We performed a comparison between OpCon and Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: OpCon is known for its flexibility, integration capabilities, self-service options, and automation of manual tasks. It also provides a user-friendly graphical interface, database functionality, and a testing environment for deployment concepts. OpCon allows for on-demand access, includes a file watcher, and offers the MAS feature for reliability. Redwood Software excels in powerful job definition and job building capabilities. It allows for job importation and user authority restrictions and provides monitoring alerts, dashboards, and error-handling capabilities. and load balancing. Additionally, it ensures efficient memory management and provides mobile notifications.
OpCon has room for improvement in its web-based interface, compatibility with agents and connectors, accessibility through a mobile app, and integration with mainframe systems. Redwood Software could enhance its reporting features, minor issues, reporting and analytics capabilities, user interface, cloud-native features, documentation, customer support, security standards, application integration, data accessibility, and compatibility with other platforms.
Service and Support: OpCon's customer service is highly praised for their prompt and efficient assistance, while Redwood Software's customer service is considered helpful, however, could use some enhancements.
Ease of Deployment: OpCon's initial setup can be challenging, however, SMA consultants help streamline the process. Redwood Software's setup is time-consuming, but it ultimately minimizes space requirements and simplifies future upgrades.
Pricing: OpCon has a tiered pricing model, while Redwood Software has a unique pricing model based on job executions. OpCon is considered expensive and complex, however, it is seen as providing value for money. Redwood Software is praised for its low-cost compared to competitors.
ROI: OpCon has proven to be highly effective in terms of return on investment, resulting in significant time savings and decreased reliance on operators. Evaluating the ROI of Redwood Software is challenging; however, users have reported favorable outcomes.
Comparison Results: OpCon is the preferred option when comparing it to Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition. OpCon is highly praised for its flexibility, integration capabilities, self-service feature, automation capabilities, and reliability. Users particularly appreciate OpCon's graphical user interface and database functionality.
"The most valuable feature is the self-service because it has made it possible to provide simple and quick solutions in the handling of certain tasks."
"Reliability is always important, and the reliability of the system is outstanding."
"The most valuable features are its integration into Windows, into VM, and into AIX, as well as SQL."
"It makes everything simpler. Once OpCon is in, it just repeats itself day after day. We don't have to worry about whether a process will be missed. It will run every single time. We are not dropping jobs or missing stuff. When you have multiple institutions, it's very easy to miss jobs. You get on a roll, start doing things, and then forget somebody. With OpCon, everything is done."
"We recently did a branch acquisition of another bank, though not a full bank. With that, we had to convert all of their ACH transactions. It was a very complicated product that we received from our core provider, Fiserv, for some translation programs. It was very cumbersome to run through the process, convert it out, get output files, etc. Without anyone touching it, I was able to automate the full process from pulling in the files from this other bank, converting everything needed, and posting it to our customer's account 24-hours throughout the day."
"When a lot of jobs are scheduled on different platforms, without any interaction possible between them, it's very difficult to manage things. With OpCon we avoid this difficulty. It's very visual."
"The automation part of OpCon is the most valuable for us, with all the core processing. It's really mostly hands-off unless we have failures. In our old days, we'd spend a good part of the day doing processing via manual tasks. We don't have to do any of that any longer."
"Often times there are criteria that cannot be determined by the system, which allows a human to make the determination and use the Self-Service Solution Manager to trigger a job."
"There are various ways in which you can construct jobs depending on your business needs and requirements."
"This product is simple and easy to use."
"This program works with every browser."
"It is very easy and easy to use, and minimal supervision is required to run it."
"Error handling and the recovery feature ensure that my job processes are not stopped if any error occurs."
"Redwood helps us to schedule batch jobs on a daily, weekly, and yearly basis to keep the business running smoothly."
"It has advanced features like dashboards where users can see all statistics."
"One of Redwood Software's features that I liked was its event-driven automation, which allows IT teams to respond to real-time events, alerts, and notifications from numerous systems."
"We would like a display of the created date, created by, and last modified date, as well as modified by."
"There is one feature that has been a difficult problem, and right now, OpCon can't do it. I'm not sure if it should be expected to, but we have tried to get it to where it could start a process on an external database."
"The one area it needs some help in is the mainframe area because that is not its strength. They support the mainframe but it's not something that they are good at."
"It's not something you can just quickly grab, try, run, and play with. You have to get the knowledge and train yourself. It was easy for me, but I also took the time to throw myself into it. There is a learning curve to a certain extent. You have to learn the rules."
"I would like to have an interface with PowerShell. PowerShell has a lot of functionality. We use it a lot because we're a Windows shop. Having a built-in tool or interface with PowerShell would go a long way."
"I would like to see them improve the Solution Manager for the web application. It's the future for us. Our customers need a lot of functionality, but there isn't that functionality within Solution Manager. So they have to develop and improve it."
"The ability to retrieve information from logs in variables to display relevant information would be helpful."
"Do your first install, your first upgrade, with SMA. It's simple, it's as per the manual, as per the training, but you need that little bit of confidence."
"It lacks some of the common reporting features. I'm a bit surprised that there aren't some standard reports to be able to extract any data on usage. They've described to us that customers have different reporting needs, so they let them develop those, but reporting is a common need. It would be helpful to have it as part of the solution."
"Customer support should be enhanced so that we can automatically raise tickets and incidents in customer service."
"The price wise, it is not affordable. When we compare with other industry leading softwares and even the same scale, there are certain softwares that can compete with Redwood, but Redwood is very highly paced.So it is more SAP friendly, I would say, at this point. Since it was owned by SAP for very long time, they have made it SAP friendly. But if you look at the tool as a enterprise tool. Like, in general, it is not really that great as a tool. So you can you have better options when you couple it with SAP. But if you would like to control your enterprise level applications, anything after that, like, Azure AWS and things like that Oracle."
"Having a graphical user interface for the dashboard would be great."
"The solution should have more focus on security standards."
"The product can improve customer service."
"Redwood Software has a high price tag, especially for small and medium-sized businesses that might not have the funds to engage in a complete automation system."
"It would be nice if Redwood RunMyJobs could work on different systems."
OpCon is ranked 9th in Workload Automation with 56 reviews while Redwood RunMyJobs is ranked 3rd in Workload Automation with 30 reviews. OpCon is rated 9.2, while Redwood RunMyJobs is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of OpCon writes "Gives us the ability to schedule dependent jobs across different mainframes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Redwood RunMyJobs writes "Simple to use, increases CPU speed, and reduces the cost of machine time". OpCon is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, IBM Workload Automation, Automic Workload Automation and UiPath, whereas Redwood RunMyJobs is most compared with Control-M, Stonebranch, Tidal by Redwood, AutoSys Workload Automation and Automic Automation Intelligence. See our OpCon vs. Redwood RunMyJobs report.
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