We performed a comparison between CA Process Automation and F5 BIG-IQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Process Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is easy to debug and troubleshoot."
"This tool is used in my organization for automating IT infrastructure related incidents or service requests."
"F5 BIG-IQ reduces the propensity for error."
"Features like AFM, the gateway, and Global DNS are the coolest features that save work for us."
"F5 BIG-IQ has always provided us with great support."
"The best aspect of the solution is that we can have everything integrated with a rather large capacity in order to personalize and configure specific rules."
"We use this solution on a daily basis, and it is very stable."
"The backup, monitoring and logging are the best features."
"The GUI is fine, at least from an engineer's perspective."
"F5 BIG-IQ is a central management system for the BIG-IP."
"Make some of the features more open source that way developers can have more flexibility."
"It needs auto-triggering of workflows based on machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI)."
"Somehow the product group within CA left the product dry from some regular expression functionality."
"OCR capability should be added as a feature."
"F5 BIG-IQ should improve by being a complete certificate management solution because currently, it is only for Venafi. Other automation platforms, should be added."
"Sometimes the solution does not work."
"They could use YAML or JSON if they wanted to make it a little bit easier for us."
"F5 BIG-IQ is a complex solution, and it cannot manage everything related to BIG-IPs."
"The solution should improve pricing. It's expensive in comparison to other American solutions."
"I had trouble with high availability deployment in my environment."
"Integration with VAS is something that they need to work on."
"The shell, kernel, or Linux has something like a delay, especially with the Virtual Edition, when you are trying to implement it in the cloud and you want to access it remotely with web management. It would be great if they could improve their kernel. It was difficult for me, especially when I got started with BIG-IP. I was struggling to find which commands work with it. If you want to work with it, you have to be a Linux guy."
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CA Process Automation is ranked 30th in Process Automation while F5 BIG-IQ is ranked 23rd in Process Automation with 12 reviews. CA Process Automation is rated 8.6, while F5 BIG-IQ is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of CA Process Automation writes "Provides the ability to import objects as new versions of existing objects and to make the prior version the current version". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IQ writes "A central management system to manage and monitor a bunch of different BIG-IP devices". CA Process Automation is most compared with BMC TrueSight Orchestration, whereas F5 BIG-IQ is most compared with ServiceNow Orchestration. See our CA Process Automation vs. F5 BIG-IQ report.
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