We performed a comparison between Rocket Zena and Tidal Automation based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Rocket Zena offers a user-friendly experience with a simple interface and convenient features like diagrams and Linux configuration. It also provides cross-platform job scheduling and a web-based client. Additionally, it offers a whiteboard feature, FTP file transfer functionality, a smooth licensing process, reliable technical support, and competitive pricing. Tidal Automation showcases a robust job scheduler and a unified interface that simplifies managing tasks. It offers flexibility in running jobs and seamless integration with other systems. Tidal Automation also excels in real-time monitoring, comprehensive reporting capabilities, and a strong reputation for reliability.
Rocket Zena could enhance its application connections visibility, UI loading speed, and task stacking process. Tidal Automation could improve its GUI, pricing structure, and overall user-friendliness.
Service and Support: Rocket Zena's customer service is known for its efficient and transparent problem-solving, whereas Tidal Automation's support team is highly regarded for their extensive knowledge of the product and eagerness to help with integration.
Ease of Deployment: Users had mixed experiences with the initial setup of Rocket Zena. Some found it to be complex, involving various components and requiring a good understanding. The integration with SAP was especially difficult. The setup process for Tidal Automation was deemed simple and easy, with a shorter deployment time.
Pricing: Rocket Zena is a cost-effective and affordable option, especially for small companies. Its pricing and licensing are considered good, resulting in increased productivity and optimization. There is no available information regarding the setup cost of Tidal Automation.
ROI: Rocket Zena provides time savings and increased accuracy in job scheduling, reducing stress for engineers and administrators by automating overnight processes. Tidal Automation helps customers minimize manual work, prevent issues, recover quickly from outages, and enhance risk management. It also offers monitoring capabilities, reduces server requirements, and integrates smoothly with other systems.
Comparison Results: Rocket Zena is the preferred choice when compared to Tidal Automation. Users appreciate Rocket Zena's user-friendly interface, ease of use, Linux configuration, cross-platform scheduling, web-based client, and FTP file transfer functionality.
"The most valuable feature is the FTP file transfer."
"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 like the whole product, but specifically, I like the license part. It's very easy to acquire a license for this product."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I have used other tools with similar capabilities; it's the ease of use."
"It is intended to enable large-scale automation environments, making it appropriate for companies with complicated processes and big data volumes."
"From a management standpoint, when using the solution for cross-platform, cross-application workloads, I've never had a problem with the application. It's very interactive, especially with the different security levels that they offer."
"Tidal Workload Automation Software provides the ability to quickly adapt to changing business requirements."
"It has been super stable. There are no complaints on stability. We would not be using it if Tidal wasn't stable."
"Especially in the newer versions of Tidal, the segmentation of user permissions enables us to give people operator permissions for their jobs, to rerun jobs, but view-only for other groups' jobs. We're able to keep people from hurting themselves or other groups accidentally. The permissioning is really good."
"It's the most efficient tool in doing repetitive tasks and saves a lot of time with minimum possibility of error."
"With other tools, you do not have the ability to schedule jobs on their own. You need to create a group and then assign everything to that group. Only then will the job be able to execute. In Tidal, you can schedule a single job and there is no need to create a group. That's what I like the most."
"It saves times due to automation. With some files, we do hundreds a day for a particular vendor. This would be hard to do manually. Also, the speed at which we can do this is excellent."
"One area where it could be improved is communication between the different servers. Sometimes there are processes that have already been completed but we get a status notification that they're still active."
"In the next release, I would like the user experience to be improved. The user interface should be more appealing to gen-z."
"The UI is not intuitive, and it would be nice if there was a web interface."
"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."
"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."
"The documentation has room for improvement."
"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."
"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."
"One of the weaknesses of the product is, when something happens, it's difficult to find out the root cause. There are a lot of logs you can take a look at in Tidal. Sometimes, they are useful, but other times, they're not. That is mostly relegated to the administrative team. Users for the most part don't see that and don't know anything about that. They just know they have a problem, then it's up to the administrative team to see what happened and figure out the problem."
"I'm still hoping with Explorer to be able to see end-to-end job streams. That's not really something that's easy to see today in the web client. However, I haven't worked with Explorer yet. One of the things that we have found frustrating is not being able to see an end-to-end job stream across multiple applications within Tidal. We use jobs for that right now, but I have high hopes that we'll be able to see that in Explorer."
"Tidal Software interface could be more intuitive and user-friendly."
"To better fit their unique needs, the solution should give more customization options."
"The GUI, the graphical user interface, gets a little bit busy."
"I would like more involvement with the cloud."
"From an administrative point of view, I wouldn't give really high marks to the solution. I actually entertained getting the JAWS application at one point. One of the shortcomings with the scheduler is the reporting capabilities. At least at the time, JAWS was the best that they had for a third-party integration. I think they've got things in the pipeline to help alleviate that gap."
"With the client, we have had certain issues. The user interface for Tidal is a little slow. A lot of people would love this tool if they had a faster user interface. The drill-down functionality should be much quicker than what it is pulling out now. If I fill out some data, then it takes awhile to get that data back onto the screen. It's not as fast as we were expecting."
Rocket Zena is ranked 12th in Workload Automation with 9 reviews while Tidal by Redwood is ranked 2nd in Workload Automation with 37 reviews. Rocket Zena is rated 8.4, while Tidal by Redwood is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Rocket Zena writes "A continuously evolving, stable solution, with responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tidal by Redwood writes "Great visibility with a single pane of glass and a low learning curve". Rocket Zena is most compared with Control-M, Rocket Zeke, IBM Workload Automation, AutoSys Workload Automation and ActiveBatch by Redwood, whereas Tidal by Redwood is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, IBM Workload Automation, Redwood RunMyJobs and ActiveBatch by Redwood. See our Rocket Zena vs. Tidal by Redwood report.
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