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Updated on Jul 12, 2023

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.

To learn more, read our detailed AppWorx Workload Automation vs. Tidal by Redwood Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"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."

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"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."

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Cons
"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."

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"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Licensing options are fairly straightforward."
  • "We are satisfied with the pricing."
  • "The price for annual licenses is a bit expensive so pricing is rated a two out of ten."
  • "The cost model is based on the number of orchestrated systems used."
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  • "The new prices that we've received seem reasonable and comparable to the marketplace."
  • "We pay maintenance annually through Blue House of about $9,000. That's for our two environments: production and test."
  • "The pricing is pretty reasonable. That seems to help a lot versus other companies. There are no other fees aside from the standard licensing fees. There are other products out there where you pay based on how many jobs you run and so on, and I know that's very frustrating for users."
  • "The solution’s licensing model in terms of its flexibility and transparency regarding costs is pretty good. A person can buy the license, and if you decide to stop support, you can do that but still have the product. So, it's not like you're paying constantly to keep that license alive. Certainly, you want to keep support going too. Once you buy it, you own it. It's not like I have to keep paying somebody to keep using it."
  • "If you are willing to shop around to other vendors, you can possibly get a good price on your support license."
  • "Our annual maintenance cost is competitive for what we have and what they do."
  • "There are project, system, and server costs. Some of the things that they are doing is introducing new products. They are introducing what they call their Repository, which is a way for you to move a job. That doesn't cost anything to us, because it is reusing a tool called Transporter. The repository is the successor to Transporter, so we already own it and are sort of grandfathered in. But that new product requires a server and database, so now we have to go out and get a server and database. So, there is a cost there."
  • "...it is a pretty affordable scheduler tool that lets us do a lot. You get a lot of bang for the buck... The licensing model is hugely flexible."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The most valuable features of AppWorx Workload Automation are simplicity and reliability. Additionally, they recently transformed the UI which is better.
    Top Answer:The cost model is based on the number of orchestrated systems used.
    Top Answer:Tidal Automation by Redwood is a user-friendly solution.
    Top Answer:The price is reasonable in terms of the product’s functionality.
    Top Answer:Initially, it is complicated to understand the functionalities as there is limited product documentation. The setup and configuration of the software is a bit complicated. Providing the training… more »
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    Also Known As
    CA Automic Applications Manager
    Tidal Workload Automation, Cisco Workload Automation, Tidal Enterprise Scheduler
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    Overview

    AppWorx Workload Automation automates your Ellucian’s Banner or Fiserv DNA processing. This innovative, best-in-class task scheduling solution accelerates your processing, provides visibility and control over business processes, and mitigates risk in both environments.

    AppWorx Workload Automation Can:

    • Automate banner processes without writing scripts
    • Automate testing
    • Document process flows and procedures
    • Maintain a history and audit trail of production runs
    • Automate migration from development to test to production environments
    • Reduce training
    • Eliminate human errors associated with manual tasks

    Benefits of AppWorx Workload Automation For Your Ellucian’s Banner

    • Automate recurring business processes, such as administration and record-keeping, while complying with state and federal reporting requirements.
    • Batch jobs are processed accurately.
    • If there are any inconsistencies or job failures, Automic for Banner immediately sends email notifications to the appropriate personnel.
    • Significantly improve your return on investment.
    • Automating batch processing and report generation.
    • Eliminating server overload by using a combination of features (AppWorx provides queues to control the number of jobs that can be submitted to a server at any given time, can spot duplicate runs of the same reports, and can delay impromptu reports submitted by individuals until all regularly scheduled reports are processed, etc.).
    • Eliminates the need for developers to write shell, PERL, or batch scripts to automate scheduling.
    • Automatically keeps a history of every job run, the parameters that were used, and the output generated at each step. These records are readily available for viewing online and can be printed for reference.
    • Export and import utilities make migration an error-free, repeatable process. Database logins, printers, and libraries can be mapped when you are moving process flows to a new environment. Mapping eliminates potentially erroneous code changes.

    Benefits of AppWorx Workload Automation For Your Fiserv DNA Processing

    • Run DNA jobs directly, eliminating the need to copy and release queues for each batch cycle.
    • Automatically run DNA jobs at the optimum time using sophisticated scheduling.
    • Run multiple DNA jobs at the same time in parallel from one batch station.
    • Eliminate potential data entry errors by automatically retrieving parameters from your enterprise databases.
    • Automatically check the results from one step to ensure data integrity before continuing to the next step.
    • Alert production analysts to problems the instant they occur.
    • Coordinate processing steps across all software applications.
    • Automatically distribute output files to vendors.
    • Perform all operations from one GUI client.

    Reviews from Real Users

    “The most valuable feature for me is the scheduling,” says an enterprise application architect at a retailer who has been using the solution for close to 10 years.

    A manager at a tech services company adds that “The interface is good. The compliance-related features are very good.”


    Tidal Software is a leading provider of enterprise workload automation solutions that orchestrate the execution of complex workflows across systems, applications and IT environments. With a comprehensive portfolio of products and services, Tidal optimizes mission-critical business processes, increases IT cost efficiencies and satisfies legal and regulatory compliance requirements. Hundreds of customers around the world count on Tidal for modernizing their workload automation and driving their digital transformation. Tidal Software is headquartered in Chicago with offices in Houston, London, Minsk, Belarus and Chennai, India. For more information, visit tidalsoftware.com.

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    Sandvik, Hanwha Life
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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    University10%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Retailer17%
    Manufacturing Company17%
    Computer Software Company13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company21%
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Insurance Company8%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise29%
    Large Enterprise43%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise73%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business4%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise81%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business12%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise77%
    Buyer's Guide
    AppWorx Workload Automation vs. Tidal by Redwood
    March 2024
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    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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