We performed a comparison between AutoSys Workload Automation and Tidal Automation based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: AutoSys Workload Automation is highly regarded for its ability to handle large workloads, its user-friendly interface, efficient performance, and continuous availability. It particularly shines in efficiently managing job sequencing, executing real-time batch tasks, and seamlessly connecting various software processes. Tidal Automation distinguishes itself with its exceptional job scheduling capabilities, consolidated and intuitive interface, versatile job execution options, and seamless integration with different systems.
AutoSys needs enhancements in cloud service integration, reporting and performance comparison, Linux compatibility, migration capabilities, monitoring, advanced features, and workload window management. Tidal Automation would benefit from improvements in result interpretation, pricing model simplification, user interface, AI and machine learning capabilities, integration, job dependency management, security, performance and scalability, customization, collaboration, alerting configurations, and adaptability.
Service and Support: The customer service for Tidal Automation is commendable for its impressive product knowledge and willingness to assist with integration. However, there are occasional mentions of lower-priority items getting lost in the mix for Tidal Automation. AutoSys support is sufficient and capable with standardized approaches.
Ease of Deployment: The setup for AutoSys Workload Automation is described as quick and hassle-free, taking approximately 10 minutes or less. Tidal Automation's setup is easy and straightforward, however, it requires a significantly longer time of around three weeks to complete.
Pricing: AutoSys Workload Automation has a diverse range of setup costs, including a yearly subscription and an annual license. Tidal Automation is praised for its fair and predictable pricing, offering transparent licensing and the option for additional adapters to cater to specific job needs.
ROI: AutoSys Workload Automation offers benefits such as time savings, improved reliability, scalability, and enhanced visibility and control. Tidal Automation provides advantages like cost savings, increased efficiency, productivity, risk management, and seamless integration.
Comparison Results: AutoSys Workload Automation is the preferred choice when compared to Tidal Automation. Users appreciate AutoSys for its simple setup, scalability, user-friendly interface, and consistent availability. Its valuable features include file transfer protocol and file watcher. Additionally, AutoSys is commended for its reliability and promptness in executing tasks.
"The initial setup is easy."
"It streamlines processing really well, so we're able to cut down on our processing times."
"I prefer AutoSys over the other ones out there for ease of use, ease of understanding, and getting people to understand how the tool works."
"It is a fairly stable solution."
"Integration with multiple services and applications across the enterprise."
"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 run millions of jobs through it every day using it for financial transactions, banking, credit cards, PeopleSoft, payroll, etc."
"The most valuable aspects of AutoSys Workload Automation are its performance, scalability, and ease of getting started for new users."
"The most valuable feature is the job scheduler, where you can schedule thousands of jobs to execute at specific times."
"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."
"We wouldn't be able to do many of the complex scheduling that we do today without it. For us, it is a mission-critical app. Because if it doesn't work or has a problem, then SAP doesn't function. It is that critical. So, it's an essential tool for us to manage and run SAP jobs."
"Tidal integrates with other third-party systems, which makes it easy to connect and exchange data."
"Tidal helps administrators and users to see the information that is relevant to them in that single pane of glass. They can see jobs running, they can see job history, and they can see job progression. If you look at alternatives like Airflow and clouds, you'd have to design your own UI to monitor the progress of the different jobs that you've created in Airflow. So Tidal is huge for us."
"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."
"I like the fact that I have control, and I am able to monitor. If there is an issue, I would be able to respond to any jobs that may fail. With any other scheduler that I know of, a lot of times, when I have a very complex script, if there is an issue in the middle of it, I have to let the whole process fail and then figure out a way to recover from it, whereas Tidal will stop the process, and I can resolve that issue. Once I resolve the issue, I can continue the process. This is very important for invoicing, accounts payable, accounts receivable, or any kind of financial reporting. It allows you to recover from an issue much more effectively than anything else that I have seen."
"The best feature of Tidal Workload Automation Software is its ease of integration with other systems, including ERP, CRM, and BI tools."
"The solution could improve by having support for container environments."
"Some support issues need to be addressed, but not through email, through personal contact via phone or WebEx."
"CA Workload Automation is not part of CA's strategic vision going forward."
"Pricing model for distributed should have an Enterprise option."
"Documentation and cross-application externals could be improved."
"There is a slow response time by tech support. Unless, you say it's severity level one. That will give you a two hour timing window for them to call you. It doesn't really happen exactly in two hours, but they try."
"AutoSys Workload Automation could improve in the Linux environment. The previous versions of the AutoSys Workload Automation let you take the profile of the user that you were using to run the tasks that you're going to automate, but in the latest versions, you can't do that, you need to make more definitions and it's a little bit difficult. It was easier in the previous versions."
"Reduce the number of operational files. This would make the job of a system programmer supporting ESP easier."
"For the most part, the drill-down and the logging are really good. But if we take an Informatica job, for example: We have the ability, and the operators have the ability, to actually drill down and see, at a session level, where the failure is. There is, unfortunately, no way to extract that into an actual output email or failure email. It's not that that information is not available, but extracting it into an email would be a nice-to-have."
"From an administrative point of view, I wouldn't give really high marks to the solution. I actually entertained getting the JAWS application at one point. One of the shortcomings with the scheduler is the reporting capabilities. At least at the time, JAWS was the best that they had for a third-party integration. I think they've got things in the pipeline to help alleviate that gap."
"My complaint about their pricing model is that every year or every time technology changes or somebody has a new requirement, it usually means that I can schedule that with Tidal, but I would need another adapter. So, every time there is a change, I need a different adapter that I don't have. That's why it is harder to plan for Tidal growth because you have to buy a new adapter every time."
"Understanding and using Tidal Automation could be overwhelming for someone with minimal programming language."
"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."
"Tidal's adaptability and user-friendliness could be increased by integrating it with additional programmes and platforms."
"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."
"We've had some quirky stuff happen on an occasional basis where a job does not take off. For example, a job we expected to be finished by 3:00 a.m. is sitting there and not executing when we come in in the morning. We have to go all the way back to the dependencies and then we can see that one of the dependencies has become unscheduled, for some reason. No changes were made to the schedule but this prerequisite job has, all of a sudden, become unscheduled. I have brought this up with Tidal's support but they have never had an answer for it."
AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews while Tidal by Redwood is ranked 2nd in Workload Automation with 37 reviews. AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4, while Tidal by Redwood is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of AutoSys Workload Automation writes "Helps us manage complex workloads, reduce our workload failure rates, and save us time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tidal by Redwood writes "Great visibility with a single pane of glass and a low learning curve". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Automic Workload Automation and OpCon, whereas Tidal by Redwood is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Redwood RunMyJobs, ActiveBatch by Redwood and Rocket Zeke. See our AutoSys Workload Automation vs. Tidal by Redwood report.
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