AutoSys Workload Automation vs Tidal by Redwood comparison

Broadcom and Tidal Software by Redwood are both solutions in the Workload Automation category. Broadcom is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.0, while Tidal Software by Redwood is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.5. Broadcom holds a 9.9% mindshare in WA, compared to Tidal Software by Redwood’s 4.7% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of Tidal Software by Redwood users who would recommend it.

AutoSys Workload Automation

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97% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 21, 2025

AutoSys Workload Automation and Tidal by Redwood are competitors in the workload automation market. AutoSys has an advantage due to its ease of use and flexibility, leading to higher satisfaction regarding setup cost and ROI. However, Tidal's advanced features attract those looking for comprehensive process integration.

Features: AutoSys provides robust scheduling capabilities with precise control over job execution and dependencies, essential for companies needing detailed customization. It ensures reliable workload management, from job flows to handling time zones. The integration with different systems enables automation across multiple platforms. Tidal stands out with its comprehensive automation capabilities. It provides extensive cross-platform and cross-application scheduling, making it suitable for complex workflows. Tidal also offers dynamic job scheduling and integration with other systems like ERP, CRM, and BI tools, ensuring versatile and flexible operations.

Room for Improvement: AutoSys could enhance its integration capabilities, particularly with modern systems and stacks, to better align with market advancements. The product lifecycle and integration lifecycle need acceleration to keep up with new technologies. Additionally, AutoSys could offer more built-in monitoring and reporting features. Tidal can improve the user interface for even better customer experience. Its documentation, though extensive, could be streamlined for easier use. Enhancing support for real-time updates would further solidify its market position.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: AutoSys is known for straightforward deployment, enabling faster setup. Its customer support is responsive, efficiently addressing technical queries. Tidal provides extensive documentation and training, enhancing onboarding effectiveness but may require a longer deployment cycle to fully utilize features. Tidal's customer service is reliable, assisting with complex integration needs.

Pricing and ROI: AutoSys Workload Automation offers competitive setup costs with clear ROI from streamlined operations and lower ongoing expenses. Tidal by Redwood might require a higher initial investment, but its feature-rich offerings justify the expense for scalable solutions focused on long-term integration and functionality. The cost-effectiveness of each solution should be weighed against the specific organizational needs and goals.

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Categories and Ranking

AutoSys Workload Automation

Ranking in Workload Automation

5th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Tidal by Redwood

Ranking in Workload Automation

13th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Workload Automation category, the mindshare of AutoSys Workload Automation is 9.9%, down from 16.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tidal by Redwood is 4.7%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Workload Automation Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
AutoSys Workload Automation	9.9%
Tidal by Redwood	4.7%
Other	85.4%

Workload Automation

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Antony Askew

Technical Lead at Natwest

Helps us manage complex workloads, reduce our workload failure rates, and save us time

The visibility and control features are somewhat limited. This is a recognized weakness, but thee vendor is currently revamping the user interface to address it. While the current UI is a bit outdated, it's undergoing improvement. AutoSys Workload Automation has some areas for improvement, particularly in housekeeping and product maintenance. These tasks are currently quite manual and labor-intensive for our team. Additionally, the reporting and forecasting functionalities could be more robust. One area for improvement with AutoSys Workload Automation is that it comprises several distinct tools configured to work together. This necessitates familiarity with multiple tools for effective solution management. Consequently, it can sometimes lack a sense of cohesiveness as a unified solution.

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Steve Mikula

IT Scheduling Manager at Paychex, Inc.

Very reliable processing engine, and scheduling is flawless—crucial elements in our financial transaction processing

Because we've been on it for 20 years, it's pretty easy for us to automate jobs with Tidal at this point. It has become second nature. It's pretty simplistic to set up and get going, although there are different levels of complexity you can have within the product. It depends on how simple you want to keep it. If you just keep it: Job A, Job B, Job C, Job D, that becomes pretty simple. But when you start integrating some complex calendars that use sub-calendars—and you can go three, four, or five deep to set up schedules—it becomes more complicated. The beauty of it is you can go as deep as you need to. We can get really complex or we can keep it simple. We have some use cases for both scenarios. The thing that I like the most is the reliability of the engine. The actual scheduling part of the product is pretty much flawless, but the stability of the product is what I find to be reassuring. We are a financial company, we move billions of dollars a day, and if we don't have our transactions processed in a timely manner we can be penalized and our clients can be penalized. It can have a serious financial impact.

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Pros

"Easy configuration and integration with SAP."

"Automation of patch process."

"The benefits I have seen from AutoSys Workload Automation are significant; I would say it is about ease of administration."

"From an orchestrator perspective, it simplifies your workflow and job flow."

"To me, what's most valuable in AutoSys Workload Automation is its robustness and quickness. The tool can trigger jobs within a few milliseconds, and it can handle large volumes of jobs."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the functions are easy to use."

"The initial setup is easy."

"The most valuable feature of AutoSys Workload Automation is user-friendliness. If someone has some knowledge of the tool they can use it."

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"The feature that I find to be valuable, as I'm working with other folks, is the ability to cross-schedule across platforms, and the flexibility that comes with that."

"Tidal Automation’s most valuable feature is customization. It can work and connect with any app."

"The job dependency is something that you cannot have in a regular, simple cron job or simple scheduler dependency. The event-driven jobs are core for us, as we really need that. Therefore, we really need Tidal with its ability to run thousands of jobs per day."

"It has been super stable. There are no complaints on stability. We would not be using it if Tidal wasn't stable."

"The most valuable feature is the job scheduler, where you can schedule thousands of jobs to execute at specific times."

"Tidal Automation is very efficient and can quickly automate most manual and repetitive tasks."

"Tidal Automation software provides real-time monitoring and alerts, allowing users to track job progress and identify potential issues before they cause delays or errors."

"With other tools, you do not have the ability to schedule jobs on their own. You need to create a group and then assign everything to that group. Only then will the job be able to execute. In Tidal, you can schedule a single job and there is no need to create a group. That's what I like the most."

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Cons

"AutoSys Workload Automation could improve the integration."

"The solution does not have a friendly subscription model because it forces users to take a five-year subscription simultaneously, charging millions of dollars."

"Pricing model for distributed should have an Enterprise option."

"Most AutoSys Workload Automation customers are moving because of cost; it is more cost intrusive."

"AutoSys Workload Automation could improve in the Linux environment. The previous versions of the AutoSys Workload Automation let you take the profile of the user that you were using to run the tasks that you're going to automate, but in the latest versions, you can't do that, you need to make more definitions and it's a little bit difficult. It was easier in the previous versions."

"This product needs to improve its graphical user interface."

"Quick search feature and job analysis could be improved."

"We see improvement possibilities in the processing provision of predefined evaluations or individual objects, or in the Self Service portal, which can be used by any user to monitor objects or start objects."

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"The software's performance and scalability could be improved, particularly when dealing with large-scale workloads or complex business processes."

"The current user interface of Tidal Software is functional. However, it can be improved to make it more intuitive and user-friendly."

"The job failure alerts can be updated with more details for better troubleshooting."

"I don't know if Tidal wants to get into the business of monitoring long-running jobs, but that could be a feature for the future: a job launching and monitoring tool. Using Tidal for monitoring doesn't seem like a good fit, but if they could offer something that did that as an add-on or include it, it might be helpful."

"My complaint about their pricing model is that every year or every time technology changes or somebody has a new requirement, it usually means that I can schedule that with Tidal, but I would need another adapter. So, every time there is a change, I need a different adapter that I don't have. That's why it is harder to plan for Tidal growth because you have to buy a new adapter every time."

"I'm still hoping with Explorer to be able to see end-to-end job streams. That's not really something that's easy to see today in the web client. However, I haven't worked with Explorer yet. One of the things that we have found frustrating is not being able to see an end-to-end job stream across multiple applications within Tidal. We use jobs for that right now, but I have high hopes that we'll be able to see that in Explorer."

"There are several improvement points that our team has provided to the vendor."

"From an administrative point of view, I wouldn't give really high marks to the solution. I actually entertained getting the JAWS application at one point. One of the shortcomings with the scheduler is the reporting capabilities. At least at the time, JAWS was the best that they had for a third-party integration. I think they've got things in the pipeline to help alleviate that gap."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The return on investment would be very high because doing things manually without this product would be extremely expensive."

"We paid to use the solution monthly."

"There is an annual license to use AutoSys Workload Automation."

"Validate how many agents you need beforehand."

"The price of this solution is reasonable and there is an annual license required."

"The pricing needs to be improved. Some of my client's complained that it was too expensive."

"It is overpriced."

"I don't have information on the exact licensing cost of AutoSys Workload Automation because that's managed by the tools and financing teams. For agents, it's close to $4,00, but for the server setup, it's usually a one-time license initially, and it's AMC which is paid every year and comes close to $8,000 to $10,000."

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"Right now, we are in a good position with the licensing model that we have with the Tidal vendor. So, we won't have any issues. even if we double in our current production. Initially, Tidal provided us some specs where if you have these number of jobs, then you come under this category. They usually provide a range of jobs from 2,000 to 10,000. You can use these specs for your infrastructure. Whether you have 2,000 or 8,000 jobs, Tidal should support it."

"The licensing model's flexibility is awesome. The way it's licensed for us is that it's licensed per master and then per agent. We have an enterprise agreement, so we have unlimited agents, and we have it on 500 devices."

"Our annual maintenance cost is competitive for what we have and what they do."

"The new prices that we've received seem reasonable and comparable to the marketplace."

"There have been pricing increases, but with the reduction that our company obtained from Tidal this year, the pricing has become very acceptable for this type of product."

"We are satisfied with the pricing of Tidal. It's in the moderate range and it feels very achievable for us."

"Our licensing model for Tidal is on an annual basis. It is very good and works well for us. Tidal's licensing is very transparent and simple. It lets you know, for the amount you use, that's the price that you pay. So, we buy X number of licenses, and we know that this is where we are. I'm very happy with that. I saw the licensing modules on other platforms, and I didn't like them. Other companies and solutions would calculate the connections, adapters, and instances. I think that's the reason that BMC was pretty expensive: They just didn't understand what our needs are."

"BMC is really expensive. The other solutions are about the same price. I think Tidal is even cheaper than the others, such as CA, Stonebranch, and JAMS."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

45%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	77

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	38

Questions from the Community

How does Control-M compare with AutoSys Workload Automation?

Control-M acts as a single, centralized interface for monitoring and managing all batch processes, which is helpful because nothing gets left unattended since it is all visible in one place, and th...

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What do you like most about AutoSys Workload Automation?

The most valuable aspects of AutoSys Workload Automation are its performance, scalability, and ease of getting started for new users.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AutoSys Workload Automation?

It is reasonably priced compared to the market.

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What do you like most about Tidal Automation?

Tidal Automation by Redwood is a user-friendly solution.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Tidal Automation?

The price is reasonable in terms of the product’s functionality.

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What advice do you have for others considering Tidal Automation?

I would recommend Tidal Automation by Redwood as the first priority for users looking for any automation tool. Overall, I rate Tidal Automation by Redwood a nine out of ten.

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Also Known As

CA Workload Automation, CA Workload Automation AE

Tidal Workload Automation, Cisco Workload Automation, Tidal Enterprise Scheduler

Overview

AutoSys Workload Automation efficiently manages complex workloads across platforms, offering high availability and seamless platform integration. Its reliability and scalability are valued for enterprise-level automation, enhancing job management and reducing manual effort with robust scheduling and advanced security.

AutoSys Workload Automation is known for its user-friendly capabilities, effectively handling cross-platform job scheduling with mainframe integration. It supports high availability, ensuring reliable performance for critical operations. Despite enhancements needed in its GUI and integration capabilities, AutoSys remains effective for batch processing, file transfers, ETL, and managing dependencies across servers and applications. Improvements are suggested for deployment complexity and monitoring features. More effective licensing and scalability solutions, along with modern subscription models and cloud integration, could address cost and automation barriers.

What are AutoSys Workload Automation's key features?

Robust Scheduling: Automates job scheduling across multiple platforms efficiently.
Advanced Security: Ensures secure management of workloads.
High Availability: Maintains performance during critical operations.
Platform Integration: Seamlessly integrates with diverse systems.
Scalability: Supports growing enterprise demands.

What benefits should users expect from AutoSys Workload Automation?

Reduced Manual Effort: Minimizes manual task management.
Enhanced Job Management: Improves oversight and control over job processes.
Flexibility in Scheduling: Offers adaptable scheduling and monitoring options.
Reliability: Consistent job execution without failures.
Security: Protects enterprise-level operations.

In industries like banking, insurance, and retail, AutoSys Workload Automation facilitates 24/7 automated job execution, ensuring smooth task automation. It allows companies to manage enterprise workloads effectively, catering to batch processing, file transfers, and handling job dependencies in a consistent manner.

Broadcom

Tidal Software is a leading provider of enterprise workload automation solutions that orchestrate the execution of complex workflows across systems, applications and IT environments. With a comprehensive portfolio of products and services, Tidal optimizes mission-critical business processes, increases IT cost efficiencies and satisfies legal and regulatory compliance requirements. Hundreds of customers around the world count on Tidal for modernizing their workload automation and driving their digital transformation. Tidal Software is headquartered in Chicago with offices in Houston, London, Minsk, Belarus and Chennai, India. For more information, visit tidalsoftware.com.

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Sample Customers

Gaumont, Mercantil do Brasil, CCEE, Hanwha Life

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