We performed a comparison between AutoSys Workload Automation and AWS Step Functions based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Workload Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It streamlines processing really well, so we're able to cut down on our processing times."
"The most valuable feature of AutoSys Workload Automation is user-friendliness. If someone has some knowledge of the tool they can use it."
"It has improved my organization by automating IT applications."
"We use CA Workload Automation AE r11.3.6 to automate enterprise-wide scheduling and file transfers using an FTP plugin."
"It has helped to simplify cross-dependency between MVS and Open systems jobs."
"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 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."
"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."
"The number of historical events is great."
"It's Amazon, it's scalable."
"It is a scalable solution."
"What I like the most about Amazon Step Functions is how easy it is to use."
"The integration capability is easy, whereas building state machines is tricky."
"One can rate all the calls and that is a good feature."
"AWS Step Functions acts as a high-level layer, allowing us to seamlessly integrate with microservices."
"The solution is stable...The solution is easy to scale."
"CA installation processes are never anything but complex."
"I am looking forward to more of their dashboard features. I think it would be very valuable for us to have dashboard features that could be delivered to our customers in the form of a URL, and they could refresh that URL whenever they wanted to get up to date performance metrics out of our systems."
"It would be helpful to be able to monitor and manage workload windows so we could minimize downstream applications. This would allow us easier access to the applications."
"The WCC could be improved."
"The lack of documentation, that is an issue. When we do need to bring it down for maintenance, it is always a scary moment for us because we have never had it crash."
"Because this product only computes processing days, it is hard when things need to be scheduled according to non-processing days."
"This product needs to improve its graphical user interface."
"The solution could improve by having support for container environments."
"It is hard to coordinate the declaratory language."
"Setup took about one day. We had some errors to understand in the beginning, but now everything is working good."
"The interface can sometimes feel limited, as we're unable to see what AWS is running behind the scenes."
"I would like to see more data transformation features in Amazon Step Functions like additional operators and logic."
"The pricing of the solution can be improved."
"The price and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."
"The solution's data size limit can be improved."
"The solution's pricing could be cheaper. It is cheaper than Airflow."
AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews while AWS Step Functions is ranked 15th in Workload Automation with 9 reviews. AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4, while AWS Step Functions is rated 7.8. 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 AWS Step Functions writes "Simplifies complex task automation and enhances development workflows while offering user-friendly interface, seamless scalability and efficient workflow orchestration". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Stonebranch and Automic Workload Automation, whereas AWS Step Functions is most compared with Camunda, IBM BPM, Apache Airflow and Pega BPM. See our AWS Step Functions vs. AutoSys Workload Automation report.
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