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CA Process Automation vs PagerDuty Operations Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 11, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

CA Process Automation
Ranking in Process Automation
37th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
PagerDuty Operations Cloud
Ranking in Process Automation
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
92
Ranking in other categories
IT Alerting and Incident Management (1st), AIOps (4th), Critical Event Management (CEM) (1st), Autonomous Operational Resilience (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Process Automation category, the mindshare of CA Process Automation is 1.0%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PagerDuty Operations Cloud is 0.6%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Process Automation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PagerDuty Operations Cloud0.6%
CA Process Automation1.0%
Other98.4%
Process Automation
 

Featured Reviews

SJ
Automation Solutions Developer at HCL Technologies
Added value to the delivery of services and the customer experience
We design end-to-end automation solutions for repetitive tasks performed by IT support teams This tool is used in my organization for automating IT infrastructure related incidents or service requests.  Built-in operators available for most integrations. Easy to manage. Attended/unattended…
NS
Senior SRE at IBM
Automated incident workflows have transformed on-call operations and improved response times
Since I host our internal services, I want more customization relating to our specific use case. The needed improvements include the configuration process, as new team members face a steep learning curve to understand the platform. With many new members, they need training to set up runbook workflows, event orchestration, and manage complex on-call schedules across 23 services, making it a challenge for new users. Additionally, I feel the web interface requires improvements. I would rate PagerDuty Operations Cloud as eight out of ten because the cons include a complex configuration process and high costs for each add-on that I try to obtain, making subscriptions costly, along with limited customization in certain incident workflows. The primary reasons for rating it an eight include the complex configuration which makes it challenging for new users, as well as their difficulty in setting up advanced runbook workflows and managing complex on-call setups. The web user interface also requires improvement. Although I receive alerts via the mobile app, which is beneficial for handling schedule maintenance, the same features should be added to the web interface. Customization issues persist, such as the inability to clone entire schedules as part of the workflows, and I want to keep incidents open for a specified duration, neither of which I can currently customize. Thus, I raised a ticket with PagerDuty Operations Cloud to address these concerns. Furthermore, the cost is high, making it one of the more expensive incident management solutions.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"They were good, they helped us a lot from the beginning, from installation through the whole process, and not just their support, but also their professional services are top notch."
"It is easy to debug and troubleshoot."
"This tool is used in my organization for automating IT infrastructure related incidents or service requests."
"PAM has the ability to integrate and build solutions that work well in CA's suite of service management products and those that are outside of service management."
"Before implementing this product, our Problem and Change Management Processes were very poor, but nowadays, thanks to CA Process Automation (PAM), we no longer have this problem, as we now have all of the processes' rules placed inside of it."
"CA Process Automation manager is a very powerful production tool."
"The value lies in just being able to automate things such that there's less human interaction and, therefore, more consistency in our automations."
"It’s a great product, extremely versatile but takes a certain skillset to use and implementation of automation can be time consuming when done properly."
"The most valuable feature is the phone app that allows us to send notifications without the additional fees when sending by SMS or phone calls."
"All of our on-call hand-offs are now fully automated with the scheduling system inside PagerDuty."
"PagerDuty integrates well with many other monitoring applications, it provides us with a centralized view of what can be configured in terms of escalations, and who's on call."
"Without PagerDuty Operations Cloud, we used other tools including CloudWatch alerting, but that did not help to resolve the issue; however, with PagerDuty Operations Cloud, I think it pointed the exact root cause, including which service is failing, based on PagerDuty Operations Cloud scripting."
"I see PagerDuty Operations Cloud as a very good incident management and on-call platform, mostly used by large-scale organizations because it comes with premium pricing, but it is very reliable with alerting and on-call scheduling, triggering incidents, escalation policies, rules, and runbooks."
"PagerDuty Operations Cloud handles this process perfectly, and we do not miss any alerts because of this system."
"PagerDuty's notification process is the most valuable feature."
"PagerDuty has allowed us to identify issues and incidents within the infrastructure that we wouldn't have noticed otherwise."
 

Cons

"CA offers minimal public information pertaining to the performance drain the usage of some objects and operators introduce to processing."
"Better reporting, because we have to true up our licenses every three months because we license on running concurrent processes, so we have to provide a report to CA every three months using their tool -- which never works."
"Every so often the service needs to be restarted otherwise it runs slower and slower. I think this may be due to a memory leak."
"I'd like to see additional form functionality and having Python as an available common script language."
"These configurations can be changed only through the installation wizard. There's no way to update such information in the administration interface, which is, in my opinion, very bad."
"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)."
"OCR capability should be added as a feature."
"It is a very non-customizable product, so you cannot add things like root cause analysis or the classification of incidents based on the area where you are getting more incidents. For example, if you're getting a lot of database issues, that may be an are you want to probe."
"I would suggest that the calling service could be adjusted since if a system goes down, the user receives continuous calls, which can be overwhelming."
"It always needs more integrated applications, especially if you are not a software developer."
"Initially it was a nightmare. There were a lot of bugs and we were getting a lot of alerts, and it was a very messy period."
"PagerDuty Operations Cloud needs improvements because sometimes integrations are not very seamless and misbehave."
"Customer support can be improved. At times, we get a delay in response."
"PagerDuty's webhooks need some improvement."
"The On-Call Teams feature could be better in terms of levels of conditions related to which team or member should get the responsibility of handling a matter or incident."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It has provided ROI by auto resolving incidents or requests in the ITSM queue, improved MTTR and SLA adherence, and added value to the delivery of services and the customer experience."
"There are a lot of automation savings from any process which is repeatable."
"They're very good in pricing compared to the competitors in the area. I would rate them a five out of five in terms of pricing."
"If we wanted phone calls or additional SMSs, we would have to pitch up for those. They give us so many per month per user, then we have to pay extra if it goes over that."
"Licensing costs are around $700 a month, and the only additional costs, are phone costs in some instances."
"There is a license needed to use PagerDuty."
"If you add more people, then you have to pay more, which is always a thing with the SaaS solutions."
"PagerDuty has monthly and yearly licenses available, the costs of which can get quite high if you have a large number of users."
"The cost is quite high. But if you want to get a full-featured application and you have a big team..."
"The pricing may be about $1,000 per user."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
18%
Manufacturing Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Performing Arts
8%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Performing Arts
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Educational Organization
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Large Enterprise10
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business29
Midsize Enterprise22
Large Enterprise72
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PagerDuty?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been quite reasonable and cost-effective.
What needs improvement with PagerDuty?
While PagerDuty Operations Cloud is strong overall, there are a few areas for improvement. The initial setup and configuration can be complex, especially for teams managing multiple services, escal...
What is your primary use case for PagerDuty?
My main use case for PagerDuty Operations Cloud is to manage critical alerts and incidents across our production systems. It helps our team route alerts to the right people, manage on-call schedule...
 

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Unum, HCL Technologies, Logicalis
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