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 7.7, while Tidal Software by Redwood is ranked #14 with an average rating of 9.0. Broadcom holds a 9.4% mindshare in WA, compared to Tidal Software by Redwood’s 4.8% 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

AutoSys Workload Automation

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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

14th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the Workload Automation category, the mindshare of AutoSys Workload Automation is 9.4%, down from 15.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tidal by Redwood is 4.8%, up from 3.2% 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	9.4%
Tidal by Redwood	4.8%
Other	85.8%

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

"It streamlines processing really well, so we're able to cut down on our processing times."

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

"This solution has made my clients' workplaces a lot less labor-intensive."

"The capabilities of the product to schedule on multiple platforms, multiple operating systems."

"The actual scheduling of our jobs has helped us tremendously. Before it was all done manually, and we've totally automated the whole functionality, so there's no longer a case where somebody didn't run something."

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

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

"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."

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"We use the solution for cross-platform, cross-application workloads. The solution’s ability to manage and monitor these workloads is very easy and accurate. We have file dependencies for running jobs. The job does not start until a file exists on a completely different server, then where the job will run. So, it is cross systems."

"One of the most useful features is being able to set up a schedule and create dependencies. The calendar can kick off processes at certain times, based on dependencies that you specify, like time, or whether another process has finished. Dependencies are the most useful thing."

"I like the fact that I have control, and I am able to monitor. If there is an issue, I would be able to respond to any jobs that may fail. With any other scheduler that I know of, a lot of times, when I have a very complex script, if there is an issue in the middle of it, I have to let the whole process fail and then figure out a way to recover from it, whereas Tidal will stop the process, and I can resolve that issue. Once I resolve the issue, I can continue the process. This is very important for invoicing, accounts payable, accounts receivable, or any kind of financial reporting. It allows you to recover from an issue much more effectively than anything else that I have seen."

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

"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."

"The first, big thing that we got out of using Tidal Workload Automation was having a centralized view of the status of all of our batch processes across all these systems... We can look into the schedule at any given time and see if things are running on track or if they are falling behind. We can also see if something failed."

"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."

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Cons

"I am looking forward to more of their dashboard features. I think it would be very valuable for us to have dashboard features that could be delivered to our customers in the form of a URL, and they could refresh that URL whenever they wanted to get up to date performance metrics out of our systems."

"Performance improvements in the UI would be appreciated."

"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."

"More benefits with the agent upgrades, and that's about it. Other than that we have no complaints with it. It's been awesome."

"I would like to see the Service Orchestrator, a B2B product, and maybe a process audit."

"The cross-platform arena, where you can run work on multiple platforms, needs improvement."

"The visibility and control features are somewhat limited."

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"Understanding and using Tidal Automation could be overwhelming for someone with minimal programming language."

"The drill-down into details using the Graphical Views feature is a bit difficult and not that helpful. If you want to go into the details, you have to go to the Job Activity. Graphical Views is not that easy for getting that kind of information."

"Initially, it is complicated to understand the functionalities as there is limited product documentation."

"The user interface is the place that needs the most work. If and when we find issues with the product, they are usually in that area. If I had to choose, that's where I'd want issues, as opposed to in the engine. But the UI is average. It's a little sluggish at times and there are some bugs in it."

"The solution needs more advanced reporting and data visualization capabilities to enable deeper analysis of job performance and trends."

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

"Tidal Automation could be further integrated with other systems used in the operation of tidal energy systems, such as weather forecasting tools, energy management systems, or asset management software."

"Their software installation and update process could use some improvements. I'm pretty sure they're working on that, but that's definitely an area where it could be streamlined a lot. There's still a lot of manual work that you have to do with the schedule when you deploy masters or do the agents."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I certainly think the pricing is worth the value."

"It is overpriced."

"Validate how many agents you need beforehand."

"CA pricing has been a problem, and not looked upon favorably here at all."

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

"We paid to use the solution monthly."

"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."

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

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"Their pricing seems very fair. It is more than the other solutions, but the functionality and the support are very much there. You pay for the job scheduler, and then they have certain things that are built into it, such as the FTP processes. If you then want to do JD Edwards jobs, you need an adapter. If you want to do SQL jobs, there is another adapter. Similarly, if you want to do Oracle jobs, there is an adapter. It is like there is the base and then there are the adapters for the jobs that you want to do, but it seems that's also how they pay for each of those adapters and keep them up to date."

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

"The pricing is pretty reasonable. That seems to help a lot versus other companies. There are no other fees aside from the standard licensing fees. There are other products out there where you pay based on how many jobs you run and so on, and I know that's very frustrating for users."

"Our yearly licensing costs are between $10,000 to $20,000. They have always been reasonable with us. I like that non-production licensing is about half the cost of production licensing. Licensing is by adapter typically. We have had scenarios where we have had to take an adapter from one environment to another, and they've allowed us to do that. They have made it a very reasonable process. There's definitely a feeling that they will work with you."

"We pay maintenance annually through Blue House of about $9,000. That's for our two environments: production and test."

"We've been able to purchase more adapters because the cost of the product has been very reasonable."

"Tidal is a low-cost tool and not expensive in comparison to other tools."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

45%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Retailer

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?

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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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Gaumont, Mercantil do Brasil, CCEE, Hanwha Life

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