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OpenText Operations Orchestration vs Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
8.6
OpenText Operations Orchestration saves costs and time, reducing workloads and increasing productivity with a 40% efficiency improvement.
Sentiment score
7.3
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform accelerates provisioning, saves time, enhances scalability, and optimizes resources, improving maintainability and reducing burnout.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.1
OpenText Operations Orchestration's customer and technical support can be inconsistent, with users experiencing varying levels of service quality.
Sentiment score
7.3
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform offers strong documentation and support, with high user satisfaction in community and technical assistance.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
OpenText Operations Orchestration is praised for scalability, handling large architectures seamlessly, and supporting diverse, extensive server networks without downtime.
Sentiment score
7.4
Red Hat Ansible scales well in small to mid-sized environments but faces challenges and performance issues in large deployments.
Ansible can face scalability issues, such as limitations when trying to scale up infrastructure.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.0
OpenText Operations Orchestration's stability has improved, achieving over 90% success despite minor customization and event remediation challenges.
Sentiment score
7.9
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is highly stable, with updates enhancing its reliability, users rating stability 8-10/10.
 

Room For Improvement

OpenText Operations Orchestration needs better integration, scalability, a modern interface, cloud options, open-source support, and pre-built workflows.
Red Hat Ansible Automation needs improved scalability, usability, integration, module support, and enhanced Windows and non-expert user features.
More library support for microservices architecture and Kubernetes would be helpful.
More detailed dashboards would be beneficial because there is a lack of dashboards on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
 

Setup Cost

OpenText Operations Orchestration is seen as costly but offers significant value through cost and time-saving automation capabilities.
Red Hat Ansible offers free and paid options, with costs based on node management and additional features like Ansible Tower.
The pricing is high, and since I'm not using all functionalities, it would be better if the price depended on the functionalities used.
 

Valuable Features

OpenText Operations Orchestration streamlines automation with easy integration, centralized management, and flexible features, reducing deployment time significantly.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is valued for its agentless architecture, ease of use, scalability, and robust community support.
The automation capabilities streamline deployment processes, providing reliability and reducing manual intervention and errors.
It makes it simple to develop Ansible playbooks and roles, which aids in simplifying my daily administrative tasks.
 

Categories and Ranking

OpenText Operations Orchest...
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
26
Ranking in other categories
Process Automation (22nd), Robotic Process Automation (RPA) (21st)
Red Hat Ansible Automation ...
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
69
Ranking in other categories
Release Automation (3rd), Configuration Management (1st), Network Automation (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

OpenText Operations Orchestration and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. OpenText Operations Orchestration is designed for Process Automation and holds a mindshare of 0.6%, down 1.1% compared to last year.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Configuration Management, holds 17.8% mindshare, down 18.3% since last year.
Process Automation
Configuration Management
 

Featured Reviews

Ahmed Salman - PeerSpot reviewer
Increases productivity with automation and robust orchestration capabilities
The community is very powerful, with extensive knowledge bases available. There are ready-made workflows, integration with other products, a nice user interface, and reporting. The tool is flexible, agent-based or agentless. It allows significant automation and has robust orchestration and reporting capabilities. It is easy to configure and use, leading to increased efficiency across our IT processes.
Surya Chapagain - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to manage and simple to learn
We use Red Hat a lot. I open tickets for the Red Hat cases, however, with Ansible, I haven't opened any cases. My manager worked with them a bit. If we have a problem with some file and we need to get Red Hat to analyze the issue and the file is 100GBs, we'll have an issue since we need to provide a log file for them to analyze. If it is around 12GB or 13GB, we can easily upload it to the Red Hat portal. With more than 100GBs, it will fail. I heard it should cover up to 250GB for an upload, however, I find it fails. Therefore, Red Hat needs to provide a way to handle this.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
28%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
8%
Educational Organization
32%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Operations Orchestration?
The pricing is medium, and the automation helps in cost and time savings, resulting in substantial value for money.
What needs improvement with Operations Orchestration?
I would prefer the addition of ready-made workflows for common scenarios such as Oracle database switchovers or Exchange server scenarios. This would save time by not starting from scratch each time.
What advice do you have for others considering Operations Orchestration?
This tool serves as a central management hub, allowing seamless control of various IT processes via one console. I rate this solution eight out of ten.
What is the difference between Red Hat Satellite and Ansible?
Red Hat Satellite has proven to be a worthwhile investment for me. Both its patch management and license management have been outstanding. If you have a large environment, patching systems is much ...
How does Ansible compare to Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (SCCM)?
Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager takes knowledge and research to properly configure. The length of time that the set up will take depends on the kind of technical architecture that your org...
What do you like most about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?
The most valuable features of the solution are automation and patching.
 

Also Known As

Micro Focus Operations Orchestration, Operations Orchestration, HPOO, HPE Operations Orchestration
Ansible
 

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Sample Customers

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