We performed a comparison between AutoSys Workload Automation and BigFix 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."Running anything in crontab, you need to put a lot of logic into it to make it work. With this product, you don't have to worry about it. You have the schedule object where you put all the dates or holidays in it, and it does it for you."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the functions are easy to use."
"We use CA Workload Automation AE r11.3.6 to automate enterprise-wide scheduling and file transfers using an FTP plugin."
"CA Workload Automation AutoSys Edition is one of the most powerful schedulers that you have on the open systems, or going between Window servers; to be able to schedule and take advantage of the different powers that the automation has with it."
"AutoSys Workload Automation is scalable."
"It has improved my organization by automating IT applications."
"It allows you to automate tasks, and reduce headcount, prevent errors, self-heal."
"The customized views that each individual can create, and views that can be made free-form, makes this very popular with the programmers."
"We are able to go from patching thousands of machines by twenty to thirty people to one person."
"Ability to run custom reports and custom relevance."
"BigFix technical support is good."
"It has plugins development options, which are great."
"It has improved reliability upon delivery of software and has also helped reduce software expenses. The extensibility of BigFix helps to create custom solutions where we may have considered purchasing something instead."
"Patch management, because it very much improved the patch compliance and has the capability to manage Windows and non-Windows clients."
"It's easy to use, not complicated."
"The most valuable features of the solution are Windows patching and the hardware and software inventory."
"We are trying to see if we can use this from a cloud perspective with AWS, Azure, and other clouds, but it seems that there is no cloud integration in this product. We would like to see cloud integration. We are very pleased with this solution, but we are moving our application to the cloud, and we found out that it doesn't support any cloud features. So, we are trying to find a replacement."
"I am not sure whether it is our limitation or a tool limitation because we haven't yet explored it, but whenever we look for different types of reporting, we have some limitations in getting those. It could be because of the way we have set it up internally in our enterprise, but it would be helpful if we can customize the reporting features and some of the alerts that can go out. When we connect enterprise systems, each one looks for a different use case, and if we can get different types of reporting, it will be helpful."
"They could do better supporting it. They have too many of the same type of products, so sometimes it doesn't get as much attention as it should."
"Quick search feature and job analysis could be improved."
"An area for improvement in AutoSys Workload Automation is that it lacks advanced features or advanced built-in functionalities found in competitors, for example, an advanced workflow feature. Even the handling or notification from AutoSys Workload Automation isn't the best in the industry. Other products have very good workflow-related functionalities such as ActiveBatch that's missing in AutoSys Workload Automation, so I wish the tool had those features."
"I would like to see the Service Orchestrator, a B2B product, and maybe a process audit."
"A better graphical user interface, because we have a lot of people using the client utility, and we want to get them away from that."
"The visibility and control features are somewhat limited."
"One aspect that could be improved is the speed of the console. Sometimes it can be slow, which is something that needs to be addressed."
"In order to derive maximum benefit from BigFix, it is essential that we configure all of its features and implement them effectively. If the automation could be improved we would be able to mitigate the risks associated with zero-day threats."
"I want to see a solution for being able to deploy automated software to a Mac running OS X 10.13, something that's going to deal with kernel exceptions and answering prompts for user permissions for data folders and whatnot. They need to really streamline and automate the Mac software deployment."
"The deployment has room for improvement and can be more streamlined."
"The solution could improve by adding support drivers for different systems and equipment. When you have a lot of different computers if they could fix how to install any updates, firmware, or drivers for different systems or servers it would be good."
"It could use better integration with Hypervisor products like VMware."
"In-place and OS upgrades can be improved."
"The remote software installation could be better."
AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews while BigFix is ranked 14th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 91 reviews. AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4, while BigFix is rated 8.6. 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 BigFix writes "Very stable and easy to deploy with excellent patch compliance". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Stonebranch and Automic Workload Automation, whereas BigFix is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Tanium and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
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