We performed a comparison between AutoSys Workload Automation and BMC TrueSight Server Automation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about BMC, Tidal Software by Redwood, Redwood Software and others in Workload Automation."The web UI is beneficial and the granular security policies allow us to cover all of our audit requirements."
"AutoSys Workload Automation is scalable."
"The CA workload agent has gotten much better. For our organization it's important for us to communicate in a secure fashion between the host and the other platforms, and we are able to do that with our CA product"
"It has helped to simplify cross-dependency between MVS and Open systems jobs."
"It gives a real-time view of all the batch processing that we have. Monitoring-wise, it is really good."
"It can run an object on our Windows systems or our Unix systems, and then send messages to the other system when they are complete."
"It allows you to automate tasks, and reduce headcount, prevent errors, self-heal."
"The most valuable feature of AutoSys Workload Automation is batch processing."
"BladeLogic lets users view the filesystem with minimal authorization to the server."
"BMC Bladelogic Automation can be used across many OS platforms, providing us flexibility for deployments."
"Scalability is good."
"As this solution provides strong support and has multiple use cases, it is worth the cost."
"The ability to script and create BL packages to perform various functions. This makes automating our environment relatively easy to do."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to remediate quickly and efficiently across a number of IT assets at the same time. It takes away manual efforts from the team to go out and fix those vulnerabilities through patching, conflict updates, etc."
"It gives us more speed to deliver services and applications, and we rely on security."
"BMC support is great. They usually can answer any of our questions in a short amount of time and solve our most complex issues."
"I am not sure whether it is our limitation or a tool limitation because we haven't yet explored it, but whenever we look for different types of reporting, we have some limitations in getting those. It could be because of the way we have set it up internally in our enterprise, but it would be helpful if we can customize the reporting features and some of the alerts that can go out. When we connect enterprise systems, each one looks for a different use case, and if we can get different types of reporting, it will be helpful."
"I would like to see two-factor authentication, since you see a lot of companies in the news for security breaches. That is a really big thing for us."
"We are trying to see if we can use this from a cloud perspective with AWS, Azure, and other clouds, but it seems that there is no cloud integration in this product. We would like to see cloud integration. We are very pleased with this solution, but we are moving our application to the cloud, and we found out that it doesn't support any cloud features. So, we are trying to find a replacement."
"There is a slow response time by tech support. Unless, you say it's severity level one. That will give you a two hour timing window for them to call you. It doesn't really happen exactly in two hours, but they try."
"The reporting system, currently, could be better."
"Needs better documentation with fully explained examples for some of the job types."
"A better graphical user interface, because we have a lot of people using the client utility, and we want to get them away from that."
"It lacks support and integration with cloud computing platforms."
"Provisioning needs to be more user-friendly. We were using BladeLogic for provisioning, but due to a lot of issues and complications, we had to stop using provisioning with this tool."
"Without any knowledge of the product, we used the KB articles to start working. As a result, we definitely did not have full knowledge of BMC BladeLogic... They need to provide a minimum of knowledge with training on YouTube or somewhere else."
"We've had to increase RAM and CPU processing in order to alleviate some of the sluggishness during patching."
"I would like to see a better methodology for handling REST calls and integration into the APIs. They add new APIs as they add functions, but they've missed some from older components which they still haven't added in. Some of the APIs are there but the CLI calls are not there."
"There is no option to see all the servers we patch and we cannot find what the server status is. Of course, we can what has been completed and what is pending and which servers have failed, but we cannot find server status from the BMC tool. For example, is the RDP up or not. We are using separate scripts for that."
"The number of APIs available within the tool needs improvement. At the moment, we have a couple of different scanning tools used within the organization, but only one of those is integrated back into Server Automation. There is another tool that they use in another part of the business where it doesn't have an out-of-the-box adaptor for it. We would have to go and create or develop something bespoke to be able to integrate it with that scanning tool. Whereas, with the other scanning tool, there was an API available. To make it easier, I would like to have more APIs available for different scanning tools within that line of business."
"The setup of this suite is very complicated. It needs to be simplified."
"Needs more use cases into compliance management and the remediation process."
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AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews while BMC TrueSight Server Automation is ranked 12th in Configuration Management with 18 reviews. AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4, while BMC TrueSight Server Automation is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of AutoSys Workload Automation writes "Helps us manage complex workloads, reduce our workload failure rates, and save us time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of BMC TrueSight Server Automation writes "Helps to automate and configure the endpoints of servers ". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Automic Workload Automation and Stonebranch, whereas BMC TrueSight Server Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, BigFix, Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager and HashiCorp Terraform.
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