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."It has helped to simplify cross-dependency between MVS and Open systems jobs."
"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 features that I have found most valuable with AutoSys are that it is scalable, easy to use, fast, and always available. That's very important because if it's not steady then it's a real problem. So, at this point, we are satisfied with it."
"The most valuable features of AutoSys Workload Automation are the file transfer protocol and file watcher. The solution has a user-friendly user interface. It is very simple to use. You have a scope of all your jobs, jobs are what you call tasks that you will automate in the solution. It lets you monitor everything in these jobs."
"The capabilities of the product to schedule on multiple platforms, multiple operating systems."
"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 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."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the functions are easy to use."
"BMC Bladelogic Automation can be used across many OS platforms, providing us flexibility for deployments."
"It makes deployment easier and allows us to put restrictions on the server using role-based authorization."
"As this solution provides strong support and has multiple use cases, it is worth the cost."
"BMC support is great. They usually can answer any of our questions in a short amount of time and solve our most complex issues."
"BladeLogic lets users view the filesystem with minimal authorization to the server."
"It gives us more speed to deliver services and applications, and we rely on security."
"The most important feature is the schedulings."
"Scalability is good."
"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."
"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."
"Because this product only computes processing days, it is hard when things need to be scheduled according to non-processing days."
"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."
"Pricing model for distributed should have an Enterprise option."
"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."
"The graphical interface can be improved."
"Needs better documentation with fully explained examples for some of the job types."
"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."
"Needs more use cases into compliance management and the remediation process."
"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."
"There is no other functionality available to patch the containers that we need to include."
"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."
"The setup of this suite is very complicated. It needs to be simplified."
"The number of APIs available within the tool needs improvement. At the moment, we have a couple of different scanning tools used within the organization, but only one of those is integrated back into Server Automation. There is another tool that they use in another part of the business where it doesn't have an out-of-the-box adaptor for it. We would have to go and create or develop something bespoke to be able to integrate it with that scanning tool. Whereas, with the other scanning tool, there was an API available. To make it easier, I would like to have more APIs available for different scanning tools within that line of business."
"I would like to see a better methodology for handling REST calls and integration into the APIs. They add new APIs as they add functions, but they've missed some from older components which they still haven't added in. Some of the APIs are there but the CLI calls are not there."
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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 "Helps to automate and configure the endpoints of servers ". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Automic Workload Automation and Stonebranch, 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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