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AutoSys Workload Automation vs Redwood RunMyJobs comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 24, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

AutoSys Workload Automation
Ranking in Workload Automation
8th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
79
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Redwood RunMyJobs
Ranking in Workload Automation
2nd
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Workload Automation category, the mindshare of AutoSys Workload Automation is 16.1%, down from 18.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Redwood RunMyJobs is 4.4%, up from 2.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Workload Automation
 

Featured Reviews

Antony Askew - PeerSpot reviewer
Helps us manage complex workloads, reduce our workload failure rates, and save us time
The visibility and control features are somewhat limited. This is a recognized weakness, but thee vendor is currently revamping the user interface to address it. While the current UI is a bit outdated, it's undergoing improvement. AutoSys Workload Automation has some areas for improvement, particularly in housekeeping and product maintenance. These tasks are currently quite manual and labor-intensive for our team. Additionally, the reporting and forecasting functionalities could be more robust. One area for improvement with AutoSys Workload Automation is that it comprises several distinct tools configured to work together. This necessitates familiarity with multiple tools for effective solution management. Consequently, it can sometimes lack a sense of cohesiveness as a unified solution.
Madhu Bk - PeerSpot reviewer
Efficient with good monitoring and alerting
I would appreciate it if they improved the service in terms of support and assistance for the software. There is a lack of resources and product documentation which, if included, would help to gain more knowledge about the application. Small businesses may step back from the solution as the cost and pricing are more expensive. The downtime of the software should be reduced; it takes quite a long time to download the bulk data. The Excel document export option is unavailable for job transport.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"To me, what's most valuable in AutoSys Workload Automation is its robustness and quickness. The tool can trigger jobs within a few milliseconds, and it can handle large volumes of jobs."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the functions are easy to use."
"We automate recurring processes, keeping track of IT processes controlled worldwide."
"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."
"The initial setup is easy."
"We use technical support all the time. We would be lost without them. They're fantastic. Really good job. We're able to reach the right person to help us out right away."
"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."
"The features that I have found most valuable with AutoSys are that it is scalable, easy to use, fast, and always available. That's very important because if it's not steady then it's a real problem. So, at this point, we are satisfied with it."
"Redwood is of value to our organization due to of its ease of use and the ability to automate and orchestrate any platform that we utilize today."
"There are various ways in which you can construct jobs depending on your business needs and requirements."
"Multi-platform scheduling makes it easier this way rather than accessing one platform at a time."
"In Redwood Automation, we can easily fetch the daily reports from the system as per the client's requirement and track the status of every job which is running, aborted, or canceled."
"This tool helps us to monitor the job related to SAP modules."
"There won't be a memory outage issue, as it uses its own server/ECC memory only."
"It is very easy and easy to use, and minimal supervision is required to run it."
"With automation in place, employees can focus on more strategic tasks that require human expertise, increasing overall productivity."
 

Cons

"In terms of what should be in the next release, I want integration and AI and so on. I'd like easy reporting where you can compare information, for example, "that job normally takes three minutes and last time it took six minutes or 10 minutes." Then you can get the information to the engineer of which job is taking more time than normal - understanding strange behavior compared to the baseline."
"The graphical interface can be improved."
"The solution could improve by having support for container environments."
"We had a few issues, however, the issues were more on the infrastructure rather than with the application itself."
"I would like to see the Service Orchestrator, a B2B product, and maybe a process audit."
"​CA installation processes are never anything but complex.​"
"Some of the reports are either a bit hard to understand or don’t give you what you might expect to see."
"SQL server clustering is not supported."
"I have not noted any downsides."
"The price wise, it is not affordable. When we compare with other industry leading softwares and even the same scale, there are certain softwares that can compete with Redwood, but Redwood is very highly paced.So it is more SAP friendly, I would say, at this point. Since it was owned by SAP for very long time, they have made it SAP friendly. But if you look at the tool as a enterprise tool. Like, in general, it is not really that great as a tool. So you can you have better options when you couple it with SAP. But if you would like to control your enterprise level applications, anything after that, like, Azure AWS and things like that Oracle."
"Redwood RunMyJobs should add more good features."
"We need the ability to pull data into an Excel format."
"Currently, our developers aren't able to access their own objects in the user acceptance testing server and production system server as they are assigned the developer access role, which is kind of a solid role, and no changes or additions can be made to it."
"It lacks some of the common reporting features. I'm a bit surprised that there aren't some standard reports to be able to extract any data on usage. They've described to us that customers have different reporting needs, so they let them develop those, but reporting is a common need. It would be helpful to have it as part of the solution."
"The user interface of Redwood can be improved a bit to make it more user-friendly and interesting."
"Enhancing the user interface would make it more appealing and accessible to a wide range of users."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We paid to use the solution monthly."
"The pricing needs to be improved. Some of my client's complained that it was too expensive."
"Validate how many agents you need beforehand."
"I certainly think the pricing is worth the value."
"People need to pay attention to how they use their ESP agents on the distributed platform. That's where some of the cost comes in, based on how many you need or how many you use."
"I don't have information on the exact licensing cost of AutoSys Workload Automation because that's managed by the tools and financing teams. For agents, it's close to $4,00, but for the server setup, it's usually a one-time license initially, and it's AMC which is paid every year and comes close to $8,000 to $10,000."
"The price of this solution is reasonable and there is an annual license required."
"CA pricing has been a problem, and not looked upon favorably here at all."
"It initially surprised me because we went from an application that was priced by connection to agents/the number of agents to an application that was priced based on the number of job executions. At that time, many of the products we looked at were also priced on job execution. That seems to be more common in the business or in the vendors that provide solutions out there, but that was probably our biggest difference."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
47%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
6%
Insurance Company
5%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
11%
Retailer
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How does Control-M compare with AutoSys Workload Automation?
Control-M acts as a single, centralized interface for monitoring and managing all batch processes, which is helpful because nothing gets left unattended since it is all visible in one place, and th...
What do you like most about AutoSys Workload Automation?
The most valuable aspects of AutoSys Workload Automation are its performance, scalability, and ease of getting started for new users.
What do you like most about Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition?
In Redwood Automation, we can easily fetch the daily reports from the system as per the client's requirement and track the status of every job which is running, aborted, or canceled.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition?
As compared to Control-M and UC4, the setup cost and pricing of Redwood are far less as they are delivering good functionality at this price point.
What needs improvement with Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition?
There are fewer cons in Redwood as compared to other tools available in the market. That said, it would be a great thing if they would provide a few new features, like a health dashboard and a few ...
 

Also Known As

CA Workload Automation, CA Workload Automation AE
Redwood Software - Workload Automation Edition, Redwood Business Process Automation - Workload Edition, RunMyJobs, Redwood RunMyJobs
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Gaumont, Mercantil do Brasil, CCEE, Hanwha Life
AMD, American Home Shield, Avaya, Burberry, Centrica, City of Dallas, The Container Store, Core & Main, Daikin, Dart Containers, Deere, Energizer, Epson, Halliburton, Keen Foodware, National Gypsum, Rockport Group, Ryder, Technicolor, The University of Michigan, Virgin Money, Whitbread
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