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AutoSys Workload Automation pros and cons

Vendor: Broadcom

4.2 out of 5

84 reviews
94% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

AutoSys Workload Automation offers agility in job execution across platforms while eliminating manual processes to reduce errors. Scalability ensures seamless integration and maintenance, but Inherit Dependencies enhance reliability. Despite these strengths, it lacks support for SQL server clustering, documentation, cloud integration, and has a burdensome subscription model. Increased costs and functionality limitations since Broadcom's acquisition have caused concern among tech buyers, prompting exploration of alternative solutions.

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PROS

AutoSys Workload Automation enhances agility in job execution and stability in operations.

Integration with multiple platforms allows automation of complex enterprise-wide scheduling tasks.

AutoSys Workload Automation significantly reduces manual processes and the potential for errors in scheduling.

Its scalability and robustness ensure high performance and efficiency, accommodating large volumes of jobs.

The Inherit Dependencies feature and calendering support minimize scheduling errors during complex task execution.

CONS

SQL server clustering is not supported and there is a lack of proper documentation which makes maintenance challenging.

Tech support response time is slow unless it's categorized as severity level one.

There is no integration with cloud computing platforms like AWS and Azure, which is a major limitation.

AutoSys Workload Automation has poor scalability and lacks features compared to competitors like ActiveBatch.

The cost is high, with a non-friendly subscription model forcing long-term commitments; prices have increased since Broadcom's acquisition.

AutoSys Workload Automation Pros review quotes

Technical Consultant at Atgen Software Solutions LLP

Aug 18, 2017

I find that it provides better agility in regards to job execution features.

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CA

AutoSys Administrator/Engineer PS Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Jun 26, 2017

CA Workload Automation AutoSys Edition is one of the most powerful schedulers that you have on the open systems, or going between Window servers; to be able to schedule and take advantage of the different powers that the automation has with it.

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CG

Technology Operations Director at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 9, 2017

Automation of patch process.

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Applications Developer

Nov 26, 2017

We don't have to manually run things anymore. We can have the work that a team of 50 people would do, all inside of one platform.

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SP

Consultant at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 26, 2017

The aggregator reporting utility which tells us our throughput in lag and latency.

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DC

Autosys Admin at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Nov 26, 2017

We run millions of jobs through it every day using it for financial transactions, banking, credit cards, PeopleSoft, payroll, etc.

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Supervisor For Support Operations at Hollister Incorporated

Nov 26, 2017

The actual scheduling of our jobs has helped us tremendously. Before it was all done manually, and we've totally automated the whole functionality, so there's no longer a case where somebody didn't run something.

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Programming Specialist at SAIF Corporation

Nov 26, 2017

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.

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Senior IT Developer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 26, 2017

It scales very well. We can add jobs and remove jobs. We do not have problems maintaining the product across multiple environments and multiple servers.

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Program Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 26, 2017

We get better reports than we use to have.

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AutoSys Workload Automation Cons review quotes

Technical Consultant at Atgen Software Solutions LLP

Aug 18, 2017

This product needs to improve its graphical user interface.

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CA

AutoSys Administrator/Engineer PS Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Jun 26, 2017

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.

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CG

Technology Operations Director at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 9, 2017

SQL server clustering is not supported.

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Applications Developer

Nov 26, 2017

The lack of documentation, that is an issue. When we do need to bring it down for maintenance, it is always a scary moment for us because we have never had it crash.

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SP

Consultant at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 26, 2017

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.

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DC

Autosys Admin at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Nov 26, 2017

CA installation processes are never anything but complex.

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Supervisor For Support Operations at Hollister Incorporated

Nov 26, 2017

More benefits with the agent upgrades, and that's about it. Other than that we have no complaints with it. It's been awesome.

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Programming Specialist at SAIF Corporation

Nov 26, 2017

I am looking forward to more of their dashboard features. I think it would be very valuable for us to have dashboard features that could be delivered to our customers in the form of a URL, and they could refresh that URL whenever they wanted to get up to date performance metrics out of our systems.

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Senior IT Developer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 26, 2017

We have to escalate through channels to get to somebody who knows what's going on. It takes time that we do not necessarily have.

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Program Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 26, 2017

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.

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