AutoSys Workload Automation Initial Setup

GD
Technical Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup for AutoSys Workload Automation is very straightforward. It's very simple, and my team didn't have much issues with setting up the tool. The deployment takes less than an hour if you have proper access, and with everything in place.

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Muralidhar Burla - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at Capgemini

The customer takes care of the admin role and the installation. We just take care of the scheduling part. We do not take part in the implementation process.

It doesn't take much to maintain the solution. However, we are not involved in the maintenance aspect. 

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Fernando Romero - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager at Accenture

I find it simple to set up. However, the fear really is understanding how Workload Automation handles jobs as compared to control M. They have similarities, however, they handle schedules and jobs differently.

At the moment, we have a team of two or three handling the support for the product.

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AutoSys Workload Automation
March 2024
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Atul Pednekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at Colgate

The initial setup is complex, it's not really easy to install this tool from scratch. We have improved in that area over the period of time we've been using the solution. Not all features were available from day one but over time, as new progressive things have come up in the later versions, we started implementing them. From the implementation point of view, it's a little difficult. Even the upgrades of AutoSys are not really simple. It needs to be planned and requires significant down time if you have a large set up. An upgrade can be done within seven to eight hours, but from a planning perspective, you have to work for at least four to five months.

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AG
Head - Consumer Insurance at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

It is straightforward once we know the process. For its maintenance, we have our own team that manages the solution. We are the end-users, so we don't get involved in its maintenance. They just tell us about the downtime on some weekends, and they take care of upgrading the solution.

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it_user572862 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Analyst Developer at Dish Network

We just recently upgraded our Workload Automation. We went from 4.5.1 to 11.3.6. I think we did about an eight-year jump, in one fell swoop. It was nice to be able to help work with their teams to architect this solution in our upgrade, where we actually brought in our business needs. It wasn't just, “Hey, we're just going to replace it and move it forward.” That’s kind of like what we did, because we wanted to keep the solution as transparent to the end users that use it. We worked with the company and came up with something that makes sense for us.

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SK
Senior Associate - HR at State Street Corporation

The initial setup of AutoSys Workload Automation was straightforward. Based on the feature requirements for the use case we deployed the solution.

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

It depends on the experience. For me, it is very straightforward. In a simple setup, you set up a server, a database, and an agent, and you are ready to go. In a complicated setup, you have to set up high availability, virtual machines clusters, etc.

We have a dedicated group to handle all top-level applications. This is relatively straightforward for them. From planning to implementation and getting it into the production environment, it takes a month or two.

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

We had Cybermation come in-house to work with us, in doing the conversion back in 2001. It took about one year to convert all of our systems.

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it_user351537 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

I was not involved in the setup. I'm relatively new with the company, but have a lot of experience with scheduling.

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

The setup was not too terribly complex, but it did take some time to learn all the complexities of the product.

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

Anything new is a little bit complex. It's a great tool, now that I've learned it; just at first, just the learning curve of learning the tool; doing some things wrong, but it is a great tool and it has helped us; a lot better than our previous scheduler.

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

CA installation processes are never anything but complex.

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

Before I came to my current job, I was actually an independent consultant. The last job I worked before I came to work here was converting all the material into the system. I've been there since day one. Initial setup has always been really, really straightforward. Architecturally, the solution make sense. There's a very good separation of functions and features. The security is outstanding and because the solution is English language-based, we don't really need to go out and put in a lot of infrastructure support to do the normal stuff. Basically, if you want a job to run on Tuesday, you simply tell it, run on Tuesday, and it miraculously works.

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

My team owns setting it up, configuring it, supporting it, and all of those things.
The first time we set it up, it was a little overwhelming because it's something different and new. I had a newer resource on it, and there was a time constraint for getting it installed. We had somebody from CA handhold us through the process.

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GH
Senior Technology Specialist at TELUS Corporation

I've done multiple products. I've been significantly involved in setup. It's very straightforward. Easy installation. Just follow the steps that installation requires and that's it.

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

I was not involved with the original setup.

I have done an entire migration and upgrade of the newer one. We started out with 11.1. That was already in place when I joined the team.

The 11.3 upgrades and everything after that, I have done. I have to say, it is probably one of the easiest tools that I have to upgrade, especially once they moved to 12.0 and they started doing in-place upgrades.

The last time when we did the migration, we got our Linux Gold Standard. This time around, all I had to do was push a couple buttons and my entire outage was 24 minutes.

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

I can’t speak much for the initial setup. I just upgraded to version 12 and it was spot on. They had the procedures and jobs in place and I just created my own procedures for my environment. I had no issues.

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

For initial setup, we had a CA team there for several weeks ahead of time. Anything is a little complex when you're going from a tool you've been using to a brand new tool. We learned a lot from them, but once we reached a few months out after the initial setup, we learned much more. There was a steep learning curve. But, it's been a great product. It's better than the previous product. Our needs were expanding, so it was where we needed to go. It has been great.

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

It was both straightforward and complex. The information gathering to get the product installed takes time and effort. Once we had everything gathered, the installs went very smoothly and quickly.

The complexity of the product has to do with the information gathering:

  • What it has to do? 
  • Where it has to do it? 
  • How it has to interface? 
  • What databases are we connecting to and to what IDs? 
  • What servers are we logging into? 
  • What IDs do we have to use? 
  • How are the parts connecting? 
  • Are there ports that need to be opened? 
  • Are there firewalls that need to be adjusted? 
  • Are there various things that we have to account for that we were not initially thinking about? 

The documentation covers these, but it is just a matter of gathering all of them. The information gathering can take a week. The product install takes minutes.

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

I was involved with the upgrades. They were very streamlined.

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

We had Professional Services help us, and it wasn't really that difficult.

We did have onsite training and migration services and we paid for them. It wasn't hard to understand for our people.

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

I was not involved in the initial setup. We did do a migration recently, which I worked on. That included setting up a new environment to move our workload from an older, unsupported version to the newer version. The sales and support team and technical teams were responsive and answered every question when I needed assistance.

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

I was involved in the initial setup and it's complex because you have to convert from the old software that's not CA to the new software. That was back in 2008 so it's been awhile.

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

No, not complex at all, very, very easy. One of the products I'm working on which is CA iDash, a monitor for the automation tools, is extremely easy to use, extremely easy to install, to setup, to configure and run. In fact, that was one of our reasons for going with it this past year, that particular product of the whole CA Workload Automation package.

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AR
IT consultant at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

The initial configuration of AutoSys Workload Automation was simple. When you need to make a migration from previous versions or from other tools, it's easy. There are some complexities, but it is not something that is impossible, it can be very simple.

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

It was complex. We had to convert our old solution to the new one with no downtime.

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it_user778779 - PeerSpot reviewer
Supervisor For Support Operations at Hollister Incorporated

I was involved in the initial set up.

The way that it was brought to us, in our initial setup, we had a lot of initial questions and they replied, "Well, set it up the way you want it."

It was kind of confusing from an end-user support aspect, asking them what are the best practices. They didn't say what the best practices were. So we had to come up with the best practices. That was the only downfall.

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

I wasn't engaged in the setup, but I know there were some complexities when we first started, because we were dealing with multiple instances and trying to get it to one and so on.

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it_user558330 - PeerSpot reviewer
ESP Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Initial setup was fairly straightforward. Well, the biggest thing was that we were already using Workload Automation ESP for mainframe; so we just took that and moved it to the distributed engine, or to the DE series. There are a lot of similarities between the two.

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it_user778578 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Programmer at American International Group

I was not involved in the initial setup.

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

Setup: we can say it's not that complex compared to other products. CA has a very user friendly environment where we can actually do it in no time. Moving towards the mobility because most of the clients are converting themselves from old school sitting in front of their desktops. Everyone wants to manage through mobile products.

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

Straightforward. It's not difficult.

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

The initial setup was done around 30 years ago, so I don't know whether it was simple or complex.

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

The initial setup, what we had, was called 35 then we went to a 45 version. Now we went from the 45 to what's called R11, that was a nightmare. R11 was a pretty difficult implementation for us. A lot of things changed between the two versions. After we got over those humps, CA put out another service pack and that relieved most of our problems. I think a lot of the rest of the industry suffered some of the same issues that we had.

They were able to quickly release those within 6 or 7 months.

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

It was pretty complex going from 4.5 to 11.3.6. Just the migrating and all the security settings and all the changes in the job types and having to set up the pages on different servers made the upgrade complex.

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it_user558336 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Annalyst at Dollar bank

I was involved with the installation. At first, I found it to be complex, but now I think it's pretty user-friendly.

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it_user558444 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President, Enterprise Applications at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I think the initial setup is very straightforward itself. The migration is not. It's not because of the system. It's more because of the job itself. Our firm is about 90 years old. Over the years, it has accumulated a lot of legacy systems, and a lot of legacy jobs. You need to spend time to understand the job when you migrate to a new system.

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MS
Architect at Sight Spectrum

We can do the process with a script and it does not take more than 10 minutes. The environment can play a role in how long it will take and what type of script we need to use.

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

I did not do the initial setup.

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

Changing scheduling tools will never be a simple process, but the conversion tools and specialist assigned to us made it a smoother transition.

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

The system programmer who worked on the project, he actually set it up within a week. There was a couple of tweaking, turning, and configurations that had to be done after that, but it was up and running in about 10 days. We were able to convert another scheduler over to it without an issue.

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it_user494160 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Initial setup is complex. It requires technical skills in various flavors of distributed/enterprise H/W, S/W, databases to implement, configure and develop high-availability options.

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it_user354057 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mainframe Storage Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I wasn't involved in the setup.

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

As I recall, there is a transfer application from our AM to our AE. That went very well. Any problems that we had with that we probably caused ourselves, because we wanted to rename a lot of stuff, which was probably a bad idea, but I could not control that. 

I think it was relatively smooth. It could have been smoother. I do not think it was a fault of the program. I think it was more our fault. 

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it_user779073 - PeerSpot reviewer
Programming Specialist at SAIF Corporation

It was complex, but we also hired Automic business support staff to come and assist, and they helped us get through all the complexities, very easily.

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

I wasn't involved in the initial setup but I do the upgrades. They're straightforward.

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

I wasn't involved in the initial setup. They were already a CA 7 customer when I joined. I have been involved in some of the upgrades. They can be a little complex. It's just a big complex product that takes a lot of evaluation.

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

It is relatively simple.

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

The setup of the system was relatively easy. 

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

Initial setup and upgrades were straightforward.

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

Complex, but we have a complex schedule.

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

The initial setup was not hugely complicated, but do set aside four to six man-months if you are not using specialist services. The product does require some careful thinking around the High Availability and security sides. Thorough qualifications testing is recommended for a scheduler, too.

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

I was not a part of the initial setup.

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

The setup was straightforward.

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JV
Problem and Technical Application Management for KNAB at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

AutoSys Workload Automation is really easy to install. You can install the server and an agent in about 10 minutes. It takes the agent on five clicks. Even if you have many agents to install during installation, you can pick that very easily and you also can deploy it fairly easily. In terms of the deployment, it's a nice solution.

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

For the original implementation, I wasn't involved, but we are moving to a newer release. We have built an environment where I was involved. Complexity-wise, it's more or less a specific business requirement that we needed.

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

The initial setup is quite straightforward.

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

The initial setup was complex. It had too many components. 

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SM
Technical Consultant at Atgen Software Solutions LLP

I found the installation process easy to follow.

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

The initial setup was very straightforward. It's a great benefit that you can install and configure it very quickly.

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

The agent package and the other package should be more user-friendly to install.

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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.