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.
"The web UI is beneficial and the granular security policies allow us to cover all of our audit requirements."
"It has helped to simplify cross-dependency between MVS and Open systems jobs."
"We don't have to manually run things anymore. We can have the work that a team of 50 people would do, all inside of one platform."
"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."
"The ability to create calendars, calendering for batch jobs to run on a scheduled frequency."
"The scheduling feature allows us to know when jobs are going to run and makes sure they run in the order needed."
"The most valuable features of AutoSys Workload Automation are the file transfer protocol and file watcher. The solution has a user-friendly user interface. It is very simple to use. You have a scope of all your jobs, jobs are what you call tasks that you will automate in the solution. It lets you monitor everything in these jobs."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the functions are easy to use."
"There won't be a memory outage issue, as it uses its own server/ECC memory only."
"In Redwood Automation, we can easily fetch the daily reports from the system as per the client's requirement and track the status of every job which is running, aborted, or canceled."
"There are various ways in which you can construct jobs depending on your business needs and requirements."
"This product is simple and easy to use."
"Redwood RunMyJobs has been very useful for job scheduling and checking and monitoring jobs."
"Redwood helps us to schedule batch jobs on a daily, weekly, and yearly basis to keep the business running smoothly."
"It's a very powerful tool. It has a lot of flexibility for how you can define jobs and build them. There are different ways in which you can construct jobs depending on your specific needs and requirements."
"Multi-platform scheduling makes it easier this way rather than accessing one platform at a time."
"The WCC could be improved."
"Some support issues need to be addressed, but not through email, through personal contact via phone or WebEx."
"SQL server clustering is not supported."
"We see improvement possibilities in the processing provision of predefined evaluations or individual objects, or in the Self Service portal, which can be used by any user to monitor objects or start objects."
"Quick search feature and job analysis could be improved."
"Performance improvements in the UI would be appreciated."
"Pricing model for distributed should have an Enterprise option."
"I would like to see two-factor authentication, since you see a lot of companies in the news for security breaches. That is a really big thing for us."
"The user interface of Redwood can be improved a bit to make it more user-friendly and interesting."
"Customer support should be enhanced so that we can automatically raise tickets and incidents in customer service."
"The job log has a size limit."
"The reports are downloaded in .CAR file format, which makes it difficult to convert to an Excel file."
"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."
"We need the automatic creation of incidents for failed jobs."
"They should be made more cost-effective in comparison to similar software services."
"The addition of machine learning capabilities could help Redwood Workload Automation Software better predict job and workflow performance, detect anomalies, and optimize operations based on historical data."
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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