We performed a comparison between AutoSys Workload Automation and Microsoft Configuration Manager 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 web UI is beneficial and the granular security policies allow us to cover all of our audit requirements."
"Automation of patch process."
"Running anything in crontab, you need to put a lot of logic into it to make it work. With this product, you don't have to worry about it. You have the schedule object where you put all the dates or holidays in it, and it does it for you."
"It is a fairly stable solution."
"The flexibility in solving job scheduling challenges allows us to successfully integrate an acquired business’ fiscal close with our own, even though there is a lot of variance as to when they run in the calendar month."
"It has improved my organization by automating IT applications."
"This solution has made my clients' workplaces a lot less labor-intensive."
"We automate recurring processes, keeping track of IT processes controlled worldwide."
"Microsoft Configuration Manager gives different tools in one solution."
"You can remote control or RDP. That has been the most valuable because we can go into one console and can get to anything we want. Instead of going to all these different consoles, we centralized everything."
"Technical support was helpful and responsive."
"It does the job and meets our needs. With everybody working remotely these days, we are using this solution to deploy everything. The deployment of PCs is easy."
"This solution captures all the devices in our infrastructure."
"It gives us the ability to set up schedules, according to what our security requirements are, to automate the patching of our servers and desktops."
"It is a good choice for deployment that performs very well."
"It saves a lot of money when you can install things automatically and they are installed the exact same way on every computer."
"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."
"SQL server clustering is not supported."
"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."
"Ease of implementation for upgrades."
"Pricing model for distributed should have an Enterprise option."
"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."
"The solution could improve by having support for container environments."
"An area for improvement in AutoSys Workload Automation is that it lacks advanced features or advanced built-in functionalities found in competitors, for example, an advanced workflow feature. Even the handling or notification from AutoSys Workload Automation isn't the best in the industry. Other products have very good workflow-related functionalities such as ActiveBatch that's missing in AutoSys Workload Automation, so I wish the tool had those features."
"The solution is a bit heavy on the sources such as RAM or CPU and the software needs to be a bit lighter."
"The availability of technical support could improve."
"The setup was complex and I faced a lot of problems initially because I was new to the solution."
"The tool's deployment is difficult. Microsoft needs to improve documentation with videos."
"The product needs to improve scalability."
"We'd like the solution to make it easier to manage remote users."
"Based on my experience with SCCM 2016, the main, big issue is not having a good user-friendly environment. It needs much better GUI."
"This solution needs to be supported on all Operating systems."
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AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews while Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Server Monitoring with 78 reviews. AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. 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 Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Stonebranch and Automic Workload Automation, whereas Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Intune, BigFix and Tanium.
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