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.
"We use technical support all the time. We would be lost without them. They're fantastic. Really good job. We're able to reach the right person to help us out right away."
"Easy configuration and integration with SAP."
"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 AutoSys Workload Automation is user-friendliness. If someone has some knowledge of the tool they can use it."
"The scheduling feature allows us to know when jobs are going to run and makes sure they run in the order needed."
"This solution enables us to improve our daily processing times. We can do everything faster than before we used this solution."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the functions are easy to use."
"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."
"By automating the job processes it has saved us a lot of time and resources."
"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."
"The best feature I love about Redwood is the real-time event monitoring and alerting."
"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."
"Multi-platform scheduling makes it easier this way rather than accessing one platform at a time."
"Error handling and the recovery feature ensure that my job processes are not stopped if any error occurs."
"It is very easy and easy to use, and minimal supervision is required to run it."
"We can achieve anything that anything that we would like to do. In SAP, it's not generally possible with just with SAP. So we have solution manager as an option, but run by job."
"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."
"Ease of implementation for upgrades."
"More benefits with the agent upgrades, and that's about it. Other than that we have no complaints with it. It's been awesome."
"I would like to see the Service Orchestrator, a B2B product, and maybe a process audit."
"Some support issues need to be addressed, but not through email, through personal contact via phone or WebEx."
"It would be helpful to be able to monitor and manage workload windows so we could minimize downstream applications. This would allow us easier access to the applications."
"Some of the reports are either a bit hard to understand or don’t give you what you might expect to see."
"SQL server clustering is not supported."
"The reports are downloaded in .CAR file format, which makes it difficult to convert to an Excel file."
"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."
"The user interface of Redwood can be improved a bit to make it more user-friendly and interesting."
"It has limited reporting features; some basic reporting features are missing."
"It would be nice if Redwood RunMyJobs could work on different systems."
"Due to the abundance of competing automation technologies available on the market, connectivity with any cloud platform can be improved."
"Enhancing the user interface would make it more appealing to new users with limited technical knowledge."
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 Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT, whereas Redwood RunMyJobs is most compared with Control-M, Stonebranch, Tidal by Redwood, Automic Automation Intelligence and ActiveBatch by Redwood. See our AutoSys Workload Automation vs. Redwood RunMyJobs report.
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