AutoSys Workload Automation Reviews

In our current environment, we have a large community of users. So Workload Automation helps us with our complex job scheduling with automating placements.

I believe it's a mission-critical application that is required within the company because everything requires to be scheduled. Everything needs to move. In today's economy, everything is 365-24/7.

In all aspects of the company, whether you're in the actual trading or in the wholesale or retail space, you're our internal client and we treat you like a customer. Ultimately, we're in operations.

It needs more complex scheduling capabilities on the end points. For that to happen, you really need the next version of AutoSys that has the ability to do that. We used it as an opportunity to test out what that next version going to look like, so when we deployed enterprise-wide, we had a little bit of understanding of how it's going to work.

Also, it shouldn't take longer than six months to do a deployment. I heard good things about being portable, meaning CA is able to introduce a lot of agents as packages on top of your existing environment that you're going to add. That's some of the good things that I'm hearing and I'm looking forward to seeing those because our business requirements always expand.

I'd also like to see iDASH integration with monitoring, which I think is up and coming.

I've used it for almost 3 years.

I've had no issues deploying it.

We've had stability issues, but CA's pretty prompt about fixing things for us. We've had commonly-known bugs that are fixed after an upgrade.

It's been scalable. Architecture-wise, it's pretty robust, and we've been able to work it out with CA. We run over 10,000 jobs a day.

Technical support is relatively on the upper hand of some of the companies that we deal with because we do have dealings with our account management team. When we have a major deployment, the support team is made fully aware of that. If, for example, if we're doing a deployment on the weekend, we have a 1-800 number that we can call. It's been great.

For the original implementation, I wasn't involved, but we are moving to a newer release. We have built an environment where I was involved. Complexity-wise, it's more or less a specific business requirement that we needed.

At this moment, we've been pretty long-term customer with CA. I don't think there's any product out there that we're going to be willing to switch out at the moment, given what their customer base is, what the capabilities of the product and how it fits into our model.

My clients mainly use this solution for server workloads — work process flows around the deployment of servers, etc

This solution has made my clients' workplaces a lot less labor-intensive.

I have been using this solution for the past few months.

It is pretty stable from my understanding. I haven't heard any complaints about a run maintain.

AutoSys Workload Automation is very scalable. My clients were mainly large organizations and they never had any complaints about the scalability.

I never had to contact technical support so I cannot comment on that.

The initial setup is quite straightforward.

The pricing needs to be improved. Some of my client's complained that it was too expensive.

My advice would be to negotiate thoroughly on the price.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give this solution a rating of eight.

My primary use case for this solution is for production.

This solution enables us to improve our daily processing times. We can do everything faster than before we used this solution.

The installation process is complex, and is pretty archaic. The people who developed this had very little concern with GUI interface and it is all command line. Everything is K-space, and if you misspell a task by uppercase, lower case, etc. you just completely think that the task is different.

It is a fairly stable solution. I have not had any issue with it.

It's pretty scalable, and ready for enterprise.

There is a slow response time. Unless, you say it's severity level one. That will give you a two hour timing window for them to call you. It doesn't really happen exactly in two hours, but they try.

The initial setup was complex. It had too many components. 

It is an overpriced solution. 

I would not say this is for a large shop, but for a small shop it is overpriced. 

The solution can be used for scheduling workloads.

The most valuable feature of this solution is the functions are easy to use.

The solution could improve by having support for container environments.

I have been using this solution for approximately 10 years.

The solution is stable.

AutoSys Workload Automation is scalable.

I have many customers running this solution.

The technical support has been good.

I am using Stonebranch Universal Automation Center alongside this solution.

The price of this solution is reasonable and there is an annual license required.

I evaluate AutoSys Workload Automation an eight out of ten.

I find that it provides better agility in regards to job execution features.

The CA Autosys has assisted our organization by providing effective backend automation for enterprise application functionality.

This product needs to improve its graphical user interface.

I have used this product for about 12 years.

Lot of automation required and need to be aligned with DevOps.

I have not encountered any issues with stability.

I have not encountered any issues with scalability.

7/10

CA Technologies provides good technical support and I would give it a 7 out of 10 rating.

I found the installation process easy to follow.

Implement through vendor as special skills.

This product offers more jobs and stability.

After conducting extensive market evaluation, we chose the CA Autosys tool.

I would recommend to make use of outsourced software solutions such as Atgen for ensuring a stable setup process.

I find the UI to be a really nice feature. It's great and pretty user friendly. Also, there are many agent integrations available that support various platforms.

It provides us with automated management of a high volume of workloads across our enterprise.

I'd like to see more agents for integrations with other platforms. Also, I think the interface could be unified in a better way. Additionally, we could benefit for more data analytics.

We've had no issues with deploying it.

It is very stable and we haven't had any problems.

They are enhancing the product for new limits, so we should be able to scale without a problem.

They have great support when we work together.

The initial setup was very straightforward. It's a great benefit that you can install and configure it very quickly.

I would recommend the product, but you have to have a good team to work with it. The solution is good, but you need a prepared team.

We are a system integrator and this is one of the products that we implement for our customers. AutoSys is primarily used for scheduling CP jobs, file transfer, and other miscellaneous jobs.

The graphical interface can be improved.

I have been working with AutoSys Workload Automation for the past five years, but not on a regular basis.

AutoSys Workload Automation is a stable solution.

This is a scalable product and we have about 50 users. We are planning to increase our usage in the future.

Since Broadcom acquired this product, the technical support has not been as good. They should really be faster and more knowledgeable.

The agent package and the other package should be more user-friendly to install.

I provide support on this product for our customers.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.