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

"The ability to create calendars, calendering for batch jobs to run on a scheduled frequency."

"It has improved my organization by automating IT applications."

"It is a fairly stable solution."

"We automate recurring processes, keeping track of IT processes controlled worldwide."

"We need to have things run in a very sequential order, so it is very useful that we can schedule the work flows."

"We get better reports than we use to have."

"It can run an object on our Windows systems or our Unix systems, and then send messages to the other system when they are complete."

"AutoSys significantly reduces manual effort."

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"We had a number of different schedulers in this organization and we've been porting everything that was running out of these other, unrelated schedulers into this scheduler. That has afforded us the ability to set up direct dependencies between processes that couldn't talk to one another before. Over the 15 years, we've definitely gained a lot from that. What had been manual controls have become automated controls..."

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

"The Graphical Views feature is also very good for helping us to understand a job stream. It's great for providing a visual overview of the status of a workflow, especially the Critical Path view. That is one of our favorites."

"Tidal Automation by Redwood is a user-friendly solution."

"By leveraging machine learning algorithms, Tidal Automation can use this data to optimize turbine settings and improve overall efficiency and performance."

"The versatility of being able to run on many different types of servers is valuable. There is also a versatility of different services that you could run jobs on. It's highly versatile. You can run a lot of different types of scripts on a lot of different types of servers. It interfaces with all of them."

"Tidal helps administrators and users to see the information that is relevant to them in that single pane of glass. They can see jobs running, they can see job history, and they can see job progression. If you look at alternatives like Airflow and clouds, you'd have to design your own UI to monitor the progress of the different jobs that you've created in Airflow. So Tidal is huge for us."

"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

"There is a difference between a web interface and the thick client interface. We particularly like a thick client interface, and it has gone away."

"Reduce the number of operational files. This would make the job of a system programmer supporting ESP easier."

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

"Some support issues need to be addressed, but not through email, through personal contact via phone or WebEx."

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

"We had a few issues, however, the issues were more on the infrastructure rather than with the application itself."

"The WCC could be improved."

"The scalability is poor because I cannot use it for all automation solutions."

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"They can do better reporting in terms of production statistics reporting."

"One thing I would like to see improved is that, currently, when an action is executed and finishes in Tidal, it's marked as either "success" or "failure." I would like more options that would flag a job according to multiple options, rather than just "good" or bad"... Tidal has told us that it's possible to do so through the product or with a workaround."

"We've had some quirky stuff happen on an occasional basis where a job does not take off. For example, a job we expected to be finished by 3:00 a.m. is sitting there and not executing when we come in in the morning. We have to go all the way back to the dependencies and then we can see that one of the dependencies has become unscheduled, for some reason. No changes were made to the schedule but this prerequisite job has, all of a sudden, become unscheduled. I have brought this up with Tidal's support but they have never had an answer for it."

"When we patch to the next version, there is often a little thing that breaks. It has rarely been a big deal, but I always seem to have to follow up on one tiny issue. It would help if they had some better QA testing of their patches."

"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."

"One of the weaknesses of the product is, when something happens, it's difficult to find out the root cause. There are a lot of logs you can take a look at in Tidal. Sometimes, they are useful, but other times, they're not. That is mostly relegated to the administrative team. Users for the most part don't see that and don't know anything about that. They just know they have a problem, then it's up to the administrative team to see what happened and figure out the problem."

"Tidal Software interface could be more intuitive and user-friendly."

"To better fit their unique needs, the solution should give more customization options."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

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

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

"Validate how many agents you need beforehand."

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

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

"I have had no issues with the licensing."

"If you are willing to shop around to other vendors, you can possibly get a good price on your support license."

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

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

"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."

"We think the pricing is very fair. We have been happy with the pricing compared to some of the other solutions in the space."

"The solution’s licensing model in terms of its flexibility and transparency regarding costs is pretty good. A person can buy the license, and if you decide to stop support, you can do that but still have the product. So, it's not like you're paying constantly to keep that license alive. Certainly, you want to keep support going too. Once you buy it, you own it. It's not like I have to keep paying somebody to keep using it."

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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?

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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.

Tidal Software by Redwood

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Gaumont, Mercantil do Brasil, CCEE, Hanwha Life

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