We performed a comparison between Rocket Zena and Tidal Automation based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Rocket Zena offers a user-friendly experience with a simple interface and convenient features like diagrams and Linux configuration. It also provides cross-platform job scheduling and a web-based client. Additionally, it offers a whiteboard feature, FTP file transfer functionality, a smooth licensing process, reliable technical support, and competitive pricing. Tidal Automation showcases a robust job scheduler and a unified interface that simplifies managing tasks. It offers flexibility in running jobs and seamless integration with other systems. Tidal Automation also excels in real-time monitoring, comprehensive reporting capabilities, and a strong reputation for reliability.
Rocket Zena could enhance its application connections visibility, UI loading speed, and task stacking process. Tidal Automation could improve its GUI, pricing structure, and overall user-friendliness.
Service and Support: Rocket Zena's customer service is known for its efficient and transparent problem-solving, whereas Tidal Automation's support team is highly regarded for their extensive knowledge of the product and eagerness to help with integration.
Ease of Deployment: Users had mixed experiences with the initial setup of Rocket Zena. Some found it to be complex, involving various components and requiring a good understanding. The integration with SAP was especially difficult. The setup process for Tidal Automation was deemed simple and easy, with a shorter deployment time.
Pricing: Rocket Zena is a cost-effective and affordable option, especially for small companies. Its pricing and licensing are considered good, resulting in increased productivity and optimization. There is no available information regarding the setup cost of Tidal Automation.
ROI: Rocket Zena provides time savings and increased accuracy in job scheduling, reducing stress for engineers and administrators by automating overnight processes. Tidal Automation helps customers minimize manual work, prevent issues, recover quickly from outages, and enhance risk management. It also offers monitoring capabilities, reduces server requirements, and integrates smoothly with other systems.
Comparison Results: Rocket Zena is the preferred choice when compared to Tidal Automation. Users appreciate Rocket Zena's user-friendly interface, ease of use, Linux configuration, cross-platform scheduling, web-based client, and FTP file transfer functionality.
"From a Linux configuration point of view, Rocket Zena is straightforward. It's fairly easy to set up the server and agents once you know how to do it."
"I have used other tools with similar capabilities; it's the ease of use."
"I have found the scheduling feature the most valuable. I can map dependencies by using ASG-Zena. It gives a nice, quick visualization as to where things are."
"Its FTP feature is very good, as is scheduling any process or task with the Zena client. I have found it to be very helpful. If a task fails, it gives you a prompt."
"In the latest upgrade, Zena added a web-based client. The more I use it, the more I like it. It's an excellent interface. They do a good job of steadily improving the solution to make it more useful."
"You can click Ctrl-G and bring a diagram view. You're able to view in a diagram format. The view that it provides is easy, and you can move to the left, up, or down. You can double-click on a certain process. It'll drill into that process and all of its underlying components. You can double-click on an arrow or a component, and it'll bring up a screen that'll have all the variables that are assigned to that particular piece, as well as the values at run time. So, the diagram feature of it, at least for me, is pretty valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the FTP file transfer."
"We haven't had any problems since we installed it. It runs as expected, we haven't had any critical problems. It helps keeps the business running 24/7."
"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."
"It has been super stable. There are no complaints on stability. We would not be using it if Tidal wasn't stable."
"Tidal Automation software provides real-time monitoring and alerts, allowing users to track job progress and identify potential issues before they cause delays or errors."
"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."
"The data management on offer was valuable."
"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."
"The best feature is that it allows task scheduling based on particular occurrences, like the receipt of files, database updates, or system notifications."
"It's easy to use and easy to administer, and it's very flexible."
"The UI is not intuitive, and it would be nice if there was a web interface."
"The documentation has room for improvement."
"In the next release, I would like the user experience to be improved. The user interface should be more appealing to gen-z."
"In the web interface, it stacks the tasks across the top, and they accumulate until you close or clean those out. That seems a little cumbersome. You must right-click and close all tabs constantly to keep the console clean and manage your views."
"The scheduling mapping is a little disjointed. There is no wizard-type approach. There are a lot of different things that you have to do in completely different areas. They could probably add the functionality for creating all components of a mapping or an OPA schedule. The component creation could be done collectively rather than through individual components."
"In the next release, I would like to have an alert feature to indicate when an agent is down. Rocket Zena is not capable of sending alerts that the agent is down. As of now, you have manually monitor to see when the agent is down."
"Another one that is probably a little bit bigger for me is that when there is an issue or there's an error, it writes on a different screen. I have to find the actual process name and go to a different screen to view the alert that got generated. On that screen, everyone's processes, not just the processes of the folks in my department, are thrown. It takes me a while to find the actual error so that I could go in there and look at the alert. It could be because of the way it was set up, but at least for me, it isn't too intuitive."
"One area where it could be improved is communication between the different servers. Sometimes there are processes that have already been completed but we get a status notification that they're still active."
"I would like more involvement with the cloud."
"One area for improvement is the command-line interface and the API to bulk-load jobs. It's a little bit kludgy, but we still manage without it. They're working on it and it's getting better all the time. In addition, the documentation for their API for creating jobs needs to be updated. It's a bit of a learning curve."
"Tidal Automation could be further integrated with other systems used in the operation of tidal energy systems, such as weather forecasting tools, energy management systems, or asset management software."
"The product’s UI is outdated. They should work on this particular area."
"Their software installation and update process could use some improvements. I'm pretty sure they're working on that, but that's definitely an area where it could be streamlined a lot. There's still a lot of manual work that you have to do with the schedule when you deploy masters or do the agents."
"The job failure alerts can be updated with more details for better troubleshooting."
"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."
"Understanding and using Tidal Automation could be overwhelming for someone with minimal programming language."
Rocket Zena is ranked 12th in Workload Automation with 9 reviews while Tidal by Redwood is ranked 2nd in Workload Automation with 37 reviews. Rocket Zena is rated 8.4, while Tidal by Redwood is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Rocket Zena writes "A continuously evolving, stable solution, with responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tidal by Redwood writes "Great visibility with a single pane of glass and a low learning curve". Rocket Zena is most compared with Control-M, Rocket Zeke, IBM Workload Automation, AutoSys Workload Automation and ActiveBatch by Redwood, whereas Tidal by Redwood is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, IBM Workload Automation, Redwood RunMyJobs and ActiveBatch by Redwood. See our Rocket Zena vs. Tidal by Redwood report.
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