We performed a comparison between AutoSys Workload Automation 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: AutoSys Workload Automation is highly regarded for its ability to handle large workloads, its user-friendly interface, efficient performance, and continuous availability. It particularly shines in efficiently managing job sequencing, executing real-time batch tasks, and seamlessly connecting various software processes. Tidal Automation distinguishes itself with its exceptional job scheduling capabilities, consolidated and intuitive interface, versatile job execution options, and seamless integration with different systems.
AutoSys needs enhancements in cloud service integration, reporting and performance comparison, Linux compatibility, migration capabilities, monitoring, advanced features, and workload window management. Tidal Automation would benefit from improvements in result interpretation, pricing model simplification, user interface, AI and machine learning capabilities, integration, job dependency management, security, performance and scalability, customization, collaboration, alerting configurations, and adaptability.
Service and Support: The customer service for Tidal Automation is commendable for its impressive product knowledge and willingness to assist with integration. However, there are occasional mentions of lower-priority items getting lost in the mix for Tidal Automation. AutoSys support is sufficient and capable with standardized approaches.
Ease of Deployment: The setup for AutoSys Workload Automation is described as quick and hassle-free, taking approximately 10 minutes or less. Tidal Automation's setup is easy and straightforward, however, it requires a significantly longer time of around three weeks to complete.
Pricing: AutoSys Workload Automation has a diverse range of setup costs, including a yearly subscription and an annual license. Tidal Automation is praised for its fair and predictable pricing, offering transparent licensing and the option for additional adapters to cater to specific job needs.
ROI: AutoSys Workload Automation offers benefits such as time savings, improved reliability, scalability, and enhanced visibility and control. Tidal Automation provides advantages like cost savings, increased efficiency, productivity, risk management, and seamless integration.
Comparison Results: AutoSys Workload Automation is the preferred choice when compared to Tidal Automation. Users appreciate AutoSys for its simple setup, scalability, user-friendly interface, and consistent availability. Its valuable features include file transfer protocol and file watcher. Additionally, AutoSys is commended for its reliability and promptness in executing tasks.
"AutoSys Workload Automation is a stable solution."
"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."
"I find that it provides better agility in regards to job execution features."
"CA Workload Automation AutoSys Edition is one of the most powerful schedulers that you have on the open systems, or going between Window servers; to be able to schedule and take advantage of the different powers that the automation has with it."
"Integration with multiple services and applications across the enterprise."
"This solution enables us to improve our daily processing times. We can do everything faster than before we used this solution."
"Automic Automation Engine provides us the ability to map logic using a scripting language."
"From a management standpoint, when using the solution for cross-platform, cross-application workloads, I've never had a problem with the application. It's very interactive, especially with the different security levels that they offer."
"Tidal Automation allows organizations to automate complex workflows and processes, reducing the need for manual intervention and improving operational efficiency."
"Tidal Automation by Redwood is a user-friendly solution."
"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."
"The best feature of Tidal Workload Automation Software is its ease of integration with other systems, including ERP, CRM, and BI tools."
"We use the solution for cross-platform, cross-application workloads. That's the biggest use for us and that's the biggest advantage."
"We wouldn't be able to do many of the complex scheduling that we do today without it. For us, it is a mission-critical app. Because if it doesn't work or has a problem, then SAP doesn't function. It is that critical. So, it's an essential tool for us to manage and run SAP jobs."
"Reduce the number of operational files. This would make the job of a system programmer supporting ESP easier."
"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."
"CA installation processes are never anything but complex."
"Because this product only computes processing days, it is hard when things need to be scheduled according to non-processing days."
"The cross-platform arena, where you can run work on multiple platforms, needs improvement."
"Some support issues need to be addressed, but not through email, through personal contact via phone or WebEx."
"AutoSys Workload Automation could improve the integration."
"They could do better supporting it. They have too many of the same type of products, so sometimes it doesn't get as much attention as it should."
"They can do better reporting in terms of production statistics reporting."
"Tidal's adaptability and user-friendliness could be increased by integrating it with additional programmes and platforms."
"When we patch to the next version, there is often a little thing that breaks. It has rarely been a big deal, but I always seem to have to follow up on one tiny issue. It would help if they had some better QA testing of their patches."
"My complaint about their pricing model is that every year or every time technology changes or somebody has a new requirement, it usually means that I can schedule that with Tidal, but I would need another adapter. So, every time there is a change, I need a different adapter that I don't have. That's why it is harder to plan for Tidal growth because you have to buy a new adapter every time."
"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."
"It takes a lot of time to learn the product. I have admins and developers who are working on the products for the last three to four years and still don't know all the functionalities. Tidal has really great things about it, but people are focused on their day-to-day job and the solution is not intuitive."
"Initially, it is complicated to understand the functionalities as there is limited product documentation."
"I'm still hoping with Explorer to be able to see end-to-end job streams. That's not really something that's easy to see today in the web client. However, I haven't worked with Explorer yet. One of the things that we have found frustrating is not being able to see an end-to-end job stream across multiple applications within Tidal. We use jobs for that right now, but I have high hopes that we'll be able to see that in Explorer."
AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews while Tidal by Redwood is ranked 2nd in Workload Automation with 37 reviews. AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4, while Tidal by Redwood is rated 9.0. 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 Tidal by Redwood writes "Great visibility with a single pane of glass and a low learning curve". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Stonebranch and OpCon, whereas Tidal by Redwood is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Redwood RunMyJobs, ActiveBatch by Redwood and Rocket Zeke. See our AutoSys Workload Automation vs. Tidal by Redwood report.
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