We performed a comparison between Automic Workload Automation and Rocket Zena based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Automic Workload Automation is highly regarded for its strength, scalability, and straightforward setup. Rocket Zena receives acclaim for its user-friendliness, intuitive interface, and the inclusion of diagrams. Automic excels in managing various operating systems and products, whereas Zena streamlines processes and ensures a pleasant user experience.
Automic Workload Automation has room for improvement in industry standardization, plug-and-play automation processes, language support, user interface, web-based edition, file transfer capabilities, pricing, and support. Rocket Zena requires enhancements in visibility, agent monitoring, process limitations, error alerts, UI loading time, intuitive UI, RPM packages, task stacking, documentation, accessibility, server communication, and agent functionality.
Service and Support: Automic Workload Automation has a varied reputation for customer service. Some customers appreciate the prompt responses and informative articles, while others struggle to reach the support team. The duration for issue resolution is also a concern. Rocket Zena's customer service garners praise for its knowledgeable and responsive technical support. However, acquiring higher-level support may require more time.
Ease of Deployment: Automic Workload Automation has a relatively quick and efficient initial setup that can be completed by a small team in a matter of days. Rocket Zena's setup process can take longer, ranging from a day to two weeks, and involves understanding various components.
Pricing: Automic Workload Automation has a high setup cost. Rocket Zena is seen as cost-effective and affordable, making it a suitable choice for small companies.
ROI: Automic Workload Automation did not offer precise ROI figures and was not renewed due to cost-saving efforts. Rocket Zena has resulted in notable time savings, and enhanced accuracy, and is deemed an indispensable tool with a favorable return on investment.
Comparison Results: Rocket Zena is the preferred choice when compared to Automic Workload Automation. Users appreciate its ease of use, intuitive interface, and simplified processes. They find it to be user-friendly, especially in comparison to similar products. Rocket Zena also offers containerized deployment with Docker, cross-platform job scheduling, and a web-based client, making it more usable.
"Workload Automation's most valuable features are perspective analytics and coding."
"We have seen a cost improvement from it."
"You gain a lot of time and effort because you can automatize many things. Repetitive tasks costs us, so we can reduce them to zero effort and minimal costs by using the product."
"Automic is perfect to work with for a lot of job loads."
"As far as our schedules, if we have problems, we can create our own process in the automation, which is good."
"It's easy to use. When you schedule jobs, if you can speak English you can schedule them easily and correctly. Also, there's a lot of flexibility because the product allows you to do many tasks, in multiple ways, so you can choose the way that works best for your environment."
"The product has benefited our organization. It saves time and manpower."
"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."
"I like the whole product, but specifically, I like the license part. It's very easy to acquire a license for this product."
"Its FTP feature is very good, as is scheduling any process or task with the Zena client. I have found it to be very helpful. If a task fails, it gives you a prompt."
"We haven't had any problems since we installed it. It runs as expected, we haven't had any critical problems. It helps keeps the business running 24/7."
"You can click Ctrl-G and bring a diagram view. You're able to view in a diagram format. The view that it provides is easy, and you can move to the left, up, or down. You can double-click on a certain process. It'll drill into that process and all of its underlying components. You can double-click on an arrow or a component, and it'll bring up a screen that'll have all the variables that are assigned to that particular piece, as well as the values at run time. So, the diagram feature of it, at least for me, is pretty valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the FTP file transfer."
"In the latest upgrade, Zena added a web-based client. The more I use it, the more I like it. It's an excellent interface. They do a good job of steadily improving the solution to make it more useful."
"I have found the scheduling feature the most valuable. I can map dependencies by using ASG-Zena. It gives a nice, quick visualization as to where things are."
"I have used other tools with similar capabilities; it's the ease of use."
"The workflows should be clearer and more expressive."
"I'm not sure what data they use to make time estimates. However, most of the time it is not accurate. It's either way too long or way too short."
"It is very difficult to migrate. The release automation should be in one package."
"I am heading up the AWI. I desperately miss the possibility to show my read-only users on the Explorer side only their folders, not all the folders."
"Depending on the properties of the jobs and pre- and post-conditions, there needs to be more flexible and richer conditions that I can check for. This would be a great addition."
"I would like to see more stability in the product and have the transition between versions be more seamless."
"We would like some advantages, which we had with the Java UI, with the automation engine."
"The new user interface AWI could improve. It is quite easy to use and work around, but it has lost some of the functionality that we used to have in our Vim client user interface."
"In the next release, I would like the user experience to be improved. The user interface should be more appealing to gen-z."
"The scheduling mapping is a little disjointed. There is no wizard-type approach. There are a lot of different things that you have to do in completely different areas. They could probably add the functionality for creating all components of a mapping or an OPA schedule. The component creation could be done collectively rather than through individual components."
"One area where it could be improved is communication between the different servers. Sometimes there are processes that have already been completed but we get a status notification that they're still active."
"Another one that is probably a little bit bigger for me is that when there is an issue or there's an error, it writes on a different screen. I have to find the actual process name and go to a different screen to view the alert that got generated. On that screen, everyone's processes, not just the processes of the folks in my department, are thrown. It takes me a while to find the actual error so that I could go in there and look at the alert. It could be because of the way it was set up, but at least for me, it isn't too intuitive."
"In the next release, I would like to have an alert feature to indicate when an agent is down. Rocket Zena is not capable of sending alerts that the agent is down. As of now, you have manually monitor to see when the agent is down."
"In the web interface, it stacks the tasks across the top, and they accumulate until you close or clean those out. That seems a little cumbersome. You must right-click and close all tabs constantly to keep the console clean and manage your views."
"The UI is not intuitive, and it would be nice if there was a web interface."
"Rocket Zena is a mainframe-based job scheduler. I would like it to be more open so that we can use it on a distributed platform."
Automic Workload Automation is ranked 7th in Workload Automation with 85 reviews while Rocket Zena is ranked 12th in Workload Automation with 9 reviews. Automic Workload Automation is rated 8.2, while Rocket Zena is rated 8.4. 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 Rocket Zena writes "A continuously evolving, stable solution, with responsive support". Automic Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Dollar Universe Workload Automation and AppWorx Workload Automation, whereas Rocket Zena is most compared with Control-M, Rocket Zeke, IBM Workload Automation, AutoSys Workload Automation and ActiveBatch by Redwood. See our Automic Workload Automation vs. Rocket Zena report.
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