We performed a comparison between AutoSys Workload Automation and Tidal Automation 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 highly regarded for its ability to handle large workloads, its user-friendly interface, efficient performance, and continuous availability. It particularly shines in efficiently managing job sequencing, executing real-time batch tasks, and seamlessly connecting various software processes. Tidal Automation distinguishes itself with its exceptional job scheduling capabilities, consolidated and intuitive interface, versatile job execution options, and seamless integration with different systems.
AutoSys needs enhancements in cloud service integration, reporting and performance comparison, Linux compatibility, migration capabilities, monitoring, advanced features, and workload window management. Tidal Automation would benefit from improvements in result interpretation, pricing model simplification, user interface, AI and machine learning capabilities, integration, job dependency management, security, performance and scalability, customization, collaboration, alerting configurations, and adaptability.
Service and Support: The customer service for Tidal Automation is commendable for its impressive product knowledge and willingness to assist with integration. However, there are occasional mentions of lower-priority items getting lost in the mix for Tidal Automation. AutoSys support is sufficient and capable with standardized approaches.
Ease of Deployment: The setup for AutoSys Workload Automation is described as quick and hassle-free, taking approximately 10 minutes or less. Tidal Automation's setup is easy and straightforward, however, it requires a significantly longer time of around three weeks to complete.
Pricing: AutoSys Workload Automation has a diverse range of setup costs, including a yearly subscription and an annual license. Tidal Automation is praised for its fair and predictable pricing, offering transparent licensing and the option for additional adapters to cater to specific job needs.
ROI: AutoSys Workload Automation offers benefits such as time savings, improved reliability, scalability, and enhanced visibility and control. Tidal Automation provides advantages like cost savings, increased efficiency, productivity, risk management, and seamless integration.
Comparison Results: AutoSys Workload Automation is the preferred choice when compared to Tidal Automation. Users appreciate AutoSys for its simple setup, scalability, user-friendly interface, and consistent availability. Its valuable features include file transfer protocol and file watcher. Additionally, AutoSys is commended for its reliability and promptness in executing tasks.
"It gives us flexibility when doing releases. We can make changes for one day in a PDS member, since we stage our jobs by date, and the next day the normal job definitions are run."
"It has helped to simplify cross-dependency between MVS and Open systems jobs."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the functions are easy to use."
"We use CA Workload Automation AE r11.3.6 to automate enterprise-wide scheduling and file transfers using an FTP plugin."
"It is stable, it works, and it does what it is supposed to."
"We need to have things run in a very sequential order, so it is very useful that we can schedule the work flows."
"It streamlines processing really well, so we're able to cut down on our processing times."
"The actual scheduling of our jobs has helped us tremendously. Before it was all done manually, and we've totally automated the whole functionality, so there's no longer a case where somebody didn't run something."
"For us, the calendaring system is very robust. Some of the teams have very specific requests for when they need jobs to run. That's been really valuable, because a lot of times, when people run scripts, if they run on a holiday, they're going to fail... A couple of times a month it probably saves us work and the necessity of logging in from home and checking to make sure everything's okay."
"It's easy to use and easy to administer, and it's very flexible."
"Tidal Automation by Redwood is a user-friendly solution."
"We wouldn't be able to do many of the complex scheduling that we do today without it. For us, it is a mission-critical app. Because if it doesn't work or has a problem, then SAP doesn't function. It is that critical. So, it's an essential tool for us to manage and run SAP jobs."
"It is intended to enable large-scale automation environments, making it appropriate for companies with complicated processes and big data volumes."
"The data management on offer was valuable."
"It's the most efficient tool in doing repetitive tasks and saves a lot of time with minimum possibility of error."
"Tidal helps administrators and users to see the information that is relevant to them in that single pane of glass. They can see jobs running, they can see job history, and they can see job progression. If you look at alternatives like Airflow and clouds, you'd have to design your own UI to monitor the progress of the different jobs that you've created in Airflow. So Tidal is huge for us."
"CA Workload Automation is not part of CA's strategic vision going forward."
"The solution could improve by having support for container environments."
"The graphical interface can be improved."
"Ease of implementation for upgrades."
"The lack of documentation, that is an issue. When we do need to bring it down for maintenance, it is always a scary moment for us because we have never had it crash."
"To make it a lot more user-friendly, in order to make it so other people can use it without having to do much training with it; the more user-friendly it is, the easier it is to work with."
"Because this product only computes processing days, it is hard when things need to be scheduled according to non-processing days."
"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."
"Setting up the initial product was a little hard."
"The software's performance and scalability could be improved, particularly when dealing with large-scale workloads or complex business processes."
"The UI might have the potential to provide a more polished and user-centric encounter, promoting seamless engagements and simplifying the navigation process for individuals interacting with the software."
"I don't know if Tidal wants to get into the business of monitoring long-running jobs, but that could be a feature for the future: a job launching and monitoring tool. Using Tidal for monitoring doesn't seem like a good fit, but if they could offer something that did that as an add-on or include it, it might be helpful."
"My complaint about their pricing model is that every year or every time technology changes or somebody has a new requirement, it usually means that I can schedule that with Tidal, but I would need another adapter. So, every time there is a change, I need a different adapter that I don't have. That's why it is harder to plan for Tidal growth because you have to buy a new adapter every time."
"Their software installation and update process could use some improvements. I'm pretty sure they're working on that, but that's definitely an area where it could be streamlined a lot. There's still a lot of manual work that you have to do with the schedule when you deploy masters or do the agents."
"Understanding and using Tidal Automation could be overwhelming for someone with minimal programming language."
"We've had some quirky stuff happen on an occasional basis where a job does not take off. For example, a job we expected to be finished by 3:00 a.m. is sitting there and not executing when we come in in the morning. We have to go all the way back to the dependencies and then we can see that one of the dependencies has become unscheduled, for some reason. No changes were made to the schedule but this prerequisite job has, all of a sudden, become unscheduled. I have brought this up with Tidal's support but they have never had an answer for it."
AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews while Tidal by Redwood is ranked 2nd in Workload Automation with 37 reviews. AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4, while Tidal by Redwood is rated 9.0. 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 Tidal by Redwood writes "Great visibility with a single pane of glass and a low learning curve". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Stonebranch and OpCon, whereas Tidal by Redwood is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Redwood RunMyJobs, ActiveBatch by Redwood and Rocket Zeke. See our AutoSys Workload Automation vs. Tidal by Redwood report.
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