Redwood RunMyJobs vs Tidal by Redwood comparison

Redwood Software and Tidal Software by Redwood are both solutions in the Workload Automation category. Redwood Software is ranked #8 with an average rating of 9.3, while Tidal Software by Redwood is ranked #14 with an average rating of 8.7. Redwood Software holds a 8.7% mindshare in WA, compared to Tidal Software by Redwood’s 4.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Redwood Software users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of Tidal Software by Redwood users who would recommend it.

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97% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 15, 2025

Tidal by Redwood and Redwood RunMyJobs compete in offering advanced scheduling and automation software solutions. Tidal tends to have an edge due to its robust calendaring system supporting complex dependencies critical for financial trading operations, while Redwood excels in cloud integration and flexibility across multiple environments.

Features: Tidal by Redwood offers a robust calendaring system perfect for handling complex dependencies and round-the-clock operations, vital for financial environments. Its granular permission settings allow seamless cross-scheduling, providing higher control over user capabilities. Redwood RunMyJobs is noted for its seamless integration capabilities with cloud applications, providing advanced automation that handles various operating environments and efficient job scheduling features.

Room for Improvement: Tidal users have highlighted issues with the Transporter tool for job migration, looking forward to the improvements promised by Tidal Explorer. Enhancing reporting capabilities and the user experience are also areas for Tidal. For Redwood RunMyJobs, enhancing the user interface and integration capabilities sufficiently remain a requirement, along with the introduction of advanced reporting features and better support for cloud technologies.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Tidal by Redwood is mostly deployed on-premises, though it has some hybrid capabilities. Users have had good technical support, albeit noting temporary declines due to ownership transitions. Redwood RunMyJobs provides more deployment flexibility, with public and hybrid cloud support. Their support is responsive, though its effectiveness may lag during peak demand periods.

Pricing and ROI: Tidal by Redwood's pricing is transparent and flexible, earning praise for being cost-effective, and offering good scalability options against other market solutions, resulting in higher ROI via workload automation. Redwood RunMyJobs is seen as particularly cost-efficient for cloud-based deployments, with competitive pricing enhancing its value through broad automation, significantly reducing manual labor, and boosting operational efficiency.

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Categories and Ranking

Redwood RunMyJobs

Ranking in Workload Automation

8th

Average Rating

9.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Tidal by Redwood

Ranking in Workload Automation

14th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Workload Automation category, the mindshare of Redwood RunMyJobs is 8.7%, up from 4.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tidal by Redwood is 4.7%, up from 3.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Workload Automation Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Redwood RunMyJobs	8.7%
Tidal by Redwood	4.7%
Other	86.6%

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MaheshKumar6

Senior Analyst at Electronics For Imaging, Inc

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.

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Steve Mikula

IT Scheduling Manager at Paychex, Inc.

Very reliable processing engine, and scheduling is flawless—crucial elements in our financial transaction processing

Because we've been on it for 20 years, it's pretty easy for us to automate jobs with Tidal at this point. It has become second nature. It's pretty simplistic to set up and get going, although there are different levels of complexity you can have within the product. It depends on how simple you want to keep it. If you just keep it: Job A, Job B, Job C, Job D, that becomes pretty simple. But when you start integrating some complex calendars that use sub-calendars—and you can go three, four, or five deep to set up schedules—it becomes more complicated. The beauty of it is you can go as deep as you need to. We can get really complex or we can keep it simple. We have some use cases for both scenarios. The thing that I like the most is the reliability of the engine. The actual scheduling part of the product is pretty much flawless, but the stability of the product is what I find to be reassuring. We are a financial company, we move billions of dollars a day, and if we don't have our transactions processed in a timely manner we can be penalized and our clients can be penalized. It can have a serious financial impact.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"In Redwood Automation, we can easily fetch the daily reports from the system as per the client's requirement and track the status of every job which is running, aborted, or canceled."

"The automated alert response is very useful for long-running and failed jobs during off-business hours."

"The best feature I love about Redwood is the real-time event monitoring and alerting."

"It has advanced features like dashboards where users can see all statistics."

"Redwood RunMyJobs has been very useful for job scheduling and checking and monitoring jobs."

"Installing and configuring Redwood agents are easy, and scheduling jobs on Redwood helps in triggering the batches as per business requirements."

"This program works with every browser."

"Its monitoring and alerting features are what I found the most valuable."

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"We use the solution for cross-platform, cross-application workloads. That's the biggest use for us and that's the biggest advantage."

"I like the fact that I have control, and I am able to monitor. If there is an issue, I would be able to respond to any jobs that may fail. With any other scheduler that I know of, a lot of times, when I have a very complex script, if there is an issue in the middle of it, I have to let the whole process fail and then figure out a way to recover from it, whereas Tidal will stop the process, and I can resolve that issue. Once I resolve the issue, I can continue the process. This is very important for invoicing, accounts payable, accounts receivable, or any kind of financial reporting. It allows you to recover from an issue much more effectively than anything else that I have seen."

"One of the most useful features is being able to set up a schedule and create dependencies. The calendar can kick off processes at certain times, based on dependencies that you specify, like time, or whether another process has finished. Dependencies are the most useful thing."

"Tidal Automation offers extensive monitoring and reporting features that let users keep track of the status of their workflows and quickly spot any problems."

"With the varied features in the varied adapters provided, we use Tidal Enterprise Scheduler because we want everything to be scheduled in one place. Tidal provides that for us with its tools and varying platforms in our organization. Tidal provides all the connectors to the platforms. This is very useful because we don't want to look for another scheduler for scheduling certain jobs. We don't want to look at those schedules manually between platforms."

"Tidal Automation by Redwood is a user-friendly solution."

"The job dependency is something that you cannot have in a regular, simple cron job or simple scheduler dependency. The event-driven jobs are core for us, as we really need that. Therefore, we really need Tidal with its ability to run thousands of jobs per day."

"The thing that I like the most is the reliability of the engine. The actual scheduling part of the product is pretty much flawless, but the stability of the product is what I find to be reassuring."

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Cons

"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."

"Adding machine learning and AI capabilities would enable Redwood to automate more complex business processes and tasks."

"I have not noted any downsides."

"Enhancing the user interface would make it more appealing and accessible to a wide range of users."

"The job log has a size limit."

"There is a lack of resources and product documentation which, if included, would help to gain more knowledge about the application."

"It would be nice if Redwood RunMyJobs could work on different systems."

"It has limited reporting features; some basic reporting features are missing."

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"The GUI, the graphical user interface, gets a little bit busy."

"One of the weaknesses of the product is, when something happens, it's difficult to find out the root cause. There are a lot of logs you can take a look at in Tidal. Sometimes, they are useful, but other times, they're not. That is mostly relegated to the administrative team. Users for the most part don't see that and don't know anything about that. They just know they have a problem, then it's up to the administrative team to see what happened and figure out the problem."

"The biggest improvement they need to work on is doing better QA checks before they release new patches and service packs. We do find that you can't trust getting the new product right away, as they have to get some bug fixes out. They do tend to have some bugs in the first iteration."

"Some users have complained that the initial setup process is complicated and time-consuming, while others have suggested that the software could offer more freedom in customizing processes."

"The software's performance and scalability could be improved, particularly when dealing with large-scale workloads or complex business processes."

"I would like more involvement with the cloud."

"One thing I would like to see improved is that, currently, when an action is executed and finishes in Tidal, it's marked as either "success" or "failure." I would like more options that would flag a job according to multiple options, rather than just "good" or bad"... Tidal has told us that it's possible to do so through the product or with a workaround."

"With the client, we have had certain issues. The user interface for Tidal is a little slow. A lot of people would love this tool if they had a faster user interface. The drill-down functionality should be much quicker than what it is pulling out now. If I fill out some data, then it takes awhile to get that data back onto the screen. It's not as fast as we were expecting."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"There have been pricing increases, but with the reduction that our company obtained from Tidal this year, the pricing has become very acceptable for this type of product."

"...it is a pretty affordable scheduler tool that lets us do a lot. You get a lot of bang for the buck... The licensing model is hugely flexible."

"If you are willing to shop around to other vendors, you can possibly get a good price on your support license."

"There are project, system, and server costs. Some of the things that they are doing is introducing new products. They are introducing what they call their Repository, which is a way for you to move a job. That doesn't cost anything to us, because it is reusing a tool called Transporter. The repository is the successor to Transporter, so we already own it and are sort of grandfathered in. But that new product requires a server and database, so now we have to go out and get a server and database. So, there is a cost there."

"We are satisfied with the pricing of Tidal. It's in the moderate range and it feels very achievable for us."

"Their pricing seems very fair. It is more than the other solutions, but the functionality and the support are very much there. You pay for the job scheduler, and then they have certain things that are built into it, such as the FTP processes. If you then want to do JD Edwards jobs, you need an adapter. If you want to do SQL jobs, there is another adapter. Similarly, if you want to do Oracle jobs, there is an adapter. It is like there is the base and then there are the adapters for the jobs that you want to do, but it seems that's also how they pay for each of those adapters and keep them up to date."

"Tidal is a low-cost tool and not expensive in comparison to other tools."

"Our yearly licensing costs are between $10,000 to $20,000. They have always been reasonable with us. I like that non-production licensing is about half the cost of production licensing. Licensing is by adapter typically. We have had scenarios where we have had to take an adapter from one environment to another, and they've allowed us to do that. They have made it a very reasonable process. There's definitely a feeling that they will work with you."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	55

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	38

Questions from the Community

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.

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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.

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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 ...

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What do you like most about Tidal Automation?

Tidal Automation by Redwood is a user-friendly solution.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Tidal Automation?

The price is reasonable in terms of the product’s functionality.

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What needs improvement with Tidal Automation?

Initially, it is complicated to understand the functionalities as there is limited product documentation. The setup and configuration of the software is a bit complicated. Providing the training vi...

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Also Known As

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

Tidal Workload Automation, Cisco Workload Automation, Tidal Enterprise Scheduler

Overview

Redwood Software is a prominent player in the enterprise automation space, known for its robust and scalable solutions. It caters to a wide range of industries, offering tools for IT and business process automation. Redwood Software users on PeerSpot often highlights the flexibility and robustness of the solutions. Many users commend the platform for its ability to automate complex and time-consuming processes, which has led to significant time and cost savings. Additionally, the strong customer support and continuous updates are frequently mentioned, indicating a commitment to evolving with customer needs and technological advancements.

Redwood Software offers a holistic suite of automation tools, covering areas such as finance automation, IT process automation, and robotic process automation (RPA). This comprehensive approach ensures that various aspects of business operations can be automated, leading to increased efficiency and reduced manual intervention. Redwood Software is a cloud-native platform, which offers scalability, flexibility, and reduced infrastructure costs.

Redwood Software users shares that its user interfaces is intuitive and this is reducing the learning curve and enabling users across different departments to leverage automation tools effectively. The platform offers sophisticated scheduling and workflow capabilities, allowing for the automation of complex processes.

Redwood Software excels in its ability to integrate seamlessly with a wide range of systems and applications. This integration is key for enterprises that operate in diverse IT environments, ensuring that automation can be implemented across different platforms and applications without compatibility issues. Another important factor for enterprises, is focus on compliance and security, Redwood Software incorporates robust security measures and compliance protocols.

Redwood Software

Tidal Software is a leading provider of enterprise workload automation solutions that orchestrate the execution of complex workflows across systems, applications and IT environments. With a comprehensive portfolio of products and services, Tidal optimizes mission-critical business processes, increases IT cost efficiencies and satisfies legal and regulatory compliance requirements. Hundreds of customers around the world count on Tidal for modernizing their workload automation and driving their digital transformation. Tidal Software is headquartered in Chicago with offices in Houston, London, Minsk, Belarus and Chennai, India. For more information, visit tidalsoftware.com.

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