and testing of the automations.

It integrates well with the CICD pipeline.

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RF
Supporter at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

At the moment, we have clear batches to see workflows to control.

In the next version, I do not know what is coming up for us.

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AH
Service Management at Siemens Industry

Process automation.

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HQ
Architect & Technical Director at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

The most valuable feature of this solution is the scheduler.

The workflow is object-oriented.

The source code is centralized, rather than being deployed to the individual servers.

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RR
Systems Analyst at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

It is flexible. We can do additional scripting in Automic script, in combination with JSL language.

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WT
Consultant at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

Monitoring is very good.

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SS
Systems Administrator at Athene Deutschland Service Gmbh

It does its job.

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CM
Team Lead at a financial services firm

We are an old-fashioned company. We are only using the product for batch processing.

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NB
Production Services at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is a way to test the system from production, which is nice.

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Buyer's Guide
Automic Workload Automation
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Automic Workload Automation. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
767,995 professionals have used our research since 2012.