We performed a comparison between AppWorx Workload Automation, Automic Workload Automation, and AutoSys Workload Automation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about BMC, Tidal Software by Redwood, Redwood Software and others in Workload Automation."The solution is very user friendly so anyone can use it."
"The most valuable features of AppWorx Workload Automation are simplicity and reliability. Additionally, they recently transformed the UI which is better."
"It is really a robust product."
"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."
"We have a lot of nightly jobs that need to be run. Therefore, we perform a lot of calculations and processes during nighttime hours."
"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 automated solution is the most valuable piece. Otherwise, we would have to be doing everything manually on every server."
"Scheduling is a good feature."
"The company can expand with this product. Every time I bring in new ideas for solutions, it is with this product."
"It is not possible do our jobs without automation software. Automic is a great help to us."
"The main things that we use it for are job control and batch. For these, it does very well."
"It reduces operational costs and increases quality."
"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."
"The current upgrade process is straightforward. They have made the process much simpler. After we get to version 12 and any subsequent versions going forward, it should not require any downtime at all. "
"We use it in every aspect of our IT operations, and the scalability is very good."
"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."
"The web UI is beneficial and the granular security policies allow us to cover all of our audit requirements."
"The most valuable feature of AutoSys Workload Automation is batch processing."
"I find that it provides better agility in regards to job execution features."
"The CA workload agent has gotten much better. For our organization it's important for us to communicate in a secure fashion between the host and the other platforms, and we are able to do that with our CA product"
"We need to have things run in a very sequential order, so it is very useful that we can schedule the work flows."
"The most valuable aspects of AutoSys Workload Automation are its performance, scalability, and ease of getting started for new users."
"To me, what's most valuable in AutoSys Workload Automation is its robustness and quickness. The tool can trigger jobs within a few milliseconds, and it can handle large volumes of jobs."
"Automic Automation Engine provides us the ability to map logic using a scripting language."
"It is not really scaling per say because they are not putting much into it. They are trying to push their new product."
"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."
"The internal security model can be complex when configuring multiple user groups."
"Reporting, forecasting and intelligence could be improved."
"The graphical interface is pretty cool but not the best so it could use some improvement."
"It is difficult to integrate with the Active Directory (AD)."
"The compliance features are limited to the server and not the entire infrastructure."
"We have some problems with updates where some functions are changed, so you have to check your whole system to see if everything is still running. The update process for us is around two months of testing and one day of updates."
"I would also like to see a little bit more connectivity, more, "Play nice with other toys." For instance, we have IServ as our primary tool for our service request tickets. In order for it to play nice with Automic, we had to actually create a file and put it somewhere, where Automic can see it. I would like to see more connectivity with other tools, or more compatibility with other tools."
"I would like to see features from "Prompt" sets in read Masks."
"Our users are used to the flatline of the UC4. When we introduced the AVI, they are not interested nor motivated to use it."
"From my point of view, the current product needs more stability."
"My biggest complaint is that there is no list price. We work with Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, etc., and all of them have list pricing. Automic, right up until today, has never had list pricing. This makes things difficult, because we need to plan budgets for the next year and can't."
"Depending on the properties of the jobs and pre- and post-conditions, there needs to be more flexible and richer conditions that I can check for. This would be a great addition."
"In most of the packages available, it took time to study and gain knowledge of the features and resources due to poor documentation."
"We had a few issues, however, the issues were more on the infrastructure rather than with the application itself."
"To make it a lot more user-friendly, in order to make it so other people can use it without having to do much training with it; the more user-friendly it is, the easier it is to work with."
"I am looking forward to more of their dashboard features. I think it would be very valuable for us to have dashboard features that could be delivered to our customers in the form of a URL, and they could refresh that URL whenever they wanted to get up to date performance metrics out of our systems."
"Some of the reports are either a bit hard to understand or don’t give you what you might expect to see."
"It lacks support and integration with cloud computing platforms."
"Because this product only computes processing days, it is hard when things need to be scheduled according to non-processing days."
"There is a slow response time by tech support. 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."
"There is a difference between a web interface and the thick client interface. We particularly like a thick client interface, and it has gone away."
