We performed a comparison between Automic Workload Automation and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about BMC, Tidal Software by Redwood, Redwood Software and others in Workload Automation."The user interface is very simple and straightforward."
"The most valuable parts are the scalability and flexibility, where you can do whatever you think, then you can realize it in the product and have many ways to do it."
"The ability the system has to dynamically create groups, schedules, and workflows is crucial to us. In a fast-paced, agile environment, our teams are very lean. Monitoring and maintaining of all the approximately 2,000,000 executions of Automic jobs are managed by only three employees. The system has been designed to be as dynamic and versatile as the business processes and teams that own them."
"The scalability is very good. We can scale it however we want."
"We use the FTP agent excessively, and the connection is easy to handle between our company and the outside."
"We have seen improvements in time efficiency and cost resources, because we are mainly focused on the SAP area, and its automation in that part."
"Workload Automation's most valuable features are perspective analytics and coding."
"It is easy to set up and use. The whole system is complete."
"The solution is very simple to use."
"I like the inventory management. It's a very nice, simple, concise way to keep all that data together. And the API allows us to use it even for things that are not Ansible."
"It has improved our organization through provisioning and security hardening. When we do get a new VM, we have been able to bring on a provisioned machine in less than a day. This morning alone, I provisioned two machines within an hour. I am talking about hardening, installing antivirus software on it, and creating user accounts because the Playbooks were predesigned. From the time we got the servers to the actual hand-off, it takes less than an hour. We are talking about having the servers actually authenticate Red Hat Satellites and run the yum updates. All of that can be done within an hour."
"It was easy to read and learn. It is a YAML-based syntax, which makes it easily understand and pick up."
"Some colleagues and other companies use it and comment that it is easy to use, easy to understand, and offers good features."
"It is very extensible. There are many plugins and modules out there that everybody helps create to interact with different cloud providers as well."
"Installing it is a PIP command. So, it's pretty easy. It is a one liner."
"Role-based access control and agentless architecture are the main features which may attract users."
"Content of file transfers cannot be searched by the system, but has to be done by the user interface. This is not good, as it has been erased often."
"The one big issue that we have is around passwords and not being able to update passwords through a different tool. This is not available yet."
"It is very difficult to migrate. The release automation should be in one package."
"I would like more training on workload automation, because I do not have a complete insight of the product yet."
"We would like some advantages, which we had with the Java UI, with the automation engine."
"ServiceNow creates problems with the Automic entry of the connector, so the stability could be a little bit better with this product."
"There is one missing part in the product concerning recurring tasks. You can schedule a recurring task by a context action, and run it as recurrent, but it creates a time container which can be quit and disappears."
"Our users are used to the flatline of the UC4. When we introduced the AVI, they are not interested nor motivated to use it."
"It would be helpful to have templates for common configurations. It would make it much easier and faster rather than creating a whole script. The templates would decrease the learning curve as well."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is not the best at server provisioning. Terraform is better."
"Performance has been an issue on larger environments, but it has gotten a lot better over the past two years."
"The support could be better."
"What we need is model-driven, declarative software infrastructure management. However, things tend to break with new versions, requiring a lot of work to fix…The focus should be on improving the support for Ansible in the area of AI coding."
"Accessibility. Ansible uses a CLI by default. Those accustomed to it can find their way and adopt the YAML files easily over time. But, some users are more comfortable using UIs..."
"On the Dashboard, when you view a template run, it shows all the output. There is a search filter, but it would be nice to able to select one server in that run and then see all that output from just that one server, instead of having to do the search on that one server and find the results."
"What I would like to see is a refined Dashboard to see, when I log in: Here are all my jobs, here are how many times they've executed; some kind graphical stitching-together of the workflows and jobs, and how they're connected. Also, those "failed hosts," what does that mean? We have a problem, a failed host can be anything. Is SSH the reason it failed? Is the job template why it failed? It doesn't really distinguish that."
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Automic Workload Automation is ranked 7th in Workload Automation with 85 reviews while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 58 reviews. Automic Workload Automation is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Automic Workload Automation writes "A tool requiring an easy setup phase that provides its users with flexibility and flow chart visibility ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Capable of broad integrations with easy-to-operate infrastructure and user controls". Automic Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Dollar Universe Workload Automation, AppWorx Workload Automation and IBM Workload Automation, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and UrbanCode Deploy.
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