We performed a comparison between AppWorx Workload Automation and Automic Workload Automation based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: AppWorx Workload Automation is highly praised for its easy-to-use interface and dependable performance. Users appreciate its simplicity and efficiency in managing nightly tasks and performing calculations. Automic Workload Automation is known for its impressive strength, scalability, and seamless integration. It offers seamless control over various operating systems and products, along with pre-defined templates and convenient web browser access.
The users recommend that AppWorx Workload Automation should focus on improving API integration, integration with other tools, and scalability. Automic Workload Automation needs enhancements in automation sets, language support, functionality, user interface, web-based edition, file transfer, pricing, and support.
Service and Support: AppWorx Workload Automation has been praised for its customer service and highly rated technical support. Automic Workload Automation has received mixed feedback, with some customers praising the support while others have faced challenges in reaching the team.
Ease of Deployment: AppWorx Workload Automation's initial setup is considered relatively easy. However, it can be a time-consuming process. Administrator access and involvement are necessary for the setup. Automic Workload Automation's setup time and complexity can vary. It can be completed within one to five days, depending on the specific requirements.
Pricing: AppWorx Workload Automation has a costly setup determined by the number of orchestrated systems used. Automic Workload Automation has made pricing and licensing changes, making it more affordable. It is considered one of the most expensive options on the market, as the cost depends on the number of systems being orchestrated.
ROI: There are no specific details about the ROI for AppWorx Workload Automation. Users mentioned Automic Workload Automation was not renewed due to cost-cutting measures, indicating it was seen as an extra cost.
Comparison Results: Automic Workload Automation is the preferred choice over AppWorx Workload Automation. Users appreciate its robustness, scalability, and ease of implementation. They also commend its extensive features and user-friendly interface. Automic Workload Automation offers a versatile single solution that can handle different use cases without requiring additional tools.
"The most valuable features of AppWorx Workload Automation are simplicity and reliability. Additionally, they recently transformed the UI which is better."
"The interface is good."
"It is really a robust product."
"Scheduling is a good feature."
"It has improved my organization through automation of back office and infrastructure procedures, and by integrating and orchestrating key business applications spanning multiple technology stacks."
"The solution is very user friendly so anyone can use it."
"It is an object-based approach to task and process design in conjunction with conditional logic and event-based scheduling actions, which enables a build once/use often design methodology to be employed."
"The automated solution is the most valuable piece. Otherwise, we would have to be doing everything manually on every server."
"We use it with automation, getting more speed to solve business processes."
"It works to automate business processes over all the systems. You have a central point where you can automate everything."
"The Zero Upgrade feature is the most valuable."
"Automation helps us. It makes our lives easier. Anything that can be automated is automated."
"One of the big features that they did implement, that a lot of people, us included, were asking for for a long time, is the ability to do zero downtime upgrades. They have introduced that."
"We have seen big improvements in automation and automated tasks allowing our people to work on more important things for the company, as well as getting financial data quicker."
"We have a lot of governance and compliance requirements as a bank that we can fulfill with this product."
"The workflow allows us to integrate multiple applications into one flow and come up with a business result."
"We are looking for additional features that would allow us to call APIs and integrate the product with other tools more effectively."
"It has been a deprecated product, because it is so old. There has been a couple of new solutions that are a little more advanced."
"As a general process automation and integration tool, it has been superseded by other offerings, notably the Workload Automation suite."
"It is not really scaling per say because they are not putting much into it. They are trying to push their new product."
"It is difficult to integrate with the Active Directory (AD)."
"The graphical interface is pretty cool but not the best so it could use some improvement."
"The scalability could improve."
"The internal security model can be complex when configuring multiple user groups."
"They need to handle cross datacenter failover. They have a really good High Availability solution that works well within a single sysplex, but in our environment, since we have two main datacenter locations, we have two separate sysplex."
"For power users, it does not work well for them at the moment."
"Content of file transfers cannot be searched by the system, but has to be done by the user interface. This is not good, as it has been erased often."
"The new UI feels unready. It makes your browsers crash."
"The web-based edition is missing a lot of the most important features available in Automic, we have absence. For example, when I'm scheduling a job, there is normally a flag that you can toggle to activate and deactivate the task, but that doesn't work properly in the web version. It's missing a lot of the calendar and scheduling features."
"We would like to see more dashboarding into the product, maybe an embedded Java API which we would be able to load on our own."
"We would also like improved SLR monitoring. There are SLR objects, but I can't define an SLR object plus one, or end days. I can only do it for one day. As we are time shifting to another day, it is not possible. This should be improved."
"A little less button clicking, in the navigation of the tool itself would also help. There is a lot out there, and I understand that's what keeps the tool robust. It keeps our options open, but it's a bit click-y sometimes. To get where you need to go, you have to go through 10 levels."
AppWorx Workload Automation is ranked 17th in Workload Automation with 7 reviews while Automic Workload Automation is ranked 7th in Workload Automation with 85 reviews. AppWorx Workload Automation is rated 8.0, while Automic Workload Automation is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of AppWorx Workload Automation writes "The scheduling tool and finance module are valuable features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Automic Workload Automation writes "A tool requiring an easy setup phase that provides its users with flexibility and flow chart visibility ". AppWorx Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Automic Automation Intelligence and Stonebranch, whereas Automic Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Dollar Universe Workload Automation and IBM Workload Automation. See our AppWorx Workload Automation vs. Automic Workload Automation report.
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Hello Rick, I couldn't help you with the Appwork applications manager.
On the other hand, one thing that is certain that
we are satisfied to have migrated all our jobs processing under OpCon (120 000
jobs/days) since 2018.
We have improved in terms
of service quality, we have made progress in the automation of our business
process and we benefit from more functionalities and reduces operating costs.
OpCon is a true
Enterprise Scheduler.
I hope this will help you in your
research.
Ian,
It isn't that AWA wont work. It comes down to support from another vendor. The vendor isn't currently familiar with AWA, so they are taking classes, and will be able to support it in the future
We are about to start to use AWA and was wondering why that platform will not work for you going forward?
@NickWilcox you recently reviewed OpCon - would you be willing to share your experiences with @Rick Murray to help him with his decision? @reviewer1166826 maybe you can give some insight into the pros and cons of AppWorx?
I am sorry because cannot help you. We have no experience with Appworx Application Manager.