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AppWorx Workload Automation pros and cons

Vendor: Broadcom

4.1 out of 5

9 reviews
88% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

AppWorx Workload Automation offers user-friendly scheduling and reliable workload management. It handles numerous nightly jobs and extensive calculations across various environments like Unix, Linux, Windows, AWS, and Azure. Compliance features are server-specific. Areas for improvement include reporting, forecasting, API integration, scalability, and addressing GUI timeout issues.

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PROS

Scheduling is a good feature.

AppWorx Workload Automation is very user friendly so anyone can use it.

A lot of nightly jobs are efficiently managed with AppWorx Workload Automation.

AppWorx Workload Automation offers simplicity and reliability.

Initial setup phase of AppWorx Workload Automation was easy.

CONS

Compliance features are limited to the server and not the entire infrastructure.

Reporting, forecasting and intelligence could be improved.

Looking for additional features to call APIs and integrate with other tools more effectively.

Scalability could improve.

If there is a time out at AppWorx Workload Automation's end, users cannot login to the GUI.

AppWorx Workload Automation Pros review quotes

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Aishwary Bhardwaj

Appworx Admin at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Jul 4, 2024

AppWorx isn't limited to Unix or Linux. We can set it up in Windows, AWS, or Azure environments. It's not dependent on any one particular environment.

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Senior Information Technology Specialist at Gen

Jun 10, 2024

The product's initial setup phase was easy.

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IT Systems Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 26, 2017

The automated solution is the most valuable piece. Otherwise, we would have to be doing everything manually on every server.

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reviewer2129313

Executive Director at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

Mar 17, 2023

We have a lot of nightly jobs that need to be run. Therefore, we perform a lot of calculations and processes during nighttime hours.

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Database & Process Automation Administrator at a music company with 501-1,000 employees

Jul 18, 2018

It has improved my organization through automation of back office and infrastructure procedures, and by integrating and orchestrating key business applications spanning multiple technology stacks.

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Vigneshwaran (S.U.V) S U

UC4 Application Administrator at GAVS

Feb 24, 2023

The solution is very user friendly so anyone can use it.

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Mohammed Hashim

Senior Presales Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

May 16, 2023

The most valuable features of AppWorx Workload Automation are simplicity and reliability. Additionally, they recently transformed the UI which is better.

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reviewer1166826

Enterprise Application Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Jul 5, 2020

Scheduling is a good feature.

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reviewer1088136

Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Feb 13, 2020

The interface is good.

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Aishwary Bhardwaj

Appworx Admin at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Jul 4, 2024

The current setup process can be a bit much for users.

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Senior Information Technology Specialist at Gen

Jun 10, 2024

If there is a time out that happens at the tool's end, then we, as users of the product, are not able to login to the GUI.

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IT Systems Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 26, 2017

It is not really scaling per say because they are not putting much into it. They are trying to push their new product.

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reviewer2129313

Executive Director at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

Mar 17, 2023

We are looking for additional features that would allow us to call APIs and integrate the product with other tools more effectively.

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PR

Database & Process Automation Administrator at a music company with 501-1,000 employees

Jul 18, 2018

As a general process automation and integration tool, it has been superseded by other offerings, notably the Workload Automation suite.

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Vigneshwaran (S.U.V) S U

UC4 Application Administrator at GAVS

Feb 24, 2023

The graphical interface is pretty cool but not the best so it could use some improvement.

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Mohammed Hashim

Senior Presales Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

May 16, 2023

The scalability could improve.

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reviewer1166826

Enterprise Application Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Jul 5, 2020

Reporting, forecasting and intelligence could be improved.

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reviewer1088136

Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Feb 13, 2020

The compliance features are limited to the server and not the entire infrastructure.

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