We performed a comparison between AutoSys Workload Automation 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: AutoSys Workload Automation is praised for its scalability, ease of use, speed, and availability. It stands out in job orchestration, real-time batch processing, and software process integration. Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition is commended for its powerful job definition capabilities, user-friendly interface, and integration with different systems. It also offers advanced features such as dashboards, alert mechanisms, security functionality, and load balancing.
AutoSys could enhance its integration with cloud platforms, reporting and alerting capabilities, migration process, advanced features, and workload window management. Redwood Software could improve its reporting, monitoring, alert service, user access, metrics explorer, machine learning capabilities, cloud-native features, documentation, customer support, security standards, application integration, data accessibility, and user-friendliness.
Service and Support: Users have praised the customer service of AutoSys describing it as very good, helpful, and responsive. Customers are generally satisfied with the support provided by Redwood Software, however, there is still room for improvement.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for AutoSys Workload Automation is described as simple, direct, and relatively fast. The setup for Redwood is deemed intricate and time-consuming due to the large number of tasks and the complexity of the current system.
Pricing: AutoSys Workload Automation offers a subscription and license model for yearly usage, including a one-time fee for server setup and an annual maintenance cost. Redwood Software provides a pricing model based on job executions, which users find to be both cost-effective and easily renewable.
ROI: AutoSys AutoSys Workload Automation provides advantages such as increased productivity, improved efficiency, cost savings, enhanced visibility and control, and reduced downtime. Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition has been commended for its ability to deliver good ROI and satisfy clients.
Comparison Results: AutoSys Workload Automation is the preferred choice when compared to Redwood. Users appreciate AutoSys for its simple and direct setup process, scalability, user-friendly interface, and efficient performance. They also value its file transfer protocol and file watcher features.
"The features that I have found most valuable with AutoSys are that it is scalable, easy to use, fast, and always available. That's very important because if it's not steady then it's a real problem. So, at this point, we are satisfied with it."
"It is stable, it works, and it does what it is supposed to."
"It scales very well. We can add jobs and remove jobs. We do not have problems maintaining the product across multiple environments and multiple servers."
"AutoSys Workload Automation is scalable."
"We don't have to manually run things anymore. We can have the work that a team of 50 people would do, all inside of one platform."
"The most valuable aspects of AutoSys Workload Automation are its performance, scalability, and ease of getting started for new users."
"The ability to create calendars, calendering for batch jobs to run on a scheduled frequency."
"It has allowed us to automate many of the functions of our operations staff. For instance, we had production control staff spending two hours a day entering date parms into our daily business processes. And now, CA Workload Automation does it for us."
"Redwood manages all complex job workflow processes."
"Our team was able to integrate it with the ITSM tool as well as security monitoring tools to make the incident creation process automatically feasible."
"We can create and test micro-workflows to find defects sooner."
"Error handling and the recovery feature ensure that my job processes are not stopped if any error occurs."
"With automation in place, employees can focus on more strategic tasks that require human expertise, increasing overall productivity."
"Redwood helps us to schedule batch jobs on a daily, weekly, and yearly basis to keep the business running smoothly."
"It conjures simplicity from the depths of complexity, effortlessly shouldering burdensome workloads."
"By automating the job processes it has saved us a lot of time and resources."
"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."
"To make it a lot more user-friendly, in order to make it so other people can use it without having to do much training with it; the more user-friendly it is, the easier it is to work with."
"The WCC could be improved."
"Performance improvements in the UI would be appreciated."
"The graphical interface can be improved."
"It lacks support and integration with cloud computing platforms."
"Needs better documentation with fully explained examples for some of the job types."
"The cross-platform arena, where you can run work on multiple platforms, needs improvement."
"They should be made more cost-effective in comparison to similar software services."
"Enhancing the user interface would make it more appealing to new users with limited technical knowledge."
"The product can improve customer service."
"We need the ability to pull data into an Excel format."
"It has limited reporting features; some basic reporting features are missing."
"The job log has a size limit."
"Customer support should be enhanced so that we can automatically raise tickets and incidents in customer service."
"The user interface of Redwood can be improved a bit to make it more user-friendly and interesting."
AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews while Redwood RunMyJobs is ranked 3rd in Workload Automation with 30 reviews. AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4, while Redwood RunMyJobs is rated 9.6. 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 Redwood RunMyJobs writes "Simple to use, increases CPU speed, and reduces the cost of machine time". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Automic Workload Automation and CA Workload Automation iXp, whereas Redwood RunMyJobs is most compared with Control-M, Stonebranch, Tidal by Redwood, Automic Workload Automation and ActiveBatch by Redwood. See our AutoSys Workload Automation vs. Redwood RunMyJobs report.
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