We performed a comparison between AutoSys Workload Automation and Rocket Zena based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: AutoSys Workload Automation is highly regarded for its scalability, speed, and availability. It is also appreciated for its capability to connect software processes. Rocket Zena is particularly notable for its user-friendly nature, intuitive user interface, diagram feature, and the simplicity of its Linux configuration.
The reviewers mentioned that AutoSys Workload Automation can improve its integration with cloud services, reporting and comparison of job performance, customization of reporting features and alerts, handling file transfer jobs, monitoring capabilities, advanced features and functionalities, and workload window management. Rocket Zena needs improvement in visibility into connections between applications/components, monitoring of agents, process limitations, user interface, web interface, task stacking, documentation, availability on a distributed platform, and communication between servers.
Service and Support: The customer service for AutoSys Workload Automation is highly regarded, with users praising its effectiveness, helpfulness, and responsiveness. Rocket Zena's customer service is also well-received, with responsive and knowledgeable technical support. However, obtaining higher-level support may sometimes take longer.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for AutoSys Workload Automation is described as simple and efficient, whereas Rocket Zena's setup experience differed among users, with some finding it easier to understand but others finding it complicated.
Pricing: AutoSys Workload Automation has a yearly subscription and an annual license. Rocket Zena is known for its cost-effectiveness and affordability, offering satisfactory licensing and good pricing.
ROI: AutoSys Workload Automation does not provide user feedback or information on ROI. Rocket Zena has demonstrated its ability to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
Comparison Results: AutoSys Workload Automation is favored over Rocket Zena. AutoSys is commended for its simple setup, scalability, user-friendliness, and useful features like job orchestration and real-time batch processing. Users also value the customer service and support provided by AutoSys. AutoSys Workload Automation offers a more extensive and user-friendly solution.
"It is very valuable for us when we are trying to arrange or orchestrate jobs into a system. It is helpful for triggering jobs for a scheduled task."
"The most valuable features of AutoSys Workload Automation are the file transfer protocol and file watcher. The solution has a user-friendly user interface. It is very simple to use. You have a scope of all your jobs, jobs are what you call tasks that you will automate in the solution. It lets you monitor everything in these jobs."
"The capabilities of the product to schedule on multiple platforms, multiple operating systems."
"It is a fairly stable solution."
"It gives us flexibility when doing releases. We can make changes for one day in a PDS member, since we stage our jobs by date, and the next day the normal job definitions are run."
"The aggregator reporting utility which tells us our throughput in lag and latency."
"It scales very well. We can add jobs and remove jobs. We do not have problems maintaining the product across multiple environments and multiple servers."
"It's very easy to work with. The learning curve is not that steep."
"The most valuable feature is the FTP file transfer."
"In the latest upgrade, Zena added a web-based client. The more I use it, the more I like it. It's an excellent interface. They do a good job of steadily improving the solution to make it more useful."
"I have used other tools with similar capabilities; it's the ease of use."
"From a Linux configuration point of view, Rocket Zena is straightforward. It's fairly easy to set up the server and agents once you know how to do it."
"We haven't had any problems since we installed it. It runs as expected, we haven't had any critical problems. It helps keeps the business running 24/7."
"Its FTP feature is very good, as is scheduling any process or task with the Zena client. I have found it to be very helpful. If a task fails, it gives you a prompt."
"You can click Ctrl-G and bring a diagram view. You're able to view in a diagram format. The view that it provides is easy, and you can move to the left, up, or down. You can double-click on a certain process. It'll drill into that process and all of its underlying components. You can double-click on an arrow or a component, and it'll bring up a screen that'll have all the variables that are assigned to that particular piece, as well as the values at run time. So, the diagram feature of it, at least for me, is pretty valuable."
"I have found the scheduling feature the most valuable. I can map dependencies by using ASG-Zena. It gives a nice, quick visualization as to where things are."
"This product needs to improve its graphical user interface."
"The GUI/Workstation is weak and needs to be improved. CA is working on this right now."
"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."
"Needs better documentation with fully explained examples for some of the job types."
"The visibility and control features are somewhat limited."
"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."
"SQL server clustering is not supported."
"We have to escalate through channels to get to somebody who knows what's going on. It takes time that we do not necessarily have."
"In the next release, I would like to have an alert feature to indicate when an agent is down. Rocket Zena is not capable of sending alerts that the agent is down. As of now, you have manually monitor to see when the agent is down."
"The scheduling mapping is a little disjointed. There is no wizard-type approach. There are a lot of different things that you have to do in completely different areas. They could probably add the functionality for creating all components of a mapping or an OPA schedule. The component creation could be done collectively rather than through individual components."
"Rocket Zena is a mainframe-based job scheduler. I would like it to be more open so that we can use it on a distributed platform."
"In the web interface, it stacks the tasks across the top, and they accumulate until you close or clean those out. That seems a little cumbersome. You must right-click and close all tabs constantly to keep the console clean and manage your views."
"In the next release, I would like the user experience to be improved. The user interface should be more appealing to gen-z."
"Another one that is probably a little bit bigger for me is that when there is an issue or there's an error, it writes on a different screen. I have to find the actual process name and go to a different screen to view the alert that got generated. On that screen, everyone's processes, not just the processes of the folks in my department, are thrown. It takes me a while to find the actual error so that I could go in there and look at the alert. It could be because of the way it was set up, but at least for me, it isn't too intuitive."
"One area where it could be improved is communication between the different servers. Sometimes there are processes that have already been completed but we get a status notification that they're still active."
"The documentation has room for improvement."
AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews while Rocket Zena is ranked 12th in Workload Automation with 9 reviews. AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4, while Rocket Zena is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of AutoSys Workload Automation writes "Helps us manage complex workloads, reduce our workload failure rates, and save us time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rocket Zena writes "A continuously evolving, stable solution, with responsive support". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Stonebranch and Automic Workload Automation, whereas Rocket Zena is most compared with Control-M, Rocket Zeke, IBM Workload Automation and ActiveBatch by Redwood. See our AutoSys Workload Automation vs. Rocket Zena report.
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