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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Thinking of all the people involved in checking jobs on a daily basis, manually running jobs or auditing them through standalone tools, and trying to connect them. We have saved hundreds of hours weekly, which is substantial."
"Tidal Automation by Redwood is a user-friendly solution."
"Tidal Automation is very efficient and can quickly automate most manual and repetitive tasks."
"The most valuable feature is the job scheduler, where you can schedule thousands of jobs to execute at specific times."
"We wouldn't be able to do many of the complex scheduling that we do today without it. For us, it is a mission-critical app. Because if it doesn't work or has a problem, then SAP doesn't function. It is that critical. So, it's an essential tool for us to manage and run SAP jobs."
"Tidal Automation allows organizations to automate complex workflows and processes, reducing the need for manual intervention and improving operational efficiency."
"The first, big thing that we got out of using Tidal Workload Automation was having a centralized view of the status of all of our batch processes across all these systems... We can look into the schedule at any given time and see if things are running on track or if they are falling behind. We can also see if something failed."
"By leveraging machine learning algorithms, Tidal Automation can use this data to optimize turbine settings and improve overall efficiency and performance."
"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 documentation has room for improvement."
"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."
"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."
"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 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 solution needs more advanced reporting and data visualization capabilities to enable deeper analysis of job performance and trends."
"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."
"Initially, it is complicated to understand the functionalities as there is limited product documentation."
"The user interface is the place that needs the most work. If and when we find issues with the product, they are usually in that area. If I had to choose, that's where I'd want issues, as opposed to in the engine. But the UI is average. It's a little sluggish at times and there are some bugs in it."
"Tidal Automation could be further integrated with other systems used in the operation of tidal energy systems, such as weather forecasting tools, energy management systems, or asset management software."
"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."
"My complaint about their pricing model is that every year or every time technology changes or somebody has a new requirement, it usually means that I can schedule that with Tidal, but I would need another adapter. So, every time there is a change, I need a different adapter that I don't have. That's why it is harder to plan for Tidal growth because you have to buy a new adapter every time."
"It takes a lot of time to learn the product. I have admins and developers who are working on the products for the last three to four years and still don't know all the functionalities. Tidal has really great things about it, but people are focused on their day-to-day job and the solution is not intuitive."
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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