We performed a comparison between AutoSys Workload Automation and Puppet Enterprise 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."Inherit Dependencies feature reduces scheduling errors for holiday processing."
"It scales very well. We can add jobs and remove jobs. We do not have problems maintaining the product across multiple environments and multiple servers."
"We use CA Workload Automation AE r11.3.6 to automate enterprise-wide scheduling and file transfers using an FTP plugin."
"It can run an object on our Windows systems or our Unix systems, and then send messages to the other system when they are complete."
"Running anything in crontab, you need to put a lot of logic into it to make it work. With this product, you don't have to worry about it. You have the schedule object where you put all the dates or holidays in it, and it does it for you."
"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."
"The solution has been stable."
"CA Workload Automation AutoSys Edition is one of the most powerful schedulers that you have on the open systems, or going between Window servers; to be able to schedule and take advantage of the different powers that the automation has with it."
"Puppet3 and 4 series provides optimum deployment solutions for infrastructure and applications."
"Puppet Enterprise has good functionalities."
"Puppet Enterprise is a stable solution."
"Anything that we manage through Puppet always runs perfectly."
"The most valuable features are the agent, high load balancing, and overall robustness and features."
"The versatility is great."
"Puppet Enterprise has reduced the time of production changes or environment changes."
"The main purpose for this automation tool would be: deploying, controlling, ordering change for the system and IT Infrastructure."
"Quick search feature and job analysis could be improved."
"CA Workload Automation is not part of CA's strategic vision going forward."
"CA installation processes are never anything but complex."
"We have to escalate through channels to get to somebody who knows what's going on. It takes time that we do not necessarily have."
"The lack of documentation, that is an issue. When we do need to bring it down for maintenance, it is always a scary moment for us because we have never had it crash."
"Some of the reports are either a bit hard to understand or don’t give you what you might expect to see."
"There is a difference between a web interface and the thick client interface. We particularly like a thick client interface, and it has gone away."
"The graphical interface can be improved."
"Puppet Enterprise should improve the general extensibility for places where they can't install it."
"It's a bit of a pain point to make sure that everything works once we've upgraded it because Puppet has been evolving pretty fast."
"There's a lot of scope for enhancement on the DevSecOps side. They should definitely include features for compliance, for both the Linux and Windows side of the devices, as well as for network devices. Compliance is something they need to work on."
"The solution has really complex code, you have to understand the Ruby language. However, once you know the code then you can move ahead without any problems."
"Puppet Enterprise is more complex and difficult to configure."
"At the beginning the initial setup was kind of complex."
"We would like Puppet to add more integration for applications."
AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews while Puppet Enterprise doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Workload Automation with 12 reviews. AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4, while Puppet Enterprise is rated 8.2. 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 Puppet Enterprise writes "A set-it-and-forget-it management solution". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Stonebranch and Automic Workload Automation, whereas Puppet Enterprise is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, BigFix and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
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