We performed a comparison between AppWorx Workload Automation and AutoSys Workload Automation based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: AppWorx Workload Automation is highly regarded for its intuitive interface and reliable functionality. Users appreciate its user-friendly design and consistent performance. AutoSys Workload Automation is praised for its impressive scalability and ease of use. Users value its quick processing speed and constant availability. In addition, AutoSys provides additional features such as file transfer protocol and file watcher, enhancing its capabilities.
Users of AppWorx Workload Automation are seeking enhanced API integration and improved integration with other tools. Additionally, they desire better scalability. AutoSys Workload Automation users are in need of integration with cloud services, simplified reporting and comparison of job performance, and access to more advanced features and functionalities.
Service and Support: AppWorx stands out for its exceptional technical support, while AutoSys is commended for being highly supportive and responsive.
Ease of Deployment: AppWorx Workload Automation's initial setup is time-consuming, requiring several months to complete and administrator involvement. AutoSys Workload Automation offers a quick and effortless setup that can be done in approximately 10 minutes with minimal clicks. It is regarded as straightforward and simple.
Pricing: AppWorx Workload Automation's setup cost is based on the number of systems used, which can be costly. AutoSys Workload Automation offers different pricing and licensing choices, including a one-time license fee for server setup and the possibility of monthly payments for certain users.
ROI: AppWorx Workload Automation lacks details regarding ROI. AutoSys Workload Automation provides advantages such as heightened productivity, enhanced efficiency, cost-effectiveness, improved visibility, and minimized downtime.
Comparison Results: AutoSys Workload Automation is the preferred choice over AppWorx Workload Automation. Users praise AutoSys for its quick and simple setup process, scalability, ease of use, speed, and availability. It offers valuable features like job orchestration, real-time batch processing view, and a user-friendly interface.
"It is an object-based approach to task and process design in conjunction with conditional logic and event-based scheduling actions, which enables a build once/use often design methodology to be employed."
"It is really a robust product."
"It has improved my organization through automation of back office and infrastructure procedures, and by integrating and orchestrating key business applications spanning multiple technology stacks."
"We have a lot of nightly jobs that need to be run. Therefore, we perform a lot of calculations and processes during nighttime hours."
"Scheduling is a good feature."
"The solution is very user friendly so anyone can use it."
"The most valuable features of AppWorx Workload Automation are simplicity and reliability. Additionally, they recently transformed the UI which is better."
"The automated solution is the most valuable piece. Otherwise, we would have to be doing everything manually on every server."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the functions are easy to use."
"It gives us flexibility when doing releases. We can make changes for one day in a PDS member, since we stage our jobs by date, and the next day the normal job definitions are run."
"It allows you to automate tasks, and reduce headcount, prevent errors, self-heal."
"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."
"The CA workload agent has gotten much better. For our organization it's important for us to communicate in a secure fashion between the host and the other platforms, and we are able to do that with our CA product"
"We need to have things run in a very sequential order, so it is very useful that we can schedule the work flows."
"It is a fairly stable solution."
"I prefer AutoSys over the other ones out there for ease of use, ease of understanding, and getting people to understand how the tool works."
"As a general process automation and integration tool, it has been superseded by other offerings, notably the Workload Automation suite."
"We are looking for additional features that would allow us to call APIs and integrate the product with other tools more effectively."
"The compliance features are limited to the server and not the entire infrastructure."
"The graphical interface is pretty cool but not the best so it could use some improvement."
"It has been a deprecated product, because it is so old. There has been a couple of new solutions that are a little more advanced."
"The internal security model can be complex when configuring multiple user groups."
"It is difficult to integrate with the Active Directory (AD)."
"It is not really scaling per say because they are not putting much into it. They are trying to push their new product."
"The cross-platform arena, where you can run work on multiple platforms, needs improvement."
"To make it a lot more user-friendly, in order to make it so other people can use it without having to do much training with it; the more user-friendly it is, the easier it is to work with."
"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 solution does not have a friendly subscription model because it forces users to take a five-year subscription simultaneously, charging millions of dollars."
"The WCC could be improved."
"This product needs to improve its graphical user interface."
"Some of the reports are either a bit hard to understand or don’t give you what you might expect to see."
"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."
AppWorx Workload Automation is ranked 17th in Workload Automation with 7 reviews while AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews. AppWorx Workload Automation is rated 8.0, while AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of AppWorx Workload Automation writes "The scheduling tool and finance module are valuable features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AutoSys Workload Automation writes "Helps us manage complex workloads, reduce our workload failure rates, and save us time". AppWorx Workload Automation is most compared with Automic Workload Automation, Control-M and Automic Automation Intelligence, whereas AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Automic Workload Automation and Stonebranch. See our AppWorx Workload Automation vs. AutoSys Workload Automation report.
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