We performed a comparison between AutoSys Workload Automation and BMC TrueSight Server Automation 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."I find that it provides better agility in regards to job execution features."
"We automate recurring processes, keeping track of IT processes controlled worldwide."
"It has helped to simplify cross-dependency between MVS and Open systems jobs."
"The scheduling feature allows us to know when jobs are going to run and makes sure they run in the order needed."
"The CA workload agent has gotten much better. For our organization it's important for us to communicate in a secure fashion between the host and the other platforms, and we are able to do that with our CA product"
"It is stable, it works, and it does what it is supposed to."
"CA Workload Automation AutoSys Edition is one of the most powerful schedulers that you have on the open systems, or going between Window servers; to be able to schedule and take advantage of the different powers that the automation has with it."
"The aggregator reporting utility which tells us our throughput in lag and latency."
"It makes deployment easier and allows us to put restrictions on the server using role-based authorization."
"BMC support is great. They usually can answer any of our questions in a short amount of time and solve our most complex issues."
"Scalability is good."
"It gives us more speed to deliver services and applications, and we rely on security."
"Among the most valuable features is its flexibility and ability to work across multiple operating systems. Being able to execute some form of data collection and not have to worry about whether I'm working on a Linux box, or a Windows box, or the underlying OS, I can do these collections, get these results, and put them together in a uniform format which makes it easier to present back to management."
"As this solution provides strong support and has multiple use cases, it is worth the cost."
"The most important feature is the schedulings."
"The ability to script and create BL packages to perform various functions. This makes automating our environment relatively easy to do."
"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."
"It would be helpful to be able to monitor and manage workload windows so we could minimize downstream applications. This would allow us easier access to the applications."
"I would like to see two-factor authentication, since you see a lot of companies in the news for security breaches. That is a really big thing for us."
"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."
"The solution does not have a friendly subscription model because it forces users to take a five-year subscription simultaneously, charging millions of dollars."
"The WCC could be improved."
"Ease of implementation for upgrades."
"Provisioning needs to be more user-friendly. We were using BladeLogic for provisioning, but due to a lot of issues and complications, we had to stop using provisioning with this tool."
"TrueSight falls short when we are trying to gather large amounts of data from multiple servers. We need to do these tasks manually because there is no option to populate the data and export it to Excel, which is required. For example, let's say I'm trying to find out how many patches are missing on the servers and which ones have been installed. It's hard to automatically pull each server's data in an Excel format."
"We encountered some reporting issues. Also, we needed to gather information from the backend before the product execution. The output's format is not good."
"Another area for improvement is group scheduling if I'm trying to do all the servers. For example, if I want to do all the 2012 Servers - since the patches are the same for all of them - I can't do so."
"There is no option to see all the servers we patch and we cannot find what the server status is. Of course, we can what has been completed and what is pending and which servers have failed, but we cannot find server status from the BMC tool. For example, is the RDP up or not. We are using separate scripts for that."
"A better CLI Database cleanup tool would help us with our regular maintenance of BladeLogic Server Automation."
"Without any knowledge of the product, we used the KB articles to start working. As a result, we definitely did not have full knowledge of BMC BladeLogic... They need to provide a minimum of knowledge with training on YouTube or somewhere else."
"Resource management on the base servers is sluggish and could be improved."
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AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews while BMC TrueSight Server Automation is ranked 12th in Configuration Management with 18 reviews. AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4, while BMC TrueSight Server Automation 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 BMC TrueSight Server Automation writes "Easy to deploy, automatic patching, and scalable". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Stonebranch and Automic Workload Automation, whereas BMC TrueSight Server Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, BigFix, Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager and HashiCorp Terraform.
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