AppWorx Workload Automation vs Tidal by Redwood comparison

Broadcom and Tidal Software by Redwood are both solutions in the Workload Automation category. Broadcom is ranked #15 with an average rating of 8.5, while Tidal Software by Redwood is ranked #5 with an average rating of 9.7. Broadcom holds a 1.4% mindshare in WA, compared to Tidal Software by Redwood’s 2.9% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of Tidal Software by Redwood users who would recommend it.

AppWorx Workload Automation

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 24, 2024

Tidal by Redwood and AppWorx Workload Automation are competitive solutions in the workload automation space, each demonstrating distinct advantages. Tidal by Redwood is preferred for its pricing and customer support, while AppWorx offers a robust feature set appealing to users requiring comprehensive automation capabilities.

Features: Tidal by Redwood includes a streamlined interface, quick job scheduling, and powerful reporting. AppWorx ensures cross-platform compatibility, real-time monitoring tools, and an advanced feature set, addressing complex automation needs.

Room for Improvement: Tidal by Redwood could enhance feature complexity, increase platform integrations, and improve real-time monitoring. AppWorx needs to simplify its deployment, enhance customer support responsiveness, and offer more cost-effective pricing options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Tidal by Redwood provides a straightforward deployment model and responsive support, ensuring efficient implementation. AppWorx, with its complex feature set, offers detailed documentation and support but requires more technical expertise for deployment.

Pricing and ROI: Tidal by Redwood presents a cost-effective solution with lower setup costs and quicker ROI, attracting budget-conscious buyers. AppWorx demands a larger initial investment yet offers long-term value with extensive capabilities, justifying higher costs for those seeking comprehensive solutions.

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Categories and Ranking

AppWorx Workload Automation

Ranking in Workload Automation

15th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Tidal by Redwood

Ranking in Workload Automation

5th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Workload Automation category, the mindshare of AppWorx Workload Automation is 1.4%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tidal by Redwood is 2.9%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Workload Automation

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Manali Zagade

Senior Information Technology Specialist at Gen

Has an easy setup phase but needs to resolve its login-related issues in its GUI

My company is satisfied with the functionalities offered by AppWorx Workload Automation. My company and my manager decided to switch from AppWorx Workload Automation to another product, so it is a decision coming from upper management, and I have been assigned the task of creating an analysis report of the tools available in the market. My company did not do any process automations with the tool. My company is just monitoring whatever existing jobs are there in our environment. If we are getting any requirements from our company's IT team, we create those jobs in the tool. The product does support our industry's standard compliances. My company does not currently have any requirements for using AI. We just want to migrate our existing infrastructure into a new tool. The tool's scope is very limited for our company. I would definitely recommend the product to others since it is a stable solution. The issue that I faced in my company with the product is one of the major drawbacks of the product that AppWorx needs to look into because if you are not able to log in, then it could escalate as a big issue in the organization. GUI-wise, there are no such issues with the product, and the configuration is visible. Considering that the product needs to work on the graphical representation area, I rate the tool a seven out of ten.

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Steve Mikula

IT Scheduling Manager at Paychex, Inc.

Very reliable processing engine, and scheduling is flawless—crucial elements in our financial transaction processing

Because we've been on it for 20 years, it's pretty easy for us to automate jobs with Tidal at this point. It has become second nature. It's pretty simplistic to set up and get going, although there are different levels of complexity you can have within the product. It depends on how simple you want to keep it. If you just keep it: Job A, Job B, Job C, Job D, that becomes pretty simple. But when you start integrating some complex calendars that use sub-calendars—and you can go three, four, or five deep to set up schedules—it becomes more complicated. The beauty of it is you can go as deep as you need to. We can get really complex or we can keep it simple. We have some use cases for both scenarios. The thing that I like the most is the reliability of the engine. The actual scheduling part of the product is pretty much flawless, but the stability of the product is what I find to be reassuring. We are a financial company, we move billions of dollars a day, and if we don't have our transactions processed in a timely manner we can be penalized and our clients can be penalized. It can have a serious financial impact.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The product's initial setup phase was easy."

"AppWorx Workload Automation's simplicity and powerful functionality are its most valuable features for us."

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

"It allows for efficient workload management and reports on the status of processes, which was a unique feature when it was first introduced."

"It is really a robust product."

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

"It is an object-based approach to task and process design in conjunction with conditional logic and event-based scheduling actions, which enables a build once/use often design methodology to be employed."

"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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"The best feature is that it allows task scheduling based on particular occurrences, like the receipt of files, database updates, or system notifications."

"The best feature of Tidal Workload Automation Software is its ease of integration with other systems, including ERP, CRM, and BI tools."

"We use the solution for cross-platform, cross-application workloads. The solution’s ability to manage and monitor these workloads is very easy and accurate. We have file dependencies for running jobs. The job does not start until a file exists on a completely different server, then where the job will run. So, it is cross systems."

"One of the most useful features is being able to set up a schedule and create dependencies. The calendar can kick off processes at certain times, based on dependencies that you specify, like time, or whether another process has finished. Dependencies are the most useful thing."

"It's easy to use and easy to administer, and it's very flexible."

"Tidal Automation offers extensive monitoring and reporting features that let users keep track of the status of their workflows and quickly spot any problems."

"We have to run about 12,000 jobs every day and the majority of them need to be launched from our ERP, JD Edwards. The native compatibility of the Tidal platform with JD Edwards dovetails with our greatest need. It's directly connected to the heart of our IT system. We couldn't work without it."

"We had a number of different schedulers in this organization and we've been porting everything that was running out of these other, unrelated schedulers into this scheduler. That has afforded us the ability to set up direct dependencies between processes that couldn't talk to one another before. Over the 15 years, we've definitely gained a lot from that. What had been manual controls have become automated controls..."

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Cons

"It is difficult to integrate with the Active Directory (AD)."

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

"AppWorx Workload Automation does not support mainframe environments, which limits its use for larger and older organizations like ours that still rely on mainframes."

"The scalability could improve."

"Reporting, forecasting and intelligence could be improved."

"The internal security model can be complex when configuring multiple user groups."

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

"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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"There are several improvement points that our team has provided to the vendor."

"One area for improvement is the command-line interface and the API to bulk-load jobs. It's a little bit kludgy, but we still manage without it. They're working on it and it's getting better all the time. In addition, the documentation for their API for creating jobs needs to be updated. It's a bit of a learning curve."

"I'm still hoping with Explorer to be able to see end-to-end job streams. That's not really something that's easy to see today in the web client. However, I haven't worked with Explorer yet. One of the things that we have found frustrating is not being able to see an end-to-end job stream across multiple applications within Tidal. We use jobs for that right now, but I have high hopes that we'll be able to see that in Explorer."

"They can do better reporting in terms of production statistics reporting."

"One of the weaknesses of the product is, when something happens, it's difficult to find out the root cause. There are a lot of logs you can take a look at in Tidal. Sometimes, they are useful, but other times, they're not. That is mostly relegated to the administrative team. Users for the most part don't see that and don't know anything about that. They just know they have a problem, then it's up to the administrative team to see what happened and figure out the problem."

"Tidal Software interface could be more intuitive and user-friendly."

"For the most part, the drill-down and the logging are really good. But if we take an Informatica job, for example: We have the ability, and the operators have the ability, to actually drill down and see, at a session level, where the failure is. There is, unfortunately, no way to extract that into an actual output email or failure email. It's not that that information is not available, but extracting it into an email would be a nice-to-have."

"The current user interface of Tidal Software is functional. However, it can be improved to make it more intuitive and user-friendly."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price for annual licenses is a bit expensive so pricing is rated a two out of ten."

"We are satisfied with the pricing."

"The cost model is based on the number of orchestrated systems used."

"Licensing options are fairly straightforward."

"Right now, we are in a good position with the licensing model that we have with the Tidal vendor. So, we won't have any issues. even if we double in our current production. Initially, Tidal provided us some specs where if you have these number of jobs, then you come under this category. They usually provide a range of jobs from 2,000 to 10,000. You can use these specs for your infrastructure. Whether you have 2,000 or 8,000 jobs, Tidal should support it."

"There are project, system, and server costs. Some of the things that they are doing is introducing new products. They are introducing what they call their Repository, which is a way for you to move a job. That doesn't cost anything to us, because it is reusing a tool called Transporter. The repository is the successor to Transporter, so we already own it and are sort of grandfathered in. But that new product requires a server and database, so now we have to go out and get a server and database. So, there is a cost there."

"They work with you on licensing. So, it has been great. Everybody has different licensing, but I've had good luck with the licensing. They've been very accommodating. You basically need to buy a license for each physical server, but then you're allowed an unlimited number of virtual servers."

"...it is a pretty affordable scheduler tool that lets us do a lot. You get a lot of bang for the buck... The licensing model is hugely flexible."

"We are satisfied with the pricing of Tidal. It's in the moderate range and it feels very achievable for us."

"We think the pricing is very fair. We have been happy with the pricing compared to some of the other solutions in the space."

"BMC is really expensive. The other solutions are about the same price. I think Tidal is even cheaper than the others, such as CA, Stonebranch, and JAMS."

"We've been able to purchase more adapters because the cost of the product has been very reasonable."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

23%

Manufacturing Company

19%

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

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By reviewers

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Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AppWorx Workload Automation?

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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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AppWorx Workload Automation?

The licensing is fair and reasonable for what the product offers. We will soon need to redo our licensing due to changes in our department.

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What needs improvement with AppWorx Workload Automation?

AppWorx Workload Automation does not support mainframe environments, which limits its use for larger and older organizations like ours that still rely on mainframes.

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What do you like most about Tidal Automation?

Tidal Automation by Redwood is a user-friendly solution.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Tidal Automation?

The price is reasonable in terms of the product’s functionality.

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What needs improvement with Tidal Automation?

Initially, it is complicated to understand the functionalities as there is limited product documentation. The setup and configuration of the software is a bit complicated. Providing the training vi...

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Also Known As

CA Automic Applications Manager

Tidal Workload Automation, Cisco Workload Automation, Tidal Enterprise Scheduler

Overview

AppWorx Workload Automation automates your Ellucian’s Banner or Fiserv DNA processing. This innovative, best-in-class task scheduling solution accelerates your processing, provides visibility and control over business processes, and mitigates risk in both environments.

AppWorx Workload Automation Can:

Automate banner processes without writing scripts
Automate testing
Document process flows and procedures
Maintain a history and audit trail of production runs
Automate migration from development to test to production environments
Reduce training
Eliminate human errors associated with manual tasks

Benefits of AppWorx Workload Automation For Your Ellucian’s Banner

Automate recurring business processes, such as administration and record-keeping, while complying with state and federal reporting requirements.
Batch jobs are processed accurately.
If there are any inconsistencies or job failures, Automic for Banner immediately sends email notifications to the appropriate personnel.
Significantly improve your return on investment.
Automating batch processing and report generation.
Eliminating server overload by using a combination of features (AppWorx provides queues to control the number of jobs that can be submitted to a server at any given time, can spot duplicate runs of the same reports, and can delay impromptu reports submitted by individuals until all regularly scheduled reports are processed, etc.).
Eliminates the need for developers to write shell, PERL, or batch scripts to automate scheduling.
Automatically keeps a history of every job run, the parameters that were used, and the output generated at each step. These records are readily available for viewing online and can be printed for reference.
Export and import utilities make migration an error-free, repeatable process. Database logins, printers, and libraries can be mapped when you are moving process flows to a new environment. Mapping eliminates potentially erroneous code changes.

Benefits of AppWorx Workload Automation For Your Fiserv DNA Processing

Run DNA jobs directly, eliminating the need to copy and release queues for each batch cycle.
Automatically run DNA jobs at the optimum time using sophisticated scheduling.
Run multiple DNA jobs at the same time in parallel from one batch station.
Eliminate potential data entry errors by automatically retrieving parameters from your enterprise databases.
Automatically check the results from one step to ensure data integrity before continuing to the next step.
Alert production analysts to problems the instant they occur.
Coordinate processing steps across all software applications.
Automatically distribute output files to vendors.
Perform all operations from one GUI client.

Reviews from Real Users

“The most valuable feature for me is the scheduling,” says an enterprise application architect at a retailer who has been using the solution for close to 10 years.

A manager at a tech services company adds that “The interface is good. The compliance-related features are very good.”

Broadcom

Tidal Software is a leading provider of enterprise workload automation solutions that orchestrate the execution of complex workflows across systems, applications and IT environments. With a comprehensive portfolio of products and services, Tidal optimizes mission-critical business processes, increases IT cost efficiencies and satisfies legal and regulatory compliance requirements. Hundreds of customers around the world count on Tidal for modernizing their workload automation and driving their digital transformation. Tidal Software is headquartered in Chicago with offices in Houston, London, Minsk, Belarus and Chennai, India. For more information, visit tidalsoftware.com.

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