We performed a comparison between AutoSys Workload Automation and AWS Step Functions based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Workload Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This solution has made my clients' workplaces a lot less labor-intensive."
"The features that I have found most valuable with AutoSys are that it is scalable, easy to use, fast, and always available. That's very important because if it's not steady then it's a real problem. So, at this point, we are satisfied with it."
"We use CA Workload Automation AE r11.3.6 to automate enterprise-wide scheduling and file transfers using an FTP plugin."
"It scales very well. We can add jobs and remove jobs. We do not have problems maintaining the product across multiple environments and multiple servers."
"The most valuable aspects of AutoSys Workload Automation are its performance, scalability, and ease of getting started for new users."
"I find that it provides better agility in regards to job execution features."
"It streamlines processing really well, so we're able to cut down on our processing times."
"It works constantly and is pretty seamless. You do not have to open up many support tickets."
"The solution is stable...The solution is easy to scale."
"One can rate all the calls and that is a good feature."
"It's Amazon, it's scalable."
"What I like the most about Amazon Step Functions is how easy it is to use."
"AWS Step Functions acts as a high-level layer, allowing us to seamlessly integrate with microservices."
"It's a general solution that you can adapt to your own needs and is simple to use. We like that it can be integrated with everything in the AWS suite, and that the creation of the pipeline can be done using the graphical user interface."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The number of historical events is great."
"This product needs to improve its graphical user interface."
"The solution could improve by having support for container environments."
"Documentation and cross-application externals could be improved."
"The reporting system, currently, could be better."
"To make it a lot more user-friendly, in order to make it so other people can use it without having to do much training with it; the more user-friendly it is, the easier it is to work with."
"SQL server clustering is not supported."
"A better graphical user interface, because we have a lot of people using the client utility, and we want to get them away from that."
"I am looking forward to more of their dashboard features. I think it would be very valuable for us to have dashboard features that could be delivered to our customers in the form of a URL, and they could refresh that URL whenever they wanted to get up to date performance metrics out of our systems."
"It is hard to coordinate the declaratory language."
"The interface can sometimes feel limited, as we're unable to see what AWS is running behind the scenes."
"I would like to see more data transformation features in Amazon Step Functions like additional operators and logic."
"The solution's data size limit can be improved."
"The price and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."
"The pricing of the solution can be improved."
"It wasn't easy to understand the licensing model. It's like if you use just a little, it's cheap, but it becomes more expensive as you use more. It's like a hook that ties you inside the Amazon ecosystem. So, it creates a dependency."
"Setup took about one day. We had some errors to understand in the beginning, but now everything is working good."
AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews while AWS Step Functions is ranked 15th in Workload Automation with 8 reviews. AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4, while AWS Step Functions is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AutoSys Workload Automation writes "Helps us manage complex workloads, reduce our workload failure rates, and save us time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AWS Step Functions writes "Simplifies complex task automation and enhances development workflows while offering user-friendly interface, seamless scalability and efficient workflow orchestration". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Stonebranch and Automic Workload Automation, whereas AWS Step Functions is most compared with Camunda, IBM BPM, Apache Airflow and Pega BPM. See our AWS Step Functions vs. AutoSys Workload Automation report.
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