We performed a comparison between Automic Workload Automation and SaltStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about BMC, Tidal Software by Redwood, Redwood Software and others in Workload Automation."The most valuable feature is it always runs things automatically that you normally have to do manually, like download files."
"It is an easy product to use, and we use it for end-to-end process automation."
"It integrates well with the CICD pipeline."
"We automate very manual, robust tasks, which are very time consuming and not error-free."
"As far as our schedules, if we have problems, we can create our own process in the automation, which is good."
"The scalability is very good. We can scale it however we want."
"It has greatly increased our efficiencies and productivity, and reduced the amount of human interaction required."
"The ability the system has to dynamically create groups, schedules, and workflows is crucial to us. In a fast-paced, agile environment, our teams are very lean. Monitoring and maintaining of all the approximately 2,000,000 executions of Automic jobs are managed by only three employees. The system has been designed to be as dynamic and versatile as the business processes and teams that own them."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to provide environmental security."
"It is a highly stable solution."
"I want to build automation that is intelligent, part of the fabric of our environment, and is somewhat self-sustaining. I think SaltStack can help me do this."
"The automation functionality has been most valuable. With a click of a button, we are able to automate provisioning, the build of new hardware and apply patches. These are all extremely important and differentiated tasks that can be automated in SaltStack."
"SaltStack has given us the ability to deal with systems at scale and rectify issues at scale."
"The ability to programmatically describe the desired state of a single, or an entire fleet of servers, on-premises, and in a cloud environment."
"We monitor the configurations against CIS standards. We run CIS benchmarks and maintain configurations with higher CIS values for each server."
"When there's an error or a problem, the automation part of it could be easily programmed to escalate it up to the developers or whoever is going to work on it. We had to home-grow that within the product because third-party products are so expensive."
"The manage file transfer area could be better. The file transfer area needs improvement. Other products like Control-M have some good features in this area."
"When you want to use the entirety of Automic, it is heavy."
"Most of our issues are related to the system, not the job scheduling, such as, bugs and unexpected downtime of the application or database."
"Every time we have an upgrade for a new version, we have stability problems, because the versions are not as good as they should be."
"There are certain jobs that are triggered one after another. It would be helpful to have a more user-friendly way of seeing how these jobs are connecting from one server to another."
"The pricing has the potential to be high."
"It is very difficult to migrate. The release automation should be in one package."
"Web UI."
"It is difficult to set up."
"There is a little bit of pain when it comes to libraries and what is needed to run the product."
"SaltStack's features are minimal."
"Its configuration process could be better."
"A hardened set of tests would be much appreciated."
"This solution could be integrated with more hardware for an improved offering."
Automic Workload Automation is ranked 7th in Workload Automation with 85 reviews while SaltStack is ranked 14th in Configuration Management with 33 reviews. Automic Workload Automation is rated 8.2, while SaltStack is rated 8.2. 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 SaltStack writes "Orchestration tool that powers automation of processes with the click of a button". Automic Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Dollar Universe Workload Automation and Stonebranch, whereas SaltStack is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Configuration Manager, HashiCorp Terraform and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
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