We performed a comparison between Automic 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: Automic Workload Automation is highly regarded for its strength, scalability, and straightforward setup. Rocket Zena receives acclaim for its user-friendliness, intuitive interface, and the inclusion of diagrams. Automic excels in managing various operating systems and products, whereas Zena streamlines processes and ensures a pleasant user experience.
Automic Workload Automation has room for improvement in industry standardization, plug-and-play automation processes, language support, user interface, web-based edition, file transfer capabilities, pricing, and support. Rocket Zena requires enhancements in visibility, agent monitoring, process limitations, error alerts, UI loading time, intuitive UI, RPM packages, task stacking, documentation, accessibility, server communication, and agent functionality.
Service and Support: Automic Workload Automation has a varied reputation for customer service. Some customers appreciate the prompt responses and informative articles, while others struggle to reach the support team. The duration for issue resolution is also a concern. Rocket Zena's customer service garners praise for its knowledgeable and responsive technical support. However, acquiring higher-level support may require more time.
Ease of Deployment: Automic Workload Automation has a relatively quick and efficient initial setup that can be completed by a small team in a matter of days. Rocket Zena's setup process can take longer, ranging from a day to two weeks, and involves understanding various components.
Pricing: Automic Workload Automation has a high setup cost. Rocket Zena is seen as cost-effective and affordable, making it a suitable choice for small companies.
ROI: Automic Workload Automation did not offer precise ROI figures and was not renewed due to cost-saving efforts. Rocket Zena has resulted in notable time savings, and enhanced accuracy, and is deemed an indispensable tool with a favorable return on investment.
Comparison Results: Rocket Zena is the preferred choice when compared to Automic Workload Automation. Users appreciate its ease of use, intuitive interface, and simplified processes. They find it to be user-friendly, especially in comparison to similar products. Rocket Zena also offers containerized deployment with Docker, cross-platform job scheduling, and a web-based client, making it more usable.
"It is scalable. We can grow it out."
"The workflow allows us to integrate multiple applications into one flow and come up with a business result."
"Our company uses it to connect different systems."
"Customers save a lot of money when they use this product, because of things like the scheduling tool."
"We use the FTP agent excessively, and the connection is easy to handle between our company and the outside."
"We automate very manual, robust tasks, which are very time consuming and not error-free."
"We have seen big improvements in automation and automated tasks allowing our people to work on more important things for the company, as well as getting financial data quicker."
"One of the big features that they did implement, that a lot of people, us included, were asking for for a long time, is the ability to do zero downtime upgrades. They have introduced that."
"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."
"I have used other tools with similar capabilities; it's the ease of use."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the FTP file transfer."
"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."
"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 like the whole product, but specifically, I like the license part. It's very easy to acquire a license for this product."
"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."
"Its dashboard can be improved. In version 12, they have already moved to a web-based interface from a UI. We are looking into this feature now. We are also looking for available APIs that we can use to interface the engine into our other systems. There should be a subservice facility that we can use to interface with Microsoft Teams and send out authorization on job executions. We have seen a feature like this in other products that we are looking into."
"I hope in the next release that they will solve all the bugs which they have found in development."
"I am heading up the AWI. I desperately miss the possibility to show my read-only users on the Explorer side only their folders, not all the folders."
"I would like more training on workload automation, because I do not have a complete insight of the product yet."
"There is a problem with the installation translation. It is some type of hybrid. We have some parts in German and some in English. It should be completely in German and completely in English. It should be better in the future."
"I would like to see more stability in the product and have the transition between versions be more seamless."
"The web-based edition is missing a lot of the most important features available in Automic, we have absence. For example, when I'm scheduling a job, there is normally a flag that you can toggle to activate and deactivate the task, but that doesn't work properly in the web version. It's missing a lot of the calendar and scheduling features."
"Our area with the CA solution for DR is not really concerning directly to Automic, but to all of the DevOps, a word which is something that everybody is trying to touch on today in their daily business. There is also some gap that's a little bit hard to understand or to implement because not all the organizations are the same. When you are adopting DevOps, you may need to be more flexible in your processes."
"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."
"The documentation has room for improvement."
"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."
"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 UI is not intuitive, and it would be nice if there was a web interface."
"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."
Automic Workload Automation is ranked 7th in Workload Automation with 85 reviews while Rocket Zena is ranked 12th in Workload Automation with 9 reviews. Automic Workload Automation is rated 8.2, while Rocket Zena is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Automic Workload Automation writes "A tool requiring an easy setup phase that provides its users with flexibility and flow chart visibility ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rocket Zena writes "A continuously evolving, stable solution, with responsive support". Automic Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Dollar Universe Workload Automation and AppWorx Workload Automation, whereas Rocket Zena is most compared with Control-M, Rocket Zeke, IBM Workload Automation, AutoSys Workload Automation and ActiveBatch by Redwood. See our Automic Workload Automation vs. Rocket Zena report.
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