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Automic Automation pros and cons

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PROS

Automic Automation's scheduler is highlighted as its most valuable feature.
It offers strong integration capabilities with CICD pipelines enhancing workflow efficiencies.
Automic Automation provides robust monitoring and troubleshooting tools that simplify automation tasks.
Its architecture supports multi-tenancy and versatility, accommodating various business needs and environments.
Stability and scalability are well-regarded, with the platform maintaining high performance even under demanding conditions.

CONS

Vendor support needs improvement.
Lacks a subservice facility for interfacing with Microsoft Teams to send out authorization on job executions.
Ability to test cloud-based automations on-premises and migrate them to the cloud without an additional license is needed.
Monitoring features could be added.
Poor documentation makes it difficult to study and understand features and resources.
 

Automic Automation Pros review quotes

SG
Aug 16, 2017
It's very hard to transfer the feeling when you have a platform that came to handle infrastructure issues, but at the end of the day, they are making real changes and impacting our business level, which is amazing, because it's very uncommon. That's it, basicalSly.
MM
Aug 18, 2024
Automic Automation's primary advantage over competitors lies in its robust SAP integration.
CB
Jul 17, 2024
It's super easy—drag and drop to manage complex workloads.
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Bernd Stroehle. - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 21, 2023
Automic Workload Automation is a highly complex yet versatile tool.
it_user840180 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 3, 2019
The most valuable feature is the one for SAP batch processing... There are certain other mid-level workload automation tools which can handle the OS level, but SAP is something which is really very critical. Automic stands out from the ordinary tools because handling SAP processes is absolutely easy with it.
KF
Aug 22, 2024
It is very flexible in terms of using the functionalities and build processes. The biggest benefit perhaps is that we have so many possibilities in UC4 or Automic Automation to reach the target. We can more or less build each requirement from our customers.
RK
Aug 2, 2024
Since we bought it, we have not had any big issues. We are satisfied with it. We are able to run multiple jobs. We can build and run complicated jobs. There are no issues.
RR
Mar 25, 2018
It's easy to use. When you schedule jobs, if you can speak English you can schedule them easily and correctly. Also, there's a lot of flexibility because the product allows you to do many tasks, in multiple ways, so you can choose the way that works best for your environment.
AnkitSrivastava - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 1, 2024
We can run the solution on both cloud and on-prem environments.
IC
Nov 26, 2017
The modulation of some of the things, like how the things are connected and disconnected. You have different login objects that you can quickly put to other different objects and other objects that you create, which makes transporting things very easy from one environment to the next.
 

Automic Automation Cons review quotes

SG
Aug 16, 2017
Our area with the CA solution for DR is not really concerning directly to Automic, but to all of the DevOps, a word which is something that everybody is trying to touch on today in their daily business. There is also some gap that's a little bit hard to understand or to implement because not all the organizations are the same. When you are adopting DevOps, you may need to be more flexible in your processes.
MM
Aug 18, 2024
I'd like AI to be able to consider how to monitor volume based SLAs as opposed to time based SLAs.
CB
Jul 17, 2024
The calendar with the new version is a little bit goofy.
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Bernd Stroehle. - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 21, 2023
Choosing Automic Workload Automation essentially locks us into their ecosystem, making it nearly impossible to switch to a different product.
it_user840180 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 3, 2019
There are certain jobs that are triggered one after another. It would be helpful to have a more user-friendly way of seeing how these jobs are connecting from one server to another.
KF
Aug 22, 2024
In case we run into performance issues, it is sometimes hard to find out what is the real cause for it.
RK
Aug 2, 2024
Integration with the cloud is an area for improvement. They have to make it somehow fit or usable for cloud use cases. Right now, it works great for our on-prem data center, but they have to come up with a very good reason why people should be using it in the cloud.
RR
Mar 25, 2018
They need to handle cross datacenter failover. They have a really good High Availability solution that works well within a single sysplex, but in our environment, since we have two main datacenter locations, we have two separate sysplex.
AnkitSrivastava - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 1, 2024
We can't migrate the users from one master to another master or product to product. We have to do it manually.
IC
Nov 26, 2017
There has to be a better way to visualize things in the application without having so many windows open.