We performed a comparison between Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition and Stonebranch Universal Automation Center based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition stands out for its robust job definition capabilities, intuitive interface, live event monitoring, and seamless integration with different systems. Stonebranch Universal Automation Center is praised for its exceptional performance, visually appealing graphical representation, and efficient task monitoring.
Redwood has the potential for improvement in reporting capabilities, monitoring and alert services, user interface, outage identification, and other aspects. Stonebranch has room for enhancement in cloud availability, analytics, task monitoring, and collaboration with the vendor.
Service and Support: The customer service for Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition has received generally positive feedback, although there is some room for improvement. Customers express satisfaction with the support they have received. Stonebranch Universal Automation Center's customer service is highly praised, particularly for its excellent technical support and knowledgeable team. Users rate their support as nine out of ten.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition was difficult and took a lot of time, whereas Stonebranch Universal Automation Center had a relatively easy setup. Redwood Software necessitated training multiple teams and managing a decentralized structure, whereas Stonebranch had a more user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) for setup.
Pricing: Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition has a higher initial cost, however, users find it worth the investment, and the license renewal process is straightforward. In contrast, Stonebranch Universal Automation Center is more affordable compared to its competitors and necessitates an annual license fee.
ROI: Users of Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition have experienced significant time savings and improved job scheduling, resulting in ROI. One user gave it a perfect rating. Stonebranch Universal Automation Center has led to cost savings.
Comparison Results: Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition is the preferred choice over Stonebranch Universal Automation Center. Redwood Software offers a comprehensive solution with strong job definition and building capabilities, a user-friendly interface, real-time event monitoring, and cloud automation. It also includes features such as load balancing, memory management, and mobile notifications.
"It can centralize and support on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments seamlessly."
"The best feature I love about Redwood is the real-time event monitoring and alerting."
"This tool helps us to monitor the job related to SAP modules."
"Its monitoring and alerting features are what I found the most valuable."
"One of Redwood Software's features that I liked was its event-driven automation, which allows IT teams to respond to real-time events, alerts, and notifications from numerous systems."
"There won't be a memory outage issue, as it uses its own server/ECC memory only."
"Redwood is more flexible and we can schedule the tasks based on different time zones."
"Multi-platform scheduling makes it easier this way rather than accessing one platform at a time."
"When it comes to agent technology and compatibility with other vendors, from a platform perspective it was the one vendor that fit all the platforms that we have, from your old platforms - mainframe, NSK, IBM i - to the new ones, going into cloud and container"
"We like that it has GUI and is not just a command line."
"I love the Universal Controller. It's been great for us. We host it on-premise... It's High Availability, meaning there's failover from one server to the other if one goes down."
"The support is good from Stonebranch Universal Automation Center."
"We lean a lot on the multi-tenancy that they offer within the product, the ability to get other people to self-manage their estate, versus having a central team do all the scheduling."
"The interface is very user-friendly and easy to navigate."
"I have found the agents to be so much simpler, when compared to ESP."
"The most valuable feature is the reliability of the agents, because we need them accessible and we need to run stuff. The agent technology and compatibility are top-notch."
"The user interface of Redwood can be improved a bit to make it more user-friendly and interesting."
"The product could be better in terms of its monitoring and alert service."
"The product can improve customer service."
"The reports are downloaded in .CAR file format, which makes it difficult to convert to an Excel file."
"Redwood Software has a high price tag, especially for small and medium-sized businesses that might not have the funds to engage in a complete automation system."
"We need the automatic creation of incidents for failed jobs."
"It has limited reporting features; some basic reporting features are missing."
"The only issue at first was that we had to manually delete or raise the event in order to run some of the events and wait for jobs, even if the file was kept at the correct AL11 position."
"I would rate Stonebranch somewhere in the middle for ease of setup. It wasn't too straightforward for us because our infrastructure is complex."
"The Universal Controller is decent for the money it costs... It needs some work to have full features, compared to other products that are out there, specifically IBM's Workload Scheduler."
"Occasionally, we have an agent that doesn't come back up after patching. That doesn't happen very often... It's really just a restart of the agent and it comes back up. But that might be one thing that could be improved."
"One hiccup we've had is due to the fact that we have other internal scheduling tools. We're able to talk to them, but we have trouble with some of the networking between them, so we're still trying to work out the kinks there."
"It can't handle negative written codes."
"It's not available on the cloud, so they should take that due to safety, security, and scalability."
"I have a request regarding our agent on the mainframe. It may time out when communicating to the Universal Controller, when the mainframe is extremely busy. That can cause a task which is running at that time to not see the results of the job that ran on the mainframe. It happens sporadically during times of really busy CPU usage. We're expecting that enhancement from them in the fourth quarter."
"It can be hard to manage the task monitor."
Redwood RunMyJobs is ranked 3rd in Workload Automation with 30 reviews while Stonebranch is ranked 16th in Workload Automation with 26 reviews. Redwood RunMyJobs is rated 9.6, while Stonebranch is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Redwood RunMyJobs writes "Simple to use, increases CPU speed, and reduces the cost of machine time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Stonebranch writes "Allowed us to develop workflows without having to train and develop very specialized skillsets". Redwood RunMyJobs is most compared with Control-M, Tidal by Redwood, AutoSys Workload Automation, Automic Workload Automation and Automic Automation Intelligence, whereas Stonebranch is most compared with AutoSys Workload Automation, Control-M, ESP Workload Automation Intelligence, IBM Workload Automation and VisualCron. See our Redwood RunMyJobs vs. Stonebranch report.
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