We performed a comparison between AppWorx Workload Automation and Tidal 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 and reliable performance. Tidal Automation is highly regarded for its efficient job scheduler, versatility in job execution, and seamless integration with other systems.
AppWorx Workload Automation can improve by enhancing its API integration and scalability. Tidal Automation has opportunities for improvement in its graphical user interface, pricing model, user interface, migration process, and job dependency management.
Service and Support: Users appreciate the technical support provided by AppWorx and the responsiveness and knowledge of Tidal Automation's support team. However, some users mention that lower-priority items can sometimes be overlooked by Tidal Automation.
Ease of Deployment: AppWorx Workload Automation's initial setup is time-consuming and challenging, particularly for those who are new to the system. It can take several months to complete. Tidal Automation offers a much simpler setup process. It only requires a few servers and a database, and the deployment process can be finished in approximately three weeks.
Pricing: AppWorx Workload Automation has a costly setup, dependent on the number of systems used. Tidal Automation has a fair and predictable pricing structure, with transparent licensing. Some users mention the requirement for extra adapters to fulfill specific job needs.
ROI: Customers have reported positive outcomes with Tidal Automation, including cost savings, increased efficiency, reduced manual work, improved risk management, and seamless integration. AppWorx does not provide specific information regarding ROI.
Comparison Results: Tidal Automation is preferred over AppWorx Workload Automation. Users appreciate Tidal Automation for its easy setup, manageable maintenance, and user-friendly interface. It offers a job scheduler, real-time monitoring, and reporting capabilities, along with the ability to automate complex workflows. Users also find its pricing fair and predictable, experience a positive return on investment, and highly value its customer service and support.
"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 interface is good."
"The automated solution is the most valuable piece. Otherwise, we would have to be doing everything manually on every server."
"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."
"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."
"We wouldn't be able to do many of the complex scheduling that we do today without it. For us, it is a mission-critical app. Because if it doesn't work or has a problem, then SAP doesn't function. It is that critical. So, it's an essential tool for us to manage and run SAP jobs."
"It's easy to use and easy to administer, and it's very flexible."
"It saves times due to automation. With some files, we do hundreds a day for a particular vendor. This would be hard to do manually. Also, the speed at which we can do this is excellent."
"We had a number of different schedulers in this organization and we've been porting everything that was running out of these other, unrelated schedulers into this scheduler. That has afforded us the ability to set up direct dependencies between processes that couldn't talk to one another before. Over the 15 years, we've definitely gained a lot from that. What had been manual controls have become automated controls..."
"One of the most useful features is being able to set up a schedule and create dependencies. The calendar can kick off processes at certain times, based on dependencies that you specify, like time, or whether another process has finished. Dependencies are the most useful thing."
"The Graphical Views feature is also very good for helping us to understand a job stream. It's great for providing a visual overview of the status of a workflow, especially the Critical Path view. That is one of our favorites."
"Especially in the newer versions of Tidal, the segmentation of user permissions enables us to give people operator permissions for their jobs, to rerun jobs, but view-only for other groups' jobs. We're able to keep people from hurting themselves or other groups accidentally. The permissioning is really good."
"Tidal Automation allows organizations to automate complex workflows and processes, reducing the need for manual intervention and improving operational efficiency."
"The scalability could improve."
"Reporting, forecasting and intelligence could be improved."
"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."
"We are looking for additional features that would allow us to call APIs and integrate the product with other tools more effectively."
"The internal security model can be complex when configuring multiple user groups."
"It is difficult to integrate with the Active Directory (AD)."
"It is not really scaling per say because they are not putting much into it. They are trying to push their new product."
"As a general process automation and integration tool, it has been superseded by other offerings, notably the Workload Automation suite."
"Tidal Automation could be further integrated with other systems used in the operation of tidal energy systems, such as weather forecasting tools, energy management systems, or asset management software."
"One of the weaknesses of the product is, when something happens, it's difficult to find out the root cause. There are a lot of logs you can take a look at in Tidal. Sometimes, they are useful, but other times, they're not. That is mostly relegated to the administrative team. Users for the most part don't see that and don't know anything about that. They just know they have a problem, then it's up to the administrative team to see what happened and figure out the problem."
"Understanding and using Tidal Automation could be overwhelming for someone with minimal programming language."
"The job failure alerts can be updated with more details for better troubleshooting."
"I would like more involvement with the cloud."
"We've had some quirky stuff happen on an occasional basis where a job does not take off. For example, a job we expected to be finished by 3:00 a.m. is sitting there and not executing when we come in in the morning. We have to go all the way back to the dependencies and then we can see that one of the dependencies has become unscheduled, for some reason. No changes were made to the schedule but this prerequisite job has, all of a sudden, become unscheduled. I have brought this up with Tidal's support but they have never had an answer for it."
"I'm still hoping with Explorer to be able to see end-to-end job streams. That's not really something that's easy to see today in the web client. However, I haven't worked with Explorer yet. One of the things that we have found frustrating is not being able to see an end-to-end job stream across multiple applications within Tidal. We use jobs for that right now, but I have high hopes that we'll be able to see that in Explorer."
"Tidal's adaptability and user-friendliness could be increased by integrating it with additional programmes and platforms."
AppWorx Workload Automation is ranked 17th in Workload Automation with 7 reviews while Tidal by Redwood is ranked 2nd in Workload Automation with 37 reviews. AppWorx Workload Automation is rated 8.0, while Tidal by Redwood is rated 9.0. 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 Tidal by Redwood writes "Great visibility with a single pane of glass and a low learning curve". AppWorx Workload Automation is most compared with Automic Workload Automation, Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Automic Automation Intelligence and Stonebranch, whereas Tidal by Redwood is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, IBM Workload Automation, Redwood RunMyJobs and ActiveBatch by Redwood. See our AppWorx Workload Automation vs. Tidal by Redwood report.
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