We performed a comparison between AutoSys Workload Automation and BigFix 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."We get better reports than we use to have."
"It gives a real-time view of all the batch processing that we have. Monitoring-wise, it is really good."
"We need to have things run in a very sequential order, so it is very useful that we can schedule the work flows."
"The most valuable aspects of AutoSys Workload Automation are its performance, scalability, and ease of getting started for new users."
"The web UI is beneficial and the granular security policies allow us to cover all of our audit requirements."
"To me, what's most valuable in AutoSys Workload Automation is its robustness and quickness. The tool can trigger jobs within a few milliseconds, and it can handle large volumes of jobs."
"It can run an object on our Windows systems or our Unix systems, and then send messages to the other system when they are complete."
"It has helped to simplify cross-dependency between MVS and Open systems jobs."
"Patch management, because it very much improved the patch compliance and has the capability to manage Windows and non-Windows clients."
"Vulnerability scanning and patch automation."
"What I like most is that it is a powerful solution."
"From a security standpoint, it allows us to make sure that we're not leaving ourselves vulnerable to exploits and things like that. That's the biggest advantage that we see to the product from a security standpoint."
"BigFix technical support is good."
"The most valuable feature of BigFix is the reporting tool and patching Windows."
"Being able to intelligently create reports, gather data, export CSVs and give that to the leadership of some of the client groups that my team supports has helped my organization."
"The use of fast query has been extremely valuable providing insight in real time of the endpoints."
"In terms of what should be in the next release, I want integration and AI and so on. I'd like easy reporting where you can compare information, for example, "that job normally takes three minutes and last time it took six minutes or 10 minutes." Then you can get the information to the engineer of which job is taking more time than normal - understanding strange behavior compared to the baseline."
"There is a difference between a web interface and the thick client interface. We particularly like a thick client interface, and it has gone away."
"They could do better supporting it. They have too many of the same type of products, so sometimes it doesn't get as much attention as it should."
"AutoSys Workload Automation could improve in the Linux environment. The previous versions of the AutoSys Workload Automation let you take the profile of the user that you were using to run the tasks that you're going to automate, but in the latest versions, you can't do that, you need to make more definitions and it's a little bit difficult. It was easier in the previous versions."
"The solution does not have a friendly subscription model because it forces users to take a five-year subscription simultaneously, charging millions of dollars."
"It lacks support and integration with cloud computing platforms."
"We are trying to see if we can use this from a cloud perspective with AWS, Azure, and other clouds, but it seems that there is no cloud integration in this product. We would like to see cloud integration. We are very pleased with this solution, but we are moving our application to the cloud, and we found out that it doesn't support any cloud features. So, we are trying to find a replacement."
"The graphical interface can be improved."
"It could use better integration with Hypervisor products like VMware."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"The scalability of the web UI product doesn't scale to the size that we need for our implementation so it needs to expand. I would also like to see the capability to develop on the back of the web UI capability. There are lots of web features and integrations that we could do with web UI that it would be nice to be able to put on top of what's already there, rather than waiting for IBM to develop what we need."
"I would like to see more custom content."
"The reporting and dashboard parts have room for improvement."
"I would request them to build a robots, or an easier way for integration with the other tools, like ITSM tools."
"I'd like to see better integration, with the different applications within BigFix. Instead of sometimes feeling like four or five different applications, they need to be integrated a little better within themselves."
"I would like to see more emphasis on using the web console, to have the same power as the full fat client console that they do they now. It's a lighter way to log in and it would be faster for our operators to do their work. The console tends to take a long time for a large number of clients."
AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews while BigFix is ranked 14th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 91 reviews. AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4, while BigFix is rated 8.6. 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 BigFix writes "Very stable and easy to deploy with excellent patch compliance". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Stonebranch and Automic Workload Automation, whereas BigFix is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Tanium and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
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