We performed a comparison between Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition and Rocket Zena based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition stands out for its robust job definition capabilities and exceptional error handling and integration features. Rocket Zena prioritizes user-friendliness and offers a diagram feature and containerized deployment option.
Redwood Software needs enhancements in reporting features, monitoring and alert service, user interface, and machine learning capabilities. Rocket Zena could improve visibility, agent monitoring, UI loading time, and documentation.
Service and Support: Redwood Software's customer service is generally satisfactory, however, there is potential for improvement. Rocket Zena's customer service is praised for its expertise and responsiveness, although it may take longer to access higher-level support.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Redwood was challenging and took a lot of time. Rocket Zena's setup process differed for each user. Redwood necessitated training multiple teams and handling a decentralized structure, while Zena required comprehending various components and resolving integration issues with SAP.
Pricing: Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition has a higher setup cost compared to Rocket Zena. However, users find it worthwhile because of its value and user framework. Rocket Zena is more cost-effective and affordable, making it a suitable choice for small companies.
ROI: Users of Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition have experienced time saved and improved job scheduling, resulting in a return on investment. Rocket Zena has also delivered significant time savings and enhanced accuracy in job scheduling, leading to a positive ROI.
Comparison Results: Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition is the preferred choice when compared to Rocket Zena. Users appreciate Redwood Software's powerful job definition capabilities, comprehensive reporting and analytics, and integration with various systems. Additionally, its unique pricing model and good return on investment are highlighted.
"Redwood is of value to our organization due to of its ease of use and the ability to automate and orchestrate any platform that we utilize today."
"Redwood manages all complex job workflow processes."
"This tool helps us to monitor the job related to SAP modules."
"In Redwood Automation, we can easily fetch the daily reports from the system as per the client's requirement and track the status of every job which is running, aborted, or canceled."
"There are various ways in which you can construct jobs depending on your business needs and requirements."
"It's a very powerful tool. It has a lot of flexibility for how you can define jobs and build them. There are different ways in which you can construct jobs depending on your specific needs and requirements."
"Redwood is more flexible and we can schedule the tasks based on different time zones."
"It has advanced features like dashboards where users can see all statistics."
"From a Linux configuration point of view, Rocket Zena is straightforward. It's fairly easy to set up the server and agents once you know how to do it."
"I have found the scheduling feature the most valuable. I can map dependencies by using ASG-Zena. It gives a nice, quick visualization as to where things are."
"We haven't had any problems since we installed it. It runs as expected, we haven't had any critical problems. It helps keeps the business running 24/7."
"You can click Ctrl-G and bring a diagram view. You're able to view in a diagram format. The view that it provides is easy, and you can move to the left, up, or down. You can double-click on a certain process. It'll drill into that process and all of its underlying components. You can double-click on an arrow or a component, and it'll bring up a screen that'll have all the variables that are assigned to that particular piece, as well as the values at run time. So, the diagram feature of it, at least for me, is pretty valuable."
"Its FTP feature is very good, as is scheduling any process or task with the Zena client. I have found it to be very helpful. If a task fails, it gives you a prompt."
"I have used other tools with similar capabilities; it's the ease of use."
"In the latest upgrade, Zena added a web-based client. The more I use it, the more I like it. It's an excellent interface. They do a good job of steadily improving the solution to make it more useful."
"The most valuable feature is the FTP file transfer."
"I have not noted any downsides."
"It has limited reporting features; some basic reporting features are missing."
"The product can improve customer service."
"We need the automatic creation of incidents for failed jobs."
"The addition of machine learning capabilities could help Redwood Workload Automation Software better predict job and workflow performance, detect anomalies, and optimize operations based on historical data."
"Customer support should be enhanced so that we can automatically raise tickets and incidents in customer service."
"There is a lack of resources and product documentation which, if included, would help to gain more knowledge about the application."
"The user interface of Redwood can be improved a bit to make it more user-friendly and interesting."
"The scheduling mapping is a little disjointed. There is no wizard-type approach. There are a lot of different things that you have to do in completely different areas. They could probably add the functionality for creating all components of a mapping or an OPA schedule. The component creation could be done collectively rather than through individual components."
"Another one that is probably a little bit bigger for me is that when there is an issue or there's an error, it writes on a different screen. I have to find the actual process name and go to a different screen to view the alert that got generated. On that screen, everyone's processes, not just the processes of the folks in my department, are thrown. It takes me a while to find the actual error so that I could go in there and look at the alert. It could be because of the way it was set up, but at least for me, it isn't too intuitive."
"In the next release, I would like to have an alert feature to indicate when an agent is down. Rocket Zena is not capable of sending alerts that the agent is down. As of now, you have manually monitor to see when the agent is down."
"The documentation has room for improvement."
"In the next release, I would like the user experience to be improved. The user interface should be more appealing to gen-z."
"Rocket Zena is a mainframe-based job scheduler. I would like it to be more open so that we can use it on a distributed platform."
"The UI is not intuitive, and it would be nice if there was a web interface."
"In the web interface, it stacks the tasks across the top, and they accumulate until you close or clean those out. That seems a little cumbersome. You must right-click and close all tabs constantly to keep the console clean and manage your views."
Redwood RunMyJobs is ranked 3rd in Workload Automation with 30 reviews while Rocket Zena is ranked 12th in Workload Automation with 9 reviews. Redwood RunMyJobs is rated 9.6, while Rocket Zena is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Redwood RunMyJobs writes "Simple to use, increases CPU speed, and reduces the cost of machine time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rocket Zena writes "A continuously evolving, stable solution, with responsive support". Redwood RunMyJobs is most compared with Control-M, Stonebranch, Tidal by Redwood, AutoSys Workload Automation and Automic Automation Intelligence, whereas Rocket Zena is most compared with Control-M, Rocket Zeke, IBM Workload Automation, AutoSys Workload Automation and ActiveBatch by Redwood. See our Redwood RunMyJobs vs. Rocket Zena report.
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