AutoSys Workload Automation Benefits

Antony Askew - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at Natwest

We rely on AutoSys Workload Automation to manage hundreds of diverse processes, ranging from IT-based backups and maintenance tasks to a wide variety of customer service applications used by the bank. Most of the processes we automate using AutoSys are complex.

It is easy to manage complex workloads using AutoSys Workload Automation.

AutoSys Workload Automation has helped reduce our workload failure rates across multiple cloud environments. While it's difficult to quantify the exact percentage reduction, a system outage would cause significant issues for hundreds of application teams and incur billions in costs. Automation levels vary by area, ranging from 100 percent to 50 or 20 percent. Overall, we've achieved a significant improvement in workload reliability.

It enables our staff to save time to focus on other tasks. It's running on tens of thousands of servers. So the hours we save are in the thousands.

It helps us improve our compliance processes. For example, it ensures the bank meets its obligations for tasks like backups and timely processing of market-critical activities.

The tasks we have automated would require hundreds of people to complete manually, resulting in significant operational cost savings.

We use AutoSys Workload Automation for automating and orchestration processes across legacy and modern systems. Our ability to observe the automation across multiple cloud environments using AutoSys is adequate and continually improving.

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it_user572862 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Analyst Developer at Dish Network

We've just recently upgraded to the 11.3.6 Workload Automation platform. We're still implementing the pieces, but what we found is, there's a lot more reporting with it. It's a lot more stable. There are a lot more features available, that we've yet to even take advantage of.

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MB
Application Support Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

AutoSys Workload Automation has saved us a lot of time for batch processing and bad jobs. Earlier, if someone had an issue with the application, they would open a ticket, and we would take the ticket and work on the issue. AutoSys Workload Automation can pick up a ticket raised by someone, resolve the issue, and close the ticket. So, it saves a lot of human intervention.

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Buyer's Guide
AutoSys Workload Automation
March 2024
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it_user779097 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT System Analyst Senior at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Day to day it actually allows the developers to execute their critical processes for the business, running the business. I can see that expanding in the future.

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HS
Executive Director at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

This type of tool is essential for a data group in terms of how we pick up data from different things and vendors, and how we set up the workflows to do all the jobs. Without it, we can't imagine how we would run all the jobs. If we need something to run on a daily basis, we can use AutoSys to fully automate it. We don't need to have a dedicated resource to look at a job and ensure that it is completed. AutoSys simplifies our life.

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DV
Sr IT Infrastructure Analyst at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

It gives us flexibility when doing releases. We can make changes for one day in a PDS member, since we stage our jobs by date, and the next day the normal job definitions are run.

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it_user611985 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Associate at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It allowed us to consolidate our monitoring down to one particular console in one particular environment.

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AM
Batch Scheduling Specialist at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

A benefit of the solution is scheduling multiple jobs. We run 5,000 jobs a day, so it helps us to keep all of that in order; keep all the dependencies, everything, flowing in the right direction; any kind of events, getting all those alerts and anything that could help with making things faster; not keeping anything behind.

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DC
Autosys Admin at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It has just been in use in this organization for many years. It is just a standard go-to tool for scheduling.

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it_user572841 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The really nice thing is that, as the business grows, we're not seeing the infrastructure grow. Regardless of how much new business we keep on, the team is pretty stable. We have a dedicated team of eight people. We maintain today nine instances of DE: three production and six pre-production. We're probably going to add a couple more in 2017, but we don't anticipate having to grow the infrastructure. We'll be able to keep serving the customers the same way we have historically and we'll be able to do that into the future, without seeing any degradation in service.

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it_user558105 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We're in healthcare. We need a way to automate loading the members and processing claims. Without a tool, we wouldn't be able to do that efficiently. It increased efficiency.

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DJ
Technology Director at The Travelers Companies, Inc.

The tool provides added flexibility for our customers while maintaining our required control points. 

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GH
Senior Technology Specialist at TELUS Corporation

It streamlines processing really well, so we're able to cut down on our processing times.

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it_user588753 - PeerSpot reviewer
Subject Matter Expert (Application Administration and Automation) at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

There are a lot of benefits. Automating things is the future. You get to be efficient.

I'm in retail, so a lot of times, we do a lot of different jobs. You have one person doing what three people normally do. The only way you can really function is if you automate things.

It's beautiful because I can schedule things in a hundred different ways. There's generally always a solution to things with some sort of scheduling.

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it_user558255 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mainframe System Administrator II at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution helps us meet our SLAs. It helps us keep the product data flowing and the jobs running without down time.

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AM
Batch Scheduling Specialist at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It has streamlined our scheduling and cut down our overall run time; not in half, but significantly. It's really been great.

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it_user779085 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Developer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have ended up using it as a Tier 1 application supporting other Tier 1 applications. We schedule all jobs, everything from payroll to how to move oil around the country.

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it_user778662 - PeerSpot reviewer
CA Seven Workload Automation Admin at Home Depot

The security of it. It is a very secure product. As well as the scalability of it. You can really scale it across systems.

It helps us to be more agile as far as the business use.

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SJ
Sr. Systems Programmer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have worked with CA to better understand all of the security points, the ability to lock the product down so that it's not being abused or exploited in any fashion.

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SP
Consultant at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are able to process hundreds of thousands of jobs a month. It is pretty good. We have failover, so we maintain continuous uptime. 

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it_user778599 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It hasn't really improved things because, before that, we had something similar. It hasn't not improved, but it's just necessary to use for the type of work we do.

It's definitely helped us meet our critical deadlines and things like that.

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it_user558414 - PeerSpot reviewer
Scheduling Support at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I think having visibility has improved things. Our managers can see what's going on as well. It's not just a single technician that's a bottleneck trying to find out where we are. Visibility into the workflow and ease of use to be able to schedule have improved our organization. I'm happy with this solution.

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it_user389130 - PeerSpot reviewer
Autosys Administrator at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The benefits are that it's automated, reporting facilities are terrific, also when there is, let's say, a failure of a job, it's very, very easy to report that incident, that event, and we can certainly notify the appropriate personnel who need to be notified of that, very, very quickly.

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it_user811287 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Senior System Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

The graphical interface makes it more accessible to all end-users for monitoring. It also has automated failover, and flexibility in solving job scheduling challenges.

The flexibility allows us to successfully integrate an acquired business’ fiscal close with our own, even though there is a lot of variance as to when they run in the calendar month.

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it_user778779 - PeerSpot reviewer
Supervisor For Support Operations at Hollister Incorporated

It cuts down on time, where actual people have to sit down and do things. We no longer have that issue, where we would have to bring in multiple people, or even hire multiple people, to come in to run certain jobs. Now, all we have to do is schedule it and it runs just fine.

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it_user572868 - PeerSpot reviewer
Development Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

It is a key one for our company. We run it as an enterprise solution; everything from payrolls, to manufacturing, to everything in the back end, is critical. We definitely can count on it being up all the time.

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it_user778578 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Programmer at American International Group

Through consistently meeting SLAs, job dependencies, and requirements.

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it_user558198 - PeerSpot reviewer
Analyst at a energy/utilities company

It simplifies everything and also takes human error out of a lot of things.

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it_user373482 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Centralizing all this into a single workload automation tool using the CA product has really helped a lot of customers. This has benefited most of the users to have a better understanding of the environment. It's pretty good compared to the older versions. It actually supports a lot of new features where you can also implement in our clustered solutions and also in higher availability with more of load balancing and everything.

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it_user779295 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It allows you to automate tasks, and reduce headcount, prevent errors, self-heal, self-service type technologies.

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it_user558510 - PeerSpot reviewer
Db2 Says Programer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I think just having visibility into it; our managers can see what's going on too. It's not just a single technician that's a bottleneck trying to find out where we are. 

So the visibility into the workflow, and ease of use to be able to schedule.

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it_user345702 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

It's given our organization stability because we're able to perform scheduling functions that provides order and predictability to our workload.

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it_user353991 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Director / Global Technology Services at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's our hub for all our job scheduling, so basically everything we do goes through there.

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it_user389076 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We've had bad systems from other organizations that we've adopted or bought. Workload Automation used to be called AutoSys, and it is actually a better scheduler in my opinion because of the way it schedules. With a base on dependency, events and job triggers. It works on events and triggers. Some of them automatically create jobs and they reschedule them.

AutoSys has it a little differently and it's quite easy to use. It's very easy to set up and it just launches a script anywhere that we have a local agent installed on a server. It goes throughout the world in different locations.

It also works based in Houston, at one of our data centers. We also have some people overseas and we use it abroad. It's a worldwide application that runs over 160,000 jobs throughout our enterprise.

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it_user352992 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We found some things in our system where there were unnecessary delays, so we were able to take those out. It saved our batch and saved us some time running our batch at night.

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it_user558336 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Annalyst at Dollar bank

We did not have the visibility of the distributed jobs until we used ESP Workload automation and we can now schedule them together with our mainframe jobs.

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it_user814455 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Programmer at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

There are certain batch jobs that need to run on a regular basis in order for our customers to receive reports and updates, and CA-7 provides that for us. So that improves the function of our agencies.

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TJ
Senior Operations Analyst at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Cross-platform functionality.

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it_user779091 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director Mainframe Services at Blue Hill Data Services

We use it for a number of our clients. So far, we have had great success with it. It works constantly and is pretty seamless. You do not have to open up many support tickets. The product works very well for us.

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CA
AutoSys Administrator/Engineer PS Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

The benefit of using this product is the fact that your return on investment is major. When you don't have to teach people how to script or how to write different codes because of the way they connect to stuff, you're saving money, because you're able to put stuff into a production environment in a much faster solution.

We're also able to update our customers and let them know via apps to be able to see from using a web service to run and they log in to see what their activity is or what the status is on their stuff. It's updated immediately.

Cost benefits are amazing because somebody doesn't have to call a customer service person and sit on the phone for 30 minutes to find out the same thing they can find out in two seconds on the internet.

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it_user494160 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Improved batch processing with PROD monitoring to take corrective actions on batch issues
  • Implemented scheduling predecessors/successors conditions
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it_user354057 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mainframe Storage Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have a lot of jobs that run using CA 7. So I work with my production analysts to set up processes that helps me do things that I don't have to do manually.

One of the things I do is that I am in charge of replication. We replicate from Livingston, New Jersey through Fort Worth, Texas, and replication from time to time will drop because people do things that cause links go down. So when they fail, there is a manual way to recover them, but I have to type out all these commands. Because I know what I need to do I put stuff in jobs and using CA Process Automation and CA 7 together to bring over my replication without ever doing anything manually.

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it_user779103 - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We were able to eliminate an overnight operator job, for one thing. He just left, but we did not replace him.  We get better reports than we use to have. Basically it runs jobs on a schedule, but we already had the jobs. It also eliminates manual job starting.

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it_user779073 - PeerSpot reviewer
Programming Specialist at SAIF Corporation
  • It gives us higher accuracy rates and faster performance of our batch processes.
  • Higher reliability of our business processes. 

Reliability is a big one. When I go home at night I sleep well because I trust that the product will perform its design.

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it_user779163 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Special Automation at CME Group Inc.

Automation in general. You need to do less manually.

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it_user778953 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Ops Analyst at Total System Services, Inc.

We can handle large workloads, and put a lot of jobs into scheduling very quickly, and we can control a lot of workload through CA 7.

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SK
Staff Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It has helped to simplify cross-dependency between MVS and Open systems jobs.

Also adding new agents is easy, scheduling is easier and faster.

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it_user794079 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Automation Engineer with 5,001-10,000 employees

Scheduling workload across multiple platforms from a single point of contact and integration with ERP/ETL type platforms and products, such as Oracle and SEQUEL.

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RM
IT Process Automation Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We automate recurring processes, keeping track of IT processes controlled worldwide.

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it_user351300 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Vice President at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We were using a lot of homegrown stuff. This solution provides us with more details on jobs failing. It also gives us restorability. For the last 10 years, it's become more complex, but it's also bridged our platforms and gave us the ability to recover.

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it_user826599 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant with 1-10 employees

It has improved my organization by automating IT applications. The solution is used to invoke scripts and batches across multiple systems and the dependency is managed.

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it_user796224 - PeerSpot reviewer
Workload Automation Scheduler at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Without this product we would have to manually submit jobs and it would take longer. There would also be a much greater possibility of jobs running wrong and/or not at the right time.

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it_user778584 - PeerSpot reviewer
Applications Developer

We don't have to manually run things anymore. We can have the work that a team of 50 people would do, all inside of one platform.

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it_user289056 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise IT Management Consultant with 51-200 employees

Self-Service can enable the support team to move from being a bottleneck to being the go-to team for expertise and advice and to focus on maintaining the infrastructure.

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CS
Lead Consultant at Infosys Technologies Ltd

It helped us to avoid manual error. It helped us to reduce the manual efforts also. Helped us by giving alerts for long running jobs.

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it_user778509 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastracture Team Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It is more scalable. We run around 100K jobs on a daily basis. To manage that much workload on the system, it is very reliable in terms of the uptime on the system.

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CG
Technology Operations Director at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It has improved our organization by automating processes in a centralized platform. We are more productive and we can provide a better value to the business.

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it_user350691 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - Application Operations Shared Services - Scheduling & File Transfer with 501-1,000 employees

I believe it's a mission-critical application that is required within the company because everything requires to be scheduled. Everything needs to move. In today's economy, everything is 365-24/7.

In all aspects of the company, whether you're in the actual trading or in the wholesale or retail space, you're our internal client and we treat you like a customer. Ultimately, we're in operations.

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RG
Technology Consultant (AWS Certified) at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

This solution has made my clients' workplaces a lot less labor-intensive.

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MF
System Architect at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

This solution enables us to improve our daily processing times. We can do everything faster than before we used this solution.

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SM
Technical Consultant at Atgen Software Solutions LLP

The CA Autosys has assisted our organization by providing effective backend automation for enterprise application functionality.

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it_user351336 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

It provides us with automated management of a high volume of workloads across our enterprise.

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Buyer's Guide
AutoSys Workload Automation
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about AutoSys Workload Automation. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.