CA Process Automation vs WorkFusion comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

CA Process Automation and WorkFusion are competing in the automation software market. CA Process Automation is more cost-effective, while WorkFusion is preferred for its advanced capabilities.

Features: CA Process Automation offers versatile process design and seamless integration, with capabilities like web services and JavaScript options for process development. It allows role management and provides a web-based interface for process status monitoring. WorkFusion is known for its machine learning features, robust document processing, and the ability to customize and scale across diverse environments. It integrates well with systems and provides tools for efficient process management.

Room for Improvement: CA Process Automation could benefit from enhancing user interfaces for end users and providing more intuitive design tools. It may also consider expanding its cognitive and AI capabilities. WorkFusion can improve by simplifying implementation for non-technical users and expanding its support for unstructured documents. Enhancing the searchability of its knowledge base and prebuilt components is another area to consider.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: CA Process Automation provides straightforward deployment with guided setup and dependable customer service, making it ideal for quick implementation. WorkFusion involves a longer setup time due to its complexity but offers comprehensive customer support, including real-time assistance, ensuring thorough user support.

Pricing and ROI: CA Process Automation is cost-effective, appealing to small and mid-sized businesses seeking affordable automation solutions. It offers a strong ROI for budget-conscious users. WorkFusion requires a higher initial investment, justified by its powerful features that deliver substantial ROI, especially for organizations leveraging cognitive automation.

To learn more, read our detailed CA Process Automation vs. WorkFusion Report (Updated: April 2025).

CA Process Automation vs. WorkFusion

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Categories and Ranking

CA Process Automation

Ranking in Process Automation

37th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

WorkFusion

Ranking in Process Automation

14th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) (8th), Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) (8th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Process Automation category, the mindshare of CA Process Automation is 0.3%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WorkFusion is 0.5%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Process Automation

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Design Lead at CSC

Provides the ability to import objects as new versions of existing objects and to make the prior version the current version.

CA offers minimal public information pertaining to the performance drain the usage of some objects and operators introduce to processing. As an example, swim lanes within a process provide an excellent means of organizing operators within a process, but they can introduce substantial performance issues. As another example, it’s better to perform verbose JavaScript execution within a Run JavaScript operator instead of within another operator’s pre- or post-execution script. As yet another example, it’s better to hard-code variables within the process dataset as opposed to creating the variables at run-time. The biggest issue for me is its lack of support for current JavaScript methods and functions, which makes scripts unnecessarily longer than they need to be. It seemed I could only rely on the methods and functions available in ECMA 1 (which was released in 1997), but that wasn’t a deal-breaker and the product is capable of extending its capabilities through the inclusion of other code libraries.

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Shamus Cardon

IT Engineer III at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

It has improved our accuracy since we are eliminating the human error element. There could be better version control through their web platform.

We only have our engineering team writing code and developing business processes since it is very technical. In terms of data extraction and training the ML models, we deployed that to our accounts payable department, which has fewer technical users than our engineering team. After a handful of training sessions, they were able to get in there and use it with decent accuracy. It could be better, but it is definitely better than nothing. One of the big upgrades that I know is happening in version 10 is an improvement to their tagging interface. That is definitely something that I am excited about to sort of reinvigorate our more non-technical users in information extraction from our documents. There could be better version control through their web platform. That is something that could be improved on. Integration from the IDE, e.g., from WorkFusion Studio directly into Control Tower, would be nice to have too.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"This tool is used in my organization for automating IT infrastructure related incidents or service requests."

"It is easy to debug and troubleshoot."

"It is useful that WorkFusion provides the entire infrastructure, which allows me to focus on writing code without worrying about maintenance."

"This solution has great document recognition capabilities."

"The automation process is the most valuable feature."

"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to use."

"The customer support is very responsive."

"Their robots have increased the rate of efficiency by two to five times in our organization. There is still a human element to code out the package running the robots. You can't just click something and have it run. However, once that has been done, you can parallelize it 10 or 100 times in a fairly straightforward manner."

"In our opinion this group are the leaders in providing RPA solutions."

"It's a pretty robust product."

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Cons

"Somehow the product group within CA left the product dry from some regular expression functionality."

"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."

"We had some issues in the past, but it is fairly stable now. From what I hear, it is more stable in the later versions. With version 10.1.4, there were some issues relating to load distribution. However, it is good now."

"Machine learning models for document-heavy processes have room for improvement because they require significant effort to train and update."

"A better graphical user interface that allows business users to perform automation would make this solution number one in the market."

"We have executed our robots thousands of times in our enterprise environment. However, in an enterprise environment, WorkFusion has performance problems. It is slow in production."

"In low-code automation, most parts are not customizable, particularly when Excel is involved, which increases complexity. The system can break down, requiring numerous exception cases, thus complicating workflow creation."

"WorkFusion comes packed with certain libraries and .jars. At times, you understand that you're using a system in which a library or .jar is outdated and you need to upgrade it... They need to better manage quickly making changes in WorkFusion to accommodate a situation where other technologies are not supporting the platform."

"Where it can be improved is the speed. I built two bots, one with WorkFusion and the same thing with Python. My feeling was that the speed at which Python did things, how fast it did them, was quite cool. It was faster."

"Currently, I would rate their pricing around two, as WorkFusion's cloud version seems costly compared to others."

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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."

"As a first-time customer who wants to engage with WorkFusion, not working for my company, then I would want to do a PoC. The cost is prohibitive because they will ask me to get infrastructure with six or seven servers. Then, you must buy a WorkFusion license to do a PoC, which is expensive. I would then have to set up a team to build the PoC and see the benefits. That is very prohibitive."

"The overall cost could come down a bit in terms of maintaining the servers. Because it can handle complicated things in big use cases, the infrastructure is also correspondingly big. It would be nice to bring that cost down."

"The pricing is fair because WorkFusion's out-of-the-box solution is appealing."

"We have a good deal from WorkFusion. We have an unlimited global licensing deal with WorkFusion. For us, it is a no-worry solution. We can go ahead and use it as much as possible anywhere we need it. If WorkFusion has a different kind of a deal for licensing with others, then their business decisions need to be evaluated based on that."

"One upgrade took a year to do, from the first server being built to the last bot being migrated. This was because we had to migrate all our existing bots. This is the same process and time frame that we are expecting towards the upcoming upgrade. I will end up spending half a million dollars to do an upgrade."

"It is not the most expensive solution, but it is also not the cheapest."

"My client is using RPA Express, which is available for them to use free of charge."

"We are on an annual contract to use the solution."

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What do you like most about WorkFusion?

If you compare it to its competitors in the market, it is more Java-native.

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WorkFusion is cheaper than Kofax, but I cannot compare it to UiPath ( /products/uipath-reviews ) without exact pricing. It is worth the money as a tool.

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In low-code automation, most parts are not customizable, particularly when Excel is involved, which increases complexity. The system can break down, requiring numerous exception cases, thus complic...

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Overview

CA Process Automation is designed to speed the delivery of IT services while helping to remove manual errors. By defining, automating and orchestrating processes across organizational silos that use disparate systems, CA Process Automation helps improve productivity while also enforcing standards. With CA Process Automation, you can automate IT processes that span multiple organizations and systems, reduce the time it takes to deliver services and enforce standards and compliance policies across departments. CA Process Automation helps you automate IT processes to reduce operational expenses, increase staff productivity, speed IT service delivery, improve service quality, and enforce compliance policies.

Broadcom

WorkFusion, Inc. is the creator of AI-enabled Digital Workers designed specifically for banking and financial services organizations. Its Digital Workers are true knowledge workers that effectively augment existing teams in functions like anti-money laundering (AML), sanctions, customer onboarding, Know Your Customer (KYC), and customer service. WorkFusion’s digital workforce solutions help solve talent shortages, increase workforce capacity, save money, enhance employee and customer satisfaction, and ensure ongoing compliance. For more information visit workfusion.com.

Sample Customers

Unum, HCL Technologies, Logicalis

Deutsche Bank, Amerant Bank, Bank of Asia, Scotiabank, Bank of Montreal, LPL Financial, Carter Bank & Trust, Selective Insurance, HPE, Canadian Tire, Standard Bank, Humana, New York-Presbyterian, Houston Methodist, Six Financial, State Street

CA Process Automation vs. WorkFusion