We performed a comparison between AutoSys Workload Automation and Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT 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."Automation of patch process."
"Automic Automation Engine provides us the ability to map logic using a scripting language."
"The aggregator reporting utility which tells us our throughput in lag and latency."
"Inherit Dependencies feature reduces scheduling errors for holiday processing."
"We need to have things run in a very sequential order, so it is very useful that we can schedule the work flows."
"We run millions of jobs through it every day using it for financial transactions, banking, credit cards, PeopleSoft, payroll, etc."
"We don't have to manually run things anymore. We can have the work that a team of 50 people would do, all inside of one platform."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The security and vendor management features are helpful in terms of providing access to data."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to call a workflow from another workflow. That really gives you an edge by increasing reusability and speeding up development time. You can create a workflow which is a type of template and then call that workflow from any other workflow... It has sped up development time by 80 to 90 percent."
"Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT supports the PeSIT protocol."
"When we were doing the demo, we took one project from the old system and got it running in GoAnywhere in less than 30 minutes. That says a lot. I've written queries and understand code, so I'm not a novice. Still, I think that's pretty impressive for a software product to be able to deliver a functional use case in half an hour."
"Transactions transfer in close to real time. Sometimes it takes a little bit of time because of the volume that we have, but the transactions transfer in seconds to the external platform."
"GoAnywhere centralizes data exchanges, helping to facilitate file transfers between our critical systems."
"Its speed is the most valuable because every integration used to take months with old SOA tools, integration buses, and that type of stuff. Now, we do integrations in a matter of days. Security is another valuable thing because every step in the workflow has an audit trace, which is great. This also brings a lot of confidence in automating business process workflows through this type of solution."
"When users say, 'I'm building spreadsheets that I would like to be uploaded on a regular basis into the IBM i,' we are able to accommodate that request within a matter of hours rather than the days it would take to create programs to do that. That is very useful. It has eliminated several dozens of scripts for us."
"We had a few issues, however, the issues were more on the infrastructure rather than with the application itself."
"The GUI/Workstation is weak and needs to be improved. CA is working on this right now."
"We have to escalate through channels to get to somebody who knows what's going on. It takes time that we do not necessarily have."
"The graphical interface can be improved."
"The reporting system, currently, could be better."
"CA Workload Automation is not part of CA's strategic vision going forward."
"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."
"The WCC could be improved."
"The security features must be updated regularly."
"If the hostname has a dash in it then it does not work."
"The support could be enhanced a little bit... If the first echelon of support could say, 'Okay, you are trying to create a variable,' and could tell you what you have to do, that would be good."
"There's one persnickety issue about NAS permissions. That is a problem we have run into with GoAnywhere. I would like to see more focus on compatibility with/enforcement of user roles and access permissions across NAS, among other things. We have filed a couple of tickets on that in the past."
"There are a number of built-in tasks in GoAnywhere. One, in particular, the write to CSV task, is slow. If you have, say, 100,000 records in your row set and you want to write them to a CSV file, it takes a long time. That definitely requires performance improvement."
"One of the things that I wish is to not necessarily have to set up a username and password for people with whom we don't frequently share files. For instance, if I want to share files with a patient who is not somebody with whom we share files all the time, I would like them to somehow verify who they are and be able to push the file to them. I shouldn’t have to set them up as a user with a password. It should be almost like Dropbox."
"I want to be able to use GoAnywhere to create customizable reports that I can share with the MSP containing any information related to file transfers."
"GoAnywhere's interface could be a little more intuitive."
AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews while Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT is ranked 7th in Managed File Transfer (MFT) with 26 reviews. AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4, while Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT is rated 9.2. 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 Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT writes "Key to our workflow and our workload automation strategy, helping us trade and consume files". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Stonebranch, whereas Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT is most compared with MOVEit, Sterling Commerce Connect:Direct, IBM Sterling File Gateway, Kiteworks and TIBCO Managed File Transfer.
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