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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
3rd
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 December 2024, in the Workload Automation category, the mindshare of AutoSys Workload Automation is 15.6%, down from 18.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Redwood RunMyJobs is 4.4%, up from 2.5% 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 While the current UI is a bit outdated, it's undergoing improvement.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.
Shubham Bharti - PeerSpot reviewer
Centralized management, allow for prioritization, and easy to set up
Once I had solid hands-on experience with the software, it wasn't tough for me to learn this application. Everything was easy and flawless. The only issue at first was that we had to manually delete or raise the event in order to run some of the events and wait for jobs, even if the file was kept at the correct AL11 position. Eventually, after contacting the Redwood support team, we were able to resolve this problem. We experience sporadic connection failures while executing jobs in other systems, such as AS400, and after the work is finished at the AS400 end, the Redwood system keeps attempting to get the status from the AS400 system. This attempt cannot be manually controlled. We could set up a system where, after a certain amount of time, the job would be abandoned if the server hadn't responded.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"AutoSys Workload Automation is a stable solution."
"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."
"We get better reports than we use to have."
"We need to have things run in a very sequential order, so it is very useful that we can schedule the work flows."
"This solution enables us to improve our daily processing times. We can do everything faster than before we used this solution."
"It has helped to simplify cross-dependency between MVS and Open systems jobs."
"Without this product we would have to manually submit jobs and it would take longer. There would also be a much greater possibility of jobs running wrong and/or not at the right time."
"It has improved my organization by automating IT applications."
"This tool helps us to monitor the job related to SAP modules."
"By automating the job processes it has saved us a lot of time and resources."
"There are various ways in which you can construct jobs depending on your business needs and requirements."
"It conjures simplicity from the depths of complexity, effortlessly shouldering burdensome workloads."
"Redwood helps us to schedule batch jobs on a daily, weekly, and yearly basis to keep the business running smoothly."
"Multi-platform scheduling makes it easier this way rather than accessing one platform at a time."
"The best feature I love about Redwood is the real-time event monitoring and alerting."
"One of Redwood Software's features that I liked was its event-driven automation, which allows IT teams to respond to real-time events, alerts, and notifications from numerous systems."
 

Cons

"The solution does not have a friendly subscription model because it forces users to take a five-year subscription simultaneously, charging millions of dollars."
"This product needs to improve its graphical user interface."
"Reduce the number of operational files. This would make the job of a system programmer supporting ESP easier."
"The visibility and control features are somewhat limited."
"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."
"Quick search feature and job analysis could be improved."
"​The cross-platform arena, where you can run work on multiple platforms, needs improvement."
"AutoSys Workload Automation could improve the integration."
"The dashboard provided can be made more visually appealing and could include more critical data that would help associates in one glance get the required information."
"Enhancing the user interface would make it more appealing to new users with limited technical knowledge."
"It would be nice if Redwood RunMyJobs could work on different systems."
"The documentation for this product is limited, which can be improved in the future."
"Redwood RunMyJobs should add more good features."
"Enhancing the user interface would make it more appealing and accessible to a wide range of users."
"Redwood Software has a high price tag, especially for small and medium-sized businesses that might not have the funds to engage in a complete automation system."
"It has limited reporting features; some basic reporting features are missing."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We paid to use the solution monthly."
"There is an annual license to use AutoSys Workload Automation."
"CA pricing has been a problem, and not looked upon favorably here at all."
"Validate how many agents you need beforehand."
"The price of this solution is reasonable and there is an annual license required."
"The pricing needs to be improved. Some of my client's complained that it was too expensive."
"It is overpriced."
"The return on investment would be very high because doing things manually without this product would be extremely expensive."
"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%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Computer Software Company
11%
Retailer
7%
 

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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