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 #14 with an average rating of 8.3, while Tidal Software by Redwood is ranked #4 with an average rating of 9.7. Broadcom holds a 1.4% mindshare in WA, compared to Tidal Software by Redwood’s 3.0% 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.

To learn more, read our detailed AppWorx Workload Automation vs. Tidal by Redwood Report (Updated: January 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

AppWorx Workload Automation

Ranking in Workload Automation

14th

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

4th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Workload Automation category, the mindshare of AppWorx Workload Automation is 1.4%, down from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tidal by Redwood is 3.0%, down from 4.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Workload Automation

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Srikanth Gubba

Senior Developer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Automation boosts efficiency with a user-friendly interface

Currently, I have switched to negotiating through third-party vendors for licensing, which has made it more expensive. Broadcom should address this by dealing directly with customers again. Licensing fees have increased as they charge based on executions rather than user agents, causing higher costs. Technical support also involves third-party interactions, complicating direct assistance from Broadcom.

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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

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

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

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

"Atomic Applications Manager is user-friendly and accommodates around 100 users who can monitor and run their jobs effectively."

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

"The interface is good."

"The automation in Atomic Applications Manager has provided a solid return on investment as it has significantly reduced the time required for tasks that were previously manual, such as running batch and online jobs and report submissions."

"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 really a robust product."

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"Tidal Automation is very efficient and can quickly automate most manual and repetitive tasks."

"Tidal Automation’s most valuable feature is customization. It can work and connect with any app."

"Especially in the newer versions of Tidal, the segmentation of user permissions enables us to give people operator permissions for their jobs, to rerun jobs, but view-only for other groups' jobs. We're able to keep people from hurting themselves or other groups accidentally. The permissioning is really good."

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

"Tidal Automation software provides real-time monitoring and alerts, allowing users to track job progress and identify potential issues before they cause delays or errors."

"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."

"From a management standpoint, when using the solution for cross-platform, cross-application workloads, I've never had a problem with the application. It's very interactive, especially with the different security levels that they offer."

"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."

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Cons

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

"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."

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

"Currently, I have switched to negotiating through third-party vendors for licensing, which has made it more expensive. Broadcom should address this by dealing directly with customers again."

"It has been a deprecated product, because it is so old. There has been a couple of new solutions that are a little more advanced."

"Currently, I have switched to negotiating through third-party vendors for licensing, which has made it more expensive. Broadcom should address this by dealing directly with customers again."

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

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

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"Setting up the initial product was a little hard."

"When we patch to the next version, there is often a little thing that breaks. It has rarely been a big deal, but I always seem to have to follow up on one tiny issue. It would help if they had some better QA testing of their patches."

"Their software installation and update process could use some improvements. I'm pretty sure they're working on that, but that's definitely an area where it could be streamlined a lot. There's still a lot of manual work that you have to do with the schedule when you deploy masters or do the agents."

"The drill-down into details using the Graphical Views feature is a bit difficult and not that helpful. If you want to go into the details, you have to go to the Job Activity. Graphical Views is not that easy for getting that kind of information."

"I would like more involvement with the cloud."

"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."

"I don't know if Tidal wants to get into the business of monitoring long-running jobs, but that could be a feature for the future: a job launching and monitoring tool. Using Tidal for monitoring doesn't seem like a good fit, but if they could offer something that did that as an add-on or include it, it might be helpful."

"The user interface is the place that needs the most work. If and when we find issues with the product, they are usually in that area. If I had to choose, that's where I'd want issues, as opposed to in the engine. But the UI is average. It's a little sluggish at times and there are some bugs in it."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are satisfied with the pricing."

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

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

"Licensing options are fairly straightforward."

"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."

"There have been pricing increases, but with the reduction that our company obtained from Tidal this year, the pricing has become very acceptable for this type of product."

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

"Our licensing model for Tidal is on an annual basis. It is very good and works well for us. Tidal's licensing is very transparent and simple. It lets you know, for the amount you use, that's the price that you pay. So, we buy X number of licenses, and we know that this is where we are. I'm very happy with that. I saw the licensing modules on other platforms, and I didn't like them. Other companies and solutions would calculate the connections, adapters, and instances. I think that's the reason that BMC was pretty expensive: They just didn't understand what our needs are."

"The new prices that we've received seem reasonable and comparable to the marketplace."

"Our annual maintenance cost is competitive for what we have and what they do."

"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."

"This solution is a bit expensive in the current world where everybody is trying to cut down on certain things."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

22%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

22%

Manufacturing Company

17%

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

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?

Compared to other tools, it is now expensive. Licensing now depends on execution counts as opposed to agent counts, leading to increased costs.

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What needs improvement with AppWorx Workload Automation?

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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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