AppWorx Workload Automation vs Tidal by Redwood comparison

AppWorx Workload Automation

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AppWorx Workload Automation

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 12, 2023

We performed a comparison between AppWorx Workload Automation and Tidal 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 praised for its ease of use and reliable performance. Tidal Automation is highly regarded for its efficient job scheduler, versatility in job execution, and seamless integration with other systems.

AppWorx Workload Automation can improve by enhancing its API integration and scalability. Tidal Automation has opportunities for improvement in its graphical user interface, pricing model, user interface, migration process, and job dependency management.

Service and Support: Users appreciate the technical support provided by AppWorx and the responsiveness and knowledge of Tidal Automation's support team. However, some users mention that lower-priority items can sometimes be overlooked by Tidal Automation.

Ease of Deployment: AppWorx Workload Automation's initial setup is time-consuming and challenging, particularly for those who are new to the system. It can take several months to complete. Tidal Automation offers a much simpler setup process. It only requires a few servers and a database, and the deployment process can be finished in approximately three weeks.

Pricing: AppWorx Workload Automation has a costly setup, dependent on the number of systems used. Tidal Automation has a fair and predictable pricing structure, with transparent licensing. Some users mention the requirement for extra adapters to fulfill specific job needs.

ROI: Customers have reported positive outcomes with Tidal Automation, including cost savings, increased efficiency, reduced manual work, improved risk management, and seamless integration. AppWorx does not provide specific information regarding ROI.

Comparison Results: Tidal Automation is preferred over AppWorx Workload Automation. Users appreciate Tidal Automation for its easy setup, manageable maintenance, and user-friendly interface. It offers a job scheduler, real-time monitoring, and reporting capabilities, along with the ability to automate complex workflows. Users also find its pricing fair and predictable, experience a positive return on investment, and highly value its customer service and support.

To learn more, read our detailed AppWorx Workload Automation vs. Tidal by Redwood Report (Updated: June 2024).

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Categories and Ranking

AppWorx Workload Automation

Ranking in Workload Automation

17th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Tidal by Redwood

Ranking in Workload Automation

2nd

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Workload Automation category, the market share of AppWorx Workload Automation is 2.0% and it decreased by 1.0% compared to the previous year. The market share of Tidal by Redwood is 5.1% and it decreased by 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Vigneshwaran (S.U.V) S U

UC4 Application Administrator at GAVS

Feb 24, 2023

The scheduling tool and finance module are valuable features

Our company uses the solution for electronic automations. We have 300 users, a few use cases on-premises, and a few use cases on the cloud. The solution is very user friendly so anyone can use it. The user finance module is a key feature. The scheduling tool is very valuable. The graphical…

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Gowri-Shankar

Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 9, 2023

Stable product with valuable customization feature

Tidal Automation is a better tool than Redwood for enterprise-level applications. It is a stable tool and easier to integrate with any product. We have a lot of custom-made applications within and outside our company. The product helps us connect with all of the applications in a better way than…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Scheduling is a good feature."

"The most valuable features of AppWorx Workload Automation are simplicity and reliability. Additionally, they recently transformed the UI which is better."

"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 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."

"The automated solution is the most valuable piece. Otherwise, we would have to be doing everything manually on every server."

"The solution is very user friendly so anyone can use it."

"It is really a robust product."

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"The data management on offer was valuable."

"The best feature is that it allows task scheduling based on particular occurrences, like the receipt of files, database updates, or system notifications."

"We use the solution for cross-platform, cross-application workloads. That's the biggest use for us and that's the biggest advantage."

"The feature that I find to be valuable, as I'm working with other folks, is the ability to cross-schedule across platforms, and the flexibility that comes with that."

"We wouldn't be able to do many of the complex scheduling that we do today without it. For us, it is a mission-critical app. Because if it doesn't work or has a problem, then SAP doesn't function. It is that critical. So, it's an essential tool for us to manage and run SAP jobs."

"The Graphical Views feature is also very good for helping us to understand a job stream. It's great for providing a visual overview of the status of a workflow, especially the Critical Path view. That is one of our favorites."

"We have to run about 12,000 jobs every day and the majority of them need to be launched from our ERP, JD Edwards. The native compatibility of the Tidal platform with JD Edwards dovetails with our greatest need. It's directly connected to the heart of our IT system. We couldn't work without it."

"With the varied features in the varied adapters provided, we use Tidal Enterprise Scheduler because we want everything to be scheduled in one place. Tidal provides that for us with its tools and varying platforms in our organization. Tidal provides all the connectors to the platforms. This is very useful because we don't want to look for another scheduler for scheduling certain jobs. We don't want to look at those schedules manually between platforms."

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Cons

"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."

"We are looking for additional features that would allow us to call APIs and integrate the product with other tools more effectively."

"It is not really scaling per say because they are not putting much into it. They are trying to push their new product."

"The graphical interface is pretty cool but not the best so it could use some improvement."

"Reporting, forecasting and intelligence could be improved."

"It is difficult to integrate with the Active Directory (AD)."

"As a general process automation and integration tool, it has been superseded by other offerings, notably the Workload Automation suite."

"The scalability could improve."

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"Their software installation and update process could use some improvements. I'm pretty sure they're working on that, but that's definitely an area where it could be streamlined a lot. There's still a lot of manual work that you have to do with the schedule when you deploy masters or do the agents."

"It takes a lot of time to learn the product. I have admins and developers who are working on the products for the last three to four years and still don't know all the functionalities. Tidal has really great things about it, but people are focused on their day-to-day job and the solution is not intuitive."

"For the most part, the drill-down and the logging are really good. But if we take an Informatica job, for example: We have the ability, and the operators have the ability, to actually drill down and see, at a session level, where the failure is. There is, unfortunately, no way to extract that into an actual output email or failure email. It's not that that information is not available, but extracting it into an email would be a nice-to-have."

"Setting up the initial product was a little hard."

"I would like more involvement with the cloud."

"When we patch to the next version, there is often a little thing that breaks. It has rarely been a big deal, but I always seem to have to follow up on one tiny issue. It would help if they had some better QA testing of their patches."

"Initially, it is complicated to understand the functionalities as there is limited product documentation."

"The job failure alerts can be updated with more details for better troubleshooting."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost model is based on the number of orchestrated systems used."

"We are satisfied with the pricing."

"Licensing options are fairly straightforward."

"The price for annual licenses is a bit expensive so pricing is rated a two out of ten."

"Our yearly licensing costs are between $10,000 to $20,000. They have always been reasonable with us. I like that non-production licensing is about half the cost of production licensing. Licensing is by adapter typically. We have had scenarios where we have had to take an adapter from one environment to another, and they've allowed us to do that. They have made it a very reasonable process. There's definitely a feeling that they will work with you."

"The solution has no hidden costs. It helps me to plan forward into the future. I know that I can add another 100 or a thousand jobs, and that's how much it will cost me today."

"There are project, system, and server costs. Some of the things that they are doing is introducing new products. They are introducing what they call their Repository, which is a way for you to move a job. That doesn't cost anything to us, because it is reusing a tool called Transporter. The repository is the successor to Transporter, so we already own it and are sort of grandfathered in. But that new product requires a server and database, so now we have to go out and get a server and database. So, there is a cost there."

"The price is reasonable in terms of the product’s functionality."

"Their pricing seems very fair. It is more than the other solutions, but the functionality and the support are very much there. You pay for the job scheduler, and then they have certain things that are built into it, such as the FTP processes. If you then want to do JD Edwards jobs, you need an adapter. If you want to do SQL jobs, there is another adapter. Similarly, if you want to do Oracle jobs, there is an adapter. It is like there is the base and then there are the adapters for the jobs that you want to do, but it seems that's also how they pay for each of those adapters and keep them up to date."

"If you are willing to shop around to other vendors, you can possibly get a good price on your support license."

"I have had no issues with the licensing."

"We are satisfied with the pricing of Tidal. It's in the moderate range and it feels very achievable for us."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

University

Manufacturing Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

20%

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Insurance Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AppWorx Workload Automation?

The most valuable features of AppWorx Workload Automation are simplicity and reliability. Additionally, they recently transformed the UI which is better.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AppWorx Workload Automation?

The cost model is based on the number of orchestrated systems used.

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What needs improvement with AppWorx Workload Automation?

The scalability could improve.

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What do you like most about Tidal Automation?

Tidal Automation by Redwood is a user-friendly solution.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Tidal Automation?

The price is reasonable in terms of the product’s functionality.

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What needs improvement with Tidal Automation?

Initially, it is complicated to understand the functionalities as there is limited product documentation. The setup and configuration of the software is a bit complicated. Providing the training vi...

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Tidal Workload Automation, Cisco Workload Automation, Tidal Enterprise Scheduler

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Overview

AppWorx Workload Automation automates your Ellucian’s Banner or Fiserv DNA processing. This innovative, best-in-class task scheduling solution accelerates your processing, provides visibility and control over business processes, and mitigates risk in both environments.

AppWorx Workload Automation Can:

Automate banner processes without writing scripts
Automate testing
Document process flows and procedures
Maintain a history and audit trail of production runs
Automate migration from development to test to production environments
Reduce training
Eliminate human errors associated with manual tasks

Benefits of AppWorx Workload Automation For Your Ellucian’s Banner

Automate recurring business processes, such as administration and record-keeping, while complying with state and federal reporting requirements.
Batch jobs are processed accurately.
If there are any inconsistencies or job failures, Automic for Banner immediately sends email notifications to the appropriate personnel.
Significantly improve your return on investment.
Automating batch processing and report generation.
Eliminating server overload by using a combination of features (AppWorx provides queues to control the number of jobs that can be submitted to a server at any given time, can spot duplicate runs of the same reports, and can delay impromptu reports submitted by individuals until all regularly scheduled reports are processed, etc.).
Eliminates the need for developers to write shell, PERL, or batch scripts to automate scheduling.
Automatically keeps a history of every job run, the parameters that were used, and the output generated at each step. These records are readily available for viewing online and can be printed for reference.
Export and import utilities make migration an error-free, repeatable process. Database logins, printers, and libraries can be mapped when you are moving process flows to a new environment. Mapping eliminates potentially erroneous code changes.

Benefits of AppWorx Workload Automation For Your Fiserv DNA Processing

Run DNA jobs directly, eliminating the need to copy and release queues for each batch cycle.
Automatically run DNA jobs at the optimum time using sophisticated scheduling.
Run multiple DNA jobs at the same time in parallel from one batch station.
Eliminate potential data entry errors by automatically retrieving parameters from your enterprise databases.
Automatically check the results from one step to ensure data integrity before continuing to the next step.
Alert production analysts to problems the instant they occur.
Coordinate processing steps across all software applications.
Automatically distribute output files to vendors.
Perform all operations from one GUI client.

Reviews from Real Users

“The most valuable feature for me is the scheduling,” says an enterprise application architect at a retailer who has been using the solution for close to 10 years.

A manager at a tech services company adds that “The interface is good. The compliance-related features are very good.”

Tidal Software is a leading provider of enterprise workload automation solutions that orchestrate the execution of complex workflows across systems, applications and IT environments. With a comprehensive portfolio of products and services, Tidal optimizes mission-critical business processes, increases IT cost efficiencies and satisfies legal and regulatory compliance requirements. Hundreds of customers around the world count on Tidal for modernizing their workload automation and driving their digital transformation. Tidal Software is headquartered in Chicago with offices in Houston, London, Minsk, Belarus and Chennai, India. For more information, visit tidalsoftware.com.

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