We performed a comparison between Automic Workload Automation and MOVEit based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about BMC, Tidal Software by Redwood, Redwood Software and others in Workload Automation."Integration with most of the platforms that we have within the company's Windows, Linux, and Unix. Integrating these inside the automation agent for scheduling, backups, file transfer, and SAP jobs."
"The user interface is very simple and straightforward."
"I have found new methods for converting scripts from Dollar U to ONE Automation. For example, I take the dynamic library from Dollar U and put it in the dynamic binary library in ONE Automation. This enables us to use Dollar U scripts in ONE Automation."
"It saves a lot of time and mistakes, because we used to do a lot of manual work. Since we added automation a little bit over a year now, it has enhanced our daily work."
"We impose some standards for backup and restore operations."
"It improves the visibility of what is going on on the system. If I have a problem, it is easy to identify, understand dependencies, and identifying the root causes than just running through scripts and searching through applications or servers."
"The most valuable features are its robustness, it's highly scalable, and it's easy to implement."
"We have a lot of governance and compliance requirements as a bank that we can fulfill with this product."
"The convenience of renaming files and using time stamps to segregate them has been very valuable."
"Offers a large collection of very good path planning algorithms."
"MOVEit's best features were the number of options available, like folder creation, and user-friendliness."
"I admire its ability to transfer really large files. One of the files that we transferred was 70 gigs. We didn't try anything larger than that, but so far, whenever somebody came to us to process a really large file, we were able to do it successfully. It can handle large files. That is one thing that I like about Automation."
"The automation is generally very simple that helps with operational efficiency. Since we mainly created interfaces and scheduled transfers, the tool itself handled the file transfer automation."
"The renaming and timestamp features are great."
"The most valuable feature of MOVEit is the upload speed."
"Especially at the time of monitoring, it's a nice way to take a look at the script and take a look at run time, which gives enough information for the files that are getting picked or not."
"It would be better if it was easier to view the automated processes."
"We have some problems with updates where some functions are changed, so you have to check your whole system to see if everything is still running. The update process for us is around two months of testing and one day of updates."
"There are too many bugs to be solved after a version upgrade. We are working on the limits of an architecture with 16,000 platforms. It is impossible to test everything out in the software lab of CA."
"When you want to use the entirety of Automic, it is heavy."
"There are some problems when using the new interface."
"The user interface could be a little more user-friendly, as it is not the best out there."
"They need to handle cross datacenter failover. They have a really good High Availability solution that works well within a single sysplex, but in our environment, since we have two main datacenter locations, we have two separate sysplex."
"Some of the things we don't do are mainly because we don't know how to do them. Hands-on training can be expensive, so we find other ways to work around things to forgo the hands-on training. It is also an issue because we are a Linux shop and most trainers are Windows-based."
"Something that I would like to see is better upgrade support. We had looked at getting help with an upgrade, and to do it after hours, it was going to be $6,000. It only takes 15 minutes to do. It'd be nice if the after-hour support was a little more reasonable."
"Since I have to monitor two times a day, it would be nice if they have script templates."
"The initial setup is a bit difficult."
"At times, we had connection issues with MOVEit, and it had a tendency to reboot without any reason."
"Communication can be improved between the product owners and users."
"In future releases, MOVEit could add support for some additional protocols. For example, I don't think they supported the SFTP or FTPS protocols at the time."
"It would be beneficial to include a feature that allows you to hide items and not be locked out if someone has made too many password attempts."
"If the transfers are more or the file size is big, it takes more time. It doesn't have much capacity to process multiple files at the same time. It can get stuck or take a lot of time to process the files."
Automic Workload Automation is ranked 7th in Workload Automation with 85 reviews while MOVEit is ranked 1st in Managed File Transfer (MFT) with 12 reviews. Automic Workload Automation is rated 8.2, while MOVEit is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Automic Workload Automation writes "A tool requiring an easy setup phase that provides its users with flexibility and flow chart visibility ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MOVEit writes "Provides the ability to securely transfer very large files and has great logging capability". Automic Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Dollar Universe Workload Automation and ActiveBatch by Redwood, whereas MOVEit is most compared with IBM Sterling File Gateway, Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT, BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer and Control-M.
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