We performed a comparison between AppWorx Workload Automation and IBM 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 praised for its ease of use, consistent performance, straightforwardness, and trustworthiness. It is particularly effective in handling nightly tasks and performing calculations. IBM Workload Automation provides the option to request extra functionalities, initiate jobs across multiple nodes, and effortlessly monitor batch applications.
Users of AppWorx Workload Automation have expressed a need for enhanced API integration and improved integration with other tools, alongside better scalability. IBM Workload Automation users have faced challenges concerning performance, navigation, and job dependencies, and have also expressed a desire for enhanced reporting visibility.
Service and Support: AppWorx Workload Automation receives high praise for its customer service and support, with customers rating it positively. IBM Workload Automation customers value the technical support and suggest using IBM's lab advocacy program for comprehensive code support. However, there may be difficulties in pinpointing the origins of specific problems.
Ease of Deployment: The initial setup for AppWorx Workload Automation is straightforward and relatively easy, although it may seem complex to those who are unfamiliar with the system. It involves the administrator's access and involvement in deploying the system with databases. The initial setup for IBM Workload Automation can be challenging for individuals without knowledge of IBM tools or application development experience.
Pricing: AppWorx Workload Automation has a costly setup that is influenced by the number of orchestrated systems utilized. IBM Workload Automation offers pricing options based on the customer's contract, allowing for potential cost savings by transitioning to a per-job license.
ROI: AppWorx and IBM users do not discuss their experience with ROI.
Comparison Results: AppWorx Workload Automation is the preferred choice when compared to IBM Workload Automation. AppWorx offers a simple and easy setup process, a user-friendly interface, and reliable performance. It also provides improved simplicity and reliability, along with a recent UI transformation. Users appreciate its ability to efficiently manage numerous nightly jobs and perform calculations and processes during nighttime hours.
"Scheduling is a good feature."
"The most valuable features of AppWorx Workload Automation are simplicity and reliability. Additionally, they recently transformed the UI which is better."
"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 solution is very user friendly so anyone can use it."
"The automated solution is the most valuable piece. Otherwise, we would have to be doing everything manually on every server."
"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 is really a robust product."
"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."
"Jobs can be triggered in multiple nodes."
"The support from Cisco is very good. I was with them as a company for 40 years"
"This solution has a request feature where users can request the added features they need to have developed. Based on client voting for those features, these are developed and released."
"I have supported this product in literally 100s of different environments and its unmatched in its ability to scale to any size."
"Jobs can be triggered in multiple nodes."
"The most important feature is the creation of folders. It's a really great feature because you can organize the process with naming conventions."
"The whole product is valuable because it is a tool for batch automation."
"The project we worked on involved the running of nearly 24,000 job instances in a single day, so I would say that the solution is stable."
"It is difficult to integrate with the Active Directory (AD)."
"The compliance features are limited to the server and not the entire infrastructure."
"The scalability could improve."
"The graphical interface is pretty cool but not the best so it could use some improvement."
"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."
"Reporting, forecasting and intelligence could be improved."
"As a general process automation and integration tool, it has been superseded by other offerings, notably the Workload Automation suite."
"Slow down on the releases a bit. I fully understand that IWA functionality is increasing at an amazing rate, but trying to keep up with the upgrades is rough."
"There should be more custom documentation, specifically around Java APIs. There should also be more training. In terms of features, we are currently using only 50% of its features. We don't use all features that are available, but there is always room for improvement in all of the tools."
"It is missing some features and can improve in areas where the competition is somewhat better like linking job dependencies."
"It would be helpful to have a mobile app that could be used to follow the job schedule."
"The performance of the previous versions could be better."
"Scalability-wise, it can be a little bit challenging."
"This solution does have bugs and could be improved in this regard. However, these bugs are resolved relatively quickly."
"It should support other schedulers that aren't IBM products."
AppWorx Workload Automation is ranked 17th in Workload Automation with 7 reviews while IBM Workload Automation is ranked 13th in Workload Automation with 28 reviews. AppWorx Workload Automation is rated 8.0, while IBM 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 IBM Workload Automation writes "With an easy setup phase in place, agent-based installation can be done in minutes". AppWorx Workload Automation is most compared with Automic Workload Automation, Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Automic Automation Intelligence and Stonebranch, whereas IBM Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, HCL Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Automic Workload Automation. See our AppWorx Workload Automation vs. IBM Workload Automation report.
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