We performed a comparison between AutoSys Workload Automation and OpCon 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, its user-friendly interface, efficient performance, and constant availability. It excels in organizing tasks and initiating them, providing a live view of batch processing, and seamlessly integrating with other software processes. OpCon shines in its adaptability, innovative scheduling solutions, self-service capabilities, and automation-driven reduction in human mistakes. It offers a visually appealing interface, database functionality, and the option to create a dedicated testing environment.
AutoSys needs to enhance its integration with cloud services, reporting capabilities, Linux environment compatibility, migration ease, file transfer job handling, monitoring capabilities, advanced features, workflow management, and workload window management. OpCon could benefit from improvements in its web-based interface, upgrade process, documentation, programming and configuration complexity, mobile app availability, failover functionality, licensing, training for support staff, UI functionality, self-service capabilities, custom job subtypes, and mainframe support.
Service and Support: AutoSys Workload Automation's customer service is highly praised for being very good, helpful, and responsive. OpCon's customer service is described as great, timely, and helpful. However, there have been instances where OpCon provided solutions that were not relevant to customers' problems.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for AutoSys Workload Automation is simple, direct, and fairly fast, typically completed in under 10 minutes. OpCon's initial setup can be intricate, although SMA consultants can help simplify its management.
Pricing: AutoSys Workload Automation has a setup cost that involves a yearly subscription and an annual license, along with separate costs for agents and server setup. OpCon offers fair pricing and licensing with a tiered pricing model. However, some customers have faced higher licensing costs and encountered setup issues with OpCon.
ROI: AutoSys offers advantages such as time and cost savings, improved reliability, scalability, and compliance. OpCon users have reported significant return on investment, including time savings, error reduction, increased productivity, and the elimination of full-time operators.
Comparison Results: AutoSys Workload Automation is the preferred choice when compared to OpCon. Users praise AutoSys for its simple and straightforward setup, scalability, user-friendly interface, speed, and availability. They appreciate features such as file transfer protocol and file watcher.
"The capabilities of the product to schedule on multiple platforms, multiple operating systems."
"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."
"It is stable, it works, and it does what it is supposed to."
"It is a fairly stable solution."
"The scheduling feature allows us to know when jobs are going to run and makes sure they run in the order needed."
"It allows you to automate tasks, and reduce headcount, prevent errors, self-heal."
"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."
"To me, what's most valuable in AutoSys Workload Automation is its robustness and quickness. The tool can trigger jobs within a few milliseconds, and it can handle large volumes of jobs."
"OpCon has also reduced our data processing times because of the way you can build out workflows. It can run things in sequence. It's not restricted to a linear process, so you can run multiple jobs at once, allowing for multi-threaded jobs."
"MAS is by far the best feature, although not a feature of the software specifically. MAS has more knowledge than our employees, so we have been able to develop schedules that are far beyond our own skillset."
"The most valuable features are its integration into Windows, into VM, and into AIX, as well as SQL."
"It allows us to organize everything into a process flow throughout the day for our different tasks that we have to run. So, it keeps everything organized. It is easy to monitor and adjust, if we need to."
"Having the jobs laid out while attaching dependencies is a nice addition to the program."
"The most valuable feature of OpCon is its scheduling capability, particularly for automating file transfers with vendors."
"It can run scripted tasks automatically over and over without intervention. That is what it does and the part that I really like because repetitive tasks need to be done over and over, day after day, no matter what day of the week it is. It is difficult to have staff do these manually and consistently, especially over weekends or through the night. Instead, you can have OpCon do them."
"I have been pleased with the support that we can get from the European partners. I think they are very good. All the time, when we have a question, they have an answer. It is very reassuring to have that support every day. Then, you can concentrate on your job and OpCon is just there to work. For us, it's perfect."
"I would like to see two-factor authentication, since you see a lot of companies in the news for security breaches. That is a really big thing for us."
"Needs better documentation with fully explained examples for some of the job types."
"The cross-platform arena, where you can run work on multiple platforms, needs improvement."
"CA installation processes are never anything but complex."
"The reporting system, currently, could be better."
"Documentation and cross-application externals could be improved."
"A better graphical user interface, because we have a lot of people using the client utility, and we want to get them away from that."
"The WCC could be improved."
"The UI refresh rate is really bad and needs improvement."
"We are still in the early stages of our implementation, so at this point, I cannot see any needed improvements or features."
"Enterprise Manager is a little clunky which I know they're addressing in the solution's manager."
"It does not have the ability to interact with third-parties via the web/Internet. We have certain processes where we have to interact with a third-party on a website, and unfortunately OpCon just cannot do that."
"A way to select multiple jobs in the UI for a quick change or to hold, release, et cetera, would be nice."
"The logs are a little daunting to look at the first few times, however, as you begin to understand what you're looking at, it becomes easier."
"Stability is an area for improvement. There are FTP agents that run on the MCP and they are there so that we can transfer a file from the MCP to the Windows environment or vice versa. Sometimes, and nobody has been able to figure out why, it just goes down, and all of my jobs that need it are hanging or failing... It would be very helpful if they could figure out what in the world is happening with that FTP client that's on the MCP."
"I would like to see them improve the Solution Manager for the web application. It's the future for us. Our customers need a lot of functionality, but there isn't that functionality within Solution Manager. So they have to develop and improve it."
AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews while OpCon is ranked 9th in Workload Automation with 56 reviews. AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4, while OpCon is rated 9.2. 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 OpCon writes "Gives us the ability to schedule dependent jobs across different mainframes". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Stonebranch and ESP Workload Automation Intelligence, whereas OpCon is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Automic Workload Automation, UiPath and Tidal by Redwood. See our AutoSys Workload Automation vs. OpCon report.
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