We performed a comparison between AutoSys Workload Automation and BigFix 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."This solution has made my clients' workplaces a lot less labor-intensive."
"Automic Automation Engine provides us the ability to map logic using a scripting language."
"It gives us flexibility when doing releases. We can make changes for one day in a PDS member, since we stage our jobs by date, and the next day the normal job definitions are run."
"The ability to create calendars, calendering for batch jobs to run on a scheduled frequency."
"Integration with multiple services and applications across the enterprise."
"It gives a real-time view of all the batch processing that we have. Monitoring-wise, it is really good."
"The web UI is beneficial and the granular security policies allow us to cover all of our audit requirements."
"The actual scheduling of our jobs has helped us tremendously. Before it was all done manually, and we've totally automated the whole functionality, so there's no longer a case where somebody didn't run something."
"All the vendor patches are synchronized automatically."
"My company provides support services to a lot of customers and companies. We have reduced a huge amount of man-effort. Along with the man-effort, we have reduced the timeline to fix the compliance and security gaps. We have an unbroken record. The documentation clearly says that we have done the patching of newly released patches, including Microsoft and third-party patches, in up to 80% of the computers, within 72 hours of the release of the production. That was a very massive benefit that we have seen. When I talk about the 80% endpoints, it is 100 or 200. I am talking about 25,000 endpoints."
"In terms of vulnerability management, it gives tough competition by providing a single management console with multiple benefits."
"What I like most is that it is a powerful solution."
"BigFix has drastically reduced the maintenance window period to patch and reboot servers."
"BigFix helped us to identify the compliance of devices and has also improved the way that we manage our software inventory for reporting to vendors."
"Prior to BigFix we used Altiris, which was distributed. We had to manage multiple servers, and duplicate the tasks that we did on each server. BigFix tremendously reduced the amount of work that we had to do on each server in a centralized manner. We could minimize the work that we had to do, and we had a lot more control over the tasks and what machines they ran on."
"It is for multiple use cases. A lot of people are looking at it just for security, and that's really endpoint security. The endpoint management part of it in terms of being able to constantly do patching for Windows, Unix, macOS, Cloud, Raspberry, VMware, and all Linux flavors is important, and they are very good at that. They have support for virtually every OS on the market."
"Ease of implementation for upgrades."
"We have to escalate through channels to get to somebody who knows what's going on. It takes time that we do not necessarily have."
"We are trying to see if we can use this from a cloud perspective with AWS, Azure, and other clouds, but it seems that there is no cloud integration in this product. We would like to see cloud integration. We are very pleased with this solution, but we are moving our application to the cloud, and we found out that it doesn't support any cloud features. So, we are trying to find a replacement."
"The solution does not have a friendly subscription model because it forces users to take a five-year subscription simultaneously, charging millions of dollars."
"Quick search feature and job analysis could be improved."
"We had a few issues, however, the issues were more on the infrastructure rather than with the application itself."
"CA Workload Automation is not part of CA's strategic vision going forward."
"CA installation processes are never anything but complex."
"I would like to see much better web reporting because as it is now, it's convoluted, basic, it's not modern, and there are limitations to it."
"I would like to see the integration of user security between the different products to be improved. There's separate security for compliance, separate security for web reports, and the console, and you have to manage those things separately."
"Around the scalability concern, I would like to see the ability to run teamed, clustered, or hierarchical root servers, in order to provide a more robust, high availability system. The single monolithic root server model does somewhat bother me."
"Maybe the online help could be improved. It'd be nice if you would have a lot more phrases and keywords that you could search for and find answers with the help."
"The product lacks AI, ML, and IIT."
"I would like to see more custom content."
"License management isn't quite as easy as it should be to deal with the licensing. You need to take the server down to import the new licenses which I find to be annoying."
"We would like to see a different license plan, e.g. to include features from lifecycle with Patch Management, as an example."
AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews while BigFix is ranked 15th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 91 reviews. AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4, while BigFix is rated 8.6. 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 BigFix writes "Very stable and easy to deploy with excellent patch compliance". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Automic Workload Automation and Stonebranch, whereas BigFix is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Tanium.
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