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Automic Automation pros and cons

Vendor: Broadcom
4.2 out of 5
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PROS

Automic Automation significantly improves business processes by allowing automation, leading to increased efficiency and reduced manual effort.
The scripting language is highly praised for its flexibility and scalability, enabling users to automate complex tasks across different environments.
Automic Automation provides efficient workload management and supports a wide range of platforms, facilitating seamless integration with existing systems.
It is known for high stability and reliability, ensuring continuous 24/7 operations without downtime.
The scalability of Automic Automation allows for the handling of large volumes of jobs and integrations, promoting business growth and adaptability.

CONS

Users experience difficulty with complex migration processes and lack of seamless transfer between different systems.
There are significant issues with performance and efficiency due to SQL traffic and database elective issues, causing contention and forced waits.
Automic Automation's pricing model is seen as costly, lacking transparency and making budget planning challenging.
The interoperability and connectivity with third-party tools are limited, causing integration challenges and additional configuration burdens.
Technical support response times are slow, leading to prolonged problem resolution and user frustration.
 

Automic Automation Pros review quotes

VpChiefT7306 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
reviewer2535006 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 18, 2024
Automic Automation's primary advantage over competitors lies in its robust SAP integration.
reviewer894648 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 17, 2024
It's super easy—drag and drop to manage complex workloads.
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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.
reviewer2537505 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Bernd Stroehle. - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 21, 2023
Automic Automation is a highly complex yet versatile tool.
reviewer2520513 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Thierry Verreyt - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 12, 2024
With Automic Automation, we can do a lot of things. One very interesting feature is being able to work with scripting, which is not possible with some other schedulers. We can cover all business needs with this product.
SrProduc3570 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Peter Grundler - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 13, 2024
The best feature is its wide platform support and the user interface. It offers a consistent user experience regardless of whether you are implementing a job on a mainframe, SAP platform, or other machines.
 

Automic Automation Cons review quotes

VpChiefT7306 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
reviewer2535006 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 18, 2024
I'd like AI to be able to consider how to monitor volume based SLAs as opposed to time based SLAs.
reviewer894648 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 17, 2024
The calendar with the new version is a little bit goofy.
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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.
reviewer2537505 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 22, 2024
In case we run into performance issues, it is sometimes hard to find out what is the real cause for it.
Bernd Stroehle. - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 21, 2023
Choosing Automic Automation essentially locks us into their ecosystem, making it nearly impossible to switch to a different product.
reviewer2520513 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Thierry Verreyt - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 12, 2024
Based on the feedback I have received, our customers would like to have some additional features, but they are mostly satisfied. For example, they would like to be able to print a workflow to have visibility. Sometimes, a workflow is quite complex, and they do not have the full picture of the workflow themselves.
SrProduc3570 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Peter Grundler - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 13, 2024
Recent changes in Broadcom's licensing model are making some customers reduce tasks or replace Automic Automation. This is something Broadcom should consider.