We performed a comparison between AutoSys Workload Automation and Chef 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."We automate recurring processes, keeping track of IT processes controlled worldwide."
"Integration with multiple services and applications across the enterprise."
"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."
"It's very easy to work with. The learning curve is not that steep."
"We use technical support all the time. We would be lost without them. They're fantastic. Really good job. We're able to reach the right person to help us out right away."
"The ability to create calendars, calendering for batch jobs to run on a scheduled frequency."
"It is a fairly stable solution."
"It works constantly and is pretty seamless. You do not have to open up many support tickets."
"Chef can be scaled as needed. The Chef server itself can scale but it depends on the available resources. You can upgrade specific resources to meet the demand. Similarly, with clients, you can add as many clients as you need. Again, this depends on the server resources. If the server has enough resources, it can handle the number of servers required to manage the infrastructure. Chef can be scaled to meet the needs of the infrastructure being managed."
"The most valuable feature is its easy configuration management, optimization abilities, complete infrastructure and application automation, and its superiority over other similar tools."
"You set it and forget it. You don't have to worry about the reliability or the deviations from any of the other configurations."
"The most valuable feature is the language that it uses: Ruby."
"We have had less production issues since using Chef to automate our provisioning."
"The scalability of the product is quite nice."
"Chef is a great tool for an automation person who wants to do configuration management with infrastructure as a code."
"The most valuable feature is automation."
"Some support issues need to be addressed, but not through email, through personal contact via phone or WebEx."
"This product needs to improve its graphical user interface."
"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 reporting system, currently, could be better."
"The WCC could be improved."
"Quick search feature and job analysis could be improved."
"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."
"Reduce the number of operational files. This would make the job of a system programmer supporting ESP easier."
"If they can improve their software to support Docker containers, it would be for the best."
"The solution could improve in managing role-based access. This would be helpful."
"Vertical scalability is still good but the horizontal, adding more technologies, platforms, tools, integrations, Chef should take a look into that."
"Chef could get better by being more widely available, adapting to different needs, and providing better documentation."
"Third-party innovations need improvement, and I would like to see more integration with other platforms."
"I would like them to add database specific items, configuration items, and migration tools. Not necessarily on the builder side or the actual setup of the system, but more of a migration package for your different database sets, such as MongoDB, your extenders, etc. I want to see how that would function with a transition out to AWS for Aurora services and any of the RDBMS packages."
"In the future, Chef could develop a docker container or docker images."
"I would rate this solution a nine because our use case and whatever we need is there. Ten out of ten is perfect. We have to go to IOD and stuff so they should consider things like this to make it a ten."
AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews while Chef is ranked 15th in Configuration Management with 18 reviews. AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4, while Chef is rated 8.0. 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 Chef writes "Useful for large infrastructure, reliable, but steep learning cureve". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Stonebranch and Automic Workload Automation, whereas Chef is most compared with Jenkins, AWS Systems Manager, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Configuration Manager and BigFix.
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