Automic Workload Automation Previous Solutions

KD
Manager, Delivery at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

I had previously used Control-M and TIBCO. I found Automic Workload Automation to be the best of all the tools I have used.

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Ralph Franzke - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at setis GmbH

We did previously use a different solution. We switched to the brand leader in our region. The look and feel of the interface are very good in comparison.

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LR
System Administrator with 201-500 employees

I'm also familiar with Control M. I prefer Automic as it has multiple interfaces and capabilities to interact with various types of systems - even old, legacy databases. 

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Harby Maranan - PeerSpot reviewer
Workload Automation SME at Dairy Farm

We only had MSTs previously. We shifted to Automic Workload Automation because we wanted to integrate SAP and other business requirements. 

We are now looking into other products outside Automic because of its cost. We have shortlisted BMC Control-M, Stonebranch, ActiveBatch, and IBM.

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RB
IT Manager at ESB

This was before my time. I suppose we had an operations function that was shift-based. We would have a team that worked around the clock, and they would be performing the batch functions manually. Then, when Automic came in, we could operate 24/7 because Automic was doing the automation, but we only needed a team 9 to 5, Monday to Friday, in the office. This cut down on the need for a rolling shift. However, this is probably going back about 10 years ago.

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AL
Systems Engineer at Merck KGaA

Initial reason was the projects which from SAP R2 to R3. That was the reason why they looked for a different scheduling system. 

Meanwhile, we are controlling nearly all SAP systems that we have, so it has a three digit number. In this area, no one has any idea of using a different tool for it. The another direction where we hope that we can move into other directions, but without the necessary management, it can't.

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CB
Assistant Director of Production Services

We ran our Finance, HCM, and CIW processes through Unicenter. I don't believe that Unicenter was very user-friendly and they found it difficult to integrate with other applications.

We ran the Student Information System batch on the mainframe using CA7 as the batch scheduler. We switched from Unicenter to Automic and from the mainframe to Automic, mainly because Automic can integrate easily with any other application or service. When we got off of the mainframe and moved the student side to PeopleSoft, it only made sense to use Automic as the batch scheduler.

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Nattapong Naserb - PeerSpot reviewer
Implementor , System Engineer at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
RR
Sr Production Control Analyst at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

When I started, we were already on this product, but I do know that they were using a competing product before and they felt that this product had more of what they wanted. So they converted from the competing product to this product.

When the company chose this product, it was actually pre-CA, and then CA acquired the product. But for the most part, they've kept it what it was. While it has a new owner, it's still the same product.

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MM
Manager of Global Process Automation at Adidas Group

Our old solution was not able to deliver a real end-to-end automation. It was embedded in SAP. An excellent product for SAP so far, but it is not able to be scalable for the end-to-end. 

This was the reason why we did research at our company to do an end-to-end product assessment. In the end, the decision was to made to go with Automic.

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HE
Administrator at Volkswagen Financial Services AG

We had a previous solution. It was Control-M. We switched because there were some issues around the costs. Automic's costs were lower.

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HR
System Specialist at a tech services company

About 15 years ago, we had CA-7 from CA. Then, we changed to the UC4 Automic. Now, we are back to CA.

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JK
Lead Systems Administrator at Great American Insurance

For the open system side, I don't believe we were using anything previously. Probably anything that they would have been using would have been Microsoft Task Scheduler or a Unix cron. But we were not using anything that I know of at the time. We did have CA-7 on the mainframe, which we still actually use on a limited basis, but that is being sunsetted. So we were not using anything really.

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VS
Manager, Application Administration at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did not have a previous solution.

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it_user716556 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The company previously used AutoSys. To my understanding, they switched for cost reasons.

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AI
Head of Branchless Banking at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Automic has been a Greenfield project. We were the first implementation and a number of banks went with this solution after us.

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YY
System Specialist at Türkiye İş Bankası

We were not previously using another product. However, we did have our own automation solution (scripting). Before Automic, there was no automation product.

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AK
UC4 Administrator at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

When I came to the company, they were already using Automic. They had been using it for a long time.

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it_user505632 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Marcos L. Domingos - PeerSpot reviewer
ITSM Specialist at Qintess

We have also used CA Process Automation, MS System Center Orchestrator, and Control-M.

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AN
Automic Admin at IT Service Solutions Service Delivery

We bought this back in 2004. We were upgrading all of our systems to SAP systems, and we wanted a scheduler. We did not want to use the SAP scheduler, so we were recommended UC4 (as it was at the time). That is why we brought it in. It was for our SAP system, but we use it on all applications now.

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MS
Systems engineer at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

This is our first job management solution. My managers made the decision to buy it.

The important criteria when selecting a vendor to work with are

  • Good support
  • A good product.

Good support is very important for us.

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JR
Managing Consultant at ICT

I have used plenty of automation solutions. 

I made the move over to Automic Workload Automation as many other solutions weren't compatible with REST APIs. For me, it was a matter of evolution. The new solutions come with more features, more updated technologies that I can use. 

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ME
Production Systems Engineer at Sofrecom

I used Dollar U. There are really big differences. Dollar U has decentralized methods and tools. ONE Automation has centralized tools. It is really strong and really easy to use ONE Automation. For example, for organizing, for creating applications and clients, for manipulating the agents, for the servers, it's really easy. You just put the agent in the server application with the LI and it directly connects with the Automation Engine Server. It's amazing.

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it_user779145 - PeerSpot reviewer
Archive And Research And Development Lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The older version wasn't performing as well because we pretty much maxed out what it could handle with our thousands of jobs we run a day. So, the Automation solution was brought to us and we said, "Well, this thing could supposedly handle it," so we've gone to it, and so far so good.

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SG
VP, Chief Technology & Digital officer

We had a few solutions. Most of them were code reading oriented, but it wasn't the platform. We didn't have any other platforms. We had tested another platform in that time, a very big one, which is not really relevant to this discussion, because I don't have anything bad to say about them, only from the point that they were too robotic for us. I think that Automic came with a very good approach in the delivery level. It's important, because when you're working at the delivery level, you can see the ROI that you will receive from the implementation.

It's a very good product and has a very good delivery level. Especially the guys that designed the solution over here are focused on the issues in the top 10 painful issues that we had, while resolving them during a very fast implementation. It gave us the boost to go with the digital area, the application area, and the business strategy area.

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it_user779136 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at BECU

When I joined my company, we were using an application from AppWorks. I was part of the decision process to do the beta with One Automation when UC4 bought them, and then became Automic. I was also part of the decision to stay with the platform and to continue to renew each year.

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AS
Engineering Job Scheduling at IT S Care

It was 13 years ago, we previously used Control-M and switched to UC4. This was a management decision.

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JM
Senior Programmer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We were replacing AutoSys. We saw Automic as a better version of it, which it definitely has been. We replaced that an existing solution because it was no longer fit for its purpose.

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it_user779070 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Production Control Specialist at SAIF Corporation

We have a lot of legacy systems and we're implementing new systems and applications to take over the old things. We're an insurance company so we have claims, and policies, and AP, and financials, and payroll. Old systems get old, and as we're implementing new systems, AppWorks or Automic now, just fits. It's just the best there is, so, it was a no-brainer. 

We had such success with AppWorks. And then we went to this big RFI to figure out what we were going to change to because we didn't want to upgrade AppWorks anymore. But the success that we had with AppWorks - and then when Automic bought it - it was like a no-brainer. We would just go with them.

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JD
IT Specialist Automation Service Coordinator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We were previously doing manual work. There was an initiative coming from the senior management to automate more things, which is how this came about. When I joined the project, this product was already selected. I had no real say about the product. I had to learn it, because I was given CA Automic Workload Automation, and told this is what you are going to implement. 

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AF
Application Operating Service Manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

In the beginning, we used a banking solution which was running on one platform. It was AS/400 at the time. We were changing the banking platform so it moved to a new platform. The old scheduler did not exist for the new platform. 

Additionally, the new banking solution needed an adapter, so we also needed a solution which could interact with this banking solution. We had more satellite systems, so we also had to handle the planning between different systems and the old scheduler, which was one platform based and it could not handle it. That was the initiative to choose a new scheduler.

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TS
Associate Director at Pbb Deutsche

We had a couple of solutions in place starting from Windows, Unix crontab, and other batch controlling software (like Control-M, Redwood, etc.).

Batches interact with all applications, so the batch structure is more complex and using different tools was not a solution. Therefore, we needed to have one single workflow as a solution for us, and we made the decision to have one tool in place. Then, we did an evaluation, and the winner was CA.

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RL
Senior Systems Engineer at a non-tech company with 11-50 employees

In the past, we had CA-7. CA built this mainframe schedule. Then, we have canceled the contract to CA, and decided to go with UC4. Now, UC4 is a part of CA, and now we have a contract with CA again.

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it_user840180 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I have been an admin on other tools as well. I was a contributor to and implemented BMC Control-M.

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it_user895362 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We were previously using CA-7.

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it_user723048 - PeerSpot reviewer
SCM

We switched over 20 years ago.

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it_user1027005 - PeerSpot reviewer
Batch Scheduling DTS, Service Delivery Lead at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

In our team, we are using four workload automation tools including Automic, Control-M, Autosys, and TWS/IWS. We are supporting all of them but I concentrate on Automic because it's the one that I like the most.

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it_user778713 - PeerSpot reviewer
Unix Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We actually have an older product AppWorks 6.0 that we currently use, and we are transitioning from AppWorks to Automation several months from now. We are currently in the developmental stage. 

The current solution we have is not supported, which is why we are switching.

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YM
Development Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We did not have a plan to adopt this product and didn't even discover it right away. Rather, we followed the new technologies and came up with new strategies that led us to it.

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AH
Service Management at Siemens Industry

We did not have a previous solution, just something we built in-house. We have been using this solution for 20 years.

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HQ
Architect & Technical Director at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

Prior to this, we used other products from the CA Automation family, but with different branding. We used the AutoSys d-Series Edition.

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RR
Systems Analyst at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We used just shell scripts and crontab.

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NB
Production Services at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We were not previously using another solution.

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Buyer's Guide
Automic Workload Automation
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Automic Workload Automation. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.