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.
"AutoSys Workload Automation is scalable."
"Automation of patch process."
"The ability to create calendars, calendering for batch jobs to run on a scheduled frequency."
"It is stable, it works, and it does what it is supposed to."
"The solution has been stable."
"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 capabilities of the product to schedule on multiple platforms, multiple operating systems."
"To me, what's most valuable in AutoSys Workload Automation is its robustness and quickness. The tool can trigger jobs within a few milliseconds, and it can handle large volumes of jobs."
"The automated alert response is very useful for long-running and failed jobs during off-business hours."
"By automating the job processes it has saved us a lot of time and resources."
"We can create and test micro-workflows to find defects sooner."
"It saves us a lot of time and money by doing jobs automatically."
"REL expressions are quite helpful for setting up the preconditions."
"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."
"There are various ways in which you can construct jobs depending on your business needs and requirements."
"This tool helps us to monitor the job related to SAP modules."
"This product needs to improve its graphical user interface."
"CA Workload Automation is not part of CA's strategic vision going forward."
"The visibility and control features are somewhat limited."
"SQL server clustering is not supported."
"More benefits with the agent upgrades, and that's about it. Other than that we have no complaints with it. It's been awesome."
"The reporting system, currently, could be better."
"The WCC could be improved."
"It lacks support and integration with cloud computing platforms."
"I have not noted any downsides."
"It has limited reporting features; some basic reporting features are missing."
"Enhancing the user interface would make it more appealing and accessible to a wide range of users."
"It lacks some of the common reporting features. I'm a bit surprised that there aren't some standard reports to be able to extract any data on usage. They've described to us that customers have different reporting needs, so they let them develop those, but reporting is a common need. It would be helpful to have it as part of the solution."
"Currently, our developers aren't able to access their own objects in the user acceptance testing server and production system server as they are assigned the developer access role, which is kind of a solid role, and no changes or additions can be made to it."
"Redwood RunMyJobs should add more good features."
"Having a graphical user interface for the dashboard would be great."
"Enhancing the user interface would make it more appealing to new users with limited technical knowledge."
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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