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.
"The most valuable features of AppWorx Workload Automation are simplicity and reliability. Additionally, they recently transformed the UI which is better."
"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 interface is good."
"The solution is very user friendly so anyone can use it."
"We have a lot of nightly jobs that need to be run. Therefore, we perform a lot of calculations and processes during nighttime hours."
"Scheduling is a good feature."
"The automated solution is the most valuable piece. Otherwise, we would have to be doing everything manually on every server."
"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 best feature is that it allows task scheduling based on particular occurrences, like the receipt of files, database updates, or system notifications."
"With the varied features in the varied adapters provided, we use Tidal Enterprise Scheduler because we want everything to be scheduled in one place. Tidal provides that for us with its tools and varying platforms in our organization. Tidal provides all the connectors to the platforms. This is very useful because we don't want to look for another scheduler for scheduling certain jobs. We don't want to look at those schedules manually between platforms."
"The best feature of Tidal Workload Automation Software is its ease of integration with other systems, including ERP, CRM, and BI tools."
"From a management standpoint, when using the solution for cross-platform, cross-application workloads, I've never had a problem with the application. It's very interactive, especially with the different security levels that they offer."
"Tidal Automation by Redwood is a user-friendly solution."
"We use the solution for cross-platform and cross-application workloads. That's one of the core reasons we chose it. It's one of a few things in the industry that can be used for cross-platform integration."
"The thing that I like the most is the reliability of the engine. The actual scheduling part of the product is pretty much flawless, but the stability of the product is what I find to be reassuring."
"Thinking of all the people involved in checking jobs on a daily basis, manually running jobs or auditing them through standalone tools, and trying to connect them. We have saved hundreds of hours weekly, which is substantial."
"As a general process automation and integration tool, it has been superseded by other offerings, notably the Workload Automation suite."
"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."
"The scalability could improve."
"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."
"I know they are working on it, but there needs to be better reporting. Currently, there are only three or four reports that we can get off of the system. That needs to be improved. They already have a solution to this in the new version. I.e., a schedule of all the jobs running for one day, specifically calling out what dependencies that job relies on. It would be like a flow chart of how the day's jobs would run."
"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."
"With the client, we have had certain issues. The user interface for Tidal is a little slow. A lot of people would love this tool if they had a faster user interface. The drill-down functionality should be much quicker than what it is pulling out now. If I fill out some data, then it takes awhile to get that data back onto the screen. It's not as fast as we were expecting."
"The current user interface of Tidal Software is functional. However, it can be improved to make it more intuitive and user-friendly."
"The solution needs more advanced reporting and data visualization capabilities to enable deeper analysis of job performance and trends."
"They can do better reporting in terms of production statistics reporting."
"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."
"When we patch to the next version, there is often a little thing that breaks. It has rarely been a big deal, but I always seem to have to follow up on one tiny issue. It would help if they had some better QA testing of their patches."
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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