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HCL Workload Automation vs Redwood RunMyJobs comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

HCL Workload Automation
Ranking in Workload Automation
21st
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Redwood RunMyJobs
Ranking in Workload Automation
12th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the Workload Automation category, the mindshare of HCL Workload Automation is 2.2%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Redwood RunMyJobs is 8.5%, up from 4.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Workload Automation Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Redwood RunMyJobs8.5%
HCL Workload Automation2.2%
Other89.3%
Workload Automation
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1418508 - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to set up, good support, and helps to decrease project costs
With the mainframe environment that we have, it is more similar to the HCL migration, or the workload scheduler. We also like the CWHC utilities; they are more current and under the umbrella of HCL. It reduces project risks. Easy to set up, it doesn't require a lot. You can start working immediately. Migration is increased while it decreases the cost of the project.
MaheshKumar6 - PeerSpot reviewer
Future-proof and powerful with great support
Improvements include: 1) Cost of the Software. Redwood is more expensive than most of the other Automation Software available today; they could make it budget-friendly. 2) It has limited reporting features. Some basic reporting features are missing. 3) There is no option to extract data in Excel. This feature could help in finding errors in the data. 4) Integration with ServiceNow is not supported. 5) The cloud platform compatibility is not up to the mark. 6) Security standards need to be improved. 7) Handling failure is not great; the workflow stops when a job fails and human intervention is required. 8) Configuration and set-up are difficult for someone with less coding knowledge. 9) They need to provide more documentation to assist new users.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Easy to set up, it doesn't require a lot."
"It has advanced features like dashboards where users can see all statistics."
"Redwood manages all complex job workflow processes."
"Installing and configuring Redwood agents are easy, and scheduling jobs on Redwood helps in triggering the batches as per business requirements."
"Redwood RunMyJobs has been very useful for job scheduling and checking and monitoring jobs."
"It conjures simplicity from the depths of complexity, effortlessly shouldering burdensome workloads."
"Multi-platform scheduling makes it easier this way rather than accessing one platform at a time."
"Redwood is more flexible and we can schedule the tasks based on different time zones."
"Redwood is of value to our organization due to of its ease of use and the ability to automate and orchestrate any platform that we utilize today."
 

Cons

"The interface needs some improvements."
"The job log has a size limit."
"The dashboard provided can be made more visually appealing and could include more critical data that would help associates in one glance get the required information."
"Redwood automation software could be made more user-friendly and intuitive, making chores and automation processes easier for users to complete."
"Enhancing the user interface would make it more appealing and accessible to a wide range of users."
"The only issue at first was that we had to manually delete or raise the event in order to run some of the events and wait for jobs, even if the file was kept at the correct AL11 position."
"Currently, our developers aren't able to access their own objects in the user acceptance testing server and production system server as they are assigned the developer access role, which is kind of a solid role, and no changes or additions can be made to it."
"The reports are downloaded in .CAR file format, which makes it difficult to convert to an Excel file."
"The product could be better in terms of its monitoring and alert service."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It initially surprised me because we went from an application that was priced by connection to agents/the number of agents to an application that was priced based on the number of job executions. At that time, many of the products we looked at were also priced on job execution. That seems to be more common in the business or in the vendors that provide solutions out there, but that was probably our biggest difference."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Insurance Company
11%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
7%
Performing Arts
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise55
 

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What advice do you have for others considering Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition?
Even though it is highly-priced, it is a go to SAP product. I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.
What do you like most about Redwood RunMyJobs?
We can achieve anything that anything that we would like to do. In SAP, it's not generally possible with just with SAP. So we have solution manager as an option, but run by job.
What needs improvement with Redwood RunMyJobs?
Price-wise, it is not affordable. When we compare with other industry-leading software and even the same scale, there are certain software that can compete with Redwood, but Redwood is very highly ...
 

Also Known As

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Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition, Redwood Business Process Automation - Workload Edition, RunMyJobs, Redwood RunMyJobs
 

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Sample Customers

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AMD, American Home Shield, Avaya, Burberry, Centrica, City of Dallas, The Container Store, Core & Main, Daikin, Dart Containers, Deere, Energizer, Epson, Halliburton, Keen Foodware, National Gypsum, Rockport Group, Ryder, Technicolor, The University of Michigan, Virgin Money, Whitbread
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