We performed a comparison between Automic Workload Automation and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about BMC, Tidal Software by Redwood, Redwood Software and others in Workload Automation."The most important and critical process business in the bank, including COB, closed or business, which has to run on a daily basis, is automated."
"The scalability is good because you can add on as many services and processes as you want."
"A good piece of software is like a good referee. If it's doing good, you don't notice it. That's the good thing about Automic. We don't even notice that it's there a lot of the time. It's a very, very stable product."
"It is easy to manage and customize the system. It performs well."
"It is an easy product to use, and we use it for end-to-end process automation."
"The most valuable feature is that it can be installed on any type of application on every kind of operating system and the agent can use it on these applications and systems."
"It reduces operational costs and increases quality."
"The ability the system has to dynamically create groups, schedules, and workflows is crucial to us. In a fast-paced, agile environment, our teams are very lean. Monitoring and maintaining of all the approximately 2,000,000 executions of Automic jobs are managed by only three employees. The system has been designed to be as dynamic and versatile as the business processes and teams that own them."
"The reason I like Ansible is, first, the coding of it is very straightforward, it's very human-readable. I'm also on a contract, and I can clearly iterate and bring people up to speed very quickly on writing a Playbook compared with writing up a Puppet manifest or a Salt script."
"Feature-wise, the solution is a good open-source software offering broad support. Also, it's reliable."
"The automation manager is very good."
"It increases our company's efficiency, automating all the simple tasks which used to take hours of somebody's time."
"The user interface is well-built and very easy to navigate around."
"The Organizations feature, where I can give clear silos and hand them over to different teams, that's amazing; everybody says that it's their own Tower. It's like they have their own Tower out there."
"It has improved our organization through provisioning and security hardening. When we do get a new VM, we have been able to bring on a provisioned machine in less than a day. This morning alone, I provisioned two machines within an hour. I am talking about hardening, installing antivirus software on it, and creating user accounts because the Playbooks were predesigned. From the time we got the servers to the actual hand-off, it takes less than an hour. We are talking about having the servers actually authenticate Red Hat Satellites and run the yum updates. All of that can be done within an hour."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its configuration management, drift management, workflow templates with the visual UI, and graphical workflow representation."
"They need to refine the system basics instead of adding more features."
"The interface could be made more user-friendly in terms of job creation and scheduling, especially when doing bulk job creation."
"After the merger, it is getting more American. Now, they do not have support in French and have limited German documentation. This is a critical problem for companies who have older generations who did not have English in school."
"Our area with the CA solution for DR is not really concerning directly to Automic, but to all of the DevOps, a word which is something that everybody is trying to touch on today in their daily business. There is also some gap that's a little bit hard to understand or to implement because not all the organizations are the same. When you are adopting DevOps, you may need to be more flexible in your processes."
"We would like a way to test our cloud-based automations on-premises, and then migrate them to the cloud after they have been tested, without needing an additional license."
"The tool lacks interoperability features."
"I would like a good AWI in the next release. The AWI is not fully functional at this time."
"My biggest complaint is that there is no list price. We work with Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, etc., and all of them have list pricing. Automic, right up until today, has never had list pricing. This makes things difficult, because we need to plan budgets for the next year and can't."
"There needs to be improvement in the orchestration."
"The documentation for the installation step of deployment, OpenStack, etc., and these things have to be a bit more detailed."
"Some of the modules in Ansible could be a bit more mature. There is still a little room for further development. Some performance aspects could be improved, perhaps in the form of parallelism within Ansible."
"The solution should add a nice self-service portal."
"The solution requires some Linux knowledge."
"Additional features could be added."
"Some of the Cisco modules could be expanded, which would be great, along with not having to do so much coding in the background to make it work."
"It should support more integration with different products."
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Automic Workload Automation is ranked 7th in Workload Automation with 85 reviews while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 58 reviews. Automic Workload Automation is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Automic Workload Automation writes "A tool requiring an easy setup phase that provides its users with flexibility and flow chart visibility ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Capable of broad integrations with easy-to-operate infrastructure and user controls". Automic Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Dollar Universe Workload Automation, AppWorx Workload Automation and IBM Workload Automation, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and UrbanCode Deploy.
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