We performed a comparison between AutoSys Workload Automation and Redwood Software Workload Automation Edition based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: AutoSys Workload Automation is praised for its scalability, ease of use, speed, and availability. It stands out in job orchestration, real-time batch processing, and software process integration. Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition is commended for its powerful job definition capabilities, user-friendly interface, and integration with different systems. It also offers advanced features such as dashboards, alert mechanisms, security functionality, and load balancing.
AutoSys could enhance its integration with cloud platforms, reporting and alerting capabilities, migration process, advanced features, and workload window management. Redwood Software could improve its reporting, monitoring, alert service, user access, metrics explorer, machine learning capabilities, cloud-native features, documentation, customer support, security standards, application integration, data accessibility, and user-friendliness.
Service and Support: Users have praised the customer service of AutoSys describing it as very good, helpful, and responsive. Customers are generally satisfied with the support provided by Redwood Software, however, there is still room for improvement.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for AutoSys Workload Automation is described as simple, direct, and relatively fast. The setup for Redwood is deemed intricate and time-consuming due to the large number of tasks and the complexity of the current system.
Pricing: AutoSys Workload Automation offers a subscription and license model for yearly usage, including a one-time fee for server setup and an annual maintenance cost. Redwood Software provides a pricing model based on job executions, which users find to be both cost-effective and easily renewable.
ROI: AutoSys AutoSys Workload Automation provides advantages such as increased productivity, improved efficiency, cost savings, enhanced visibility and control, and reduced downtime. Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition has been commended for its ability to deliver good ROI and satisfy clients.
Comparison Results: AutoSys Workload Automation is the preferred choice when compared to Redwood. Users appreciate AutoSys for its simple and direct setup process, scalability, user-friendly interface, and efficient performance. They also value its file transfer protocol and file watcher features.
"The customized views that each individual can create, and views that can be made free-form, makes this very popular with the programmers."
"It has improved my organization by automating IT applications."
"The most valuable feature of AutoSys Workload Automation is user-friendliness. If someone has some knowledge of the tool they can use it."
"Automation of patch process."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the functions are easy to use."
"The aggregator reporting utility which tells us our throughput in lag and latency."
"The web UI is beneficial and the granular security policies allow us to cover all of our audit requirements."
"There won't be a memory outage issue, as it uses its own server/ECC memory only."
"With automation in place, employees can focus on more strategic tasks that require human expertise, increasing overall productivity."
"Its monitoring and alerting features are what I found the most valuable."
"Installing and configuring Redwood agents are easy, and scheduling jobs on Redwood helps in triggering the batches as per business requirements."
"Error handling and the recovery feature ensure that my job processes are not stopped if any error occurs."
"Redwood RunMyJobs has been very useful for job scheduling and checking and monitoring jobs."
"REL expressions are quite helpful for setting up the preconditions."
"The automated alert response is very useful for long-running and failed jobs during off-business hours."
"I am not sure whether it is our limitation or a tool limitation because we haven't yet explored it, but whenever we look for different types of reporting, we have some limitations in getting those. It could be because of the way we have set it up internally in our enterprise, but it would be helpful if we can customize the reporting features and some of the alerts that can go out. When we connect enterprise systems, each one looks for a different use case, and if we can get different types of reporting, it will be helpful."
"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."
"Documentation and cross-application externals could be improved."
"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."
"There is a slow response time by tech support. Unless, you say it's severity level one. That will give you a two hour timing window for them to call you. It doesn't really happen exactly in two hours, but they try."
"I would like to see the Service Orchestrator, a B2B product, and maybe a process audit."
"We had a few issues, however, the issues were more on the infrastructure rather than with the application itself."
"The WCC could be improved."
"Redwood RunMyJobs should add more good features."
"The product can improve customer service."
"Customer support should be enhanced so that we can automatically raise tickets and incidents in customer service."
"I have not noted any downsides."
"We need the automatic creation of incidents for failed jobs."
"The dashboard provided can be made more visually appealing and could include more critical data that would help associates in one glance get the required information."
"The job log has a size limit."
"Enhancing the user interface would make it more appealing to new users with limited technical knowledge."
AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews while Redwood RunMyJobs is ranked 3rd in Workload Automation with 30 reviews. AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4, while Redwood RunMyJobs is rated 9.6. 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 Redwood RunMyJobs writes "Simple to use, increases CPU speed, and reduces the cost of machine time". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Stonebranch and Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT, whereas Redwood RunMyJobs is most compared with Control-M, Stonebranch, Tidal by Redwood, Automic Automation Intelligence and ActiveBatch by Redwood. See our AutoSys Workload Automation vs. Redwood RunMyJobs report.
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