We performed a comparison between AutoSys Workload Automation and AWS Step Functions based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Workload Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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 capabilities of the product to schedule on multiple platforms, multiple operating systems."
"It has allowed us to automate many of the functions of our operations staff. For instance, we had production control staff spending two hours a day entering date parms into our daily business processes. And now, CA Workload Automation does it for us."
"I find that it provides better agility in regards to job execution features."
"We run millions of jobs through it every day using it for financial transactions, banking, credit cards, PeopleSoft, payroll, etc."
"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"
"We need to have things run in a very sequential order, so it is very useful that we can schedule the work flows."
"The most valuable feature of AutoSys Workload Automation is batch processing."
"The number of historical events is great."
"AWS Step Functions acts as a high-level layer, allowing us to seamlessly integrate with microservices."
"The solution is stable...The solution is easy to scale."
"One can rate all the calls and that is a good feature."
"What I like the most about Amazon Step Functions is how easy it is to use."
"It's a general solution that you can adapt to your own needs and is simple to use. We like that it can be integrated with everything in the AWS suite, and that the creation of the pipeline can be done using the graphical user interface."
"It's Amazon, it's scalable."
"The integration capability is easy, whereas building state machines is tricky."
"Some support issues need to be addressed, but not through email, through personal contact via phone or WebEx."
"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 solution could improve by having support for container environments."
"A better graphical user interface, because we have a lot of people using the client utility, and we want to get them away from that."
"Reduce the number of operational files. This would make the job of a system programmer supporting ESP easier."
"The GUI/Workstation is weak and needs to be improved. CA is working on this right now."
"Some of the reports are either a bit hard to understand or don’t give you what you might expect to see."
"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 more data transformation features in Amazon Step Functions like additional operators and logic."
"The solution's pricing could be cheaper. It is cheaper than Airflow."
"The price and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."
"The solution's data size limit can be improved."
"It is hard to coordinate the declaratory language."
"Setup took about one day. We had some errors to understand in the beginning, but now everything is working good."
"The interface can sometimes feel limited, as we're unable to see what AWS is running behind the scenes."
"It wasn't easy to understand the licensing model. It's like if you use just a little, it's cheap, but it becomes more expensive as you use more. It's like a hook that ties you inside the Amazon ecosystem. So, it creates a dependency."
AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews while AWS Step Functions is ranked 15th in Workload Automation with 9 reviews. AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4, while AWS Step Functions is rated 7.8. 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 AWS Step Functions writes "Simplifies complex task automation and enhances development workflows while offering user-friendly interface, seamless scalability and efficient workflow orchestration". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Automic Workload Automation and Stonebranch, whereas AWS Step Functions is most compared with Camunda, IBM BPM, Apache Airflow and Pega BPM. See our AWS Step Functions vs. AutoSys Workload Automation report.
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