We performed a comparison between AutoSys Workload Automation and Stonebranch Universal Automation Center 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 highly regarded for its ability to handle large workloads, user-friendly interface, efficient processing, and constant accessibility. It stands out in organizing tasks, initiating actions, and promptly processing batches of data. Stonebranch Universal Automation Center is commended for its exceptional performance, visually appealing representations, and capability to establish job interdependencies. It provides regular updates and a reliable, adaptable solution.
AutoSys Workload Automation could improve its integration with cloud services, reporting and comparison of job performance, customization of reporting features and alerts, handling file transfer jobs, monitoring capabilities, advanced features and functionalities, and workload window management. Stonebranch Universal Automation Center could benefit from being cloud-based, enhancing analytics, improving task monitor management, developing a mobile app for easier monitoring and calculation of job hours, and collaborating with the vendor for future releases.
Service and Support: Users have expressed high satisfaction with the customer service and support provided by Stonebranch Universal Automation Center. However, there is no specific mention of the customer service of AutoSys Workload Automation.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for AutoSys Workload Automation is praised for being simple, direct, and efficient, typically requiring no more than 10 minutes. The initial setup for Stonebranch Universal Automation Center is considered average in terms of ease, with challenges arising from the intricate infrastructure.
Pricing: AutoSys Workload Automation requires a yearly subscription and an annual license for setup. Stonebranch Universal Automation Center is regarded as more affordable than its rivals, receiving positive pricing ratings and offering comparable pricing to AutoSys.
ROI: AutoSys Workload Automation lacks details on ROI, whereas Stonebranch Universal Automation Center has demonstrated significant cost reductions of around 40% to 50% compared to previous tools for some users.
Comparison Results: AutoSys Workload Automation receives positive feedback for its straightforward setup, ability to handle growing workloads, user-friendly interface, efficient performance, and consistent availability. Users appreciate its simplicity, stability, and scalability. AutoSys offers advanced features and functionalities.
"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."
"We use CA Workload Automation AE r11.3.6 to automate enterprise-wide scheduling and file transfers using an FTP plugin."
"The solution has been stable."
"The most valuable feature of AutoSys Workload Automation is user-friendliness. If someone has some knowledge of the tool they can use it."
"It is a fairly stable solution."
"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."
"The customized views that each individual can create, and views that can be made free-form, makes this very popular with the programmers."
"The actual scheduling of our jobs has helped us tremendously. Before it was all done manually, and we've totally automated the whole functionality, so there's no longer a case where somebody didn't run something."
"I like the dashboard and the various workflows."
"When it comes to agent technology and compatibility with other vendors, from a platform perspective it was the one vendor that fit all the platforms that we have, from your old platforms - mainframe, NSK, IBM i - to the new ones, going into cloud and container"
"I can name the aliases on the agent, so if we need a passive environment for an agent, that's one of the nice features. If our primary goes down, I can bring up the passive one and I don't have to change anything in the scheduling world. It will start running from that new server."
"The features are upgraded, and every six months they're releasing patches."
"The Universal Agent is the most valuable feature. Being agent-based and being able to go across multiple technology stacks, which is what our workflows do, Stonebranch gives us the ability to bridge those disparate technologies. It enables us to remove the dependency-gap with the agent so we know the status of the workflow at each step."
"We like that it has GUI and is not just a command line."
"The interface is very user-friendly and easy to navigate."
"The most valuable feature is the reliability of the agents, because we need them accessible and we need to run stuff. The agent technology and compatibility are top-notch."
"SQL server clustering is not supported."
"I am looking forward to more of their dashboard features. I think it would be very valuable for us to have dashboard features that could be delivered to our customers in the form of a URL, and they could refresh that URL whenever they wanted to get up to date performance metrics out of our systems."
"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."
"We are trying to see if we can use this from a cloud perspective with AWS, Azure, and other clouds, but it seems that there is no cloud integration in this product. We would like to see cloud integration. We are very pleased with this solution, but we are moving our application to the cloud, and we found out that it doesn't support any cloud features. So, we are trying to find a replacement."
"The reporting system, currently, could be better."
"This product needs to improve its graphical user interface."
"AutoSys Workload Automation could improve in the Linux environment. The previous versions of the AutoSys Workload Automation let you take the profile of the user that you were using to run the tasks that you're going to automate, but in the latest versions, you can't do that, you need to make more definitions and it's a little bit difficult. It was easier in the previous versions."
"Reduce the number of operational files. This would make the job of a system programmer supporting ESP easier."
"Stonebranch Universal Automation Center could improve the analytics."
"I would rate Stonebranch somewhere in the middle for ease of setup. It wasn't too straightforward for us because our infrastructure is complex."
"There is room for improvement with its connectivity with the Microsoft SRS system. It is very weak. They keep telling us it works with it, and technically it does, but it does not provide a lot of visibility. We have lost a lot of visibility migrating to Stonebranch, compared with just running tasks on the SRS server. That's really about the only thing that is a sore point for us."
"One hiccup we've had is due to the fact that we have other internal scheduling tools. We're able to talk to them, but we have trouble with some of the networking between them, so we're still trying to work out the kinks there."
"It can be hard to manage the task monitor."
"It's not available on the cloud, so they should take that due to safety, security, and scalability."
"The Universal Controller is decent for the money it costs... It needs some work to have full features, compared to other products that are out there, specifically IBM's Workload Scheduler."
"Occasionally, we have an agent that doesn't come back up after patching. That doesn't happen very often... It's really just a restart of the agent and it comes back up. But that might be one thing that could be improved."
AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews while Stonebranch is ranked 16th in Workload Automation with 26 reviews. AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4, while Stonebranch is rated 8.8. 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 Stonebranch writes "Allowed us to develop workflows without having to train and develop very specialized skillsets". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Automic Workload Automation and CA 7 Workload Automation Intelligence, whereas Stonebranch is most compared with Control-M, Redwood RunMyJobs, ESP Workload Automation Intelligence, IBM Workload Automation and VisualCron. See our AutoSys Workload Automation vs. Stonebranch report.
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