We performed a comparison between AutoSys Workload Automation and AWS Step Functions based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Workload Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has improved my organization by automating IT applications."
"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 customized views that each individual can create, and views that can be made free-form, makes this very popular with the programmers."
"This solution has made my clients' workplaces a lot less labor-intensive."
"It allows you to automate tasks, and reduce headcount, prevent errors, self-heal."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It is very valuable for us when we are trying to arrange or orchestrate jobs into a system. It is helpful for triggering jobs for a scheduled task."
"The most valuable feature of AutoSys Workload Automation is batch processing."
"One can rate all the calls and that is a good feature."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It's Amazon, it's scalable."
"The number of historical events is great."
"What I like the most about Amazon Step Functions is how easy it is to use."
"AWS Step Functions acts as a high-level layer, allowing us to seamlessly integrate with microservices."
"It's a general solution that you can adapt to your own needs and is simple to use. We like that it can be integrated with everything in the AWS suite, and that the creation of the pipeline can be done using the graphical user interface."
"The solution is stable...The solution is easy to scale."
"CA Workload Automation is not part of CA's strategic vision going forward."
"I would like to see the Service Orchestrator, a B2B product, and maybe a process audit."
"A better graphical user interface, because we have a lot of people using the client utility, and we want to get them away from that."
"SQL server clustering is not supported."
"The visibility and control features are somewhat limited."
"I am not sure whether it is our limitation or a tool limitation because we haven't yet explored it, but whenever we look for different types of reporting, we have some limitations in getting those. It could be because of the way we have set it up internally in our enterprise, but it would be helpful if we can customize the reporting features and some of the alerts that can go out. When we connect enterprise systems, each one looks for a different use case, and if we can get different types of reporting, it will be helpful."
"The solution could improve by having support for container environments."
"We had a few issues, however, the issues were more on the infrastructure rather than with the application itself."
"The pricing of the solution can be improved."
"It is hard to coordinate the declaratory language."
"Setup took about one day. We had some errors to understand in the beginning, but now everything is working good."
"The interface can sometimes feel limited, as we're unable to see what AWS is running behind the scenes."
"It wasn't easy to understand the licensing model. It's like if you use just a little, it's cheap, but it becomes more expensive as you use more. It's like a hook that ties you inside the Amazon ecosystem. So, it creates a dependency."
"The price and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."
"I would like to see more data transformation features in Amazon Step Functions like additional operators and logic."
"The solution's data size limit can be improved."
AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews while AWS Step Functions is ranked 15th in Workload Automation with 8 reviews. AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4, while AWS Step Functions is rated 7.8. 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 AWS Step Functions writes "Simplifies complex task automation and enhances development workflows while offering user-friendly interface, seamless scalability and efficient workflow orchestration". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Automic Workload Automation and Stonebranch, whereas AWS Step Functions is most compared with Camunda, IBM BPM, Apache Airflow and Pega BPM. See our AWS Step Functions vs. AutoSys Workload Automation report.
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