We performed a comparison between AutoSys Workload Automation and Microsoft Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about BMC, Tidal Software by Redwood, Redwood Software and others in Workload Automation."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."
"It has helped to simplify cross-dependency between MVS and Open systems jobs."
"We need to have things run in a very sequential order, so it is very useful that we can schedule the work flows."
"Integration with multiple services and applications across the enterprise."
"I find that it provides better agility in regards to job execution features."
"We get better reports than we use to have."
"The capabilities of the product to schedule on multiple platforms, multiple operating systems."
"The features that I have found most valuable with AutoSys are that it is scalable, easy to use, fast, and always available. That's very important because if it's not steady then it's a real problem. So, at this point, we are satisfied with it."
"The solution has a very good set of features."
"The most valuable features are application deployment and task-sequenced imaging."
"Microsoft has done a good job with authentication solutions, such as single sign-on, or open authentication."
"I like a lot of the reporting capabilities and baseline configurations."
"The major features of this product are the reporting tools. The most valuable features are package deployment and application deployment. Security management is also good because any vulnerability will be identified, and you can fix it. It's the best tool because you never know what kind of client you will have. For example, you may have your offices in low bandwidth remote areas. But it's achievable because it accommodates the bandwidth that you have available. Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is an excellent reporting tool for your environment. If you want to know the details about the hardware configuration, software configuration, what is causing a problem, or when a new feature update comes in for Windows, even that goes on SCCM itself. A lot of deployment stuff."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ability to deploy patches to nearly all applications."
"Microsoft Configuration Manager helps with patch management."
"We are happy with the collaboration of SCCM with Patch My PC, which allows us to do patch work."
"The reporting system, currently, could be better."
"It lacks support and integration with cloud computing platforms."
"An area for improvement in AutoSys Workload Automation is that it lacks advanced features or advanced built-in functionalities found in competitors, for example, an advanced workflow feature. Even the handling or notification from AutoSys Workload Automation isn't the best in the industry. Other products have very good workflow-related functionalities such as ActiveBatch that's missing in AutoSys Workload Automation, so I wish the tool had those features."
"The cross-platform arena, where you can run work on multiple platforms, needs improvement."
"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."
"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."
"Pricing model for distributed should have an Enterprise option."
"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."
"With Microsoft Premier Support, you get what you pay for. There's Third Tier Support that you pay for. If you pay for that, you get excellent support, and if you don't pay for that, then you get the less experienced staff."
"The ability to integrate MDM would be great."
"The downside of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is it's an on-premise-based solution. With the pandemic coming on board the need to support users across the globe has increased. For a while, we would use the in-built Microsoft Teams screen sharing feature but the disadvantage of that is you cannot perform privileged access. Microsoft does not give you access to that. That's where you need cloud-based tools, such as BeyondTrust or Freshservice."
"The solution can be improved with the addition of a mobile device manager."
"The solution can be improved by speeding up the synchronizing of the policies on the devices."
"It needs to be able to load faster during deployment."
"It would be of benefit if Configuration Manager could be connected/integrated with multiple Microsoft Intune subscriptions rather than just one (the current limit)."
"I would like to see an agentless version of the solution."
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AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews while Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Server Monitoring with 78 reviews. AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. 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 Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Affordable, easy to use, and easy to understand". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Automic Workload Automation and Stonebranch, whereas Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix, Tanium and Microsoft Intune.
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